Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 1, 2025
He did not look at Miss Bridger directly, but he heard the deep breath which she took. "Well, so did I," the Pilgrim began eagerly, with just the least slurring of his syllables. "I'd have been here before dark, only one of the horses slipped and lamed himself. It was much as ever I got home at all. He come in on three legs, and toward the last them three like to went back on him."
"So she grew up out there in the hills without any friends or social life," Prentiss commented, musingly. "There was always a camptender and a sheepherder or two about," Toomey answered with slurring significance. Prentiss brushed the ashes from his cigar.
Laurence's play," pointed out Banneker. "Now, delightful as it seemed to me, I can conceive that to other minds " "Of course he could honestly dislike it," put in the playwright hastily. "It isn't that." "It's the mean, slurring way he treated it," said the star "Mr. Banneker, just what did he say to you about it?"
"The faint noises from the bed ceased once, and there was a most intense silence, with only the sound of the blood beating in my head. Yet, immediately afterward, I heard again the slurring of the bedclothes being dragged off the bed. In the midst of my nervous tension I remembered the camera, and reached 'round for it; but without looking away from the bed.
Here we consider an insult as an attack on one's reputation or character, a charge or accusation, a slurring remark, etc., without reference to the truth or falsity thereof. It may be objected that whereas reputation, like chastity and considerable possessions, is often valued as high as life itself, the same right exists to defend it even at the cost of another's life.
I rose from my couch, a thick, mattresslike affair of soft, pliant hide, and walked feebly toward the small arch in the near end of the cave. Even as I approached it I heard footsteps, and voices resounded in some slurring, musical language. Half a dozen figures suddenly came into view. They were men, as human as myself!
The custom of the time required that the man voted for should thank the man who voted, and that aloud and aptly, with no slurring acknowledgment of service. Lewis Rand, a born speaker and familiar with his audience, was at no loss. "I thank you, Mr. Fagg! May your shadow never grow less! The old county Mr.
Her only conscious suppression was in slurring over the gap between Maisie's departure and her husband's; for both ladies took her meaning to be that her sister married to go abroad, and did not return. It was more conversation-making than curiosity that made Gwen ask: "Where was 'abroad'? I mean, where did your sister go?" The old lady repeated: "To where she met her death, in Australia.
And then her Southern speech, indescribable and impossible in cold type. The softening of the consonants, the slipping away of the terminals, the slurring of vowels, and all in that low, musical voice born out side of the roar and crash of city streets and crowded drawing-rooms with each tongue fighting for mastery.
A common result was the kind of mental befogment that had Abraham Lincoln murdered by Ballington Booth, and a superficiality, a hopeless slurring of tasks, that hitched perfectly with the spirit of the street, and left nothing to be explained in the verdict of the reformatory, "No moral sense." There was no moral sense to be got out of the thing, for there was little sense of any kind in it.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking