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Updated: September 9, 2025
Parr, and so there is the great giant at the fair that is eight feet high exceptions to men and that poor lamp whereof I speak, that lights at first the nuptial chamber, is extinguished by a hundred winds and draughts down the chimney, or sputters out for want of feeding.
Busiest among the busy, the little important assistant of the previous night, Oliver Proudfute by name, and bonnet maker by profession, was bustling among the crowd, much after the manner of the seagull, which flutters, screams, and sputters most at the commencement of a gale of wind, though one can hardly conceive what the bird has better to do than to fly to its nest and remain quiet till the gale is over.
In addition to the johnny-cake, you can boil it up as mush and eat with syrup or condensed milk and by slicing up the cold mush, if there is any left, you can fry it next day in a spider. The beginner at cooking always makes the mistake of thinking that to cook properly you must cook fast. The more the grease sputters or the harder the pot boils, the better.
He sputters quite a lot about this monstrous travesty on justice before they can drill the real facts into his head; and even then he keeps coming back to Pete's being crazy. "Then Pete, who hears this view of his case for the first time, begins to glare at his lawyer in a very nasty way and starts to interrupt; so the judge has to knock wood some more to get 'em all quiet.
"At last you have reached that sun you so needed, thanks, no doubt, to the genius that was with you. "But now, in your new-found peace comes a new enemy, one who wants not only yours, but every sun in this galaxy. "You have tried your ray of death, the anti-catalyst? And it but sputters harmlessly on their screens?
"It looks as though he were lighting matches to show the way." Between the sputters of light were spaces of darkness; these were; filled in by the faint guarded rustling. But as the light upon each appearance grew brighter, so did the sound become more distinct; and at length a light resonance, unmistakably a footstep, came from the hall.
"'FIVE DOLLARS a ! His mouth dropped open like a main hatch. "'Sartin, I says. 'And two slabs of johnnycake at five dollars a slab. And a cup of coffee at five dollars a cup. And "'You're crazy! he sputters, jumpin' up. "'Not much, I ain't. I've been settin' at your feet larnin' high finance, that's all. You don't seem to be onto the real inwardness of this deal.
"'If the skipper hadn't been so gay and uppish about choosing Rosy, says Julius, 'there wouldn't have been no trouble. I do hate a smart Aleck. "'Who said draw straws? sputters George, mad clean through. 'And who 'eld 'em? 'Ey? Who did? "'Well, says Teunis, 'I didn't do it. You can't blame me. "'No. You set there like a bump on a log and let me and the mate put our feet in it.
His ignorance is more charming than all knowledge, and his little sins more bewitching than any virtue. His flesh is angels' flesh, all alive. All day, between his three or four sleeps, he coos like a pigeon-house, sputters and spurs and puts on his faces of importance; and when he fasts, the little Pharisee fails not to sound his trumpet before him."
"Ugh! Burglars. How how silly of them to come here! It's so disturbing, and I do dread having the police in. I wish you wouldn't look so ghastly over it, Tidman. Come, suggest something." But Tidman don't seem to be a good suggester. "Both hands in his hair. Oh!" he mutters. "It's not your hair," sputters Waldo. "And saying idiotic things like that doesn't help. Not a bit.
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