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Updated: May 10, 2025
He opened the inner hatch and stepped into the control deck to see Roger staring at the teleceiver in openmouthed astonishment. A harsh voice was coming over the loud-speaker. "... Order you to cut all power and stand by for a boarding party, or I'll open fire immediately!"
Barley stared openmouthed at Mike for a moment; then he broke into a roar of laughter which shook the sporting prints on the wall and drew barks from dogs in some distant part of the house. He staggered about laughing and coughing till Mike began to expect a fit of some kind. Then he collapsed into a chair, which creaked under him, and wiped his eyes. "Oh dear!" he said, "Oh dear!
He's as tall as this caravan nearly. Do come and peep at him." They all very readily accompanied Gregory into the wood, and there, sure enough, was a giant, combing his hair. He heard them coming, and looked round. They stopped, open-eyed and openmouthed. "Here, I say," the giant said at last, "this won't do. You mustn't look at me like that free. It's a penny each, you know."
He got into Parliament, you know, for Reddington at the by-election and we've been muddling along with honorary secretaries and typists. I shouldn't suggest it to you," she went on, so as to give him time to think, for he sat staring at her, openmouthed, bewildered, his breath coming quickly "I shouldn't suggest it to you if there were no chances for you in it.
The major, now soaked to the skin and leaving a stream behind him, strode up to the small counter where Phrosine was reading a novel. "You little wretch," he yelled, "you have dared to gammon an officer; you deserve " And then he lifted his hand as if to deal a blow such as would have felled an ox. The little maid shrank back, terrified, while the amazed domino players looked, openmouthed.
In the center the green strip of marshy meadowland, with the water squirting from the galloping hoofs, and the two crouching men, gleaming bright in the evening sun, on one side the half circle of motionless horsemen, some in steel, some in velvet, silent and attentive, dogs, hawks, and horses all turned to stone; on the other the old peaked bridge, the blue lazy river, the group of openmouthed rustics, and the dark old manor-house with one grim face which peered from the upper window.
Never could I admit my "philosophy" unequal to any tussle on the world's harsh proving ground! "Your willingness does you credit. I'll escort you to the train at once." Ananta turned to the openmouthed Jitendra. "You must go along as a witness and, very likely, a fellow victim!" A half hour later Jitendra and I were in possession of one-way tickets for our impromptu trip.
At sight of some of the signatures my head swam I felt saddened, disillusioned, almost in despair for humanity. I suppose Inglesby had thought it wiser to preserve these letters possibly for his own safety; but no wonder he had locked them up! I looked at the Butterfly Man openmouthed. "You wouldn't think folks wearing such names could be that rotten, would you?
It sent its products to every country in the civilized world, and it furnished the food for no less than thirty million people! To all of these things our friends would listen openmouthed it seemed to them impossible of belief that anything so stupendous could have been devised by mortal man.
George, the squire, gazed in openmouthed wonder, and his mouth remained open until he entered the fore-court of the palace. Then he only closed it to give his jaws a little rest before their future labours began, for such a good smell from the kitchen greeted him that he ordered the willing cook to satisfy immediately the demands of his appetite, as his hunger was greater than his curiosity.
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