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The opposite bank was very low, and was fringed in summer with great masses of reeds and bulrushes, now withered down nearly to nothing, but still showing the pocket of deep water where the jack had "sploshed like a sack o' taters."
"I expect there's a rule about it," I said, "if we only knew, which gives me the match. However, until we find that out, I suppose you must call yourself one up." "I shall want some dry socks for lunch," he muttered, as he sploshed off to the tee. "Anything you want for lunch you can have, my dear Thomas. I promise you that you shall not be stinted.
Tony, who had dropped through the hole which Billy had used so quietly, heard the zing of a bullet pass his head, and the impact as it sploshed into the adobe wall behind him. With a second yell Tony dodged behind the safe and besought Mary to protect him. From above Benito peered through the hole into the blackness below.
He had already dismissed the "silly little girl's" arguments from his mind. "I'm thinking about people and bluebottles! Lovely iridescent wings all sploshed down in sticky stuff. And swift legs it seems such a pity to cripple them so that they can't fly or run." "I do so want my tea," he said, pretending to groan. She ran down the stairs with a laugh.
I don't know who he is; he nevah give me no card, sah, but he's moughty sploshed and blustery lookin'." "Well " the judge rose, halting his speech as if thinking of one thing and speaking of another "fetch him in here, Hiram." "He's drippin' and drappin' like a leaky pail, sah," said Hiram, shaking his cottony old head. "No matter; he'll do no harm, Hiram." Hiram brought the visitor in.
And Honey Wiggin laughed right in his coffee-cup so it all sploshed out. And the cook he asked me if mother used to mend Lin's clothes. But I guess she chucked 'em like she always did father's and mine. I was with father, you know, when mother was married to Lin that time." He paused again, while his thoughts and fears struggled.
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