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Updated: June 28, 2025
"Yes," replied Emma, languidly; "but we should not find him there now, upon Calvary, or the Mount of Olives; by the sweet-gliding Kedron, or in the Garden of Gethsemane, unless we were like him, meek and lowly, and such can find him anywhere, Miss Sliver.
Hunters had occupied the camp not long before; but they had left scarcely a sliver of anything dry or combustible inside it; they had even whittled and shaved the old bunk beam and plank table in order to get kindlings. After a glance round, Kate went out to gather dry brush along the brook. Running on a little way, she picked up dry twigs here and there.
She had seen it torn by the bale-breakers, blown into the openers, loosened, cleansed, and dried; taken up by the lappers, pressed into batting, and passed on to the carding machines, to emerge like a wisp of white smoke in a sliver and coil automatically in a can.
But it didn't look like that to the naked eye. It was just a tiny speck of incandescence gliding with grave deliberation across the sky. It was a sliver of sunlight, moving as they watched. There were a good many millions of people watching it, just then, as it floated aloft in emptiness.
Crossing was then comparatively easy by chipping off the sharp edge with short, careful strokes, and hitching forward an inch or two at a time, keeping my balance with my knees pressed against the sides. The tremendous abyss on either hand I studiously ignored. To me the edge of that blue sliver was then all the world.
We've got trouble enough on hand in the party this year without letting the convention express itself on the liquor question, even if the split only amounts to a sliver." He pulled his chair to the table, spread some papers there, and commanded attention by tapping his eyeglasses on the sheets. "Here's the programme for the routine: Called to order at ten-thirty by chairman of State Committee.
Before departing she had insisted that the man leave a note for Tarzan thanking him for his care of them and bidding him goodbye. This they left pinned to the inside wall of the hut with a little sliver of wood.
And yes, the little cell itself was like one of Aladdin's caskets from which had been taken a precious jewel. Just now it was a casket very much in disarray, for Cis had tumbled it in wind-storm fashion as she made ready to leave, carelessly throwing down several things that she had formerly handled delicately: the paper roses, the sliver of mirror, the pretty face of a moving-picture favorite.
The cause of the howling was still invisible. But Joe cared nothing for that. He stared skyward, searching. And he saw what he looked for. There was a small bright sliver of sunlight high aloft. It moved slowly toward the east. It showed the unmistakable glint of sunshine upon polished steel.
They gathered samples of the fruit. Cochrane peeled a sliver of the meat from one of the round objects and put it under his watchstrap. They found a stream. They found other fruits, and Cochrane prepared the same test for them as for the first. One of the samples turned his skin red and angry almost immediately. He discarded it and all the fruits of the kind from which it came.
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