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He foresaw what was coming, and prepared his mind for a vigorous defence. 'Did you ever steal yourself? asked Casimir, turning suddenly on Jean- Marie, and for the first time employing a single eyeglass which hung round his neck. 'Yes, sir, replied the boy, with a deep blush. Casimir turned to the others with pursed lips, and nodded to them meaningly. 'Hey? said he; 'how is that?
"Man, man, you must have been afishing in the mid-pit of hell to net such filth." "I learned that song in Nacumera," said Demetrios, "when I was a prisoner there with Messire de la Foret. It was a favourite song with him." "Ay?" said Bracciolini. He looked at Demetrios very hard, and Bracciolini pursed his lips as if to whistle.
Marius frowned darkly, but before he could speak, Tressan was insinuating a compliment to the Marquise. "True, Marius," he said, with pursed lips. "Nature has been very good to you in that she has made you the very counterpart of your lady mother. You are as comely a gentleman as is to be found in France or out of it."
I'm going to blow 'em right off and then eat 'em eat 'em! Pf-f-f-f!" She made as if to catch them with pursed lips, but they bobbed sidewise, and he regarded her with a swelling pride, then glanced about the room, pleased at the furor that followed her little antics. "Gad, Doll, you're a winner! I can pick 'em every time! You ain't dolled up like the rest of 'em, but you're a winner!" "Oh-oh-oh!"
Presently the governor drew his chair to the table, and motioned Councillor Drayton and Iberville to be seated. The girl touched his arm. "And where am I to sit?" she asked demurely. Colonel Nicholls pursed his lips and seemed to frown severely on her. "To sit? Why, in your room, mistress. Tut, tut, you are too bold.
"It's meself that'll have to feed ye up." "But I'm always thin!" protested Dinah. "It's just the way I'm made." Biddy pursed her lips and shook her head. "It's not the sign of a contented mind," she commented. "I never was contented before I went to Switzerland," said Dinah; she turned to Isabel. "Wasn't it all lovely? It's just like a dream to me now all glitter and romance.
"He is looking at the crops from his window in St. Petersburg!" Sir Justin grimly pursed his lips, but his silence was more ominous than speech. In fact, the Baron's unfortunate effort at realism by the introduction of his window struck the first blow at his wife's implicit trust in him. She was evidently a little disconcerted, though she stoutly declared
She walked with a swaying unconscious rhythm, as if she did not know what she was doing. She cut off his perfunctory attempts at conversation with a monosyllable. When they got home they were both tired. They each decided to have a hot bath and rest before dinner. She was dressed in very severe perfect black, marvellous lines, waiting to be sculpted. He told her so. She pursed her lips.
No wonder I couldn't find one that was sensible. Well, I declare!" The book had opened at the fly-leaf. "Persis from Justin," Susan read, bringing her near-sighted eyes close to the faded ink. She pursed her lips and shook her head in disapproving surprise. "Persis Dale must have known some man pretty well to let him give her anything so pointed.
"At what are you going to earn your living when you grow up, Fil?" asked the Padre, who was his teacher, when we all met again under the whispering bamboos next morning. Fil thought a minute, pursed his chest out like a pouter pigeon, and replied to the great admiration of Filippa, who was a very loyal sister: "I shall be a Senator, or President."
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