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While he spoke, without pretence of concealment he unbuttoned the top button of his shirt and taking hold of a string about his neck pulled forth a small wooden case, obviously of pocket-knife manufacture. Snapping the cord, he offered its pendant to Janice. "I I would keep it, Charles," replied Janice, "but you know mommy told me "
It being warm weather, most of the men wore their coats unbuttoned, thereby displaying a considerable expanse of hairy chest or violently colored underwear and producing a somewhat negligée effect.
Albert slowly shook his head as he sat on the side of the bed. 'Don't happen to me when I've bin doin' nothing, he said. And he proceeded to pull off his stockings. Joe turned away, looking at himself in the mirror as he unbuttoned his tunic. 'You didn't want to keep the appointment? Albert asked, in a changed voice, from the bedside. Joe did not answer for a moment.
But William the Silent, after he had saved the republic, for which he had laboured during his whole lifetime and was destined to pour out his heart's blood, went about among the brewers and burghers with unbuttoned doublet and woollen bargeman's waistcoat.
Indeed, it overcame the negligence of her creased and faded yellow cotton frock and unbuttoned collar, and suggested at least to the eyes of ONE man the curving and clinging of the jasmine vine against the outer column of the veranda. Larry Hawkins rose awkwardly to his feet. "Now what are you two men mumblin' and confidin' to each other?
Say, could I borrow your thermos just dropped in to see if I could borrow your thermos bottle. We're going to have a toboggan party want to take some coffee mit. Oh, did you get my card from Akron, saying I'd run into Paul?" "Yes. What was he doing?" "How do you mean?" He unbuttoned his overcoat, sat tentatively on the arm of a chair. "You know how I mean!"
If he wore a "vest" he would wear it slouchily, hanging open or partly unbuttoned most of the time. There was a reason for this slouchy habit. The cowboy would say that the vest closely buttoned about the body would cause perspiration, so that the wearer would quickly chill upon ceasing exercise.
His care-worn air disappeared, he began to smile, he became animated, he unbuttoned his coat, and, saying "I am an artist! Not at all; but you, I hear, are an artist indeed," he followed Varvara Pavlovna to the piano. "Tell him to sing the romance, 'How the moon floats," exclaimed Maria Dmitrievna. "You sing?" asked Varvara Pavlovna, looking at him with a bright and rapid glance.
"I knew too well how it would be. From the instant he came on the ground the old general never took his eye off his man. What an eye it was! Cold and gray and leaden; half shut, like that of some wild animal, with a pupil that contracted visibly while I watched it. I knew my friend had no chance. I did all I could. As I had the privilege of placing the men, I stationed our adversary where he would have to look over his shoulder to see my signal, whilst my friend's face was turned towards me. They were to fire when I dropped my hat. I dropped it with a flourish. Alas! all was of no use. The general shot him right through the heart. I knew he would; and the bullet cut the stalk of the rose in two, smashed the lower part of the miniature, leaving only the face untouched, and poor Charlie Horsingham never spoke again. As we lifted him and unbuttoned his waistcoat, the two Frenchmen gazed at the miniature with looks of anger and curiosity. Great was their astonishment to behold the portrait of another than Rosalie. The younger man was much affected; he groaned aloud and covered his face with his hands. Not so the old general. 'Tenez, said he, wiping the barrel of his weapon on his glove, 'c'est dommage! je ne contais pas l
Dinner was announced, and we adjourned to another room poor Sir Willoughby, with his waistcoat unbuttoned, and breathing like a pug in a phthisis groaned bitterly, when he discovered that this apartment was smaller and hotter than the one before.
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