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He took it in four mile-long zigzags, and it was the turning at each corner that nearly finished him, for then the strain of balancing taxed to the verge of collapse the remnants of his strength. Slopes that have taken hours to climb can be descended in a short half-hour on ski, but Hibbert had lost all count of time.
Easy enough if one were but left to climb in peace, but absolutely suicidal if an enemy stood above. He scowled through the little paneless window at what he could see of the bluff, and thought of the mile-long grade to be climbed and the rough stretch of lava rock, sage, and scattered bowlders to be gone over before one could reach the place upon a horse.
"Daddy's hardly ever home, anyway," the boy added, naively. "Where is your home?" "Down beside the river. We live there in summer." And so the conversation continued and the acquaintanceship grew as man and boy plied back and forth on their mile-long furrow. At length it occurred to Grant that he should send Wilson home; the boy's long absence might be occasioning some uneasiness.
"When she came again to the surface, fifteen minutes later, the monster and all her spouting kinsfolk were out of sight, hidden behind a mile-long mountain of blue ice-berg. But she was not satisfied. Remaining up less than two minutes, to give the calf time for breath, she hurriedly plunged again and continued her journey.
Morning brought the penetrating chill of the Northern December, the layers of wood-smoke, the dusty grey-blue of the tamarisks, the domes of ruined tombs, and all the smell of the white Northern plains, as the mail-train ran on to the mile-long Sutlej Bridge.
It seemed lonelier to him than the mile-long sweep of Heavy Tree Hill, writhing against the mountain wind and its aeolian song. He had never felt so lonely THERE. In his rigid self-examination he thought Kitty right in protesting against the effect of his youthfulness and optimism. Yet he was also right in being himself.
An instant later the fuselage tore free, rocketing downward; the wings followed more slowly twisting, turning, dipping in mile-long swoops. The Solarite shot away from the spot at maximum speed away and up, with a force that nailed the occupants to the floor.
And the old man, with the twentieth courteous inclination, left his guest alone. The Prince was early abroad: in the time of the first chorus of birds, of the pure and quiet air, of the slanting sunlight and the mile-long shadows.
How hard it had been to loose her and leave her. Yet how glad he now was that he had done so. Twenty-three Twenty-four When all these white figures are gone, safely started on their mile-long walk, the door shut and locked behind them then he will fold back the cloak, turn her sweet face up to his, and lay his lips on hers. Twenty-five Praise the holy saints! The last! But what an old ferret!
Some people seem to have a monopoly of luck. Though Saigon and Pnom-Penh do not possess the facilities for equipping shooting expeditions afforded by Mombasa or Nairobi, and though in Indo-China there are no professional European guides, such as the late Major Cunninghame; the elaborate and costly outfits customary in East Africa, with their mile-long trains of bearers, are as unnecessary as they are unknown.
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