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But directly she needed assistance, and requested it of him in a subdued and impersonal manner, showing a countenance devoid of any incongruous emotion. Lanyard, lifting the lieutenant's head and heavy torso, helped turn him face downward on the berth, then stood aside, thoughtfully watching the girl's deft fingers sop absorbent cotton in an antiseptic wash and apply it to the injury.
I'm sure I can hardly eat my sop in the morning for thinking of her buttered crumpets dear! dear! it's a fine thing to be born in a palace!
I didn't go in neither; only stood and looked on: but it seems they was all badly scared and muddled, and didn't know which end was uppermost. One on 'em kep' snivelling and wringing of his 'ands; he come on board, all of a sop like a monthly nurse. That Trent, he come first, with his 'and in a bloody rag.
He would celebrate this day of days, and at the same time throw a sop to Providence. He would release the Jew. The troubadours sang louder; fresh liquor was passed about. Charles waited for the Jew to be brought. He remembered Clotilde then. She should see him do this noble thing. Since her mother had gone she had shrunk from him. Now let her see how magnanimous he could be.
He led her triumphantly to a table in the far corner of the practically empty restaurant, waved away the civilities of a swarthy and somewhat badly coordinated waiter, and pulled out her chair for her himself. "Now, let me have a look at you," he said; "why, you've nothing on but muslin, and you're wearing your belt for a turban." "A sop to the conventions," Nancy said, blushing burningly.
She would mix this with potatoes for a stew. On other occasions, when she had some wine, she treated herself to a sop, a true parrot's pottage. Two sous' worth of Italian cheese, bushels of white potatoes, quarts of dry beans, cooked in their own juice, these also were dainties she was not often able to indulge in now.
"Very; seeing that we endure the evil and decline the sop with it." "How?" "We have renounced Besworth." "Have you! And did this renunciation make you all sit on the edge of your chairs, this afternoon, as if Edward Buxley had arranged you? You give up Besworth? I'm afraid it's too late." "Oh, Wilfrid! can you be ignorant that something more is involved in the purchase of Besworth?"
After the expiration of three days it is all well with them. The question may well be asked, is the big knife a "sop to Cerberus"? Capt. Smithson. Burials usually take place at night, without much ceremony. The mourners chant during the burial, but signs of grief are rare.
"There is a spot to interest an American," he deigned to fling a sop to me, nodding vaguely upward at some roofs on the River Maas. "Did you ever hear of Oude Delftshaven, cousin? But I don't suppose you have." "Indeed I have!" I shrieked at him. "I wouldn't be a true descendant of Knickerbocker stock if I hadn't.
I was recalcitrant almost from the beginning, and spoke against the Government so early as the second reading of the first Education Bill, the one the Lords rejected in 1906. I went a little beyond my intention in the heat of speaking, it is a way with inexperienced man. I called the Bill timid, narrow, a mere sop to the jealousies of sects and little-minded people.
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