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Updated: June 15, 2025
She had been playing in the brook, her favorite companion, and now, with little spatters of mud ornamenting both face and pantalets, her sun-bonnet hanging down her back, and her hands full of pebble-stones, she stood furtively eyeing the stranger, whose mental exclamation was: "Mercy, what a fright!" "Maude!" exclaimed the distressed Mrs. Remington, "where have you been?
"I have heard ere now that the pith of a woman's letter was in the post scriptum, just as the sting of a honey bee cometh at the latter end," said John dryly. "And now wilt thou sign?" "Yes. Give me the quill. Ciel, how it sputters and spatters! 'T is a wondrous poor pen, John."
The Indians clustered for just a moment, to stare with amazement. "White man jump; Injun no jump," they jabbered, excited. So they crossed by the ford, and striking his blood spatters easily followed his trail. Captain Brady was about all in. His wounded leg bothered him, his great leap had shaken him. But he knew of a lake, ahead, and made for it. It was his last resort.
Constantly there have been sharp spatters of rain, hissing and rattling against the windows, while a little before or after, or perhaps simultaneously, a rainbow, somewhat watery of texture, paints itself on the western clouds.
A violent tug at his left sleeve and some spatters of hot lead on his cheek showed that one missile had come too near to be pleasant. After passing through his coat it had splashed on the granite just behind him. He did not speak again, nor would he fire until sure of a mark. Another volley lit the darkness. This time he made out the forms of his attackers.
The morning was lowery, with occasional spatters of rain, and the storm, which had blown off to the northward the day before, had left a heavy sea running. For an hour the Adventurer and the Follow Me had been climbing up the slopes of grey-green swells and sliding down into swirling troughs, and for a minute Steve couldn't find the dark speck at which Phil was pointing.
But come, we will play ducks and drakes-you shall see that I can throw farther than you!" As they walked away, the girl said: "I'll give you a riddle to guess: What wood will warm you without your burning it?" "The schoolmaster's ruler, when you get the spatters," answered the boy. "No, that's not what I mean: The wood that you chop makes you warm without your burning it."
Latterman was somewhere out in the store, helping them; Claire had lunch for herself and Prestonby sent up from the restaurant, and for a while they ate in silence, broken by occasional spatters of small-talk. Then she returned to the question she had raised and he had not yet answered. "You say Frank Cardon's a Literate?" she asked. "Then what's he doing managing the Senator's campaign?
The cream splashed and splashed inside the churn, and a little white ring of spatters came up around the dasher. Kat worked until her arms ached. "Now it's my turn," said Kit. Then he poked the dasher, and the cream splashed and splashed for quite a long time; but still the butter did not come. "Ho!" said Kat. "You're nothing but a boy. Of course you don't know how to churn. Let me try."
It helps you to forget the ache if you work." "Forget! You don't care; that's why " There was a sudden movement on the rafters above, and an egg came hurtling through the barn, smashing on the wall close by Faith's head so close that a shower of little yellow spatters flew over her face and dress. "Peace Greenfield!" "You haven't got half what you deserve," said a tense, hard voice from above.
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