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He went roaring out over a mobile floodlight and up into the dark sky for the rendezvous with Red Flight. High above the channel, the ships of his flight tucked in and circled. Soon they picked up the flight of Liberators and Fortresses. At twenty-five thousand feet the big bombers left broad vapor trails behind them. Stan looked down upon the killers from his perch in the sky.
With the entertainment over, the rebels lost interest in their prisoner, and the ones who hadn't already been overcome by the refreshments wandered away, too drunk or, Dave thought bitterly, too confident of the Ranger's helplessness to bother posting guards. He descended from his perch, careful not to lose the disruptor.
If you have deceived me!" said Katuti with a threatening gesture as she passed his perch. "Put me on a hook to angle for a crocodile if I have. But I am curious to know how he will offer you the money." "You swore to me," interrupted his mistress with feverish agitation, that you had not used my name in asking Paaker to save us?" "A thousand times I swear it," said the little man.
Graziella was much surprised to see a perfectly strange bird, and still more so when it flew to her saying, 'Good-morning, sweet princess. She was delighted with the pretty creature, and let him perch on her finger, when he said, 'Kiss, kiss, little birdie, which she gladly did, petting and stroking him at the same time.
These miniature flycatchers have a way of hunting which is all their own. They sit perched on some exposed twig or branch, motionless until some small insect flies in sight. Then they will launch out into the air, and, catching the insect with a snap of their beaks, fly back to the same perch. They are garbed in subdued grays, olives, and yellows.
He slouched from his perch with the air of one who means rather to defend his position than welcome a superior, the right hand in his waistcoat pocket fumbling a key, the left catching at his vacant stool. Sir Austin put two fingers on the youth's shoulder, and said, leaning his head a little on one side, in a way habitual to him, "I am glad to find my son's old comrade thus profitably occupied.
At Mount Vernon there was an ancient black man, reputed to be a centenarian and the son of an African King, whose duty it was to keep the household supplied with fish. On many a morning he could be seen out on the river in his skiff, beguiling the toothsome perch, bass or rock-fish.
He caught perch, bass, suckers, trout, sunfish, catfish, and other kinds, the names of which he did not know. Sometimes when his hook and line had brought him all that was needed, and the day was hot, he would take off his clothing and plunge into the deep, cool pools. Often his friend, Paul Cotter, was with him. Paul was a year younger than Henry, and not so big.
I dragged over a chair and lit the candles in the candelabra each side of the chimney-piece, and then standing on my perch still, I held up my own torch and I saw the sailor really well. I think he has a beautiful face and that he is no more mad than I am. But he looks so sad, so sad! I longed to make those closed lips part and tell me their secret.
The more striking scenes of animal life, hitherto confined chiefly to the ocean, are now on land; the extensive sheets of fresh water are filled with fishes of a comparatively modern character, with Whitefish, Pickerel, Perch, Eels, etc., while the larger quadrupeds are introduced upon the continents so gradually prepared to receive them.
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