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Durville swung and let go. But just as he did so -that ball dropped! It passed on a level two feet below the swinging stick, and Greg, with a quiet grin, neatly mitted it. "Good!" muttered Coach Lawrence under his breath. "Got any more like that, Prescott?" he called. "I think I have a few, sir, when I get my arm warmed up and limbered," Dick admitted. "Take your time, then.
The man had almost forgotten the mitted hand he was still clasping. Now he looked down into the up-turned, enquiring eyes. "I don't guess An-ina needs us for awhile," he said. Then, after a pause: "No," he added. "Boy's worked hard very hard. Maybe we'll go back to the fort. And Uncle tell boy a story? Eh?" Steve had no need to wait for the torrent of verbal appreciation that came.
The traces, snarled and entangled, besides being frozen to the consistency of wire, gave us the hardest work; and, owing to the activity of the dogs in leaping and bounding over each other, we had the most unideal conditions possible to contend with, and we were handicapped by having to use mitted instead of ungloved fingers to untangle the snarls of knots.
Dick ran down to the pitcher's box, while Greg, slipping on mask and glove, took up his position behind the plate. Tozier carelessly broke the seal on the package enclosing a ball, inspected it, and dropped it into Dick's hands. Dick threw an overshoot to Greg, who mitted it neatly. But Ted Teall could not let the occasion go by without some nonsense. "Whack!" shouted Teall. "Woof!
The eyes had a frenzied look in them, the look of a man without hope, but with still that instinct of life burning in his brain. Every now and again he raised one mitted hand and pressed it to nose and cheeks. He knew his face was frozen, but he had no desire to stop to thaw it out. He was beyond such trifles.
Then with a rush the pride and hurt that had sustained her ever since that weary September evening in the hotel lobby vanished, and she came close to Chris, so that the fragrance and sweetness of her enveloped him, and caught his coat with both her mitted hands, and raised her face imploringly, commandingly to his. "Chris for God's sake what have I done?
Then the sled flung tail up in the air and the man was hurled headlong amidst his dogs. Father Adam stood with mitted hands thrust up above his head. He was gazing into the smiling eyes of a man no less dark than himself. There were three others confronting him, and each was armed with a stubby, automatic pistol which covered his body. "Guess Hellbeam's waiting for you over the other side, Mr.
There could be no mistaking his attitude. There could be no mistaking the appeal this lonely little creature made to his generous manhood. "That all? Any other?" The boy came confidently within reach of the outstretched arms, and, as the man's mitted hands closed about him, he held up his face for the expected caress. Steve bent his head and kissed the ready lips. "'Es, Brand.
He notes the stranger's alert movements, the quick, flashing black eyes, the dark features, as he peers from side to side in the bush, over the edge of the down-turned storm-collar; the legs which set so close to the saddle, the clumsily mitted hands.
In the year eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, on the fifth day of June, the Padgett carriage-horses faced the west, and their mistress gathered the lines into her mitted hands. The moving-wagon was ready in front of the carriage. It was to be driven by Zene, the lame hired man.
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