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"I'll see both carioles smashed to atoms first!" thought Ravenshaw, grinding his teeth. "She'll tie first," thought Angus, pursing his lips. The instinct of self-preservation caused both to come to a dead and violent halt when within six yards of the meeting-point. A happy thought burst upon Angus at that instant.
By my fig! said she, swearing, I'll go no further And if I do, replied the other, they shall make a drum of my hide. And so with one consent they stopp'd thus Get on with you, said the abbess. Wh...ysh ysh cried Margarita. Sh...a shu..u shu..u sh..aw shaw'd the abbess. Whu v w whew w w whuv'd Margarita, pursing up her sweet lips betwixt a hoot and a whistle.
After a while, with a pair of long amber-colored needles, she fell to knitting with a fast, even furious ambidexterity, her mouth pursing up with a driving intensity, her boring gaze so concentrated on the thing in hand that her eyes seemed to cross. Dawn broke upon her there, her hat still cockily awry, tears dried in a vitrified gleaming down her cheeks.
"There is very little study required to convince anybody that he is a lazy, selfish Sybarite, who cares for nothing in the world except his own ease and comfort." "But have you never thought him eccentric?" "Eccentric!" repeated Alicia, pursing up her red lips and shrugging up her shoulders. "Well, yes I believe that is the excuse generally made for such people. I suppose Bob is eccentric."
Until that moment she had forgotten her father and mother! "There's that harness of his," went on the Man-Who-Makes-Faces. He thought a moment, pursing his lips and twiddling his thumbs. "We'll have to consider how we can get rid of it." She glanced up. "Where does he come?" she asked huskily; "my fath-er?" "Um! Yes, where?" He seemed uneasy; scratched his jaw; and rearranged a row of chins.
"Why, as to that, of course I do not know what my girl will say," went on Mr. Daniel Churchill, pursing up his lips. He looked not wholly lovable to me, as he sat in his big chair. I wondered that he should be father of so fair a human being as Elisabeth. "Oh, of course that," I answered; "Miss Elisabeth and I " "The skeesicks!" he exclaimed. "I thought she told me everything."
The child was hardly at all like her mother: had lived in her, but was not she: in that mysterious passage through her being the child had hardly retained more than the faintest perfume of the creature who was gone: inflections of her voice, a pursing of the lips, a trick of bending the head.
"Has she been long married to him?" asked Janice. "That I know not; and the less ye concern yourself, Jan, with her, the better." Despite this recommendation, Janice once again repeated her question, this time making it to Andre at the Assembly that evening. "I know not," the captain told her, pursing up his lips and raising his eyebrows.
Ramornie; and Andrew pursed his lips and nodded his approval. The pursing was meant as a hint of criticism on their too dashing sister. It was at that moment that there came the first gentle tap upon the door. "Come in," said Andrew, and the invalid's nurse entered. "Mr. Walkingshaw would like a pint bottle of champagne," said she. The junior partner stared first at her and then at his sisters.
Sudden nodded, pulled a book of note blanks from a drawer and calmly drew up a note for three thousand dollars, payable "on or before" one year from date, with interest at seven per cent. per annum, with a bill of sale of Johnny's airplane attached and taking effect automatically upon default of payment of the note. Johnny read the document slowly, pursing his lips.