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But when he uncrossed his legs, in his haste he tangled them up in his sewing. And all he could do was to turn a somersault backward among some bulrushes, hoping that Solomon Owl had not seen him. It is no secret that Mr. Frog was terribly afraid of Solomon Owl. Some of Mr. Frog’s friends had mysteriously disappeared. And they had last been seen in Solomon’s company. As it happened, Mr.
"Er I ah have received what I may term a painful yes, a very painful communication, and er I may say at once it refers to you and your concerns in a most distressing manner most distressing." The Commissioner coughed and waited. Hamilton remained silent. The Commissioner fidgeted, crossed his knees, uncrossed them again, then turned on him suddenly.
He had brought her so far, to the very threshold of what she sought, and, if he should now abandon her, that threshold must remain uncrossed. De Launay had taken on some of the attributes of a guardian angel, a jinni who alone could guide her to the goal she sought. And she was about to divorce him, to cut the slight tie that bound him to her.
He sat up, he crossed his knees, he uncrossed them, he twisted this way and that, he muttered "Good God!" as if the pious ejaculation had referred to the Other Person, and his stare at her was cruel. "But but I have been racking my brains to remember anything surely I never gave you I am perfectly convinced, I have the best reason for being absolutely certain, that I could not have given you "
It was not merely that they had uncrossed their legs and crossed them another way, or some such small matter; but that now they lay side by side, whereas formerly they had better accommodated themselves to the architectural design, and lain in a ring with their long-pointed toes pointing inward to the centre.
"Sit down, Cap'n," said Miss Phoebe, indicating the visitor's chair. "What was it you wanted to see me about?" The captain accepted the invitation to be seated, but he did not immediately reply to Miss Dawes's question. He dropped his hat on the floor, crossed his legs, uncrossed them, and then observed that it was pretty summery weather for so late in the fall.
Marcia felt she might as well have been talking to herself. He was not even the old friend and brother he used to be. She drew a gentle little sigh and wished this might have been only a happy ride with the ending at home, and a longer girlhood uncrossed by this wall of trouble that Kate had put up in a night for them all.
Why did you not wish to go with Monsieur and Madame Lafaye yesterday?" The girl uncrossed her hands from her bosom, and spread them out in a deprecating gesture. "Mais, ma mere, I was afraid." Mother's face grew stern. "No foolishness now," she exclaimed. "It is not foolishness, ma mere; I could not help it, but that man looked at me so funny, I felt all cold chills down my back.
Now he had salt fish for breakfast, and on clearing the table Jean noticed that his knife and fork were uncrossed. He was observed walking into a gooseberry bush by Susy Linn, who possessed the pioneer spring-bed of Thrums, and always knew when her man jumped into it by suddenly finding herself shot to the ceiling.
I like Niobe's arms, all wrapped about her child, do you remember? 'I remember. But you don't call that fortitude, do you? 'Yes, said Wych Hazel. 'She was dying by inches, and yet her arms look, so strong! I am sure she didn't know whether they were crossed or uncrossed. 'Do you think that lion there in the corner looks like Mr. Falkirk? 'No, indeed! Mr.
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