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It's natural, sir, and seems to make you shave cleaner. I'm a-doing the very best I can. I must talk, or I should get nicking his skin and spoil the job." "Then for goodness' sake talk," cried Frank petulantly.
At length he raised his head, gasped, and on finding no one in the room, he let fly a volley of execrations, and rang the bell. "Is there any one there? Any one within hearing? I say Isabel, Isabel, jezabel, are you all dead and d d?" "No, your honor, not yet some of us at least," replied a shrewd-looking lad of about eighteen, nicking his appearance. "Ha, Lanty it's you, is it?
Where the channels are shallow, poles are used, which the men handled very dexterously, nicking in and out amongst the rocks and rapids in the neatest way; but in the main the propulsion was by our paddles, a delight to me, having been bred to canoeing from boyhood.
A shot from his revolver or the smashing of the French window was to be the signal for their united entrance on the scene. "Well, you know the end of the story as well as I do," he finished, nicking off the ash of his cigar. "Things could scarcely have turned out better, except for that unfortunate accident with McMurtrie." He paused.
Goodloe for that rock which might have killed him, if thrown an inch to the right, instead of only nicking that yellow head of his, the Lord be praised!" "What was that same Lord doing when he let the rock fly from Charlotte's hand to within an inch of the Reverend Mr. Goodloe's life, Mother Spurlock?"
With front wheels nicking the wrought-steel bumper of the car in front, he stopped, feverishly cramped his steering-wheel, slid back into the vacant space and, with eighteen inches of room, manoeuvered to bring the car level with the curb. It was a virile adventure masterfully executed.
My my I'll here, Aleck, that you?" "Yes, it's morning; rouse up. I fancy it must be late." "Looks to me as if it is dreadfully early. I fancied I was being roused up to go on deck. What are you doing?" "Going to get a light." This Aleck did after the customary nicking and blowing.
In the early days of steeple-chasing a popular fiction existed that the horses were hunters; and grooms and fellows used to come nicking and grinning up to masters of hounds at checks and critical times, requesting them to note that they were out, in order to ask for certificates of the horses having been 'regularly hunted' a species of regularity than which nothing could be more irregular.
To her stark astonishment, the boy was eating without embarrassment, as though to be waited on with this pomp had been a mere matter of course. When the cheese was brought, Mr. The waiter hovered around, nicking at the side-tables with his napkin and brushing them clean of imaginary crumbs. Tilda, eking out her last morsel of biscuit, opined that their friend would surely be back presently.
With a startled rush the herd drove through the meadow and poured across the unfenced road up to the hill pasture which they had left, whose scanty grasses had doubtless turned slow bovine thoughts to the coolness of the meadow grass, and the pleasure of standing ruminant knee-deep in the river, with wavy tail nicking the flies in the shade.
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