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He went over to his dressing-case and took out a shining nickel-plated revolver. Tiptoeing cautiously into his sister's room he gently kissed the tear-stained face. Then he went out very softly and called for a cab. In the ordinary of the vast hostelry he found Douglass sitting on an easy-chair, staring into vacancy.
In the lives of many successful men there are such incidents, which they do not care to have inquired into, turning-points that one slides over in the subsequent gilded biography, or, as it is called, the nickel-plated biography. The uncomfortable A. and B. bondholders had been settled with and silenced, after a fashion. In the end, Mrs.
The mahogany bar of a saloon, with its nickel-plated rail, lies under another heap in the city park, and thousands of cigars from a manufactory are piled high in Vine street, and are used as the only dry part of the roadway. Those of the people who can locate their homes have gathered what furniture and ornaments they can find together, and sit beside them looking like evicted tenants.
Fruits and flowers tastefully arranged adorn the centre of the dining table and minute electric incandescent lamps of various colors are concealed in the roses and petals and these give a very pretty effect, especially at night. Beneath the table nothing is to be seen but two nickel-plated bars which serve to guide the elevators.
I presume you're acquainted with the average run of British generals, but this was my first. 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.
'Upon a Wednesday, and in the morning, to put on new clothes is auspicious, said Mahbub solemnly. 'But we must not forget the wicked folk in the world. So! He capped all the splendour, that was taking Kim's delighted breath away, with a mother-of-pearl, nickel-plated, self-extracting .450 revolver. 'I had thought of a smaller bore, but reflected that this takes Government bullets.
In the edge of the town Jessie took the dog out and, Burton and Ferris following, led him into a field. Here she snapped the leash. "Go!" she cried. He needed no such command. Like a white meteor he sped across the field and dashed into the woods. She called him, but he did not turn. Again and again the shrill command of her little nickel-plated whistle echoed in fields and woods.
Quincy had not raised his; and he stood still, leaning forward, his pistol pointed to the floor, while he glared at Benson. "Now, then, stop this!" said the proprietor, sternly, as he leveled a bright, nickel-plated revolver at Benson. "Lower that gun quick! Lower it " Benson saw out of the corner of his eye, and slowly lowered the pistol. "You, too," he said to Quincy, as he looked at him.
He came downstairs with it in his hand, and those who were taking part in the sport went downstairs to the gun-room. I went with them for a while, but I did not stay long." "Captain Nepcote's revolver is not an army weapon?" "Oh, no. It is a very small and slight weapon, nickel-plated, with six chambers. It is so light as to resemble a toy." "With a correspondingly light report, I presume.
And look here, and diving her little hand into the bodice of her dress she produced a double-barrelled nickel-plated Derringer, 'I always carry that loaded, and if anybody tried to touch me I should shoot him. Once I shot a leopard that jumped upon my donkey as I was riding along. It frightened me very much, but I shot it in the ear and it fell dead, and I have its skin upon my bed.
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