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The September air, the smell of the fresh shingles, the sitting with one leg doubled under you, and the other outstretched on the hot slope of the roof, the tap-tapping of the hammers, the bossing of Edith, the trying to talk of Eleanor, and thunderstorms, while you hold eight nails between your lips; then the pause while Edith climbs down the ladder and runs to the kitchen for hot cookies; all these things would be a delightful occupation for any intelligent person!
A little ahead to the left of him a machine-gun was tap-tapping like a telegraph instrument, and as it traversed the field of their advance the men went down in swathes. If only he could get to that gun!
Ever since that time, whenever we hear a little tap-tapping in the tree city, we know that it is the poor Woodpecker digging at the dusty wood, as the Lord said she should do.
All in th' valley of Death Rode th' six hundred...." As he went up the hospital steps, tap-tapping on his crutches because he would not let anybody carry him, the situation seemed to him much better. He stopped upon the top step, balanced himself upon one crutch, and waved the other at his staff and at the "Six Hundred," pressing on behind. "Forward, th' Light Brigade!
There was an atmosphere of tension in the room. At three-forty there came a tap-tapping across the floor of the outer room, and a knock at the door brought them all to their feet. Average Jones threw the door open, took the man who stood outside by the arm, and pushing a chair toward him, seated him in it. The new-comer was an elderly man dressed with sober elegance.
Seven years among the army; town to town, camp to camp, here to-day and away to-morrow, with a soldier's pass to love upon your back and haunch, and yet you have not learned to lift the sneck of a door, but must be tap-tapping with your finger-nails." "I do not know what you mean," said I. "Lorf! lord!" he cried, pretending amazement, "and here's schooling! Just think it over for yourself.
"For you see, Major," Arthur Thorndyke had explained to the boy, when he had come tap-tapping on his crutches into his uncle's study that morning, "this is such very new business to me. I'm having a pretty hard time trying to think of anything good and fine enough to say to the men in blue and gray and brown, for we have all sorts here, you know."
I've just been playing with my dolls for visitors, but it will be much nicer to have a real live one." The room the doctor entered was small, but cheerful; the floor uncarpeted, but clean, and the window framed a patch of sky over the chimney-pots below. A table stood near the window, by it two chairs on which lay two dolls. "Come to the window," requested the child, tap-tapping over the floor.
Up sprang Tressady to stare away across Deliverance whence this dreadful cry had come, and I saw his hook tap-tapping at his great chin; then beyond these shining sands was the thunderous roar of a great gun, a furious rattle of small-arms that echoed and re-echoed near and far, and thereafter single shots in rapid succession. Hereupon rose shouts and cries of dismay: "Lord love us we'm beset!
That was "rare Ben Jonson's" way. "There's some one knocking, master," said the boy. A quick tap-tapping rattled on the wicket-gate. "Who is it?" asked the quiet man. "'Tis Edmund with the news," cried one. "I've dished him," said Ben Jonson. "'Tis Condell come to raise our wages," said Robin Armin, with a grin. "Thou'lt raise more hopes than wages, Rob," said Tarlton, mockingly.
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