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"Perhaps I shall," she replied. Then, followed by Toto and Billina, she walked away from the high marble wall and started back along the narrow path toward the sign-post. How the Wizard Found Dorothy When they came to the signpost, there, to their joy, were the tents of the Wizard pitched beside the path and the kettle bubbling merrily over the fire.
I saw a signpost farther along the road with something like a long bundle it was rather like a limp bolster, I fancy hanging from it. I was staring toward it, when there came a noise behind me, like a trumpet being blown, and I turned to see a coach with four horses come tearing along toward me, with a red- coated man at the back, blowing a horn.
"What will the world think?" stood out in blazing letters on a glittering signpost pointing to the motive of all he did. And so when Mr.
A signpost directed him to Fleckfield, and presently he came to the village and to the little inn in the middle of the single street. It was a rustic looking place, with the usual bench and table outside it; and on the former was seated a young fellow in a knicker-bocker suit.
The cart halted at last at a miserable-looking hut, which the signpost announced to be an inn that afforded good accommodation to travellers; to which announcement was annexed the following epigrammatic distich: "Old Tom, he is the best of gin; Drink him once, and you'll drink him agin!"
It had a broad mossy bowling-green, and round about it were creeper-covered arbors amidst beds of snap-dragon, and hollyhock, and blue delphinium, and many such tall familiar summer flowers. These stood out against a background of laurels and holly, and above these again rose the gables of the inn and its signpost a white-horsed George slaying the dragon against copper beeches under the sky.
Anyone seeing him would have thought that he was praying; he was so still. It was Edward's fate to be thought 'so quiet, because the fires within him made no sound, burning at a still-white heat. He was not praying. Prayer had receded to a far distance, like a signpost long passed. Perhaps he would come round to it again; but now he was in the trackless desert.
It was so obvious now, so glaringly obvious, that the Crime Club could have been nowhere else; so obvious, with every word of the Tocsin's story pointing it out like a signpost and he had not seen it! And then suddenly every muscle grew strained and rigid. He listened while he strained his eyes through the darkness.
If we were certain that Leith intended to do no wrong to the party, the fact that he was within speaking distance of the two girls was particularly distressing after the knowledge we had gained in the night. With extreme caution we wormed our way forward, the Professor's piping voice acting as a verbal signpost in helping us to locate the spot where he was engaged in holding the argument.
I will drive for a time it will amuse me." The man descended. Falkenberg took his place at the wheel. Estermen, obeying his gesture, scrambled into the seat by his side. "Go to the signpost," his master ordered the chauffeur. "Tell me exactly, how many miles to Rheims?" The man clambered up the bank. The gray morning twilight was breaking now through a sea of clouds.
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