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I wouldn't touch her for the world. She frightens me." She floated a trifle nearer and bent to look at her. "I shall call her Robin," she said. "Her name is really Roberta as she couldn't be called Robert. People will turn round to look at a girl when they hear her called Robin. Besides she has eyes like a robin. I wish she'd open them and let you see."
"That's because the tide's coming in," laughed Masters, "so if we should upset it'll wash us ashore." "I don't know," said Max, "I'd rather not risk it; there's the undertow to carry us out again." "Oh, you're a coward!" sneered Cox. "I'm not going to turn back yet," said Masters; "so stick to your oar, Raymond, and if the sight of the big waves frightens you, just turn your back to 'em."
P'raps they play trick, but if they really gone, 'spose it 'cause guns frightens them so much. Always think powder very great 'vention, especially when enemy hain't got none, and quite sure of it now. Jeekie very, very seldom wrong. Soon believe," he added with a burst of confidence, "that Jeekie never wrong at all. He look for truth so long that at last he find it always."
She knows that the unknown frightens a man's reason away, that the unembodied puts the soul in ferment, and she wished to give me a fever before trying an attack to call her advances by their right name. "It must be admitted that if my conjectures are correct she is strangely astute. At heart she is, perhaps, quite simply a crazy romantic or a comedian.
"I understand," cried the Major, seizing his gun; "the lad means that there is a lion near, and that is what frightens the baboon." "Lion!" said the Major to Omrah. But Omrah did not understand him; but pulling out his paper and pencil, in a second almost he drew the form of a lion. "Clever little fellow!
The name, arsenic, frightens not only those whom we desire to submit to its action, but also the physicians, whose exaggerated fears have sometimes rendered the experiments of no avail, since they were conducted too timidly and the doses of arsenic employed were altogether insufficient.
"Do you think you can hoodwink me any longer? There shall be an end of it do you hear?" Rylton's face, as she now sees it in the light of the lamps in her room, almost frightens her. "I've had enough of it!" "I don't understand you!" says Tita, standing well away from him, her face as white as ashes. As for his face "Don't you?" violently. "Then I shall explain.
At dinner-time she refused to help herself to food, though she ate if Helen fed her. "The spoon is heavy," she complained. Miriam was white and nervous. "She ought to have Zebedee," she said. "She looks funny. She frightens me." "We could wait until tomorrow," Helen said. "He is so busy and I don't want to bring him up for nothing. He's being overworked." "But for Notya!" Miriam exclaimed.
"Oh, he is safe enough if he keeps close to the soldiers; the clatter of their arms frightens the beasts." While the Dutchman was speaking we came in sight of the river. It was fordable, though rather deep, and as the leading men on their small horses plunged in the water was up to their saddle-girths. I naturally looked out on either side for our expected enemies.
Haul off, haul off, Master Bumppo, cried Benjamin, your top-light frightens the fish, who see the net and sheer off soundings. A fish knows as much as a horse, or, for that matter, more, seeing that its brought up on the water. Haul oil, Master Bumppo, haul off, I say, and give a wide berth to the seine.
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