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Updated: May 6, 2025
You got to call out all the strength you've been storing up all your life, and then some. We've got to use common sense. Lord, I want to get ahead, don't I! I seen Miss Rhoda. I know what she's like. This ain't any joy ride for me, either. I got a lot of feeling in it." John DeWitt extended his sun-blistered right hand and Billy Porter clasped it with his brown paw.
A sergeant who could speak a little Sioux came riding back to the camp, a grin on his sun-blistered face. "Well, sergeant, what'd he say?" asked the staff officer. "He said would I plaze to go to hell, sorr," was the prompt response. "Won't he tell who they are?" "He won't, sorr. He says we know widout askin', which is thrue, sorr.
If, to capture his tiny prey, his brother in the copses and the hedges thought it necessary to dissemble and consequently to dye his pearl-embroidered coat, how comes it that the denizen of the sun-blistered rocks persists in his blue-and-green colouring, which at once betrays him against the whity-grey stone?
So absorbed was I in my work the mosque never was so beautiful as on that day I gave no thought to the fact that in my eagerness to hide my canvas from the prying sun I had really backed myself into a small wooden gate, its lintel level with the sidewalk a dry, dusty, sun-blistered gate, without lock or hasp on the outside, and evidently long closed.
He said finally while the red of his shiny sun-blistered face deepened perceptibly: "My name is supposed to be Teeters Clarence Teeters." As a matter of fact he knew that his name was Teeters, but injecting an element of doubt into it in this fashion seemed somehow to make the telling easier. Teeters was bad enough, but combined with Clarence! Only Mr.
Then ensued a few minutes of strenuous bargaining between passengers and boatmen, at the end of which time Dick and Grosvenor, having said goodbye to the captain and officers Dick also included the crew in his farewell found themselves being pulled across the few yards of water which intervened between ship and shore, and presently they stood upon the sun-blistered wharf fighting their way through an odoriferous crowd of shouting, laughing, gesticulating, and more than half-naked Kafir rickshaw-men who clamoured for the honour of dragging them the mile or so that separated the Point from Durban.
Yez knows so much." McDermott scratched his sun-blistered, stubble-field of a face, and grinned. "Whisky built the eastern half, an' cold tay built the western half." Pat regarded his comrade with considerable respect. "Mac, shure yez is intilligint," he granted.
He stopped at the sight of the place with its deep tiled roof, nestling under big trees you never get a decently big, decently shaped tree by the seaside its sign towards the roadway, its sun-blistered green bench and tables, its shapely white windows and its row of upshooting hollyhock plants in the garden.
Spots that from a distance look, amid their barren, sun-blistered surroundings, like lovely bits of fairyland, upon closer investigation degenerate into wretched habitations of a ragged, poverty-stricken people, having about them a few neglected orchards and vineyards, and a couple of dozen straggling willows and jujubes.
He was taking five minutes for work which consumed twenty-five, ordinarily! But when the water splashed against the sun-blistered clapboards of the veranda wall, his spurt of energy diminished. He adjusted the nozzle until the fine spray came from the hose and watched the miniature rainbow in the bright sunlight.
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