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This time he counted sixteen steps before his eyes, rising above the level of the upper floor, discovered to him a thin line of light, bright along the threshold of a door. He began to breathe more freely, yet apprehension kept him strung up to a high tension of nerves. He knuckled the door loudly one double knock followed by another. From within a voice called cheerfully, in English: "Come in."
The first glance of each was at the glass, which he repeatedly knuckled and frowned upon; for it was sagging lower all the time. Then, if Johnson were the visitor, he would pick a snack out of the cupboard, and stand, braced against the table, eating it, and perhaps obliging me with a word or two of his hee-haw conversation: how it was "a son of a gun of a cold night on deck, Mr.
When I go out," there was a gleam in the eye he raised to hers, " I am going to call at Temple Barholm." "I knowed tha would," she commented with maternal familiarity. "I dunnot believe tha could keep away." And through the rest of the morning, as he sat and gazed into the fire, she observed that he several times chuckled gently and rubbed his delicate, chill, swollen knuckled hands together.
At the twentieth repetition no boy can stand the torture of one unvarying query, which is the essence of bullying came confession. "We did, confound you!" "Then you'll be knuckled;" and knuckled they were, according to ancient experience. Head-knuckling is no trifle; "Molly" Fairburn of the old days could not have done better. "Did you give Clewer Brush-drill?"
Zounds, is it possible that the, jade has coerced and beaten me? dared to beard the lion in his own den to strip him, as it were, of his claws, and to pull the very fangs out of his jaws, and, after all, to walk away in triumph? Hang me, but I must have a strong touch of the coward in me or I would not have knuckled as I did to the jade.
"What; is it dirty?" "Oh, it's all knuckled and rubbed. You must have been crying ever so long; your eyes are quite swelled. There, be off. I want to write my letter." While Glyn had been earnestly engaged comforting Burton and before he started his letter, he had not observed the return of Singh with his pockets looking bulgy and his face wearing a good-tempered smile.
Without raising his eyes from his book, Phil said, so as to be heard as far as the usher, "Who prated, of Prater the second? Who is Prater the third?" There was a laugh which provoked the usher to come and see whereabouts in Sallust such a passage as this was to be found. Not finding any such, he knuckled Phil's head, and pulled his hair, till Hugh cried out "O, don't, sir! Don't hurt him so!"
One day, while our cab and many others were waiting outside one of the parks where music was playing, a shabby old cab drove up beside ours. The horse was an old worn-out chestnut, with an ill-kept coat, and bones that showed plainly through it, the knees knuckled over, and the fore-legs were very unsteady.
As he knuckled the third signal, the door swung slowly inward, disclosing, in a dim glow of light, stone walls a bare stone chamber illumined by a single iron lamp hanging in chains from the ceiling. Across the room a dark entry opened upon a passageway equally dark. By the door a servant stood, his attitude deferential. As the Virginian's gaze fell upon him he salaamed respectfully.
So he "knuckled down," again to use his own phrase, and sent old Hulker with peaceable overtures to Osborne. It was his father, he said, who would not hear of the match, and had made the difficulties; he was most anxious to keep the engagement. The excuse was sulkily accepted by Mr. Osborne.
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