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Jack hastily clambered up beside him, and above the tree-tops beyond the river he beheld a gray-white cloud. The boys gazed at one another with paling faces. "What shall we do?" asked Jack. Alex shook his head. "We might swim the river, and try a dash for it. It is two miles out of the woods, but there might be a chance." "We couldn't do it. We're too nearly exhausted.
There stood her grandmother ebon staff in gloved hand erect, spare body in rustling silk gray-white hair massed before a sort of turban steel-blue eyes flashing, delicate nostrils dilating with the breath of battle. "Ah Margaret!" said she, and her sharp, quarrel-seeking voice tortured the girl's nerves like the point of a lancet. "They tell me you have a headache."
On cold winter evenings, when a gray-white pall encircled the earth like a mantle of desolation, three or four of the girls were likely to ride up, each with a bag of cooked food, to spend the night. One never waited to be invited to a friend's house, but it was a custom of the homestead country to take along one's own grub or run the risk of going hungry.
Lady Coryston's eyes blazed in her gray-white face, which not even her strong will could keep from trembling. "So this, Arthur, is the reward you propose for all that has been done for you! for the time, the thought, the money that has been showered upon you " He looked at her from under his eyebrows, unmoved. "I should have remembered all that, mother, if you Look here!
That is why he hired a horse and rode early and alone to the fair grounds on the opening day, and avoided, by a roundabout trail a certain splotch of gray-white against the brown of the prairie, which he knew instinctively to be the camp of the Flying U outfit, which had made good time and were located to their liking near the river.
That lane's barred." I dove obediently and his beam followed me. "Once more, like that, young fellow " But he went busy with somebody else and I didn't hear the end of his threat. I crossed into Maine in mid-afternoon. It was already twilight. The sky was solid lead and the landscape all up through here was gray-white with snow in the gathering darkness.
Only in the fixed stare of his bloodshot eyes and the twitching of the muscles in his gray-white face could they perceive the mental stress and excitement under which he was laboring. "Tom!" stammered the Englishman. "You here!" "Couldn't get Ashton started," replied Blake. His voice was hoarse and rasping but not thick. Though he spoke slowly, his enunciation was distinct.
He straightened himself and looked at the smoke again, drifting like gray-white lace between him and the blue of the sky, and in that moment the sun capped the tall green tops of the highest cedars, and day broke gloriously over the earth.
For she was sick doctor-three-times-a- day-trained-nurse-bottles-by-the-bedside sick, her head, with its bright hair rumpled and dry with the fever, tossing from side to side on the lumpy hotel pillow, or lying terribly silent and inert against the gray-white of the bed linen. She never quite knew how narrowly she escaped that picture in the Dry Goods Review.
The water descended in sheets, gray-black planes that shut them in blinded them, crushed them. Andrew, crouching to the blows, drew in the sheet, closer, closer hugging the wind with tense grasp. About them, the water flattened like a plate beneath the flood. When the rain shifted a second they saw it, a gray-white floor, stretching as far as the eye could reach.
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