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Precious rigmarole of some sort. The facts!" "She is also the young lady who traveled in the same boat from Hongkong to Singapore." Ramabai paused to see the effect of this information. Bruce lowered his fork slowly. The din about him dwindled away into nothing.
Romance is what you look forward to; adventure is something you look back upon. If many disagreeable occupations, hunger and an occasional fisticuff, may be classed as adventure, then I have had my run of it. But I always supposed adventure was the finding of treasures, on land and on sea; of filibustering; of fighting with sabers and pistols, and all that rigmarole.
"What what's all this rigmarole?" gasped Andrew. "It's sheer nonsense from beginning to end." His unwelcome guest was again shaken with boyish laughter. "Prove it!" he cried. "Prove it's nonsense! Eh? How'll you manage that?" Andrew's face grew darker and darker. "Who does 'Harris' profess to be, I'd like to know?" "Grandson of Mrs. Harris!" laughed Heriot. "What Mrs. Harris?" "Sarah Gamp's pal."
“She goes on to state to the girl, in her usual rigmarole style, that she will, in a few weeks, meet with a lover; and perhaps she may receive a present of jewelry; and by that she will know that the ‘handsome young man’ has seen, and been smitten by her many charms.
And now it's comin' out that he's a crook and a jailbird! And he'll be jailed for stealin' THIS time, too. Ho, ho!" He stopped, out of breath, to indulge in another long chuckle. Jed leaned forward. "What are you talkin' about, Phin?" he demanded. "Even allowin' all this this rigmarole of yours about about Middleford business was true " "It is true and you know it is.
Loud praying can be heard, and those who are least accustomed to such things on ordinary occasions are most vehement now. A Mohammedan is kneeling on his rug, with his face turned in the direction of Mecca, as near as he can judge, and going through with the strange rigmarole of bows and muttered phrases that constitute his religion.
Die he did, before long; and still Otto's Brother was refused as successor. Brother, however, again survived; behaved always wisely; and Otto at last had his way. "Makes an excellent Archbishop, after all!" said the Magdeburgers. Those were rare times, Mr. Rigmarole.
And here what is chiefly interesting in the rigmarole is the evidence that Milton had been recently attending to the news from Scotland. George Gillespie who was one of the Scottish Divines in the Westminster Assembly. It is the well-known Sonnet to his friend Henry Lawes, the musician.
The name Menschikoff, for instance, has nothing in it to my ears more human than a whisker, and it may belong to a rat. As the names of the Poles and Russians are to us, so are ours to them. It is as if they had been named by the child's rigmarole, Iery wiery ichery van, tittle-tol-tan.
Reporters, with a sense of the dramatic, usually wrote it that way. Ham and eggs were a symbol. Should he mull around for extenuating epigrams a fervid rigmarole on the mysteries and ethics of life? Or strike swift, short?... "Death was instantaneous. The drop fell at 10:08 A.M. sharp." Always sharp. Damn his reporters! "Anna ..." She bloomed at the sound of her name. "I want to talk, Anna."
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