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Updated: May 22, 2025
She managed to give herself a rhythmical, switching motion, causing her kneelength skirt to swing from side to side a pomp that brought her a great deal of satisfaction as she now and then caught the effect by twisting her neck enough to see down behind, over her shoulder. But her poise was temporarily threatened when the walking-party passed her own house.
The cry of terror from the girl's palsied lips, as she pointed to something behind him, awoke the mountain man to instant action. Instinctively, he snatched his long dagger from its sheath and turned quickly. Not twenty feet from them a huge cat-like beast stood half crouched on the edge of the darkness, his long tail switching angrily.
He opened the switch to the interoffice teleceiver behind his desk, then watched the image of his aide appear on the teleceiver screen. "What is it, Bill?" asked Walters. "Polaris unit reporting for orders, sir," replied the enlisted guardsman. "Cadets Corbett, Manning, and Astro." "Very well, send them in," said Walters. Switching off the teleceiver, he turned back to Governor Hardy.
The professor had taken his seat beside the driver, but Yates, putting on his coat and picking up his cane, strode along in front, switching off the heads of Canada thistles with his walking stick as he proceeded.
Months it would take in the making, but sitting there with the green tail-lights switching through cuts and around low hills and out over the level, Luck visioned it all, scene by scene. Visioned the herd huddled together in the night while the heavens were split with lightning, and the rain came down in white-lighted streamers of water.
So saying he slammed the door, and we heard him switching his boots as he passed along the street under the windows, whistling the air of "The girls we left behind us," followed, before he was quite out of earshot, by "Oh my love is like the red red rose, that's newly sprung in June."
Now and then he paused beside Kaydessa and spoke, his uneasiness plain to Travis although he could not understand the words. Travis had settled down in the shade, half dozing, yet alert to every movement of the three Tatars. He tried not to think of what might be happening in the rancheria by switching his mind to that misty valley of the towers.
It was a hot night, and the punkah-wallah outside kept the punkah, or mechanical fan, switching back and forth over our heads with a rapidity that made us fear its ropes would break, as very often happened. Suddenly there was a crash, and a champagne glass struck squarely in the high official's soup and spattered it all over his white expanse of shirt front. We all looked up at the punkah.
Not only is an animal immediately observed, but anything out of the common among surrounding objects instantly strikes the attention; the waving of one bough in particular when all are moving in the breeze; the switching of a deer's ear above the long grass; the slight rustling of an animal moving in the jungle.
For he had in high degree the faculty, so essential to public life, of switching off his whole attention from one subject to another. On arriving at Paddington he drove straight to Valleys House. This large dwelling with its pillared portico, seemed to wear an air of faint surprise that, at the height of the season, it was not more inhabited.
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