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To Greg Hunter the siege of the orbit-ship had been a nerve-wracking game of listening and waiting for something to happen. In the darkness of the control cabin he stretched his fingers, cramped from gripping the heavy Markheim stunner, and checked the corridor outside again. There was no sound in the darkness there, no sign of movement.
Cantercot," he said, rubbing his hands, half from cold, half from usage; "what have you brought me?" "Nothing," said Denzil, "but if you will lend me a sovereign I'll do you a stunner." The operatic villain shook his locks, his eyes full of pawky cunning. "If you did it after that, it would be a stunner."
But he drew his stunner and beamed at either end of the oval, and then, for good measure, in the middle, hoping in one of those three general blasts to contact the thing's central nervous system.
She holds up dinner forty-five minutes while she sheds her travelin' costume for an evenin' gown. And it's some startlin' creation she springs on us about the time we're ready to bite the glass knobs off the dinin'-room doors. She's a stunner, all right, and she sails down with that baby stare turned on full voltage.
His admiration burst out in spite of his discomfiture and critical position. "Well, you are a cool one!" he exclaimed, in accents of mingled vexation and approval. "A cool one and a stunner, I'm blessed if you ain't! No offence, but I never see your likes yet, not since I was born. Come, miss, let's cry quits. You pass me out o' this on the quiet.
He holstered his stunner, walked out into the open, paying no heed now to the patches of light through which he must pass on his way to the path his own feet had already worn to the boat beach. As he went, Shann tried to counterfeit what he believed would be the gait of a man under compulsion.
Besides, it makes a story, works up public interest. Still, I think she might have kept out Mrs. Charmian's name." "Charmian is in it?" "Yes, a lot of rubbish about her hearing what a stunner the libretto was, and rushing over to Paris to bribe it away before Sennier had considered it in its finished state." "How abominable! I shall " "I know, but I wouldn't.
Stunner, dark, hard and sharp-faced, was a widow with all her daughters "well settled" in life i.e., married to wealthy husbands and was considered "fortunate" among the matrons. Mrs. Fluffy was soft and florid, without an angular point, physically or mentally: much younger and prettier than her sister, she was always spoken of as "poor Mrs. Fluffy," though she was not badly off that I could see.
"I say," said Mauburn, coming up, "do you see that angel of the flaming hair with that young Milbrey chap?" The two men gazed where he was indicating. "By Jove! she is a stunner, isn't she?" exclaimed Percival. "Might be one of Shepler's party," suggested Higbee. "He has the Milbrey family out with him, and I see they landed awhile ago.
When himself about to pass for lieutenant, in 1808, while in an ante-room awaiting his summons, a candidate came out flushed and perturbed. Hall was called in, and one of the examining captains said to him, "Mr. , who has just gone out, could not answer a question which we will put to you." He naturally looked for a stunner, and was surprised at the extremely commonplace problem proposed to him.
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