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I have permitted him to think that it is simply a matter of searching." "And now he is reassured." "Yes. Oh, you have no idea yet how important it is." "You were a long time in the booth," he said. A mysterious smile flittered across her face. "I thought of another person I wished to talk to. That person was hard to get." "Long distance?" "It proved necessary to use long distance."
The girls fastened the long gauzes to their heads and shoulders. They flicked and flitted and flittered, they danced and pirouetted and spun through the air, trailing what in the aqueous moonlight looked like mist, irradiated, star-sown. "Well," said Ralph that night after the girls had vanished, "I don't see that this business of handing out loot is getting us anywhere.
"Why are you so anxious for me to sting the rabbit?" asked the wasp, as he flittered his steely-blue wings. "Oh, if you do that it will scare him so that he won't know which way to run, and then, when he is all puzzled up, I can jump out on him and eat him up!" said the voice. "I have been wanting a rabbit dinner this long time," and with that out from the bushes crawled the bad fox.
One day a small bird beat the air with its little wings, under the roof of the promenade, and then flittered from sight over the surface, of the waste; a school of porpoises, stiff and wooden in their rise, plunged clumsily from wave to wave. The deep itself had sometimes the unreality, the artificiality of the canvas sea of the theatre.
He exerted himself to find material for conversation. "Tell me," he said, "what you said about Mr. Scobell, was that true? About his being ill in bed?" Mr. Parker did not answer, but a wintry smile flittered across his face. "It was not?" said John. "Well, I'm glad of that. I don't wish Mr. Scobell any harm." Mr. Parker looked at him doubtfully. "Say, why are you in this game at all?" he said.
Here two beautiful ladies of high rank came to meet him, and presented to him, on cushions of gold-embroidered velvet, poems written by Collin and Carpani and printed on silken ribbons. At the same time many hundred copies of these poems flittered through the hall, and all shouted joyously, "Long live Joseph Haydn, the German maestro!"
He leaned back and crossed his legs. 'Got a cigarette? 'I have not got a cigarette, and, if I had, I wouldn't give it to you. He regarded me tolerantly. 'Got a grouch tonight, haven't you? You seem all flittered up about something. What's the trouble? Sore about my not showing up at your apartment? I'll explain that all right. 'I shall be glad to listen. 'It's like this.
Yes, symphonies, indeed, in the ears of memory are the names of the lightest loves that flittered butterfly-like across our path in the golden summer of our lives, each name calling up its human counterpart, with her own endearing personality distinguishing her from all other girls, her way of smiling, her way of talking, her way of being serious, all the little originalities on which she prided herself, her so solemnly held differentia of tastes and manners all, in a word, that made you realize that you were dining with Corinna and not with Chloe.
Through the trees, I saw it, and then it was above the trees. Up up, it soared and all the world was light. It passed, with a swift, steady swing to its highest altitude, and fell thence, Westward. I saw the day roll visibly over my head. A few light clouds flittered Northward, and vanished.
Presently the ground sloped abruptly, lights flittered to and fro, and she thought all at once that she had gone mad when she saw some horses in the sky. Others, on the edge of the dock, neighed at the sight of the ocean.
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