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He could hear the lowing of the cattle in the corrals. As Thorpe had said, he had grown up to cattle. Cattle and horses were his life. He was rich now. This was all his. He was growing richer every year, and Thorpe was prophesying the slump, the end. He couldn't believe it, or rather he wouldn't believe it. And he turned with a fierce expression of blind loyalty to his calling.
Stringer had broken his slump with the longest drive ever made on the grounds. The crowd cheered as he trotted around the bases behind Ashwell. Two runs. "Con, how'd you like that drive?" he asked me, with a bright gleam in his eyes. "O-h-! a beaut!" I replied, incoherently. The players on the bench were all as glad as I was. Henley flew out to left. Mullaney smashed a two-bagger to right.
If the soul smiles the body shines, and if the soul frets the body withers. And Molly Brownwell saw in the looking-glass that night more surely than ever before that her face was beginning to slump.
And it leaves me with a mighty big slump in Nature's stock." Nancy listened delightedly to the man's pleasant fooling. "It's worse than that," she cried, falling in with his humour. "Look at some of them taking a rest, swimming about in that terribly cold water. Ugh!
You're responsible for the slump in provisions, Menzies, and you must see us through this. What are you going to do about it?" "Do either of you chaps know Sheen at all?" "I don't," said Linton. "Not to speak to." "You can't expect us to know all your shady friends," said Dunstable. "Why?" "He's got a tea on this evening. If you knew him well enough, you might borrow something from him.
It was about this time that Martin took a great slump in Maria's estimation. He found her in the kitchen one morning groaning with pain, tears of weakness running down her cheeks, vainly endeavoring to put through a large ironing. But Maria was refractory.
"Then I will be excused," she said, "although I hope you won't hurry." "Don't be alarmed," said Walter. "It's very bad to eat in a hurry." "I'll serve," proposed Bess, "I know just how much everyone has had, and how much more they ought to have. Dray, you cannot have another bit of pudding." Dray was stretching far out for the dish. He did love apple slump. And Mrs.
The watchers saw a man recognizable as Seaton by his suit and his unmistakable physique stand up and wave both arms frantically, heard him shout hoarsely "... all of you ... out here," saw him point to Crane's apparently lifeless form and slump down in his seat.
The team had "slumped." There are over three hundred thousand words in the English language, and many of them are full of malignant meaning. Fever, pestilence, battle, blood, murder, death have an awful significance, but in the lexicon of the coach and trainer of a college team the most baleful word is "slump." This plague had struck the Blues and struck them hard.
He slumped out from the house. His gait was like his body, his stride large and loose. The lack of nervous energy which kept his mind from a high tension was shown again in the heavy fall of his feet and the forward slump of his head. His hands dangled aimlessly at his sides, as though in need of occupation.
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