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At around two o'clock in the afternoon, all contact with Europe broke off. The electricians on board decided to cut the cable before fishing it up, and by eleven o'clock that evening they had retrieved the damaged part. They repaired the joint and its splice; then the cable was resubmerged. But a few days later it snapped again and couldn't be recovered from the ocean depths.
He rose slowly and began to walk toward the easel, but with a cry the boy ran forward and intercepted him. "No! No! No! It is bad, I tell you you must not see. Look! This is what I shall do. This!" He turned and, swift as lightning, snapped up a knife, and before Blake could find a gesture or a word, ripped his canvas from end to end. "Upon my word! Well, upon my word!
"The green mummy." Random looked into the fire, "Yes. I have heard of the green mummy." "I should think you have," snapped Braddock, warming his plump hands. "Every penny-a-liner has been talking about it. When did you return?" "On the same day that that steamer with the mummy on board arrived," was Random's odd reply. The Professor stared suspiciously.
Nikol motioned the others back into the shadow of a great rock and stepped boldly forward. Then he hesitated a moment, came back and spoke to Stubbs in a low voice, yet loud enough for the others to hear. "If I should chance to be outmatched," he said, "you will come to my assistance? The others," he snapped his fingers, "are no good. You will come?"
"Take it, then, since you want it!" snapped out Harry Hazelton. The fragment of rock left his hand, propelled with force and directed with accurate aim at the negro's face. But the crafty black dodged just in time, at the same instant throwing up his hands. Harry gasped as he saw his unknown assailant deftly catch the rock fragment as though it had been a base ball. "Ha, ha!
"You'll be murderers, nothing else," she wailed. "Look at his little white tail and pitiful baby eyes!" "Good gracious, Aggie," Tish snapped, "get a knife and cut its throat while I make a fire. If it's any help to you, we're not going to eat either its little white tail or its pitiful baby eyes." As a matter of fact Aggie wouldn't touch the rabbit and I did not care much about it myself.
If they could see how, in the case of this roadside tortoise, at our appearance the carapace suddenly came down on the plastron, or, in other words, how the upper bone snapped against the lower bone, they might become as wise as this reptile. We admire also the turtle's capacity of being at home everywhere. He carries with him his parlor, nursery, kitchen, bed-chamber and bathroom.
How strange it is to think that we have never danced together before!" "We must have a talk," I said desparately. "Can't we go somwhere, away from the noise?" "That would be conspicuous, wouldn't it, under the circumstances? If we are to overcome the Familey objection to me, we'll have to be cautious, Barbara." "Don't call me Barbara," I snapped.
They said 'twas a splendid bag, and they'd 'a give more, but they haven't the same call for the article as if 'twas Paris or New York; and they must make their profit." "No doubt they will make it," Angela almost snapped. She felt as a certain type of woman feels on hearing that the first man who ever proposed to her has married some one else.
Do you mean to tell me the whole damn thing's goin' to fizzle out this way, King? I want something done, I tell you I want something done! I didn't bring you up here " "Certainly not, sir!" snapped King. "My orders to you " Chadron flared. "It happens that I am not marching under your orders at " "The hell you ain't!" Chadron exploded.
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