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When it came out again, still creeping nearer to the boys, swaying, reaching out for another tree which would have brought it within striking distance, the boy took careful aim and fired. There was a puff of smoke, the smell of burning powder, a great switching in the branches of the tree. Peter seized Jimmie by the arm and drew him back. "If you didn't hit him he'll jump," the boy said.
"No other, McCann," said I, with what I believe was a most pitiful attempt at braggadocio. McCann began to puff at his cigar. Clouds of smoke came out of his face and floated down the wind. He was so visibly embarrassed that I gained a little courage. "And what brings you here?" I demanded. He scrutinized me in perplexity. "I think you're guessing, sir." "Never a guess, McCann.
"There is no breeze to take us anywhere." "Well, what will happen to us, then? Shall we stay here forever?" "There ought to be a breeze in two or three days," said Kenneth Harper, who could not resist the temptation to chaff this ill-tempered young person. "Say by Tuesday or Wednesday, I should think a capful of wind might puff up in some direction."
"Is a mind, then, so unstable," said he, "that a mere figure, an animated geometrical arrangement can shake it from its foundations?" The idea horrified him: he saw civilisation building its temples over a volcano... "A puff," said he, "and it is gone. Beneath all is chaos and red anarchy, over all a devouring and insistent appetite.
"Wonder how strong this new force is?" "Can't be very strong or those fellows would be heading this way," declared Hal. "Maybe they think it's us." "That's about the size of it," declared Colonel Anderson. There was another puff of smoke at this moment, and one of the enemy fell. "Bully for you, whoever you are," shouted Chester. "Say!" he added, "what's the matter with taking them in the rear?
We went to the opera last night, and saw Faust again. You remember my telling you about going to see Faust in London the first time I wore the rose-pink satin. I wore the same dress last night, and Lady Throckmorton lent me some of her diamonds, and made Splaighton puff my hair in a new way. Splaighton is my maid, and I don't know what to do with her sometimes, Pamela.
Horses slipped and went down, but were raised again; fresnos were mired, but freed once more; men gave out and were sent to their camp. And the fight kept on. But about eleven o'clock Bryant felt a cool puff of air on his cheeks, light and of brief duration.
Like a pistol," he explained, and, rising, he directed several shots in quick succession at a dead tree in the ploughed field. At each shot a puff of dust came almost from the same spot. When he turned, Easter had risen to her feet in astonishment, and the mother was laughing long and loudly. "Don't ye wish ye had a gun like that, Easter? " she cried.
Maybright," she said, dropping a curtsey, and twisting a corner of her large white apron round with one formidable red hand. "It's to give notice. This day month, please, Doctor, and, though I says it as shouldn't, you won't get no one else to jelly your soups, nor feather your potatoes, nor puff your pastry, as Jane Power has done. But there's limits, Dr.
The flounces were so full and fluffy that he held his knees back nervously lest he should disturb a puff. There was no other furniture in the room but two rocking-chairs, and the only color was in the blue Japanese rugs scattered over the white matting, and in two immense bows above the dressing-table and bed.
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