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When I awoke in the grey dawn Joe had already risen, lit the fire, packed his swag, and brewed our last pinch of tea in the billy. We drank to each other's good fortune in silence. Then, after a hand-press, Joe humped his swag and strode away, leaving me with moistened eyes. I felt I had lost my only friend. I have foregathered with much worse men than "Artful Joe."
Who can tell what it may prove when it has been ploughed with the plough of suffering, when the rains of sorrow, the frosts of pain, and the winds of poverty have moistened and swelled and dried its fallow clods? Mercy had not such a sweet temper as her sister, but she was not so selfish. She was readier to take offence, perhaps just because she was less self-satisfied.
He let me hold them and looked at me. His eyes were moistened. Then I saw him take the flask that was hanging at his side. To my amazement he placed it on my lips. "Drink!" said he. Had I heard him? Was my uncle beside himself? I stared at, him stupidly, and felt as if I could not understand him. "Drink!" he said again. And raising his flask he emptied it every drop between my lips.
With a bang he scattered over the carpet all the springtime bouquet, arranged a little while before by feminine hands with the feverishness of one who counts the minutes and lives on hope. He moistened his handkerchief in the water of the vase and knelt down beside Freya, raising her head upon the cushion.
He stopped again, facing John. "Just one thing more, Gallant," he said. "Yes," said John, his voice queerly out of pitch. Gibson looked him straight in the eyes. "You love her, don't you?" he asked. Unable to speak what was in his heart, John stood silent. He moistened his lips with his tongue and wondered why it was he could not shout back his answer.
But I want money enough to do it right. No little piker splurge they can buy up! I'll have those two birds weeping blood!" Enoch moistened his lips. "What's the story, Curly?" he asked evenly. Curly filled and lighted his pipe. But before he could answer Enoch, Mack said; "Sleep on it, Curly. Mud slinging's bad business. Sleep on it!" "I've a great contempt for Brown," said Enoch.
Then he moistened his fingers with his tongue, smoothed the hair on his temples, and with elbows held out from his sides, shoulders hunched up, and under-jaw stuck well out, bore down on Carew and the girl, who were getting under way when he came up. Taking not the slightest notice of Carew, he touched the girl on the shoulder with a sharp peremptory tap, and brought their dance to a stop.
Still another method is by the use of baking-powders, which are made of a mixture of some cheap and harmless acid powder with an alkaline powder usually some form of soda. As long as these powders are kept dry, they will not act upon each other; but as soon as they are moistened in the dough, they begin to give off carbon dioxid gas.
The loose mouth of the convict opened. "Why, we I we " "Keep yore trap shut, you durn fool," ordered Shorty. Crawford jabbed his rifle into the ribs of the rustler. "Yours, too, Shorty." But the damage had been done. Miller's flabby will had been braced by a stronger one. He had been given time to recover from his dismay. He moistened his lips with his tongue and framed his lie.
At these words, Bazmant felt his hopes revive. He laid aside all disguise, and declared that he was the monarch whom they wished to return. At that instant his faithful subjects, exiled on his account, fell at his feet. They kissed his hands and moistened them with their tears. A part of the knights who were there devoted themselves as his life-guard.
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