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He stood nervously prodding the hard wet sand with his walking-stick. "In a way," he said, "your theory was quite right. But it didn't go far enough. It's not only possible, it's a fact, that I didn't see those signs in those hands. I never examined those hands. They weren't there. I wasn't there. I haven't an uncle in Hampshire, even. I never had." I, too, prodded the sand.
Alice is so helpless, she has to be prodded and prompted continually. I can't leave her for a moment. And when she is married, I'm going into a sanatorium for six months." "I hear," said Mrs. Flint, "that Humphrey Crewe is quite epris." "Poor dear Humphrey!" exclaimed Mrs. Pomfret, "he can think of nothing else but politics."
With the introduction of scouts for escort and protective duties came formation flying and concerted attack. Fighting craft continued to increase in speed and numbers. As the struggle became more and more intense, so did the scene of it move higher and higher, prodded by an ever-growing capacity for climb and the ever-growing menace of the anti-aircraft guns.
Loring hastily complied, and Johnny, after having been prodded into a recognition of the true situation, agreed with a disgusted snarl. Gresham, with nerves much restored and a smile beginning to appear upon his now oily features, carefully assigned each bond, and then, secure in Johnny's promise, which he accepted at the par value all men gave it, stood up and shook his finger warningly.
Up on the stage a very stout woman in short pink skirts, with a smile that McKnight declared looked like a slash in a roll of butter, was singing nasally, with a laborious kick at the end of each verse. Johnson, two rows ahead, went to sleep. McKnight prodded me with his elbow. "Look at the first box to the right," he said, in a stage whisper. "I want you to come over at the end of this act."
But suddenly, as the cart rounded a turn in the road, there came into view the figure of a girl travelling in the same direction. The young man slipped from his perch and prodded up the oxen to a brisk walk. As the noise of the team approached her, the girl looked around. She was good to see, with her straight, vigorous young figure in its blue-gray homespun gown.
And if this be progress as we view progress if this be desirable industrial or agricultural evolution, then I'm out of tune with my world and my times, and as soon as I am certain of it I'll blow my brains out." Parker chuckled at this outburst and Kay prodded him with her elbow a warning prod. The conversation languished immediately.
While he stood tamely being prodded and measured, feeling like a prize horse at a fair, John Andrews listened to the man at the typewriter, whose voice went on monotonously. "No...record of sexual dep.... O hell, this eraser's no good!... pravity or alcoholism; spent...normal...youth on farm. App-ear-ance normal though im...say, how many 'm's' in immature?"
Her manner said, "Beat that if you can." My sister prodded me in the back with her umbrella, which in our sign language means, "Don't make a scene." "Very well," I said, rather meekly. "Have our trunks sent up." "Very good, madam." She went away, and then we rang the bell and began to order what were to us the barest necessities of life.
Heatherbloom locked the door leading into the dining salle the other, opening upon the deck, he had already tried and found fastened and drew closer the draperies before the windows. Then returning to the prince, he prodded gently the prostrate figure. "Get up!" His excellency moved, then staggered with difficulty to his feet and gazed around.
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