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Updated: June 9, 2025
"Yet I have seen an army of the nation of which those 'devil-worshippers' are sprung, armed only with spears and shields, eat up a force three times as large as our own and infinitely better armed, I being one of the few who escaped. And 'The People of the Spider' cannot, from all accounts, be inferior to the stock whence they came." Lutali shrugs his shoulders again.
I wish to goodness that man'd come home and clear his name, or give me a chance to do it. He no more stole that knitting-woman's money than I did." "Aunt Sally! Stole? Stole! My Ephraim! Why, you must be crazy!" "There, it's out. Needn't hop up like that, mad as a hornet, at me. I'm not the one hints and shrugs.
"Our half-starved mechanics," he says, "are a depraved set; and these wives they bring with them from the North are a sort of cross between a lean stage-driver and a wildcat. She seems a poor, destitute creature just what they all come to, out here." Mr. Snivel shrugs his shoulders, bids George good night, and takes his departure.
Hollister has such a charmingly unreasonable way of holding me responsible for her son's conduct! And since she happens just now to be our guest well, you get the idea, McCabe." "What do you think he's up to?" says I. Purdy-Pell shrugs his shoulders. "If he were the average youth, one might guess," says he; "but Robin Hollister is different.
She will remember the expression of your mouth, your shrugs, and gestures the little traits of the child Louis, that reappear in the man." "I wish I had never gone to Mittau to give her a moment's distress." "Is she very beautiful?" "She is like a lily made flesh. She has her strong dislikes, and one of them is Louis Philippe " "Naturally," said Eagle. "But she seemed sacred to me.
She would not let them praise the chapel. It was very clean, yes, but there was nothing to see in it. She deprecated their compliments with many shrugs, but she was pleased; for when we renounce the pomps and vanities of this world, we are pretty sure to find them in some other, if we are women.
He himself had supervised the entire search and had made a good part of it in person, he said. No nook or cranny of the yacht had been overlooked. "I trust mademoiselle is satisfied," he concluded with a mockingly civil movement of eyebrows toward Liane. His reply was the slightest of shrugs executed by perfect shoulders beneath a gown of cynical transparency.
"When he plays his hand out Mace comes back over to us no other Mexicans allowin' for to call him an' relates how it is, an' nacheral we says it's all right, which it shorely is. I asks old Santa Anna for the details of the shake-up later, but he spreads his hands, an' shrugs his shoulders, an' whines "'No quien sabe.
Her shrugs were for the respectable and alienated girls, who were like sparrows chattering over a brilliant intruder; to the young men she offered an air of imperviousness to their cajoleries which made her seem to at least three of them a young person whom it might be pleasant and titillating to know. The general arrangement of feelings towards her was evident at the third lesson.
"This is poor weather," I observed, in hopes of starting a conversation with my fellow-wayfarers. "Yes, sir," was the curt reply, and both relapsed again into silence, receiving in monosyllables or with simple shrugs of the shoulders every attempt of mine and I made many to renew an intercourse.
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