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Updated: May 9, 2025
"Oh, Cora, wouldn't you just fairly love to run that splendid motor?" "I would, if I didn't have to start it too often," replied Jack's sister, as she looked at the heavy flywheel, which was now moving about as noiselessly as a shaft of light. The propeller was not in clutch, however. "It has a self-starter," Joe informed the girls. "It's the smoothest engine ever handled. No trouble at all."
Verily, our picture-connoisseur seems to have elevated criticism into an instinct he is the smoothest human mechanism on record. One wonders if the critic will ever be replaced by an automaton, something analogous to the camera that has replaced the artist.
"Aye, aye," grunted out the man; and Captain Dinks went down the rigging even more carefully than he had ascended, finding great difficulty in preventing his unaccustomed feet from slipping off the ratlines, which were like rungs of the smoothest and most polished ice. "You were right, and I was wrong," he said to Mr Meldrum, as soon as he had regained the poop.
He said: "Eight minutes of dashing across a sea of mud worse than the Slough of Despond, of methodically advanced barrage fire, of quick work in trench fight, sufficed for the Canadians to take Regina trench one of the smoothest bits of trench-taking that has been witnessed in the Somme drive. I saw the Canadians, muddy to the eyebrows but grinning on the day after they had accomplished the feat.
In San Lorenzo cloister, when I looked in one hot noon seeking a refuge from the glare and white dust of the city, I was conscious of a something sinister that forbade such an even existence for the smoothest tempered cat.
On Saturday I went with my friend Mr. Bright to Otterpool and to Larkhill to see the skaters on the private waters of those two seats of gentlemen; and it is a wonder to behold and it is always a new wonder to me how comfortable Englishmen know how to make themselves; locating their dwellings far within private grounds, with secure gateways and porters' lodges, and the smoothest roads and trimmest paths, and shaven lawns, and clumps of trees, and every bit of the ground, every hill and dell, made the most of for convenience and beauty, and so well kept that even winter cannot cause disarray; and all this appropriated to the same family for generations, so that I suppose they come to believe it created exclusively and on purpose for them.
How did he obtain admission to the building?" "That's so how did he? I hadn't thought of that. He was the smoothest talker I ever heard; he didn't give me a chance to ask many questions." "He must have had some sort of business with you." "He did that is, he pretended to have. He said he was here to recover some property that belonged to him property he lost several years ago."
He listed the doors against approaching winter breezes, he weeded in the garden, trimmed, tied, trained, wherever either good office was needed, mended china with an infallible cement, and rickety chairs with the skill of a cabinet-maker; and whatever hard or dirty work he did, he always presented himself at table in a state of scrupulous neatness: his long brown hands showed no trace of labor; his iron-gray hair was reduced to smoothest order; his coat speckless, if threadbare; and he ate like a gentleman, an accomplishment not always to be found in the "best society," as the phrase goes, whether the best in fact ever lacks it is another thing.
Yet observe, it is his security his tenement, of such thin texture to enable him to float with greater ease, would not be able to encounter the rippling of the wave upon the smoothest beach." "What use are they of?" "Of no direct use that I know of, William; but if it has no other use than to induce you to reflect a little, it has not been made in vain.
She strained her eyes through the gathering night to turn him into the smoothest way, lapsing into jerky, habitual words of guidance. In the darkness they entered the ravine and staggered down to its broken bottom.
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