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Updated: June 8, 2025
Grandmother always said, 'The great lummox lumbered off into the bushes like a gawk of a boy who's been caught in mischief, She waited just a minute and then ran like lightning along the path through the woods to the neighbors and got the medicine." The story was evidently over, the last tomato was peeled. Mrs.
"Now, see here, child," exclaimed Miss Upton, prolonging her troubled stare, "perhaps Providence helped me nearly trip up that slab-sided gawk. Perhaps I set down here for a purpose. Desperate folks cling to straws. I'm the huskiest straw you ever saw, and I might be able to give you some advice. At least I've got an old head and you've got a young one, bless your poor little heart.
The girl is bringing up the tea, and I'm positively dying for a cup and a sit-down. Of course this" turning gaily round on me, standing there like a great gawk, volubly cursing my shirt-sleeves under my breath "is the incomparable Oliver! Charmed to meet you, sir!" I bowed, and Margaret said staidly, "Yes, my lady. This is Master Oliver Wheatman of the Hanyards.
The creature is well enough to preach before a congregation. But what she can see in him out of the pulpit is more than I know. A great gawk of a fellow, with eyes that always look as if he were in the middle of next week! He may be able to talk to Advena, but he's no hand at general conversation; I know he finds precious little to say to me. But he's got no such notion.
"I'll take this one," said Mires, stooping over the nearest wheel which was half buried in dust and dirt. Then, without any apparent effort, the small sized workman raised the wheel to his shoulder and walked back from the direction whence they had come. "Now see the big gawk lift his!" exclaimed Fret Offut, who had somehow been let into the secret.
The State is an active philosophic concept that holds off the people from discussing and gossiping about Wilhelm. It does not exist apart from the ruling family and apart from the bureaucracy which is the ruling family in action. It takes on their character. The State is a mirage which the citizen is made to gawk at in the air, thinking he sees something besides the frowning German sky.
She's not an isolated hill billy that goes to town on Saturdays and anchors herself in the doorway of the five-and-ten-cent store to visit and gawk around. She's full of business. Sells her stuff, buys what she needs, and hits the trail for home. I expect Mrs. Gillis has seven or eight thousand dollars in bonds and cash stowed around in their cabin."
"I should think you and Laura could have found a maid who wasn't quite such a gawk," muttered Lil, unpleasantly. "Hush!" admonished Mother Wit. "Don't let her hear you." "Why not?" snapped Lil. "You will hurt her feelings." "Pooh! she's paid for it " "Not for having her feelings hurt," declared Laura, sternly. "And I won't have it.
So much done, I entered the office, and waited for him to come in, in the hope of having an opportunity to observe his manner when the clerk handed him that strange-looking letter from Mary Leavenworth." "And did you succeed?" "No; an awkward gawk of a fellow stepped between us just at the critical moment, and shut off my view.
"Of what use were you last night? You allowed my prisoner to be carried off right under your nose." "Who carried 'im off? Answer that." "Why, some gawk of a Yank that you were too stupid to tell from me." "P'raps hit was, p'raps hit wasn't." "Who else could it be?" "I s'picion who it was, but I'm not goin' ter talk to one who's got nothin' better to give me 'n uggly words."
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