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But James Ollerenshaw did not wish his teeth stopped, nor yet extracted. He had excellent teeth. And, in common with all men who have never taken thirty consecutive repasts alone with the same woman, he knew how to treat women, how to handle them the trout! He stood up. He raised all his body. Helen raised only her eyebrows. "Helen Rathbone!" Such was the exordium.
"Oh," he said, between his teeth, "you are a clever fellow. You would have made an excellent detective. And so you have found out where Van Sneck is?" "I have already told you so," Littimer said, doggedly. "How many days have you been hanging about Brighton?" "Two or three. I came when I heard that Chris was ill. I didn't dare to come near the house, at least not too near, for fear of being seen.
I made up my mind that if this man was not a liar he only missed it by the skin of his teeth. This episode reminds me of an incident of my brief sojourn in Siam, years afterward. The European citizens of a town in the neighborhood of Bangkok had a prodigy among them by the name of Eckert, an Englishman a person famous for the number, ingenuity and imposing magnitude of his lies.
She half-turned, lifting her lash, and at that, with a snarl, Berg crouched himself and bared his teeth. Miss Blake started and stared at him. Suddenly she gave in. Pain and anger twisted her spirit. "You'd turn my Berg against me!" she choked, and fell heavily down on the rug in a dead faint. When she came to she was grim and silent.
The evening previous six new prisoners had been sent down under strong guard by the agent, swelling the list at Sandy to thirty-seven and causing Plume to set his teeth and an extra sentry.
He shook me back and forth as if to shake the truth out of me, till my teeth rattled together; I could not have spoken if I would. But he cried on, his voice rising with excitement: "It has been no secret where St. Quentin stands and what he has been about. He came into Paris, smooth and smiling, his own man, forsooth neither ours nor the heretic's!
And I saw your face and something came to me. I saw for a moment over the wall. Dear, I am very sure that if I go back there will be times when I shall see over the wall, and my heart will ache and the whole taste of life will be like dust between my teeth." She leaned towards him. "It is your fault if I say this," she whispered. "It is you yourself who have prepared the way.
The Persians, anxious to escape, struck at him, and chopped off his hand; but the Greek, without hesitating a moment, grasped the boat with his other hand, and held it fast. In their hurry to get away, the Persians struck off that hand too; but the dauntless hero caught and held the boat with his strong teeth, and died beneath the repeated blows of the enemy without having once let go.
Now, whilst I crouched against the matting-covered wall, teeth tightly clenched and my very hair quivering upon my scalp, he dragged himself laboriously across the room, the sticks going tap tap tap upon the floor, and the tall body, enveloped in a yellow robe, bent grotesquely, gruesomely, with every effort which he made.
All were at a loss. They shouted at him but he made no reply. "Stiepan, are you ill?" asked the other soldier with the bandaged hand. "Perhaps we'd better call the priest, eh?" "Stiepan, drink some water," said the sailor. "Here, mate, have a drink." "What's the good of breaking his teeth with the jug," shouted Goussiev angrily. "Don't you see, you fatheads?" "What." "What!" cried Goussiev.
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