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Updated: June 5, 2025
Trimble before and then in the seclusion of the Major's library he had shucked his coat, as it were, and said: "Well, what's the prospects for a killing? Got any of 'em lined up?" "First," retorted Major Trimble, stroking his knife-edged nose, "let me see your credentials from Senator Fairclothe." The visitor smiled and passed over the requested credentials.
He certainly did not intend to go to sleep but he awoke at 2 A.M., dressed, the light burning, his windows closed, feeling sweaty and hot and dirty and dry-mouthed a victim of all the woes since tall Troy burned. He shucked off his clothes as you shuck an ear of corn.
And the wisp of hay in his hair was so genuine, so fresh and redolent of the meadows, so clamorously rural that even a shell-game man would have put up his peas and folded his table at the sight of it. Haylocks seated himself upon a flight of stone steps and once more exhumed his roll of yellow-backs from the valise. The outer one, a twenty, he shucked off and beckoned to a newsboy.
It was close to midday and the heat, gathered in the rocky ways, was like a heaviness in the air itself. The Tatars had shucked their heavy jackets and rolled the fur brims of their hats far up their heads away from their sweat-beaded faces. And at every halt they passed from hand to hand the skin bag of kumiss.
But the lighted cigarette that, following his movement, slipped down Racey's back between his shirt collar and his neck did not pass unnoticed. Racey hopped up with a sharp exclamation and shucked himself out of his shirt with the utmost despatch. He did not stop at the shirt, but tore off his undershirt likewise. "Better luck than I hoped for," Swing remarked from a safe distance.
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