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Updated: May 2, 2025
For once the old women hushed up their prophecies of evil, although in the beginning they had shaken their wise old turbaned heads and predicted that marriage with such a flighty creature as Viney could come to no good. They had said among themselves that Ben would better marry some good, solid-minded, strong-armed girl who would think more about work than about pleasures and coquetting.
Somehow I felt that she was looking intently at me. I resumed my narrative. 'I was lighting my pipe when I heard a scream A chuckle came from the group behind the lantern. 'I screamed, said the Little Nugget. 'You bet I screamed! What would you do if you woke up in the dark and found a strong-armed roughneck prising you out of bed as if you were a clam?
Some of her reserve was gone. This was a great event in her life and she was coming into a new world without losing the old. "Miss Catherwood," Prescott said, "I am glad that my mother's house is to be the shelter of Miss Grayson and yourself at such a time. We have one or two faithful and strong-armed servants who will see that you suffer no harm." The two women hesitated and were embarrassed.
When the fourth month came, that best of the Bharatas the strong-armed son of Pandu began to subsist on air alone. With arms upraised and leaning upon nothing and standing on the tips of his toes, he continued his austerities. And the illustrious hero's locks, in consequence of frequent bathing took the hue of lightning or the lotus.
Go to, Dudley; thou wast in a heavy dream when I caused thee to awake." "A pretty time have we fallen upon, when petticoats are used instead of beards and strong-armed men, to go the rounds of the sentinels, and to say who sleepeth and who is watchful!
"It's Mortimer!" he cried, as a voice from the strong-armed figure cut the night air with sharp decision. Then the shadowy forms twisted up grotesquely, weaving in and out. There were voices of expostulation and strong words of anger; but the new serious business that had materialized had most effectually put a stop to reflections upon the innocent girl who had so unwittingly offended.
They brought the buckboard perilously through the shrubbery and then managed, with infinite labor, to lift Bull Hunter into it. With Pete Reeve supporting the head of the wounded man and cautioning them to drive gently, they managed the journey to the town as softly as possible. At the hotel a strong-armed cortege bore Bull to a bed, and they carried him reverently.
"Hey, Rube!" he howled lustily, this being the signal known to circus men the world over, when one or more of them is in trouble. But there were no strong-armed circus men to come to their rescue. All the circus laborers were working off on the lot striking the tents and loading the show on the wagons. Teddy was given no further opportunity to protest.
"Ah ah then she was with you when you found it the woman that wore this gown before me, eh, Martino?" "Aye and what then?" "This!" cried she and wheeling the hatchet strong-armed, she sent it spinning far out to sea or ever I might stay her. But she, skipping nimbly out of reach, caught up one of my pistols where she had hid it behind a rock and stood regarding me with her hateful smile.
It seemed to him that in those great buildings, turning out respectively such tremendous quantities of woolen, cotton, and linen stuffs, such world-renowned dyes and paints, such precious diamonds cut from the rough, such supplies of meal, of bricks, of glass and china that in at least one of these, a strong-armed boy, able and eager to work, could find something to do.
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