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Updated: May 19, 2025
But now they saw this destruction in the process, and stood very still, listening to the infernal clatter as shells burst at the other end of the street, tumbling down huge masses of masonry and plugging holes into neat cottages, and tearing great gashes out of red-brick walls. "Funny business!" said one of the boys. "Regular Drury Lane melodrama," said another.
And everywhere the mirror of the sea was broken by leaping salmon, silver crescents flashing in the sun. "Say, what do you know about it?" Vin smiled at MacRae. "Old Gower is trolling." "Trolling!" "Rowboat. Plugging around the Rock. He was at it when daylight came. He sold me fifteen fish. Think of it. Old H.A. rowboat trolling. Selling his fish to you." Vincent chuckled.
So although the call of the springtime was strong and difficult to resist he had been faithful to his work, "plugging away," as he expressed it, with all his strength. To his surprise the task, so irksome at first, became interesting. It was a novel experience to enter a classroom and instead of moving in a mental haze possess a clear idea of what was going on.
"I observe," said Grafton, "that the way one of these infernal bullets sounds depends entirely on where you happen to be when you hear it. When a sharpshooter has picked you out and is plugging at you, they are intelligent and vindictive. Coming through that bottom, they were for all the world like a lot of nasty little insects. And listen to 'em now." The other man listened.
Where's my share, I'd like to know? Where do I come in? No, I ain't in it any more. I've been played for a sucker, an' now that you've got all you can out of me, now that you've done me out of my girl and out of my money, you give me the go-by. Why, where would you have been TO-DAY if it hadn't been for me?" Marcus shouted in a sudden exasperation, "You'd a been plugging teeth at two bits an hour.
But it was heavy enough, together with her big metal steering apparatus, to counterbalance any buoyant qualities left in the wooden frame. And. down she went, waddling like a fat and ponderous hen, into a twenty-foot nest of water. Gavin had wasted no time in the impossible feat of baling her or of plugging her unpluggable leak.
They were always pulling themselves up to debate openly whether they should go farther, always, on consideration, turning narrative into a channel much less confidential and much less, interesting, or as openly plugging straight ahead, carefully disguising names and places. After a week or two, the first fine careless rapture of their escape from death disappeared. The lure of loot evaporated.
This latter fact may be accounted for by the difficulty of plugging up a burrow with objects so extremely thin as are the upper ends. In support of this view, it may be stated that out of the 16 petioles which had been drawn in by their upper ends, the more attenuated terminal portion of 7 had been previously broken off by some accident. Triangles of paper.
And yet you get two lives and put them together twelve years in an office ... in a house.... Mabel and I ... practically we just sit and look at each other. Her mask. My mask...." He thought: "One knows what it is, what it looks like, with ants. They're all plugging about like mad like that, not knowing one another, nor caring, because they all seem to be looking for something.
"How'll we conceal where we've been sawing?" Bud asked. "By plugging up the grooves with corn bread blackened with soot that we can make by holding the wick of this smoky lamp against the cage-ceiling." "And how'll we keep folks from hearing the sawing?" The very next day we began dancing and singing and taking turns at the chuckhole bar.
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