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"Our friend Ferrars seems in tiptop company," said Trenchard. "That may have been a countess on the box," said Seymour Hicks, "for I observed an earl's coronet on the drag. I cannot make out who it is." "There is no more advantage in going with four horses than with two," said St. Barbe; "indeed, I believe you go slower. It is mere pride; puffed-up vanity.
But my goodness, when you remember who Stewart is, you'll be well, pained to think of the language you're using about him." "Why?" asked Milly, her head riding disdainfully on her slender neck. "Because he's your tutor and lecturer and a regular tiptop man at Greek and all that and you you respect him most awfully." "Do I?" cried Milly "did perhaps in my salad days.
Chips. He strolled. O, welcome back, miss Douce. He held her hand. Enjoyed her holidays? Tiptop. He hoped she had nice weather in Rostrevor. Gorgeous, she said. Look at the holy show I am. Lying out on the strand all day. Bronze whiteness. That was exceedingly naughty of you, Mr Dedalus told her and pressed her hand indulgently. Tempting poor simple males. Miss Douce of satin douced her arm away.
And a full hour before daylight he called her to breakfast. "This time last spring," Bill said to her, "I was piking away north of those mountains, bound for the head of the Naas to prospect for gold." They were camped in a notch on the tiptop of a long divide, a thousand feet above the general level.
Had he not poured out to Honora, with a charming gayety and frankness, many of his financial troubles? "I'm afraid he'll think it frightfully expensive," she answered, becoming thoughtful once more. And it did not occur to her that neither of them had mentioned the individual to whom they referred. "Wait until he's feeling tiptop," Mr. Cuthbert advised, "and then bring him up here in a hurry.
'Richie! now let 's lead these fellows off with a tiptop cheer! Little Temple crowed lustily. The head of the statue turned from Temple to me. I found the people falling back with amazed exclamations. I so prepossessed was I simply stared at the sudden-flashing white of the statue's eyes. The eyes, from being an instant ago dull carved balls, were animated. They were fixed on me.
It was a hard struggle for him, however, till he reached the lower limbs, some fifty feet from the ground, when, swinging himself up by a grappled limb, he quickly disappeared among the thick, mantling boughs, on his now doubly-rapid ascent; and, in a few minutes more, he was heard by his companion below, breaking off the obstructing tiptop branches, and, as he gazed abroad from his dizzy height, shouting out the discoveries which were the object of his bold attempt.
Presently we spied him, on the tiptop of a pile of stones, standing quite still, with his head thrown back and his bill pointing straight up. He looked gray, dusted over with pepper-and-salt dots on the back, and his bill was very straight and sharp almost an inch long, it looked. This was a Rock Wren." "He must have had a nest somewhere in those rocks," said Rap.
Had he not poured out to Honora, with a charming gayety and frankness, many of his financial troubles? "I'm afraid he'll think it frightfully expensive," she answered, becoming thoughtful once more. And it did not occur to her that neither of them had mentioned the individual to whom they referred. "Wait until he's feeling tiptop," Mr. Cuthbert advised, "and then bring him up here in a hurry.
A yellow flame covered the western sky, to be succeeded in a few minutes by a crimson glow. The sharply defined colours of the different layers of rock had merged and softened, as the sun dropped from sight; purple shadows crept into the cavernous depths, while shafts of gold shot to the very tiptop of the peaks, or threw their shadows like silhouettes on the wall beyond.
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