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As it was done yesterday the strong probability was that we should find the words in yesterday's issue." "So far as I can follow you, then, Mr. Holmes," said Sir Henry Baskerville, "someone cut out this message with a scissors " "Nail-scissors," said Holmes. "You can see that it was a very short-bladed scissors, since the cutter had to take two snips over 'keep away." "That is so.
"But we won't build too much on the clemency of Fate. How long she proposes to wait before closing her scissors it is idle to attempt to say." He laid his hands on Damaris' shoulders. Bent his head and kissed her upward pouted lips thereby hushing the loving disclaimer which rose to them. "So we will keep on the safe side of the event, my wise child," he continued.
We are not done yet I have cut some of my relatives who ran away from Paris Imbeciles! Bertha is our diversion now, and the raids at night jolly loud things!" and she chuckled, detaching her scissors which had got caught in the purple woolen jersey she wore over her Red Cross uniform. She is quite indifferent to coquetry, this grande dame of the ancien regime!
The only places which could be converted into jails, were the common adobe houses of the inhabitants. From these a wide awake and determined prisoner with the free use of his hands, and the assistance of the smallest kind of a tool, as a jack-knife or pair of scissors, could dig out of his dungeon in five or six hours.
Joseph, who saw nothing of the four hundred francs necessary to pay up the stakes, asked about them. The old woman smiled, and led him into the former salon, which was now her bed-chamber. "You shall see," she said. Madame Descoings hastily unmade the bed, and searched for her scissors to rip the mattress; she put on her spectacles, looked at the ticking, saw the hole, and let fall the mattress.
The young reformer was restrained, but only temporarily. As Elizabeth Cady Stanton she lived to do her part toward revising many of the laws under which women, in her day, suffered, and her successors, the organized women of the United States, are busy with their scissors, revising the rest. Not alone in Russia, Germany, France, and England do the laws governing men and women need equalizing.
'Oh, he's shot up to six foot eight! exclaimed Jack, interrupting the scribe. 'Snow! observed the bearded man styled Clementina. 'He dies in the snow. Listen. He read a passage from Henry's final scene, ending with 'His spirit had passed. 'Chuck me the scissors, Jack. Mr. Heeley paused, looked up, and then drew his pen through what he had written.
But he remained quiet below, and finally we found what we were looking for. In the lining of one of the curtains, near the bottom, a long, ragged cut had been made. "Cut in a hurry, with curved scissors," was Sperry's comment. "Probably manicure scissors." The result was a sort of pocket in the curtain, concealed on the chintz side, which was the side which would hang toward the room.
If the British workman can do it, there can't be much skill required, and we with our trained intelligence will soon overcome any difficulty," I said grandiloquently. "All we want is a pot of paste, and a pair of big scissors, and a table to lay the strips of paper on. I've seen it done scores of times." "So have I," said Lorna. "And doesn't the paste smell!
To this Dona Rodriguez, who was present, made answer, "My lady the duchess has duennas in her service that might be countesses if it was the will of fortune; 'but laws go as kings like; let nobody speak ill of duennas, above all of ancient maiden ones; for though I am not one myself, I know and am aware of the advantage a maiden duenna has over one that is a widow; but 'he who clipped us has kept the scissors."
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