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Updated: June 26, 2025
She deliberately made a face, not at the tree behind which Penrod was lurking, but at the innocent and heart-wrung Sam. "You needn't come limpin' after me, Sam Williams!" she said, though Sam was approaching upon two perfectly sound legs. And then she ran away at the top of her speed. "Run, rigger, run!" Penrod began inexcusably. But Sam cut the persecutions short at this point.
About three o'clock the first straggler came limpin' in, his wings hangin', his mouth open, his eyes glazed with the heat. By sundown fourteen had returned. All the rest had disappeared utter; we never seen 'em again. I reckon they just naturally run themselves into a sunstroke and died on the road. It takes a long time to learn a chicken a thing, but a heap longer to unlearn him.
"Yeah," said the Traffic Emergency voice. "Too bad. But we'll get the Aldeb off in six hours." Sergeant Madden pushed another button. It lighted. "Madden," he rumbled. "Desk. The Cerberus' had a breakdown. She's limpin' over to Procyron III for refuge to wait for help. The Aldeb'll do the job on her, but I'm going to ride the squad ship out and make up the report. Who's next on call-duty?"
Billy, Gunter, and the others tumbled on to the deck in the usual indescribable manner, and the former, making fast the long painter, added the Evening Star's boat to the lengthening flotilla astern. "Your man seems to be hurt," said the master of the mission smack whom we may well style the missionary "not badly, I hope. You're limpin' a bit."
"It vas goin round so, und it vas more lighter yet as dot man here, und hees face vas more lighter too, und he valked mit stick all time und he don' go long mit hees head up, red in hees face like dis man here und dark in hees face too. Craikmile's son go all time limpin' so." Nels took a step to illustrate the limp of Peter Junior when he had seen him last.
We were saved the trouble of further description by the interruption of a high-pitched voice: "'Not a shade shy of six foot tall; shoulders like Georgees Carpenteer's when he's pleased with life in the movies; hair black as a Crow Injun's; eyes blue as a hummin' bird's weskit; and a grip wa-al, he don't wear no velvet gloves: Limpin' Dick Bellamy! "'That's him, said the queer man.
They lay there two months loadin' on account o' th' war having blocked th' nitrate beds. "Wan day O'Toole saw an old woman come limpin' along th' dock where th' Starbuck lay. She hobbled on to th' gang-plank an' started aboard, an' O'Toole began to chaff Garnett. He waren't half bad as a joker.
But the climax came when he managed to bug the safety catch on the foolproof ash elevator and took a 20-foot drop with about a ton of loaded ash cans. He only had a leg broken, at that, but it was three or four months before he came limpin' out of the hospital to find that the buildin' agent didn't care to have him on the payroll any more. Somehow Henry got his case before Mr.
But I liked it. P'raps it was lies, but it was cheerfle lies that 'elps yer. What I ses is if THINGS ain't cheerfle, PEOPLE's got to be to fight it out. The women in the 'ouse larft fit to kill theirselves when she fust come 'ome limpin' an' talked to 'em about what the lidy told 'er. But arter a bit they liked to 'ear 'er just along o' the cheerfleness. Said it was like a pantermine.
Magic city that has sprung up there amidst the blue waters and green forests like a dream of enchantment, a hymn of glory, with not one false, harsh note in it to mar the glory and perfectness of the song. Now, I have had my idees riz up lots of times they have riz and fell so much that my muse has fairly lamed herself time and agin, and went round limpin' for some time.
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