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This one-time sealed house of the dead had been constructed of small stones, held together by a cement, the nature of which, Wallace explained, had never become clear to civilization. It was red in color and hard as flint, harder than the rocks it glued together. The tomb was half-round in shape, and its floor was a projecting shelf of cliff rock.
Now and then there came sudden puffs of wind from the south-west one of them so gusty and unexpected that it caught me napping and turned me half-round for an instant. I remember the time when gusts and whirls and air-pockets used to be things of danger before we learned to put an overmastering power into our engines.
Romer is now living?" The woman grinned. "She has been living at Walpole Lodge, at Kew Lady Kynaston's, sir." "Oh, thank you;" and he was preparing to re-enter his hansom. "But I don't think you will see her to-day, sir." "Why not?" turning half-round again. "It is Mrs. Romer's wedding-day." "What?" That elderly female, who had been at one time a housemaid in Mr.
Again, in "Tartuffe," when, at the end, the hypocrite is exposed and led off to prison, Coquelin simply turns his back on the audience, and stands, with head sullenly down, making no movement; then, at the end, he turns half-round and walks straight off, on the nearer side of the stage, giving you no more than a momentary glimpse of a convulsed face, fixed into a definite, gross, raging mood.
It was very old, and consisted of three gables, a great half-round between two of them, and a low tower with a conical roof. Crawford had begun to recover consciousness, but when he came to himself he was received by acute pain. The least attempt to move was torture, and again he fainted.
The financier swung half-round in his chair, the smile of greeting faded out of his face, and his voice was hard as he replied coldly: "Again? I thought we had agreed not to discuss Judge Rossmore any further?" "I can't help it, sir," rejoined Jefferson undeterred by his sire's hostile attitude, "that poor old man is practically on trial for his life.
At dinner on the third day the second mate remarked to the captain, in connection with the affair: "These half-round brass plates on the steps of the poop-ladders are beastly dangerous things!" "Are they?" retorted Captain Johns, sourly. "It takes more than a brass plate to account for an able-bodied man crashing down in this fashion like a felled ox." The second mate was impressed by that view.
The old-fashioned awkward sap-gouge was used in tapping in those days, and the "spiles" or spouts were split out of basswood blocks with this gouge, and then sharpened so as to fit the half-round gash which the gouge made in the tree. The dairy milk-pans were used to catch the sap, and huge iron kettles to boil it down in.
And now the piper in the corner sets up a wilder strain; the drummers work till their muscles crack, now looking as if they were undergoing torture, now turning half-round to have a joke with a fresh arrival, until the tension reaches breaking-point and with a shout some ten men dash forward and forming a ring round the musicians commence the wild "Bomo" dance, even as their savage ancestors were wont to do in past ages round the camp-fires of Africa.
But far the greater number faced outward, at gaze upon the cavalry guard, and, silently munching thick flat cakes of corn-bread, stared into the faces of the horsemen. Harry Wallbridge, brought to the halt, faced half-round in the saddle, and looked with quick beatings of pity far and wide over the disorderly crowd of weather-worn men. "It's a Louisiana brigade," said Bader.
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