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"Robina," said Miss Teenie gloomily, "could break a steam-roller let alone a gazogene." "It'll be an awful miss," said her sister. "We've had it so long, and it always stood on the sideboard with a bottle of lemon-syrup beside it." Pamela was puzzling to think what this could be that stood on a sideboard companioned by lemon-syrup and compassed with wire-netting when Mawson showed in Mrs.
Two hundred thousand strong young lads of the very right age lay behind the lines ready at the proper moment to be thrown in front of the steam-roller until it caught and stuck in a marsh of blood and bones. Just let them come! The more, the merrier! The Victor of was prepared to add another branch to his laurels, and his eyes sparkled like the medals on his breast.
One cannot miss it now, for when I last passed over it it was being paved, or macadamized, and a steam-roller was doing in a few days what the moccasined or sandalled feet of the first travellers there would not have accomplished in a thousand thousand years. Nicolet may have put his boat in this same Wisconsin River, but if he did he did not go far below the portage.
With Bucks, open-eyed with surprise, hanging on in front of him, Stanley gave no heed to the bouncing, and the freight-engine pounded through the mountains like a steam-roller with a touch of crushed-stone delirium. Hour after hour the wild pace was kept up through the Sleepy Cat Mountains and across the Sweet Grass Plains.
When History had been upset, and Sleepy set up, Quiz, who had run several blocks with his news, found breath to gasp: "The Crows are going to have a banquet!" Then he flopped over on the couch and proceeded to pant like a steam-roller. The rest of the Dozen stared at Quiz a moment, then passed a look around as if they thought that either Quiz was out of his head or they were.
I kissed the white hand of Judith that touched my wrist, and told her not to doubt my understanding. She cried a little. "I don't make your path rougher, Judith?" I whispered. She checked her tears and her eyes brightened wonderfully. "You? You do nothing but smooth it and level it." "Like a steam-roller," said I.
"You're blushing like a June rose! Willa, are you holding out on us? Have you a steady you are keeping company with, unbeknownst?" "Don't be absurd, Vernon!" She dimpled, in spite of herself. "That was only from Mr. Thode. He was going to call this afternoon with his sister, but he can't. He's had a slight motor accident." "Then Starr must have met a steam-roller!"
Nothing has opened our eyes more than seeing set at naught our conviction that, once the Rumanian frontier was opened to the Russians, they would be on the Danube in no time. Do you remember how glibly we talked of the "Russian steam-roller," in September, 1914?
I admit I fall down in sympathy sometimes. I get so dog-gone impatient with people that can't stand the gaff. You'd be good for a fellow that was too serious. Make him more more YOU know sympathetic!" His slightly pouting lips, his mastiff eyes, were begging her to beg him to go on. She fled from the steam-roller of his sentiment.
It was a bit of mediaeval phrasing written for the pipe and the viol. It made the piano seem a ponderous, nerve-wracking steam-roller of noise, and the violin, as we know it, a hateful wire-drawn nerve-torturer. After a little while, when he entered the smaller room again, the Marchesa looked full into his face. "Good!" she said. "Good!" And a gleam almost of happiness seemed to light her up.
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