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Second, the fellow was an arrant coward, and he would never have offered the least resistance unless convinced that he was in imminent peril of his life which was improbable. The rear stairway was associated with the thought of Burke's cowardice, for he had chosen that way to accompany Stodger: whose shoe-sole had left the flattened fragment of paraffin there?
Dagger in hand, Paul examines this obstruction, looking thence toward either bank. He resumes the oars, again pausing at thick overhanging bushes. Peering under, around, and through the foliage, Paul rubs the glistening blade on upturned shoe-sole. Sheathing his weapon, he slowly moves toward the point whence the two bodies had disappeared into swollen stream.
We passed out of the city by a gate where in a little coign of vantage a cobbler was thoughtfully hammering away in the tumult at a shoe-sole, and then suddenly on our right we had the Julian wall: not a mere fragment, but a good long stretch of it. The Moors had built upon it and characterized it, but had not so masked it as to hide the perdurable physiognomy of the Roman work.
'I think', said the Princess, 'you must have come here to wear out my tongue with your nonsense. 'No, I have not', said the lad; 'but this is worn out', as he pulled out the shoe-sole. To this the Princess hadn't a word to say, for she had fairly lost her voice with rage. 'Now you are mine', said the lad; and so he got the Princess to wife, and half the kingdom.
For indefatigable industry, unexampled patience, and powers of mind very far above what are commonly attributed to them, I, for my humble judgment, would give our periodical journalists their honourable due: I am playing no Aberdeenshire game of mutual scratching; I am too hardened now in the ways of print to be much more than indifferent as to common praise or censure; that honey-moon is over with me, when a laudatory article in some kindly magazine sent a thrill from eye to heart, from heart to shoe-sole understanding: I no longer feel rancorous with inveterate wrath against a poor editor whose faint praise, impotent to d , has yet abundant force to induce a hearty return of the compliment: like some case-hardened rock, so little while ago but soft young coral, the surges may lash me, but leave no mark; the sun may shine, but cannot melt me.
As a result, Homer Wefers' large shoe-sole was planted on the edge of the prow, instead of its center. His sole was slippery from the dew of the lawn. The prow's edge was still more slippery, from having been the scene of a recent fish-cleaning. The constable's gangling body strove in vain to hold any semblance of balance.
While busy one night hammering away at a shoe-sole, a little boy, seeing a light in the shop, put his mouth to the keyhole of the door, and called out in a shrill pipe, "Shoemaker! shoe-maker! work by night and run about by day!" A friend, to whom Drew afterwards told the story, asked, "And did not you run after the boy, and strap him?"
The despatches were slipped between the layers of his shoe-sole, the cut stitches were replaced, and Weldon rose to his feet. "My nigger has come from Naauwpoort, bringing me a fresh mount," he said then. "May I take him with me?" "What is he?" "A Kaffir." "From where?" "Piquetberg Road." "Can you trust him?" Weldon's eyes met the eyes of the General steadily.
"I have seen governors in these parts," said Sancho, "that are not to be compared to my shoe-sole; and for all that they are called 'your lordship' and served on silver." "Those are not governors of islands," observed Samson, "but of other governments of an easier kind: those that govern islands must at least know grammar."
On the side of the loch, when we emerged from the hills, there was a cluster of whin-bushes spread out upon a machar of land that in a less rigorous season of the year, by the feel of the shoe-sole, must be velvet-piled with salty grass.
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