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He had bought an old water-logged boat that had been built by Galloway, and seeing the uselessness of trying to run the rapids with it, worked it down along the shores by holding it with a light chain. Once he had been pulled into the river, twice the boat had been upset, and he was just about dried out from the last spill when we arrived.
As he spoke he turned over another portion of the carpet, and there, sure enough, was a great crimson spill upon the square white facing of the old-fashioned floor. "What do you make of that, Mr. Holmes?" "Why, it is simple enough. The two stains did correspond, but the carpet has been turned round. As it was square and unfastened it was easily done." "The official police don't need you, Mr.
And yet, although she remained more calm than Mme. de Franquetot, it was not without some uneasiness that she followed the flying fingers; what alarmed her being not the pianist's fate but the piano's, on which a lighted candle, jumping at each fortissimo, threatened, if not to set its shade on fire, at least to spill wax upon the ebony.
A purty mess her table'd be, fur all its silver spoons an' fine chaney, ef she hed the settin' uv it. Tommy, don't spill thet gravy on the tablechoth. I'll send you'n' Buddy to the kitchen ef you can't eat lak white folks! She puffs herse'f on bein' a Temple, an' claims they wuz uv the bluest blood in Virginny.
Drusus half drew his short sword, which even in camp never left the side of officer or private during that campaign. "Thirst for blood?" he growled. "Yes, for the lives of Lucius Lentulus, and Domitius and his accursed younger son. I am hot as an old gladiator for a chance to spill their blood! If Cornelia suffers woe unutterable, it will be they they who brought the evil upon her!
He saw Nan with a pan in her hands, and he must have thought she had something for him to eat, for with a joyful bark he made straight for her. "Oh, hold him back! Don't let him come near me or I'll spill my cake before it's baked!" cried Nan. "Hold Snap, Flossie Freddie!" "We will!" cried the smaller twins. Both of them made a rush for Snap, and caught him by the collar.
But nothing more was dropped, though Nan herself did spill a little flour on the floor. "Is this batter right now, Dinah?" Nan asked, when she had stirred up the cake mixture with a long spoon. The cook looked in the brown bowl. "Jest a leetle mo' flour," she said, "den it'll be stiff enough an' ready fo' de oven. An' after it's baked yo' kin mix up de sugar-icin' t' go on de top."
This was the occasion, if the king had been a man of spirit, to forget that he had blood to spill, to assert his rights as a ruler and as an innocent man, to daunt his enemies, and rouse his friends, to carry off his family in triumph, to save his crown and kingdom, his life and reputation. Things much more difficult have been done.
This was a more liberal offer than that which we ultimately agreed to, but then the circumstances had changed. This proclamation was forwarded to Sir Owen Lanyon with a covering letter, in which the following words occur: "We declare in the most solemn manner that we have no desire to spill blood, and that from our side we do not wish war.
"I have determined that is, if you agree with me, Macdougall," said the skipper, when we had assembled in the tent, pointing with his ringer to a spot on a chart of the coast that he had brought with him from the Esmeralda, and which the wetting it had received in our spill among the breakers had not damaged very materially, for it looked right enough now, spread out on top of Mr Macdougall's chest, he being lucky enough to get his safe on shore "I have determined," repeated Captain Billings "that is, if you agree with me to make a tour of inspection of the neighbouring islands, to see if we can get any help or some provisions to keep us going until a ship passes."
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