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Updated: June 8, 2025
"Sure!" replied the other, and with loud and profane cries to the animal they bound a handkerchief about his eyes. "I can tell he's going to be a twister," warned Cousin Egbert. "I better ear him," and to my increased amazement he took one of the beast's leather ears between his teeth and held it tightly. Then with soothing words to the supposedly dangerous animal, the Tuttle person mounted him.
"We shall have a twister, that is what we shall have and before many hours. And I shouldn't wonder if we had a storm of snow and sleet to cap off with. Good-night, sir!" And with this consoling prophecy the old man withdrew. Ishmael went to his berth and slept soundly until morning.
"To r.e., re c.a.p., cap, recap i.t, it, re capit Lor'! what a twister! u, recapitu l.a.t.e, late, re-cap-it-u-late the events de-tailed in my last letter, full stop there! if I han't read that full stop out loud! Ruby yawned. It is true she had drawn the dimity curtains all but a couple of inches.
Besides, night had fallen now, and the darkness outside was no less dense. Luther told in as few words as possible of the catastrophe which had befallen them on the road. "Why, Susan," Nathan exclaimed, "th' same twister struck them as struck us! Now don't that beat you? Funny th' stables didn't go, too.
His name was Nicolas de la Pleyne, a relation of hers and professed to be of the reformed. He had not for a long time been to the Lord's Supper, but had now gone to it again. He was a tobacco twister by trade. The son referred to was Jacques Cresson, who became a Labadist, and died in 1684. His wife was Marie Renard.
D'ri exclaimed, rising to his knees. "'S whut I call a twister." He began to whittle a piece of the splintered platform. Then he lit a shaving. "They 's ground here," said he, as he began to kindle a fire, "ground a-plenty right under us." The firelight gave us a good look at our cave under the logs. It was about ten feet long and probably half as high.
"Don't apologise for her," said Kate. "She's gone and forgotten, and that being so, her son has now a chance of being Deemster." "So he has," shouted Cæsar, "and not second Dempster only, but first Dempster itself in time, and go on with the twister." Kate laughed loudly, and cried, "Why don't you keep it up when your hand's in?
"Why can't you remember anything, boy?" sternly cut in the roguish-eyed youngster, with admonitory forefinger, coming to the front. "How many times have I told you never to say blue when you mean green? Why don't you say Kansas zephyr? Or windy-auger? Or twister? Or whirly-gust on a corkscrew wiggle-waggle? Or well, almost any other old thing that you can't think of at the right time? W-h-e-w!
At dawn, after the first puff, I knew we'd have a twister, so I got up steam and regularly worked against it. Made a good offing that way, and when the storm abated came back here. We were close in when we picked you up on a log." "It was a providential escape," said Stanislas, thankfully. "I thought it was all over with me." "We'll set you up in no time, never fear. But tell more about yourself.
He had just completed the task when there came a sudden terrific roar in his ears, and before he knew what was happening a desert twister had swept down upon him in all its fury. It passed swiftly, and through half-blinded eyes Hiram saw that the original had been whisked from the rock on which it had lain as if by magic.
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