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The wind was blowing from the pack toward him, and, if it shifted, he meant to shift with it, but meanwhile he made himself as inconspicuous as possible, finding a small depression in which he stretched his body, thus being hidden from any eye except the keenest.
Gillat followed him, though scarcely like his shadow; he was not inconspicuous, and neither he nor his motive were easy to overlook. The Captain said something approbious about the weather and the high wind and occasional heavy swishes of rain; then he went to the sitting-room which lay behind the kitchen, and near to the front door.
The company and the clothes having passed in review, the conversation flagged a little, and Georgie suddenly asked: "Was Kate Ferris here? I was so busy passing cakes that I didn't look, and I wanted to see her especially!" "That's so!" Patty exclaimed. "I didn't see her, either. She's the most abnormally inconspicuous person I ever heard of. What did she look like, Pris?"
"There it is," said one of the observers at length, pointing to Capella, which was now just rising a little to the east of north; "there is the star setting." "No, it is n't," said I; "there is the star we have been looking at, now quite inconspicuous near the meridian, and that star which you think is setting is really rising and will soon be higher up."
A rarely seen, deciduous climber, bearing rather inconspicuous greenish-yellow flowers, succeeded by attractive, violet-tinted berries. The foliage is neat and pretty, the individual leaves being ovate in shape and slightly undulated or wavy. It is a twining shrub that in this country, even under favourable circumstances, one rarely sees ascending to a greater height than about 12 feet.
With such a noble competency in view, therefore, he might well venture on marriage. "All right, even when the children come," he whispered to his sweetheart; and Frieda nodded sagaciously, whispering back: "They'll come, sure enough!" Albina Heimert never noticed that such a humble and inconspicuous little person gave her the go-by.
It isn't the right note for dissolving difficulties. "Couldn't tell you," said the brigadier. "My advice to you is to keep yourself as inconspicuous as possible until the administrator gets back." It was good advice, but Grim, standing behind the brigadier, made signals to Jeremy in vain.
With this possibility in mind I turned, and skirted the house, making myself as inconspicuous as possible. There were soldiers on the outside steps; I heard their voices without seeing them, and was thus driven to run swiftly across an open space, memory guiding me toward the opposite pavilion.
There is a large bright ring-plain on the W., with a less conspicuous companion on the S. of it. MARALDI. A deep but rather inconspicuous formation, bounded on the W. by a polygonal border.
Troppman was before my time, monsieur, but the day that his seven victims were publicly exposed there " he pointed with his thumb to the inconspicuous door through which he had just wheeled Number 4 "ah, that was a red-letter day for the Morgue! Eighteen thousand people came to gaze on those seven bodies.
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