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Updated: June 17, 2025
I looked on all this magnificence with admiration and dismay. Should I wade through that sea of gems, which at the touch of my garments would resolve themselves, like the diamonds of the fairy tales, not into harmless dead leaves, but into mere vulgar wet? The hummer flew by to her nest, goldfinches called from the ledge. I hesitated and went on.
Nothing absolutely was to be sent, that would convey in any way an idea of the number of troops in Tampa, the time of arrival or departure of any number of troops or ships, and above all, not a word was to be sent out as to when the 5th Army Corps was to sail. You're certainly a hummer from the word go, and I reckon we'd better go home." He had my sympathy but that was all.
If the Rube takes his wife on that trip it's goin' to be an all-fired hummer. Don't you forget that." "I'm not likely to. But, Spears, the point is this will the Rube win his games?" "Figurin' from his work today, I'd gamble he'll never lose another game. It ain't that. I'm thinkin' of what the gang will do to him an' Nan on the cars an' at the hotels. Oh!
We were told to "whoop her through." The track on our division was the best on the whole road, and it was only 102 miles long; we had plenty of sidings and passing tracks, and besides old "Jimmie" Hayes, with engine 444 was in, so they could be assured of a run that was a hummer. Mr.
Julius had his revenge, for what did the boy do but knock a "hummer" clear out in far center, that it seemed the madly running Farmer would never get his hands on; and by the time the ball again entered the diamond three tallies had resulted, Julius having fairly flown the rounds, to throw himself down panting, and as happy as they ever make a baseball player.
The hummer makes short work of everything: with a flash and a hum it is gone. This one seemed to be exploring the dry twigs for nesting-material, either spiders' webs or bits of lichen. For a brief moment it perched on a twig a few yards from me. My ardent wish could not hold it any longer.
By God! or I'll make you leak till folks'll think your father was a water hydrant and your mother a sprinkling-cart. You-all move your chair alongside, Guggenhammer; and you-all Dowsett, sit right there, while I just irrelevantly explain the virtues of this here automatic. She's loaded for big game and she goes off eight times. She's a sure hummer when she gets started.
The wrecking-crew were climbing carelessly from the caboose to the tender even jesting with the engineer, for he heard a shuffling of feet among the coal, and the snatch of a song, something like this: "Oh, the Empire State must learn to wait, And the Cannon-ball go hang! "Say! Eustis knew what he was doin' when he designed this rig. She's a hummer. New, too." "Snff! Phew! She is new.
"What sort of a plane is this?" asked Bob of a mechanic who was standing beside the machine. "An absolute hummer," was the reply. "Want to try her? You have to be an Ace to get into her driving seat, son." Bob flushed, and was inclined to answer sharply, but Joe Little stepped forward and said quietly: "We have just got here from the States. Came last night.
In a few minutes the tire was fixed. Clumsily but successfully, the great Irishman turned the car round away from the city. "She's a hummer," he muttered. "I'll make her go when we get the hang of it. Sit tight!" They drove clumsily off, gathering speed at every yard. Behind, in the shadow of the tower, the signalman lay dead.
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