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Updated: June 16, 2025
He knew Miss Sackville was "as common as the rest of 'em and an old hand at the business, no doubt." But he simply could not abruptly break through the barrier; he must squirm through gradually. "That's a swell outfit you've got on," he began. "Yes," replied Susan with her usual candor. "Miss Hinkle borrowed it out of the stock for me to wear." Gideon was confused.
I tried to withdraw it, but his fingers tightened, without visible effort, till I thought mine would be crushed. It is hard to maintain one's dignity under such circumstances. I could not squirm or struggle like a schoolboy. Nor could I attack such a creature who had but to twist my arm to break it. Nothing remained but to stand still and accept the indignity.
Seated with this nemesis, he gained pleasure at the thought that she had been allowed to squirm in a seat for over an hour the way her son had waited and squirmed in the principal's office while dreading the forthcoming paddling. "I tried to call you," said Gabriele, "but I think you were trying to avoid me." "Possibly," he said.
Such a period of suspended communication had lasted more than a week, when, at the wane of the term, the inevitable explosion finally occurred. The class had just turned in their copybooks with a Latin exercise prepared at home. Keith's book happened to be on top. The teacher opened it. He sent a glance at Keith that made the boy squirm.
Gay laughed and began teasingly: "There was a young maiden named Lloyd, Whom reptiles always annoyed. An innocent worm would cause her to squirm, And cloyed toyed employed I'm stuck, Betty. Come to the rescue with a rhyme." "So with germicide she's overjoyed," supplied Betty, promptly. "That's all right," said Kitty, waking up. "Let's each make a Limerick.
"I don't dare leave Ariadne with those awful things from the employment agencies, and 'Stashie's not coming back till next week." "Oh, she's coming again, is she?" commented her companion. "Well, that'll mean lots of fun watching Paul squirm. But don't mind him, Lydia." Madeleine was one of the women who prided herself on her loyal sense of solidarity among her sex.
The two young men shouted approval and Myrtle began to squirm. At first she demanded coyly to be set down, and then with more sharpness in her tone. Joe looked into her eyes. They were unfathomable. Her peach-bloom cheeks were quite pink. But there were a few tiny wrinkles about her mouth that he had never seen before. Made her look older, somehow.
She may squirm with horror if her husband snores in his sleep, but be willing to live in an ugly modern apartment house with a poodle dog for her chief associate. Or the overconscientious woman may expend her energies in chasing the last bit of dirt out of her house but be willing to poison her family with three delicatessen meals a day.
If your father was half as " She stopped abruptly, her face going red when she saw Tom sitting on his horse beyond the shoulder of rock, regarding her with that inscrutable smile which never had failed to make her squirm mentally and wonder what he thought of her. She stood up, trembling a little. Lance turned slowly and met Tom's eyes without flinching.
Thus brought back to his senses, Policeman Duffer laughed, and admitted that he supposed Sneaking Billy was properly named Sneyder; but he was once caught in a mean trick, from which he tried in so many ways to squirm out, that the boys had themselves named him Sneaking Billy, and the name had stuck. As for "Scrawley," his real name was Stephen Crowley.
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