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He stood squarely in front of her with a persistence that forced her to turn shiftily away with a pretence of looking at the clock. "This is a bad business," he said. "That boy ought never to have gone out there." Mrs. Agar had her handkerchief ready and made use of it, with as much effect upon Mr. Glynde as might have been produced upon a granite sphinx.
The genial juices of humanity had been squeezed out of him. "Not Jack Burridge!" I exclaimed, confronting him in astonishment. His little eyes wandered shiftily up and down the street. "And have you given up the old business?" I asked. "Yes, sir," he replied, "that's all over; I've been a vile sinner in my time, God forgive me for it. But, thank Heaven, I have repented in time."
She dropped her eyes on the floor, mumbled inarticulately a moment, and then said shiftily, "You have perhaps a few sous in your pocket, Madame, to show good-will to the sorceress; for without good-will she cannot tell you what you seek to know."
There were cases of a different caliber. Yet Burke could see in them what Balzac called "social coördination." Now a middle-aged woman, with hair unkempt, and hat awry, maudlin tears in her swollen eyes, and swaying as she held the rail, looked shiftily up into the magistrate's immobile face. "You've been drunk again, Mrs. Rafferty? This is twice during the last fortnight that I've had you here."
Her short-sighted eyes peered shiftily to right and left; her long nose went on before, scenting possible scandal and wrong-doing; her weak lips let loose a ready smile, insinuating, crafty, apologetic. She walked with hands crossed upon her breast, in attitude of adoration and humility. As she moved by, old Mary Antony let drop the pale and speckled pea.
Sunshine flickers shiftily, coming and going without any honest purpose; snow-squalls blow for five minutes, the flakes disappearing as they touch the earth; half an hour later rain sputters, turns to snow and then turns back to rain and the sun disingenuously beams out again, only to be shut off like a rogue's lantern.
He stood before his sister and his cousin, moving his eyes shiftily from one to the other, rubbing his hands nervously together. "Your precious friend Sir Rowland has been here," said he, and it was not clear from his manner which of them he addressed. "Not a doubt but he will have brought you the news." He seemed to sneer.
We've rather overworked the phonograph of late." "Not even 'The Beautiful Night of Love'?" The inquiry held an insistent shade of regret. But Eben, as his glance went shiftily to the face of the clock, was as steady and as cool as one may become under the temporary keying of a repressed and brain-wrecking excitement.
"What I have to say is, if you will deign to listen, for your private ear." The King jerked round in a fashion peculiar to him; his every action was abrupt and spasmodic. He eyed his mother and brothers shiftily. It was beyond his power to look any one directly in the face. "Outside!" he commanded, waving an impatient hand almost in their faces. "Do you hear?
There is no longer the measured quiet sound of throbbing activity, like the sound of boiling water, but diverse discordant sounds of disorder. In and out of the hive long black robber bees smeared with honey fly timidly and shiftily. They do not sting, but crawl away from danger. Formerly only bees laden with honey flew into the hive, and they flew out empty; now they fly out laden.
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