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At length, the reading having been fully completed, and the listener's powers of flattery exhausted, the author carefully rewrapped his poem in its silken cover and carried it away, to read it, in turn, to other noble ladies, with the same transparent pretence of giving exclusive hearing of it to each.
The girl pointed to the photograph and then to the miniature and then to him, as though to indicate that she thought the likenesses were of him, but he only shook his head, and then shrugging his great shoulders, he took the photograph from her and having carefully rewrapped it, placed it again in the bottom of his quiver.
The town clock was striking midnight as the Budlongs dragged themselves home. There was much yet to be done. Parcels must be opened, price tags removed, gifts done up in pink tissue paper and gold twine, cards must be inscribed and inserted and the parcels rewrapped and addressed. The Strouther and Streckfuss driver had been hired at an exorbitant cost to sit up and deliver the gifts.
With an exclamation of impatience Lou rewrapped the baby which she had been examining and thrust it into the man's arms. Then turning to the woman with exasperation in her eyes and voice she demanded: "I s'pose you can find some dry chips, somewhere, can't you? If I don't get this baby into a hot bath right away it'll be all up with him."
One night robbers broke into the room, thinking the dead carried their treasures with them, and unwound our grave cloths. My soul pounded and tore at its case, hoping pantingly that they might break the parchment shell; but all they did was to remove a string of turquoise and porphyry beetle-shaped beads. When morning came the mummies were rewrapped and returned to the exhibit slab.
Well, how do you account for this? How do you think it could have happened?" "Happened?" I repeated dully. "Why, yes, how in the name of the infernal powers did this thing happen?" Indeed, on thinking it out, it seemed incomprehensible that it should just be like this: the bottles emptied, refilled, rewrapped, and replaced.
Louis, where they were kept in cold storage until June twenty-sixth, when they were placed on exhibition until after the visit of Governor Odell, June twenty-ninth. On June thirtieth they were rewrapped and repacked and sent back to cold storage until a few days before the State Fair at Syracuse in September of 1904, when they were shipped to Syracuse and again exhibited for a week.
In the draw he opened the package. It contained six sticks of dynamite and the necessary detonators and fuse. "Good old Judge," said Racey, admiringly, and rewrapped the dynamite, the detonators, and the fuse with even more care than he had employed in unwrapping them. He rolled the package into his slicker and tied down the slicker behind the cantle of his saddle.
'Oh, if you was sickening for the plague itself, and going to be as ugly as the Ooser in the church-vestry, I wouldn't 'No, no, you mistake, upon my soul! But Betty with a swollen heart had rewrapped herself and gone out of the door. The horse was still standing there.
Lynn Taps hid the baby, rewrapped, under his own blanket, and hurried down the mountain, while four men picked up Codago and followed. Lynn Taps scratched on the rawhide door; the doctor opened it. Lynn Tapps unrolled the bundle, and its occupant again raised its voice.
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