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On the contrary she is generally brunette, frequently middle-aged, in appearance often fair-to-middling homely, and in manner nearly always abounding with a stiffness and hauteur that would do credit to a belted earl, if the belting had just taken place and the earl was still groggy from the effects of it.
Excuse this scrawl, but the pen's groggy. A moment of silence followed the reading of the letter. "Joe's a lucky boy," said Whitney. "She's a darling." "The letter doesn't tell us much," said Forbes, as he handed it round for examination; "but more than you might think. Before writing my chapter I summarized the data. Here they are: "1. Joe. He's a member of the 'varsity who writes poetry.
The warmth had been already soaking the message of spring into her cold-drugged brain, and now this sudden attack had finished what the warmth had begun. She was awake, on her feet, a live and dangerous proposition; groggy, it is true; dazed, half-working, so to speak; but a force to be reckoned with after half-a-year.
This was Old Phelps, whose appetite had failed the day before, his imagination being in better working order than his stomach: he had eaten little that day, and his legs became so groggy that he was obliged to rest at short intervals. Here was a situation! The afternoon was wearing away.
He was unduly dignified and stately, but the attorney appeared decidedly groggy. The latter's ideas clashed against one another like pebbles in a child's rattle, and, if the round table may be supposed to represent the earth, as the ancient geographers imagined it, Scrogg's face was surely the glowing moon shining upon it. Readily had the attorney lent himself to the new order of procedure.
"He's like a newly-hatched chicken, all fluffy and clean, a little batty-eyed and groggy but intensely curious about everything." "Has he asked any questions?" "Millions of 'em, like balls from a Roman candle. He shoots 'em at every angle and some of 'em hit." "You've taken him about?" I asked. "Yes, but he doesn't exactly comprehend the meaning and purposes of his clubs.
Once he strove blindly to reach his feet, tugging madly at the weapon in his pocket, but West, feeling no mercy, and wide awake to the fact that any shooting would mean a call for help, struck again, sending his groggy opponent flat, and unconscious. It was all the swift work of a minute, and there had been no noise to arouse alarm.
The Gay Cat is still unconscious, Jameson is groggy, and I have a bad scalp wound. They are trying to beat in our barricade. Hurry."
I thought your mother was goin' to keep you at home this trip to mind the babby." "So she was, boy, but the babby fell into a can o' buttermilk an' got drownded, so I had to come off again, d'ee see?" "What cheer, Groggy Fox? Have 'ee hoisted the blue ribbon yet?" "No, Stephen Lockley, I haven't, nor don't mean to, but one o' the fleet seems to have hoisted the blue flag."
"Knocked in the head. A bit groggy. That's all." The delay made me a witness rather than an actor in the dénouement. Our friends had disappeared within the saloon and slammed the door. The foremost mutineer reached it, tried the handle, and threw his weight against the panels. The others came to his assistance. A revolver shot through the door dropped one of them. The others fell back at once.
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