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The few letters that came for them were sent to the Dead Letter Office. This one would have been, but for the fact that it was unsealed. "It had been sealed, but the envelope was all unstuck, and I read the letter. I own up to it, I know it was wrong, but I didn't know then how wrong. You see, I wasn't taught much about honour and right.
First, the maid-servant who had been stuck, unstuck herself and dragged herself to her mistress; she told her that her outraged lord knew nothing, and that before giving up the ghost she would comfort her dear mistress by assuring her that she could have perfect confidence in her sister, who was laundress in the hotel, and was willing to let herself be chopped up as small as sausage-meat to please Madame.
There seems to be aha! just so One moment, please bit of vine there we are!" There was a snapping sound from below, and David's foot was released. He unstuck the snag from his shirt, pushed his way out of the thicket, and sat down weakly on the grass. Whew! At least the bird was not going to harm him. It seemed to be quite a kindly creature, really.
I must have help. Like your cigar, this case has come unstuck." Mr. James Leander Winter, Chief Inspector under the Criminal Investigation Department, whistled softly. "Tut, tut!" he said. "One can never trust the newspapers. Reading this morning's particulars, it looked dead easy." "Tell me how it struck you. Sometimes the uninformed brain is vouchsafed a gleam of unconscious genius."
In the same way, the lid of a saucepan fits the mouth by means of a projecting rim, with this difference, that the rim is not attached to the saucepan, whereas, in the Epeira's work, it is soldered to the bag or nest. Well, at the time of the hatching, this disk becomes unstuck, lifts and allows the new-born Spiders to pass through.
What's the matter, is the gate stuck?" If so, it came quickly unstuck, and the bull emerged, pawing and snorting.
"You mean things get unstuck so on the voyage," murmured Constantia. "No, lost," said Josephine sharply. "You know there's no post. Only runners." Both paused to watch a black man in white linen drawers running through the pale fields for dear life, with a large brown-paper parcel in his hands. Josephine's black man was tiny; he scurried along glistening like an ant.
It was a very large box and had evidently been in the water for some time; the paper around it had become unstuck from the sides and hung loose in the water beside it. "We must get the paper at all cost, and pray be careful not to tear it," I cried. "Whatever for?" asked Lionel in amazement.
Lumps of Frenchmen, permanently welded together, fell out periodically, unstuck themselves, and departed, only to return in a few moments with the long thin loaves of France and bottles of wine. Sometimes they got in again, sometimes they didn't but they were happy, those poilus. What matter anything, bar killing the Boche? And that was the only thing in the air that night. . . .
"The Swift does this also when he fastens twigs together for a nest. They are glued together into a little openwork basket, and gummed to the wall of the chimney, with a sticky fluid which comes from his own mouth." "I've got a lot of old nests that fell down the chimney after a storm last winter that wet the glue and made them come unstuck," said Joe; "and I'll give you each one.
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