Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 20, 2025
He had a geological chart of America, with what he felt to be melancholy blanks for the chalk and oolite beds of his own country, and appropriate fossils indicated by an index-finger in red ink. He had the Poor-Law and electoral systems to master, as well as the prison systems of the different States.
It had a conventional index-finger trigger and a hand-fit grip, but, instead of a tubular barrel, two slender parallel metal rods extended about four inches forward of the receiver, joined together at what would correspond to the muzzle by a streamlined knob of some light blue ceramic or plastic substance.
She did not respond to the overture, except to snap the hand with her index-finger, and was back in her chair again, regarding him demurely. "I think we shall go abroad soon." The little foot was on the fender again, and the face had the look of melancholy resolution. "And leave Mr. Lyon without any protection here?"
"Look, look, Cynthia!" she exclaimed, brushing off a cloud of dust with the whisk-broom, and pointing to the top of the sheet. "Here's one of the biggest discoveries yet!" And Cynthia, following her index-finger, read aloud: "'Tuesday, April 16, 1861." "Which proves," added Joyce, "that whatever happened here didn't take place much earlier than this date, or the paper wouldn't be here.
She did not respond to the overture, except to snap the hand with her index-finger, and was back in her chair again, regarding him demurely. "I think we shall go abroad soon." The little foot was on the fender again, and the face had the look of melancholy resolution. "And leave Mr. Lyon without any protection here?"
Abruptly he quitted the room and returned to his vigil by the side of the son who was at once the light and the shadow of his existence. The nurse came stealthily to the reception-room entrance and looked in inquiringly. Daney shook his head, so she came into the room and pointed at him a singularly commanding index-finger.
By singularity of pairing, his fast friend is the muscular sub, who walks against time, and can write his initials with a hundredweight hanging from his index-finger. Happy dogs in the heyday of life, all of them; how I envy them their buoyant spirits, their rollicking enjoyment of to-day, and their contempt for the morrow!
"Then why did you pack him off?" inquired the unknown, picking from the fire with his delicate index-finger a burning ember, tossing it lightly on to his soft palm, and thence chucking it adroitly into the bowl of his little pipe.
Then he moistened the tip of his index-finger in his mouth, and dipping it gingerly in the powder, transferred a tiny morsel thereof to the tip of his tongue, and instantly fell expectorating in every direction.
A small shower of tobacco sifted to the floor: the rice-paper cracked and came away; and with the bland smile and gesture of a professional conjurer, Lanyard exhibited a small cylinder of stiff paper between his thumb and index-finger. Goggling resentfully, Monsieur Ducroy spluttered: "Eh what impudence is this?"
Word Of The Day
Others Looking