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"Curiously enough," he went on, "I've been thinking of Aleck all day. I heard yesterday that he was sick again, and it has worried me a good deal. He's pretty feeble now, and I don't know how long he'll last." He flicked the ashes from his cigar, nursing his knee with the other hand.
It was a warm autumn day: the roads were dry and dusty, and, after a mile or so, the boy-prince brought from beneath the carriage seat a basket of grapes. With his handkerchief he flicked the dust from them, handed a bunch to the chief, and took one himself.
He was badly thrown last winter, but directly he got up he was out again on Kitty." "Living up to his reputation." Lawrence flicked the ash from his cigar. "I should have known him anywhere by his eyes." "He has kept very young, hasn't he? An uneventful life without much anxiety does keep people young," philosophized Laura. "I feel like a mother to him. But you'll see more of him this afternoon."
She might have flicked a lash across his face and his nerves winced under it. There was, she saw, in his mind, something disparaging to the woman in coupling her with a softness misplaced. "I don't know," he said, with a thoughtful precision. "Sometimes I think she's all mother: doesn't care about anything but the child.
He's been thankin' the stars, especially Venus, ever since he got marching orders!" "How did you reach Fort Gibraltar?" she persisted. "Sans boots and cap," I promptly replied, determined to be ahead of the interloper. "Sans heart, too," and the priest flicked my broncho with his whip and knocked the ready-made speech, with which I had hoped to silence him, clean out of my head.
Looking up, they saw the rabbit, watching them with timid eyes and recovering his breath after the long climb. "What d'you want?" the Man asked sharply. The rabbit flicked his white scut and sat up on his hind-legs, his whiskers quivering with excitement. "I want to see it," he panted. "The dog's been boasting. I hurried because I wanted to be the first to see it.
Travers gasped; a splash of water flicked her over the eyes and she felt the separate drops run down her cheeks, she tasted them on her lips, tepid and bitter like tears. A swishing undulation tossed the boat on high followed by another and still another; and then the boat with the breeze abeam glided through still water, laying over at a steady angle.
Corbett to Connel. One hour exactly to blast-off time! One hour sixty minutes to blast-off time." Tom flicked the teleceiver microphone off, and on the teleceiver screen, watched his spacemates work under the broiling sun. They were ahead of time. One hour to complete two more units. Tom allowed himself a sigh of hope and relief.
How angered would not Robespierre be upon discovering that his wishes had been set at naught, his very measures contravened and this by fraud? And than Robespierre's anger there were few things more terrible in '93. It was an anger that shore away heads as recklessly as wayside flowers are flicked from their stems by the idler's cane. For a second it daunted him.
At three-and-thirty a bachelor realizes that there is something else in life besides business and travel. "It is quite useless to ask who she is?" he inquired of his hostess. "Quite useless." "She is married?" "Certainly I have not said so." He flicked the ash from his cigarette. What was the use of trying to trap a woman into saying what she did not propose to say? "Have you those letters?"
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