Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 8, 2025
Then he carefully folded all in a rich saree and was knotting the ends together when the train suddenly stopped, and an Englishman pushed open the door of the ladies' compartment and sprang at him with the exclamation, "You scoundrel!" The sudden surprise and assault threw the robber off his feet, and he fell sprawling on the carriage floor, with the Englishman on top of him.
He hacked away two lengths of rope measuring each about eighty feet; he made these into bridles, knotting one end of each piece to the end of the spar, and taking the other ends round the timber-heads. Two pieces of thin rope, hauled out of the hamper aft, were made fast to the ends of the steel rails, and then Joe made a frantic effort to get his apparatus over the side.
"Yes. And I fancied Mr and Mrs Greenleaf thought so, too. I saw them exchanging glances more than once." "Did you? It is to be hoped the minister did not see them." "Merleville people are all on the watch and they are so fond of talking. It is not at all nice, I think." "Oh, well, I don't know. It depends a little on what they say," said Rose, knotting up her hair.
What had become of the statue he could not divine, and growing more and more curious, looked about here and there for it till, thinking of her private room, he went towards that spot. After knocking he heard the shutting of a door, and the click of a key; but when he entered his wife was sitting at work, on what was in those days called knotting.
"'Nay, I must tie thee on, replied Moussa Isa and, knotting one end of the puggri to the back of the saddle, he passed it twice round Ibrahim and tied the other end near the first. This done, and Ibrahim being in a frantic fever of haste and fear and hope, Moussa Isa commenced to bargain, Ibrahim agreeing to every demand and promising even more.
But there was a strange light of suspicion in his eyes, a nervous rage knotting his forehead. "My land and my earnings are my own, and I have never lived on another man's fortune. If you mean that the late Seigneur made a will that canard " "It was no canard." Tardif laughed hatefully. "There was a will right enough." "Where is it? I've heard that fool's gossip before." "Where is it?
Five minutes later he was knotting the official tricolour scarf round his waist, for it fell to his duty as Maire to read the Decree of Mobilisation in the town, and I accompanied him there. I shall never forget that sight.
And as a still farther precaution against losing myself I hunted up a hatchet to take along with me to blaze my way. All of which matters being attended to, I made a rope fast to the rail knotting it at intervals, so that I could climb it again easily and so slipped down the steamer's side.
Steve, his revolver laid on the floor beside him, was knotting a handkerchief about his hand with his teeth. "Hello!" exclaimed Wink. "Did they get you!" "No, it's only a piece of glass. It's bleeding a bit, that's all." Steve gave a final tug at the knot and seized his revolver again. "I wish they'd show themselves!" "They probably wish the same of us," laughed Wink. "How long does this keep up?
Still bending over the lifted foot, she turned her head slowly and looked up; and "Oh!" said a small voice tinged with relief. And coolly knotting the laces again, she sat up. "I didn't hear you, you know." "Nor I see you," Maitland supplemented unblushingly, "until a moment ago. I er can I be of assistance?" "Can't you?" "Idiot!" said Maitland severely, both to and of himself.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking