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In Spain the onlooker keeps his hands in his pockets. 'The English, see you, travel for pleasure, said the old soldier, nodding his head in the direction of Gibraltar, pink and shimmering across the bay. The priest brushed some stray grains of snuff from the front of his faded cassock once black, but now of a greeny brown.
Radbolt was a short plump man, with a weaselly face and cunning eyes; his wife's eyes, of a greeny color, stared stolidly out from her broad red face; she was taller than her mate, and her figure contrived to be at once stout and angular.
The floor was of plain cut but elegant tiles, and the dado was a more intricate pattern of the same in shades of blue, green, and yellow, interspersed with black, but relieved by an abundance of greeny white.
The greeny, cream-coloured, waxy blossoms were heat-killed before they were born, and only a few bad-smelling petals came down when he stood on his hind legs and shook the tree. Then, inch by inch, the untempered heat crept into the heart of the Jungle, turning it yellow, brown, and at last black.
I dare say one can hear him yet in the greeny pond outside that old French castle. NOW after many years of wandering, of singing, of making beautiful songs, of teaching and wandering again, Hervé's dear mother Rivanone died. But he still had some one to love and look for him and the wolf when he came home from his travels.
Our hero and the countryman had the car all to themselves, and after a little further talk the senator's son said: "I wish some greeny would come in here, we'd have some fun." "How?" "I'll tell you, I am a regular juggler; I know all the tricks of gamblers and I'd fool a fellow." "Do you know all the tricks of gamblers?" "Yes, and sometimes I beat the game just for fun.
My father as I must still call him glanced on the paper, and pronounced it a forgery. Briggs roared with laughter. I turned to him and demanded an explanation. "Why, don't you see, Greeny, it's all a joke, a midshipman's joke!" "But " I asked. "Don't be a fool. You've got a good wife, be satisfied." I turned to Clara, and was satisfied. Although Mrs.
The black worm Miss Ruth consented to keep, and Roy, lifting him by his horn, dropped him on the green worm's back. "Now you have a Blacky and a Greeny," the boy said; and by these names they were called. Roy and Sammy came together the next morning, and watched the worms at their breakfast. "How they eat!" said Sammy; "they make their great jaws go like a couple of old tobacco-chewers."
The children rubbed their eyes, the Psammead ran quickly to its sandy bath, and the others went down to tea. And until the cups were actually filled tea seemed less real than the beautiful voice and the greeny light. After tea Anthea persuaded the others to allow her to hang the charm round her neck with a piece of string.
It was a place in the wood wiv grass to sit on and bushes all round, and they gave me dead flowers to play wiv. Howwid old dead flowers!" "Yes," said Mother. "What else?" "There was anuvver little girl there," went on Joan. "Not a wood-lady but a girl like me, what they'd tooked from somewhere. She was wearing a greeny sort of dress like they was, and they wanted me to put one on too.
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