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If he had legged it on his own account, because of what he heard me say, I could understand that. But why should you It became evident to Elizabeth that, until some explanation of this point was offered to him, Nutty would drift about in her vicinity, moaning and shuffling his feet indefinitely.
At the time of Christ his direct ancestors had been doing the same thing, meeting the precisely similarly modelled junks below the white water at the foot of the canyon, bending the half-mile of rope to each junk, and, according to size, tailing on from a hundred to two hundred coolies of them and by sheer, two- legged man-power, bowed forward and down till their hands touched the ground and their faces were sometimes within a foot of it, dragging the junk up through the white water to the head of the canyon.
He didn't have to call him twice; for the boss of the Restorium had heard the row and was glidin' our way as fast as his rubber heels would let him. He's a short legged, pop eyed, red faced party, wearin' cute white side whiskers, a black Prince Albert, and a minister's necktie. "Gently, gently," says he, pattin' the air with his hands and puckering his mouth.
The ruthless proscription of party seems to degrade the victims whom it brands, however unjustly. But let us hope a brighter day is approaching, when a Scottish country gentleman may be a scholar without the pedantry of our friend the Baron, a sportsman without the low habits of Mr. Falconer, and a judicious improver of his property without becoming a boorish two- legged steer like Killancureit.
If I don't run away, I must live, like poor Harry Somerville, on a long legged stool; and if I do that, I'll I'll " As Charley spoke, the door opened, and his father entered. "Well, my boy," said he, seating himself on the bedside and taking his son's hand, "how goes it now? Head getting all right again? I fear that Kate has been talking too much to you. Is it so, you little chatterbox?"
His Majesty, graciously handing me a little three- legged stool on which I took my seat in a corner, inquired if I smoked. 'I do; that is, I can, I answered. 'Pipe and a screw! said His Majesty to the attendant charioteer. 'Do you prefer a dry smoke, or do you moisten it?
The Menaechmi is one of the immortal comedies and has survived in many forms on the modern stage all over Europe. He changed his name as stated in the text, the new name being that of an uncle who adopted him, as we learn from his life by Nepos. A similar necessity and bad roads created in England, before the eighteenth century, a demand for long legged sheep. His bone throughout heavy.
This new acquaintance, whom we will call Emilie, led him through a dark, damp little lobby into a fairly large but low-pitched and untidy room with a huge cupboard against the further wall and a sofa covered with American leather; above the doors and between the windows hung three portraits in oils with the paint peeling off, two representing bishops in clerical caps and one a Turk in a turban; cardboard boxes were lying about in the corners; there were chairs of different sorts and a crooked legged card table on which a man's cap was lying beside an unfinished glass of kvass.
Let the man with the belly ache ride last on the other horse. So! Forward march!" So Darya Khan led the way with his rifle, and King's face glowed in cigarette light not very far behind him as he legged his horse up the narrow track that led northward out of the Khyber bed.
Well, I'll be damned, where's that blighter of a draft man gone to? There's his rifle leaning against the parapet. He must have legged it. Just keep your eye peeled, Dick, while I report it to the Sergeant. I wonder if the fool knows he can be shot for such tricks as leavin' his post." Lloyd had gone.
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