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Anyhow, it's fixed bay'nets, my lad; but I wonder whether the tool would go in. Phew! What does that mean? This is a blessed unked place, and it's getting darker and darker. It aren't fair to a British soldier to put him on a job like this." As the man spoke he looked sharply to right and left and out into the river, fixing his bayonet the while. "Do you hear that, you beggars?
"I hope it was a good lump, for our countrymen leave hundreds of thousands here every season." "It was four thousand nine hundred pounds, sir." "Phew! Well, I wish it had been double. You are not so close as our friend here, madam." "No, sir; and shall I tell you why?" "If you like, madam," said Smith, with assumed indifference. "Mr.
He fitted a hard rubber cap snugly into the palm of his hand, and with the first and middle fingers encircled the cylinder over a steel ring near the other end. A loud report followed, and a vase, just unpacked, at the opposite end of the basement was shattered as if by an explosion. "Phew!" exclaimed Kennedy. "I didn't mean to do that.
Suppose that you can't think of anyone just now who is a daughter to a garbage man, it is best to read this just the same for you never know when you may meet her. When you do, tell her not to care too much when the children at school tease her about her father and cry "Phew phew, here comes the gar-bidge-Garrr-bidge-Garrr-bidge."
'Struck her just aft the engines, exclaimed Hotham jubilantly. 'Settled her hash all right. Gad, they've got pluck. They're still shooting. Ah, did you hear that, Carrington? as the submarine quivered again slightly. 'That was a shell. It struck the water not ten yards away. 'But that's the last, he continued. 'She's cocking her bows up. Phew, the whole bottom's knocked out of her.
"Well, I suppose we must; but my blood's up now," said Mark, "and I hate running from such a set of curs." "So do I," said Ralph; "it's like being beaten, when we won. I say, were you hurt?" "Only where you jobbed that sword of yours into my leg. Phew! it's getting stiffer every moment. I shan't be able to walk directly. Were you?" "What, hurt? No, only where you scratched me."
As it was, his legs felt as if they were hanging paralysed downward, and he was conscious of the fact that the batten that he had last grasped was slowly gliding through his right hand and getting thinner and thinner, till it passed rustling away right in amongst the palm-leaf thatching. "Oh dear!" sighed Peter Pegg, "could that have been fancy? It felt just like a big snake. Phew! How hot it is!
"Well, what are you looking at?" he growled. "I say, don't squeeze a man's hand like that. Why, you've made my eyes water, lad. Look, they're quite wet. Phew! You did squeeze." "It's because he has so much vice in him, Briggs," said Denham, smiling. "That's it, Mr Denham.
In town there is no furniture, no servants. . . everything has been carried off to the villa: you eat what you can get; you go without your tea because there is no one to heat the samovar; you can't wash yourself; and when you come down here into this 'lap of Nature' you have to walk, if you please, through the dust and heat. . . . Phew! Are you married?"
Smoke was issuing from one of the chimneys, and it required no great imagination on the part of those three to visualize the kitchen at the other end of the chimney a broad, stone-flagged kitchen maybe, with a deep, old-fashioned ingle-nook, and pots and pans about it. "Phew! It makes a fellow's mouth water," declared Stuart, looking hungrily at the farm.
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