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His voice, naturally soft and good, had contracted itself into a plaintive snuffle and singsong; he spoke as if preaching, you would have said, preaching earnestly and also hopelessly the weightiest things.
She had to get out of bed to put her other clothes away in the closet and she seized the chance to push the breakfast tray out of the door, and smooth up the bed, while she composed her features and her ideas to receive her visitor. Both, from long habit rather than from any cause or reason, were of a querulous cast, and her ordinary tone was a snuffle expressive of deep-seated affliction.
"Boys, be quiet!" I commanded. "He said his eye was swole worse 'an mine oncet," cried Daniel. His good eye was blazing, his shoulders were squared back, and his fists were clenched. There was no sign of a snuffle about him now. Heaven, but he looked fine! All this time I had wronged Daniel. I had only known him as he crawled to me broken and bruised after the conflict.
Brown, with a snuffle "of inward sweetness long drawn out," and expressive of great admiration of his offered treasures; "beautiful articles, sir, ar'n't they?" "Very, the parrot in particular," said Clarence. "Yes, sir," returned Mr. Brown, "the parrot is indeed quite a jewel; it belonged to the late Lady Waddilove; I offer it to you with considerable regret, for "
"You have guessed right so far: but who do you think that Quaker is?" "There I'm at fault." "Mr Cophagas." At this intelligence Timothy gave a leap in the air, turned round on his heel, and tumbled on the grass in a fit of immoderate laughter. "Cophagus! a Quaker!" cried he at last. "Oh! I long to see him. Snuffle, snuffle broad brims wide skirts and so on. Capital!"
But I never like to stick at a thing when it ought to be done. I think I shall send a fellow after them." "I'll go," said Johnny. "How can you go?" "I'll make old Snuffle give me leave." "But will that lessen the expense?" said Mr Walker. "Well, yes, I think it will," said John, modestly. "My nephew is a rich man, Mr Walker," said Toogood. "That alters the case," said Mr Walker.
They tug, they snuffle, they reel to and fro in the yielding crowd; the blows grow fainter, fainter; the grip is terrible; when suddenly there is a violent rupture of the crowd, it closes again, and then there are two against one, and up sparkling St.
My man said that he understood very well, and went away, and I down to the Great Chamber where I had left my cousins. As I came in at the door, my Cousin Tom woke up with a great snuffle; and stared at me as if amazed, as folks do when suddenly awakened. "Well; to bed," he said. "I am half there already."
But you see I was sent to you, Nick perhaps for a blessing to both of us." Mr. Raffles ended with a jocose snuffle: no man felt his intellect more superior to religious cant.
Hiram knew at once that something had gone wrong with the boarding house mistress. She had been crying, and when a woman of the age of Mrs. Atterson indulges in tears, her personal appearance is never improved. "Oh, that you, Hi?" she drawled, with a snuffle. "Did you get enough to eat?" "Yes, Mrs. Atterson," returned the youth, starting to get up. "I have had plenty."
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