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Updated: May 31, 2025
A thick liquid curled stickily back and forth across the surface of the plate as he strove to hold it level with trembling hands. Into the middle of that lake Kirby dropped white squares of Yankee crackers, and the pungent smell of molasses reached Drew's nostrils, making his mouth water. Snatching at the crackers, he crammed his mouth with a dripping square coated with molasses.
For there in the rotten ooze, strewn thickly, was such a collection of glittering jewels that my eyes fairly were dazzled by them; and when I had turned the coffer upside down on the deck so that the slime flowed away stickily giving off the most dreadful stench that ever I have encountered I saw a heap of precious stones such as for size and beauty has not been gathered into one place, I suppose unless it may have been in the treasury of some Eastern sovereign since the very beginning of the world.
George, past Liberty in her soft robe of light, carrying theatred commuters, dazed with weariness and blinking at the raw fury of the electric bulbs. Overhead the night was a superb arch of clear frost, sifted with stars. Blue sparks crackled stickily along the trolley wires as the cars groaned over the bridge. Aubrey surveyed all this splendid scene without exact observation.
Instead, she found him playing camp-out Indian, as he called it, with her best bed by way of wickiup, and the wickiup was provisioned lavishly and stickily from the resources of the closet where she kept her jams. Prudence and frugality demanded that Mrs. Brenton should remove her best clothes, before she essayed to administer justice at short range.
Nobody ever wanted something, any kind of a something, to happen more wildly than the Liberry Teacher did that bored, stickily wet Saturday afternoon, with those tired seven years at the Greenway Branch dragging at the back of her neck, and the seven times seven to come making her want to scream. So few things can possibly happen to you, no matter how good you are, when you work by the day.
At last, having lighted a cigarette dug from a yellow packet which he must have bought, she was sure, at "The Goat in Boots," he climbed back to her with this unusual ornament hanging stickily from his under lip. The team started again willingly as he drew the reins softly in through his fingers; but for a while he kept them walking. Then he turned to Mr. Dixon Mallaby.
Baxter sat up in his chair. I had all his attention. "Your guarantee with the house. Don't you remember it?" "Yes, yes. That no death had taken place in the house since it was built: I remember perfectly." He did not gulp as untrained men do when they lie, but his jaws moved stickily, and his eyes, turning towards the deed boxes on the wall, dulled.
"What way?" "That you and she " She paused, then drooped her eyelids. "I think I catch your meaning," he said stickily. "What an extraordinary mistake!" "Then you didn't the least " she stammered, getting blood-red in the face, and wishing she had never been born. "Scarcely, as I am already engaged to another lady."
"What way?" "That you and she " She paused, then drooped her eyelids. "I think I catch your meaning," he said stickily. "What an extraordinary mistake!" "Then you didn't the least " she stammered, getting blood-red in the face, and wishing she had never been born. "Scarcely, as I am already engaged to another lady."
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