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Also it reacted chemically on his mental processes to generate a new power within him. The new power, being as yet unapplied, made him uneasy and restless and a little irritable. He tried to show some of his wonders to Parker. "Jed," said he, one day, "this is a great country." "You KNOW it," replied the foreman. "Those tourists in their nickel-plated Pullmans call this a desert. Desert, hell!
Around the town, grown in a few years to twenty thousand souls, stretched countless acres of fenced and cultivated land, yielding bountifully under the irrigating waters. From east and west long trains of nickel-plated Pullmans pulled into a granite station. The people spoke the slang of Broadway and danced the fox trot in evening clothes.
Why, if you flash a nickel-plated suspender buckle quick enough you can pass it for a badge even by daylight. "I didn't think you'd get my letter so soon," says Ellery. "I'm glad you came, though. See, I've got one of the gang already. He's the ringleader, too." "Fine work!" says I. "But what's the plot of the piece? You didn't make that so clear. Is it a case of " "Hist!" says Ellery.
I believe it was the next day that Tish went to the library and read about worms. Aggie and I had spent the day buying tackle, according to Charlie Sands's advice. We got some very good rods with nickel-plated reels for two dollars and a quarter, a dozen assorted hooks for each person, and a dozen sinkers.
From his pocket he drew a nickel-plated menthol inhaler and calmly leveled it at her head. "It looked very much like a pistol in the darkness," he said, "and it deserves a place among the cherished relics descending from our romance."
I sat on his left hand, and he talked like like the Ladies' Home Journal. J'ever read that paper? It's refined, Sir and innocuous, and full of nickel-plated sentiments guaranteed to improve the mind. He was it. He began by a Lydia Pinkham heart-to-heart talk about my health, and hoped the boys had done me well, and that I was enjoying my stay in their midst." These passages are taken from Mr.
"I don't see as that's any of our particular affairs," objected Mrs. Daggett warmly. "Think of havin' nice cool spring water, just by turning a faucet. We're going to have it in our house. And Henry says mebbe he'll put in a tap and a drain-pipe upstairs. It'd save a lot o' steps." "Huh! like enough you'll be talkin' about a regular nickel-plated bathroom like hers, next," suspicioned Mrs.
California's full of 'em, and here's an Eastern sample while we're talking." A shiny black steam-yacht, with mahogany deck-house, nickel-plated binnacles, and pink-and-white-striped awnings puffed up the harbour, flying the burgee of some New York club.
"You'll all be my guests, for a change, and we'll make the chef step around a bit." "Hooray!" crowed Jimmy, "that's the kind of talk I like to hear, Larry. It certainly sounds like sweet music to me." "It is rather pleasant," added Bob. "All you've got to do is set a date, Larry, and we'll be there with nickel-plated appetites and cast iron digestions."
I'd like to get out and do something, but I can't; I'm too well known in Chicago, and besides, as a business man I'm certainly a nickel-plated rotter." "I'll give you a chance to recoup," said Boyd. "I am here to raise some money on a good proposition." The younger man leaned forward eagerly. "If you say it's good, that's all I want to know. I'll take a chance.
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