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Updated: June 20, 2025
"We're flopping downstream pretty fast," said Brownie; "that's one sure thing." "I'm glad there's something sure," said Townsend. It was as good as a circus to see him sitting against the tree with his knees drawn up, glancing this way and that with a funny look of patient resignation on his face. "What do you say we put the tent up in the heart of the interior?
His inside was almost fluttering: there might have been a nest of nervous young birds in his chest; but as he went upstairs to the "gentlemen's dressing-room," to leave his hat and stick, this flopping and scrambling within him was never to be guessed from his outside.
The motor slackens, and we watch the creature slowly attack a high bank, land complacently on the top, and then an officer walking beside it to direct its movements balance a moment on the edge of another bank equally high, a short distance away. There it is! down! not flopping or falling, but all in the way of business, gliding unperturbed. London is full of tanks, of course on the films.
"Hereafter I'm going to live on shore. My sailing flopping days are over." "You're too funny for anything," said Minerva. "Listen, do you see that little tent? The refreshments are all in there. There's just time before the guests all come to move everything over here. I want you boys to help me. We're going to call it the dessert island instead of the desert island. Isn't that adorable?
Even as he watched, a man shot out of the ruck and away, scampering furiously with the shrugged shoulders and ducked head of one expecting a blow. It came sure as fate, and as deliberate. Out shot the Gentleman's pistol hand. A crack, a stab of flame, and the man was flopping on the sand like a landed fish. As the Gentleman fired, another from below stormed up the bank at him.
Now he whipped the saddle and bridle off, shouted to the hotel keeper brief instructions for the care of the weary animal and ran across the road with the saddle on his arm. In the corral he had no difficulty with the mare. She came straight to him in spite of all the flopping trappings. With prickly ears and eyes lighted with kindly curiosity she looked the dusty fellow over.
Then fate pulls up the rod and the man is struggling, flopping on the ground, and then you see his heart is broken. That's how it is, my dear man." Foma closed his eyes, as if a ray of the sun had fallen full on them, and shaking his head, he said aloud: "True! That is true!" The companions looked at him fixedly: the old man, with a fine, wise smile; the large-eyed man, unfriendly, askance.
He could not see the final cape, but he saw the sea beyond it, flawed with catspaws, gold in the afternoon sun, and on it a small herring smack flopping listless sails. Something in the view caught and held his fancy. He conned his map, and made out the names. The peninsula was called the Cruives an old name apparently, for it was in antique lettering.
"I'd ought to have been using my own face in that scene," she said. Then she patted his shoulder and told him that he was a good boy. The pretending tight-rope walker had paused to applaud. "Your act's flopping, Bo," said Miss Montague. "Work fast." Then she again addressed the good boy: "Wait till you've watched that scene before you thank me," she said shortly.
At last, panting, perspiring, bleeding and bruised, Johnny clamped his right arm about his antagonist's neck and, flopping his body across his chest, lay there until the Russian's muscles relaxed. Sliding to a sitting position, the American began feeling about in the dark. At last, gripping a flashlight, he snapped it on. The face of the Russian revealed the fact that he was not unconscious.
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