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But on reaching the door he whirled and came back; his wicker tail twirling round after him like a cat's. "In twelve hours at furthest you will be in the secondary stage of fever. Your head will split. Your carotids will thump. Aha! And let but a pin fall, you will jump to the ceiling. Then send for me; and I'll not come." He departed.
The brief duration of our families, as a hereditary household, renders it next to a certainty that the great-grandchildren will not know their father's grandfather, and that half a century hence at furthest, the hammer of the auctioneer will thump its knock-down blow against his blockhead, sold at so much for the pound of stone!
She must have worn a path in the sidewalk that led to the post-office, that summer. She was there the moment the mail-sacks came up from the depot, morning and evening, and while the letters were being sorted and distributed she paced up and down outside, under the cottonwood trees, listening to the thump, thump, thump of Mr. Thompson's stamp.
The quick, undefined little note of eagerness in her voice made his heart thump. He nodded, and smiled. "Yes, going on eighteen," he said. "And pretty soon some young fellow will come along, and see you, and marry you " "O-o-o-h-h-h!"
"Yes, Father," and this time the downcast eyes were raised and looked hopefully into his. "Speak out; never mind the expense." "Well, Father, I'd like to go this afternoon and see Sullivan thump that yap from the country." Taking Mamma at Her Word MOTHER: "Ethel, you naughty child, what have you been doing to make Charlie cry so?" ETHEL: "I've only been sharing my cod-liver oil with him, mamma.
Holding to Kenkenes with one hand, he drew a knife from his belt and prepared to strike. At that instant, the captive caught sight of a pale woman-face, the eyes blazing with vengeance. There was a flash of a white-sleeved arm and the thump and jolt of a dagger driven strongly through flesh. The murderous Nubian yelled and tumbled, kicking, on the sand.
They were Spiritualists. All this time the Indescribable Phenomenon was clapping her hands, and now some of the more restless of the audience clapped theirs in concert. The guitar and fiddle began to thump and twang, and the bells to ring, and then again the more refractory lunatics amongst us began to beat accompaniment on our hats.
The ladies, who were at work upon diaries and letters, allowed her to thump and wonder whether she had come to the wrong door, for a certain period; after which, Arabella placidly unbolted her chamber, and Adela presented herself in the passage to know the meaning of the noise. "Oh! ye poor darlin's, I've heard ut all, I have." This commencement took the colour from their cheeks.
"Man," here broke in Doctor Drummummupp, at the top of his voice, and with a thump that came near knocking the pulpit about our ears; "man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live; he cometh up and is cut down like a flower!"
In the forests of the Mambava, in groves of banana trees, the peaked, thatched roofs of Muene-Motapa's stronghold rose in concentric circles round the royal houses. Here, all day long, one heard the bleating of goats and fat-tailed sheep, the coo and whirr of pigeons, the thump of wooden mortars in which the women, their nude bodies covered with intricate designs of scars, were grinding millet.
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