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Then, dropping them into the box, one by one, he repeated the rhyme: "One flew east and one flew west. And one flew into the cuckoo's nest." Lloyd added, quickly: "Eugenia, Joyce, or Elizabeth, Which of the three shall we like best?" "Joyce," said Rob, promptly. "I think so, too," agreed the Little Colonel, stooping to fasten the locust blossoms more securely behind the pony's ears.
A streak of armor, 4 feet below water and 3 feet above, runs from this forward and aft entirely around the vessel. Her speed is 8 knots. As proposed to the last Congress, the central casemate was to be about 120 feet long on the top, its sides being inclined 27-1/2 degrees from the horizon, and composed of 6-3/4 inches of iron, 14 inches of locust backing, and a half-inch iron lining.
She knew exactly the way he would take. From Migwan's house he would go up Adams to Locust Street and from there to th Avenue, and keep on going until he came to the dark tunnel. Sahwah nearly burst with indignation when she thought of Joe's cowardly conduct.
The noise which interested Lina was over now, and he only heard her observation about the locust. "Ain't there a strong smell of honey about here, Mister Ralph?" he said, looking anxiously around; "something between the scent of an old bee-hive and a wasp's nest?" "There is a singular scent I fancy, Ben," answered the young man, following Lina with his eyes. "Not disagreeable, though!"
The wild bee winds his drowsy horn, The bird swings on the ripened wheat, The long, green lances of the corn Are tilting in the winds of morn, The locust shrills his song of heat. Another sound my spirit hears, A deeper sound that drowns them all, A voice of pleading choked with tears, The call of human hopes and fears, The Macedonian cry to Paul!
Yank rose to the occasion by appealing to them not "to kick up a muss," because there was "a lady of our own colour in the next room." The lady was mythical, but the riot was averted. The next day was clearing, with occasional heavy dashing showers, just to keep us interested. The country began more to open up. We passed many grass savannahs dotted with palms and a tree something like our locust.
Several of her grown children gathered round and laughed with hearty approval at her impersonations, and at last her husband came in smiling and sat near, joining in the songs of the frog and the locust, to the great merriment of their children. =The Coyote and the Turtle,= as told by Guanyanum Sacknumptewa
The son of Guiscard trod in the footsteps of his father; and the two destroyers are compared, by the Greeks, to the caterpillar and the locust, the last of whom devours whatever has escaped the teeth of the former.
The foundation is of wood, locust posts being used, with boards nailed upon both sides and coated with coal tar. The house is forty one feet long and sixteen feet wide, and is heated by a tank constructed as follows: brick piers are built three feet apart on which are laid common blue flag stones six feet long and two feet wide.
As the wind veered intermittently there came to him the perfume of the locust trees, now in full bloom, the flowers of which resembled miniature cascades hanging in mid-air. Pietro rocked, his legs crossed, his face blurred in the drifting tobacco smoke. "No more tourists, Pietro." "No." Pietro sighed, a ruminating light in his faded eyes. "Did you ever see La Signorina before?
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