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Listen, I just saw a fellow who'd been banged up as if he'd been in a concrete mixer, creeping along this hall. What sort of work do they do here? And what do we have to do?" To his amazement Ashe smiled, at least his lips quirked faintly. "Hardy got under your skin, eh? Well, we have our percentage of failures.
In that hour, that moment, he would not have sold his place for all the happiness of all the remaining people in the world. He cried out aloud, and Peter, squatted at his feet with his red tongue lolling out, listened to him. "She is mine, mine, mine," he was saying, and he repeated that word over and over, until Peter quirked his ears, and wondered what it meant.
If I were asked what kind of a world I'd like to live in, I'd say one where the corners of Mary's mouth keep quirked up all the time. Let's talk about Marshby's picture. It's going to be your Marshby." "What do you mean?" "Not Marshby's Marshby yours." "You're not going to play some dreadful joke on him?" Her eyes were blazing under knotted brows. "Mary!"
The corners of his mouth quirked upward, though his smile was becoming almost a stranger to his face. "We-ell, I dunno's you can blame me because it don't snow. I can't make it snow if it takes a notion not to snow " "Oh, come and eat, and never mind the snow," called Rosemary impatiently. "We've got to mind the snow or we don't eat much longer!"
Since there was nowhere else for her to go, she was obliged to wait in the lobby beside the umbrella-stand till he came out, quirked his head at her suspiciously, and went into his father's room. She perceived that there had been no need for him to go into her room save his desire to make this gesture of hate towards her.
I've recognized the fact, all along, that we need a man stationed right here, living in the country, who will meet prospective homesteaders and talk farming; keep up their enthusiasm; whip the doubters into line; talk climate and soil and the future of the country; look the part, you understand." "So I look like a rube, do I?" Andy's lips quirked a half smile at her. "No, of course you don't!"
Countless dragonflies flashed their brilliant colours as they whirled and darted, green frogs plunged at our approach from their diving-boards of matted rush, or quirked defiance from the banks where they were safe; and now and again a startled kingfisher showed us the blue gleam of a wing above the brown maces of the bulrushes and the high-hanging tassels of the sedges.
She could deal with details with little taper-finger touches of nicety, but she could not judge as well as he of generalities and the final scope of combinations. It was doubtful if Abigail ever fairly appreciated her own punch. "Abigail," said the Squire, looking down at her, his great bearded face all slyly quirked with humor "Abigail, look here.
Mother Mayberry still stood in the center of the room watching to see that all of her guests were comfortably seated. "Them were mighty bad happenings, Mis' Peavey, and I know we all feel for such trouble being sent on the Lord's people," said Mother Mayberry seriously, though a smile quirked at the corners of the Widow Pratt's pretty mouth and young Mrs.
Gusterson asked quietly. "Why, Gussy, you big oaf " Fay began heatedly. Suddenly his features quirked and he twitched. "'Scuse me, folks," he said rapidly, heading for the door, "but my tickler told me I gotta go." "Hey Fay, don't you mean you told your tickler to tell you when it was time to go?" Gusterson called after him. Fay looked back in the doorway.
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