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Updated: May 14, 2025
Lucy went at once to her mother. "Oh, mother, we have a magic plate!" "We have? Where?" "It is the blue-and-white one over the sideboard." "Oh! is that a magic plate? That was your grandmother's plate. Old families used to value that kind of ware from China I do not know why." "Come with me, and take it down, for Sky-High knows the story of the picture." Mrs.
We once came very near running one down in the gig, and should probably have been knocked to pieces or thrown sky-high. Turning our heads, we saw a great, rough, hump-backed whale slowly crossing our fore foot, within three or four yards of the boat's stem. Had we not backed water just as we did, we should inevitably have gone smash upon him, striking him with our stem just about amidships.
They have gone up sky-high. Settling-day is drawing near, and how to pay for the shares he is bound to deliver he has not the faintest notion.
She held her umbrella, her bead chatelaine, and a little leather case in her grey-gloved hands, while Harry staggered out of the ugly little train with her bags. 'There's a trunk at the back, she said in her bright voice. But she was not feeling bright. The twin black cones of the iron foundry blasted their sky-high fires into the night. The whole scene was lurid. The train waited cheerfully.
Sky-High in a serene and beautiful spirit continued ironing, Nora went back to her pantry. "It's not I that likes the foreign boy under the roof," she said. "He'll be convertin' the mistress into a haythen! It'll not be long I'll be here!" Lucy sat down outside among the trees and birds and watched the wan waving gently in the wind. How neat Sky-High looked in his flowing dress of white and blue!
The steep, shadowy masses of building seemed piled sky-high, like a city of the air; here the gleam of some golden white façade, there some aerial battlement crowned with stars, with clusters, and points, and rings of flame that made a lucid twilight of the dark above them. Over all was an illusion of immensity.
The excitement of it began to dim. Besides, the night of the dance was approaching, and there were other calls for volunteers, for men to set up the old-time bar in the lodge rooms of the Elks Club; for others to dig out ancient roulette wheels and oil them in preparation for a busy play at a ten-cent limit instead of the sky-high boundaries of a day gone by; for some one to go to Denver and raid the costume shops, to say nothing of buying the innumerable paddles which must accompany any old-time game of keno.
I would have bet on three of a kind against him sky-high, even if he had passed the draw. He drew aside the curtain of the shibrayah gingerly, as if he expected a trick mechanism that might explode a bomb in his face. "Mashallah! Where is the woman?" he exclaimed. I found out then that I was right as to the way to play that supposititious poker hand.
"You speak as kindly as would the daughter of a wang!" said Sky-High, with his beautiful bow of ceremony. On Sunday the little Chinaman dressed his hair becomingly and put on black clothes, with white ruffles. He sat in the Van Buren pew, beside Charlie. He listened to the organ like one entranced. It was Easter Day, and the house was full of the odor of lilies.
Tom gave a rear like a wild horse, his protruding muzzle went up sky-high, then was seen no more, and a ring of old iron and a clatter of fragments was heard on the top of the bastion. Long Tom was dismounted.
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