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Time rolled on, and the clock on the marble mantel struck half-past eleven, twelve, half-past twelve, one, and at length came to a quarter past one, while I couldn't dope out who swiped the cuff-buttons to save my neck!
The cyclone swooped down upon us from Kansas and swiped our crops, making our boasts that here was an Elysium beyond the storm-belt sound as hollow as Adam's dream of Eden after he was lifted over the garden wall. Still we bore up and presented a bold, if not an unbroken front to a carping world. But the vials of wrath were not yet exhausted.
He had quite waked up; his head was buzzing with "theories," and his old power seemed to have come back to his fingers. The first ball came with a beautiful leg-break, and the Mulgoan bat swiped at it wildly, and vainly. Seven for 107. Cunjee was getting excited as the eighth man came in a wiry and long youth with a stolid face.
When he saw it ahead and overhead he went forward with Powell as fast as he could put foot to ground. It was then that Powell, a quiet and level-headed man, as a rule, became inspired, and played a stroke that sometimes comes off successfully after long practice. He took his stick in both hands, and, standing up in his stirrups, swiped at the ball in the air, Munipore fashion.
"Say, now, Tode, tell us w'at's up," whispered one, sidling up to him. "Hev ye swiped somethin'?" Tode tried to put on an expression of injured innocence, but his face flushed as he answered, shortly, "Come, hush yer noise, will ye! Can't a chap lay off fer one day 'thout all the town pitchin' inter him?
Only perhaps it's fairer to her if you don't do it too often I mean it's better for her that any one man should not appear to pay her noticeable attention. You know what mischief can get into print. What's taken below stairs is often swiped and stealthily perused above stairs." "I suppose so.
He had no chair of any kind, so he looked around till he found a bench in one of the huts; he swiped this and turned it upside down on his table. When the boys came for a shave, they climbed up on the table and sat in the upturned bench, using the leg of the bench for a head rest. It sure was some "barber's chair"; I'll bet there never was another like it.
To Bangs's embarrassment, however, the boom suddenly swung inboard, swiped across the stern, causing him to duck hastily, and almost knocking the bonnet off the lady with the pug dog. Mr. Bangs had jibed the boat, greatly to his surprise. But no harm had been done, as the wind was light. Mr. Bangs laughed loudly. "Meant to tell you that was coming," he said. "She'll sail better this way.
If my boss was to see the old red wool smoking-jacket I wear around the house, he'd fire me for burlesquing the business." "Well, of all the nerve! Let go my hand." "Didn't know I had it, little one." "And say, you give back that kodak picture you swiped off me yesterday. I don't give my photographs out promiscuous." "That little snap-shot of you? Nix, I will!
"Took your advice to heart, my jewel, kicked over my pan of fat and jumped into the fire. Which, being put into straight English, I swiped a horse and rode off with the rest of the boys on the tail of the serpent." Weldon gasped, as he realized the enormity of the crime. Then he laughed. In his haste to gain possession of a mount, Paddy had taken no thought for his armament.
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