Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 1, 2025
I can't get it out of my head that there's something in the wind to-night, and Higginson's back of it. Anyway, there's no use of running needless risks, now that we've practically got a strangle-hold on the whole proposition." Varney glanced at his watch. "Right for you. It's too early to call yet, anyway. I'll wait." "Correct," said Peter at the door. "One last item of news.
There is none round which it has not cast its feelers no Semitic moneylender ever obtained a surer hold on his victim. In matters naval, military, educational, legal, industrial, financial, Germany has a strangle-hold.
Not one that had not the memory of some secret kindness stored away in his heart. It was Blackie who had furnished the money that had sent Deming's sick wife west. It had been Blackie who had rescued Schmidt time and again when drink got a strangle-hold. Blackie had always said: "Fire Schmidt! Not much! Why, Schmidt writes better stuff drunk than all the rest of the bunch sober."
But I feel sure I've got a strangle-hold on this mystery. If I get those papers from Riley in good time to-morrow I shall invite you and several others to a grand demonstration here to-morrow night. Don't forget. Keep the whole evening free. It will be a big story." Kennedy's laboratory was brightly lighted when I arrived early the next evening. One by one his "guests" dropped in.
Immediately thereafter he secured a strangle-hold on his brother and kissed him Budapest fashion on both cheeks. "To-morrow night already you will commence lessons with the best teacher money could buy," he declared. "Whose money?" Aaron Shellak inquired, as he wiped away the marks of his brother's affection "yours or mine?" "Me I ain't got no money," Louis admitted. "Me neither," Aaron said.
For, even as the knife-thrust missed its mark, he had resorted to the second ruse, and before Standish could turn around far enough to avert it. Down went the big man, under the strangle-hold and knee-purchase. With a crash that knocked the breath out of him and dazed him, he landed on his back, his head smiting the sward with a resounding thwack.
That was, to bring the frightened man ashore. This "hermit" as they called him, was certainly very much afraid of the water. He splashed a good deal, and Tom had to speak sharply to keep him from getting a strangle-hold about his own neck. "Jimminy! but that was a mean trick," panted Tom, when he got ashore with the fisherman.
Not all the fighting had been done that day under organized leadership. I stumbled at one place and fell over the dead bodies of a Kurd and an Armenian, locked in a strangle-hold. That Kurd must have been bold enough to go pillaging miles in advance of his friends, for the two had been dead for hours.
"All right, Mem," said the Countess of Cornbeef, removing the lid, "I'll stay; but keep that husband of yours with the woozy lingo out of the kitchen, because I'm a nervous woman I am that!" and then the Duchess of Devilledkidneys got a strangle-hold on her green umbrella and ducked for the grub foundry. Aunt Martha sighed and went in the house.
The dull reports of fog-signals had become a part of the metropolitan bombilation, but hitherto the choking mist had not secured a strangle-hold. Now, however, it had triumphed, casting its thick net over the city as if eager to stifle the pulsing life of the new Babylon.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking