United States or Bosnia and Herzegovina ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
The man turned with a grin. It was the Gunner, naked to the waist, and smoke-grimed. "Sweet mess, ain't it?" he coughed. "How d'ye like your first smell o powder, sir?" "They're boarding!" panted Kit. "Quick!" The man leapt up. "Boardin!" he roared. "Board ME! I'll give em board." He snatched up a chain-shot, and raced down the deck. "Up aloft the lot o you!" he howled. "Heaven waits ye there!"
I turned the knob and entered his den a dingy little box of a room, sunk a step below the level of the kitchen, with a smoke-grimed ceiling and corners littered with dusty books and pamphlets. He was sitting with his back to me, humped up in a worn arm-chair, before his small stove, just as Tanrade had found him.
At his request they free his right hand; he touches the ring with his lips and murmurs the spell by which after a moment the swarm of little smoke-grimed Nibelungs arrives groaning and straining under the weight of the Hort; again they pile it in a heap, and at Alberich's command scurry home.
The Keller was long and rambling, divided into innumerable small alcoves and corners, partitioned by strange and antique carvings. The ceiling was low, with octagonal vaults like a cloister. On the smoke-grimed walls, here and there, were mural paintings of knights in armour, and fat peasants drinking, dimmed and half obliterated.
"But he is often away for two or three days." I left the hotel, and taking a taxi to the Euston Road made a thorough examination of the high shabby house with its smoke-grimed lace curtains, a place which bore over the fan-light the words "Private Hotel." In the broad light of day it looked a most dull, uninviting place; more so even than its neighbours.
The captain was a jovial man, with unkempt hair and a smoke-grimed face. "News, colonel," he answered. "It is not quite ready yet. The emperor is always brewing it in the Tuileries, but it is not ripe for the public palate yet." "Ah!"
The fittings seemed to have been stolen from all nations and lands; there were quantities of gold and silver, silk and satin curtains, Roman furniture and Grecian vessels, weapons from Gaul, and Gothic textile fabrics. It resembled a robber's abode, and such in fact it was. Behind the palace enclosure began the camp, with its smoke-grimed tents.
They stretched from corner to corner of the smoke-grimed ceiling, they fell in clumsy festoons from the cheap gasalier, they framed the fly-blown mirror and the tawdry pictures; and I know tired hands and eyes worked many hours to fashion and fix those foolish chains, saying, "It will please him she will like to see the room look pretty;" and as I have looked at them they have grown, in some mysterious manner, beautiful to me.
Almost historic, and it looked newer than the smoke-grimed Blackstone. And straight ahead why, that must be the Flatiron building! It loomed up like the giant prow of an unimaginable ship. Brentano's. The Holland House. Madison Square.
Time is measured by impressions, and so vivid and novel had been his feelings, that weeks and weeks might have elapsed since his chat with the smoke-grimed stranger in the road. He walked along with his head in a whirl, his whole mind possessed and intoxicated by the one idea of the boundless wealth and the immense power of this extraordinary stranger.
Word Of The Day