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He rode a mettlesome, half-broken bronco, a wicked-eyed brute, which required to be conquered twice within the first hour of travel; a second and more quiet animal trailed behind at the end of a lariat, bearing the necessary equipment. Hampton forced the two into a rapid lope, striving to make the most possible out of the narrow margin of daylight remaining.
"Beware of her fair hair, for she excels All women in the magic of her locks." It trailed suavely through my fingers, slipping across my palm like a belt of silk. It glided with the noiseless haste of a thing in flight. Quite naturally, even in the dazed moment of awakening I closed my hand upon it. It was soft in my grasp, yet resilient; solid, yet supple.
In his dogged rage, he never thought to stop and block the hall-way; but trailed his quarry like a bloodhound through every room of the third floor, and upward to the fourth. Half-way up this stairway, Average Jones checked his speed and surveyed the hall above. As he started again he stumbled and sprawled.
All the while Peter felt that he was struggling in a hideous dream. That bride in white satin wasn't real; his uncle wouldn't play him such a trick! Peter cringed when the defiant voice of the girl snapped her "I do" and "I will." The clergyman's voice had trailed off. He was calling her "Mrs. Champneys." And Mr.
"I am!" the Spaniard replied. "And it seems to me that it was farther on. If there was only some way we could tell " The sentence trailed off into nothingness. There was really no way of telling. All about them was a dreary waste of mud, sand, boulders, smaller stones, gravel and more mud mud was over everything. And more mud was constantly being made, for the rain had not ceased.
It's jest not knowing German does it. You can't explain'" He discovered, later, traces of an attempt to cross the gap in the broken bridge. A rope with a bolt attached had been flung across and had caught in a fenestration of a projecting fragment of railing. The end of the rope trailed in the seething water towards the fall.
Silent, lithe, confident even among these new and terribly strange conditions, the two men of the Folk slid through the jungle. No hounds ever trailed fugitive more surely and with greater skill than these strange, white barbarians from the underworld. Through all his fear and agony, Stern blessed their courage and their skill. "Men, by God!
Listless, long-faced, supercilious, the young lady from Washington sat apart reading novels or playing solitaire with her parents, as though the huge hotel's loud life of gossip and flirtation were invisible and inaudible to her. Undine never even succeeded in catching her eye: she always lowered it to her book when the Apex beauty trailed or rattled past her secluded corner.
It was certain that the outlaws, not suspecting that they had been trailed over the mountain by the tireless Boy Scouts, would be off guard at night. "Of course we want to capture that big lobster," Jimmie said. "We want to know why he was so anxious for Nestor's society!" "I think that question can easily be answered now," Nestor said, but he did not answer it.
Though I don't know I'd be happy enough, if I were you always seem to come out on top not to care for any damn thing on earth, except that not even Francey Wilmot or even me just a sort of pug-dog you trailed behind on the end of a string a sort of mascot." He was going to sleep. He waggled his arm feebly, groping for Stonehouse. "Say you'll come. I'd be awfully proud show you off, you know.
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