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Delphica draws Mr. Semhians aside. Blushing over his white necktie, like the coast of Labrador at the transient wink of its Jack-in-the-box Apollo, Mr. Semhians faintly tells of a conversation he has had with the ingenuous fair one; and she ardent as he for the throning of our incomparable Saxon English in the mouths of the races of mankind.
She was somewhat bewildered by this Jack-in-the-box sort of appearance. 'I think you promised me this next dance, Miss Beresford, said he. He was a grave-looking young man for his years a Corsican Brother the Ghost in Hamlet. She did not know what to make of him. 'I thought you had left, she stammered. 'You have not been dancing? 'No, I have not been dancing, he repeated.
For the Baron's gait was somewhat tottery and uncertain, and he even toppled over altogether pretty frequently, but got up upon his feet immediately, after the manner of a jack-in-the-box. So that this toppling over had a considerable resemblance to some rather eccentric dancing step more than to anything else one could compare it to.
They are so heavily weighted by the new combination that their Jack-in-the-box, Lord Randolph, will have to stand like an ordinary sentinel on duty, and take the measurement of his natural size. They must, on the supposition of their entry into office, even to satisfy their own constituents, produce a scheme. Their majority in the House will command it. To this extent, then, Mr.
The dread of a coming ordeal in the witness-box or on the operating-table may be forcibly crushed down like a child's jack-in-the-box; but we are always conscious of the effort to compress it, and we know that it will spring up again the moment that effort ceases.
I gazed somewhat critically at B. There was nothing particularly insane about him, unless it was his enthusiastic excitement, which might almost be attributed to my jack-in-the-box manner of arriving. He said: "There are people here who speak English, Russian, Arabian. There are the finest people here! Did you go to Gre? I fought rats all night there. Huge ones. They tried to eat me.
There stood the old guardsman, like a jack-in-the-box in the centre of a hollow funnel-shaped cylinder which he had made in the snow.
The lawyer and money shark jumped up from his chair as though he had been fixed upon a spring like a jack-in-the-box. "Madam, is what your son tells me true?" he demanded, hotly. "Every word of it, Mr. Cheatham; I have been trying to say the same thing but somehow could not get you to understand me. We do not intend to leave Riverview, and the property is withdrawn from sale," she replied.
Thus the trouble began. Knife and fork in hand, Patsy leaped for Carter Watson. "Out wid yeh!" Patsy bellowed. "I know yer game!" Carter Watson was startled. The man had come upon him like the eruption of a jack-in-the-box. "A defacin' me walls," cried Patsy, at the same time emitting a string of vivid and vile, rather than virile, epithets of opprobrium.
'Me! shrieked Martha, in a shrill voice, shooting up from behind the counter like an infuriated jack-in-the-box. 'No, I shan't. Why, the last time I saw him he nearly cut me like a ham sandwich with that knife of his.
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