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"Yes, Nal, ye'd better go, an' sonny, ye needn't to come back; I like ye first rate, but ye needn't to come back!" Rinaldo walked home to the race track, and as he walked, cursed old man Bobo, cursed him heartily, in copious Western vernacular, from the peaky crown of his bald head to the tip of his ill-shaped, sockless toe.
Why could he not go to school to-morrow, and then challenge Ernest to combat? But he might challenge Ernest without going to school... He had never fought a real fight, but the sight of his enemy's thin, peaky body was encouraging. "Now, Jeremy, dear," said Miss Maddison, "it's your turn to hide..." Soon they all went in to tea.
"Oh, as you like, madame, as you like," said the king listlessly. At a sign from Mademoiselle Nanon a little peaky man with a shrewd petulant face, and long gray hair falling back over his shoulders, entered the room. He bowed profoundly three times, and then seated himself nervously on the very edge of the stool, from which the lady had removed her work-basket.
And the profits from that last picture should ought to be something positively enormous stupendous sensational. Listen! I bet you that from the hour we release " "You ain't going to release!" broke in Geltfin, his wizen features sharpening into a peaky mask of grief. "Don't talk foolishness!" snapped Mr. Lobel. "For why shouldn't we be going to release?" "That's it why?" Mr.
Them peaky little clams a'most puts out all my shoulder-blades, and wunna bite through a twine of gristle. Plates for all the gentlemen, Winnie lass! Bill, go and drah the black jarge full o' yell." The farmer knew well enough that Willie was not down yet; but this was his manner of letting people see that he did not approve of such hours.
In the distance, our favorite blue mountains were as blue and as peaky as ever, on Valentine's canvas; and our generally-approved pale yellow sun was still disfigured by the same attack of aerial jaundice, from which he has suffered ever since classical compositions first forbade him to take refuge from the sight behind a friendly cloud.
"It is a long time since I looked you up," I admitted. He scrutinised me attentively by the light of the entry lamp, and then remarked: "Fetter Lane doesn't seem to be agreeing with you very well, my son. You are looking quite thin and peaky." "Well, I've nearly done with it. Barnard will be back in about ten days.
He's a peaky little chap; it comes of being a poet, I think. We had a bun or two at different shops out of the shillings and it was quite late in the afternoon when we got to Fleet Street. The gas was lighted and the electric lights. There is a jolly Bovril sign that comes off and on in different coloured lamps. It is a big office, very bright, with brass and mahogany and electric lights.
"The worst of it is she isn't very strong. Peggy, I mean." "Oh, rubbish," said Mrs. Hannay. "I was a peaky, piny baby, and look at me now!" He looked at her and laughed. "Sarah's coming in this evening," said she. "I hope you won't mind." "Why should I?" "Why, indeed? Nobody need mind poor Sarah now. I don't know what's happened. She went abroad last year, and came back quite chastened.
There were trees and very fantastic peaky rocks against the sky, and a great step about 3 feet high, which had once been a wave of basalt, black on the yellow sand. The camel-men used to spread their beds and light their fire on this sort of stage by night, but they spent the day under the trees.
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