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He took up the study of all such gentry, sullenly yet methodically, like a backward scholar mastering a newly imposed branch of knowledge, thumbing frowningly through official reports, breathing heavily over portrait files and police records, plodding determinedly through counterfeit-detector manuals. For this book work, as he called it, he retained a deep-seated disgust.
Betty hitched Clover outside and entered the door to find the postmaster rapidly thumbing over a bunch of letters while a tall man in a pepper-and-salt suit waited, his back to the room. "Can you tell me where to find a public telephone?" asked Betty, and at the sound of her voice, the man turned. "Betty!" he ejaculated. "My dear child, how glad I am to see you!" Mr.
A solid shot struck No. 5 gun on the hub, killing Cannoneer No. 2, who was thumbing the vent, and filling No. 1 gunner with splinters of iron, whirling him into eternity amid a fountain of dirt and flying hub-tires.
Out came five new $5 bills. "Here's your money," he said, thumbing over the bills clumsily and regretfully. The old woman lowered her spectacles from the top of her head, and scrutinized them. "What's them?" she asked suspiciously. "Why, them's greenbacks Government money the very best kind," explained the Deacon. "You can't have no better'n that." "Don't tech hit!
In two months he was thumbing page ten of the grammar, but he had seized upon a good many slang phrases, supercharged ejaculations. Though the undercurrent of his discouragement about his progress was considerable, it interfered little with his acquainting him proficiently with the restaurant world of Dresden.
Emile displayed at the bottom of a box an object closely resembling a distaff with a straw through the middle, doubtless some relic of the last International Exhibition, abandoned by all, like the Great Eastern, on account of its dimensions. We "did" the arcades round the Odeon, where my uncle spent an eternity thumbing the books for sale.
"There was some expicted she'd be read fr'm th' altar at high mass, but she wasn't." Mr. McKenna found Mr. Dooley standing at the end of his bargain counter with the glasses on the tip of his nose. He was in deep contemplation of a pile of green paper which he was thumbing over. "Jawn," said he, as Mr.
Violent scenes frequently took place between them; the last, which occurred at Rambouillet, went so far that Madame la Duchesse de Berry received a kick , and a menace that she should be shut up in a convent for the rest of her life; and when M. le Duc de Berry fell ill, he was thumbing his hat, like a child, before the King, relating all his grievances, and asking to be delivered from Madame la Duchesse de Berry.
He ceased rummaging among the bundles of documents piled up on the bench, stopped thumbing papers so as to hide his perturbation, and waving the first sheet that came to his hand, he went on. The intention of the gentleman in opposing this appropriation was not hidden from him. On this matter he had his own, his private and personal ideas.
Emile displayed at the bottom of a box an object closely resembling a distaff with a straw through the middle, doubtless some relic of the last International Exhibition, abandoned by all, like the Great Eastern, on account of its dimensions. We "did" the arcades round the Odeon, where my uncle spent an eternity thumbing the books for sale.
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