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Its hold was filled with bags of grain, on which squatted and lay many dark figures scarcely to be distinguished from the bags. No whisper marked its passage; not a pipe-bowl glowed. On the little steering platform stood Simon Grampierre wielding a long sweep run through a ring astern. The ring was muffled with strips of cloth.
One man a stranger hammered his empty pipe-bowl on the table in applause. "Whae was the man, d'ye say?" he asked. "A neeger?" Lewis laughed. "Not a nigger most certainly, though he had a brown face." "And ye risked your life for a black o' some kind? Man, ye must be awfu' fond o' your fellow men. Wad ye dae the same for the likes o' us? "Surely. For one of my own folk!
We should dine at the embassies and the attachés would flutter about us, and all London would talk of the beautiful "Mrs. Winthrop." Then the fire in my pipe-bowl went out. The copy boy was at my elbow again. "Hang you!" said I. "The foreman says he's coming down with an axe," replied the boy. It was like churning, but I did manage to grind the copy.
He beamed at Granice over his pipe-bowl, and the latter, lighting his cigar, said to himself: "Success makes men comfortable, but it makes them stupid." Then he turned, and began: "Denver, I want to tell you " The clock ticked rhythmically on the mantel-piece.
He was smoking slowly, holding his index and middle fingers over the pipe-bowl to prevent the tobacco burning too quickly, for he had only a couple of pipefuls left. He was thinking that to-morrow evening the pouch would be empty, when, from somewhere in the forest near by, there came a sound which brought him to his feet and the two porters up on hands and knees like listening dogs.
The smoker leisurely dips a wire into the paste; a few drops adhere to it, and he twirls the wire in the flame of the lamp, where they fry and bubble; he then draws them upon the rim of the clay pipe-bowl, and at once inhales three or four mouthfuls of whitish smoke. This empties the pipe, and the slow process of feeding the bowl is lazily repeated.
The two little girls would brush the snow off his hat and coat, adjust his nose and teeth, would straighten him up generally. After a while, Maida threw her bird-crumbs all over Mr. Chumpleigh. Thereafter, the saucy little English sparrows ate from Mr. Chumpleigh’s hat-brim, his pipe-bowl, even his pockets. “Perhaps the snow will last all winter,” Maida said hopefully one day. “If it does, Mr.
So that I could purchase peace with little dabs of brown in a pipe-bowl, little puffs of white in the palm of my hand, little drops of liquid on a ball of cotton. So that I could drug myself with dirt and forget the dirt and remember England." He rose to his feet with that swift grace of his, and Daphne rose too, slowly. "I am going now; will you walk to the gate with me?"
Kavaalen pronounced the J-sound as though it were Zh; he gave all his syllables an equally-accented intonation. "Say, somebody gave him a good job!" "Somebody's been seeing too many war-movies." McKenna got a cigarette out of his tunic pocket and lit it in Rand's pipe-bowl. "Want to confess now, or do you insist on a third degree with all the trimmings?"
Guess some of that grandfather's bump can be located on Tom's head." "Inventor h'm inventor!" muttered Mr. Leslie half to himself. "That puts rather a different face on that bridge matter." "As how?" casually asked Griffith, beginning to scrape afresh at his pipe-bowl. Mr.
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