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"We have here among us, my friends," says Chadband, "a Gentile and a heathen, a dweller in the tents of Tom-all-Alone's and a mover-on upon the surface of the earth. We have here among us, my friends," and Mr. Chadband, untwisting the point with his dirty thumb-nail, bestows an oily smile on Mr.
"In our armies up in heaven we learn to put a wholesome fear into subordinates." MacIan sat craning his neck forward with an extraordinary and unaccountable eagerness. "Go on!" he cried, twisting and untwisting his long, bony fingers, "go on!" "Besides," continued he, in the prow, "you must allow for a certain high spirit and haughtiness in the superior type."
"Then you suspect he may already be on his way across, and will arrive before you can get there to put in your claim?" asked Tom. "Even allowing that he had no news until this mail got in, Tom, he'd get off a whole lot easier that I'll ever be able to, and so could catch a boat, while I kept untwisting the army red tape. It's a bad job all around, I'm afraid, and bound to make me feel blue."
He related them with no joy or humour or bestial gloating over their obscenities only with a staring eye and his fingers twisting and untwisting on the table-cloth. At last Peter, his head hanging, his cheeks flaming, crept to his attic. At breakfast his father was again that other man stern, immovable, a rock-where was that trembling shadow of the night before? And Mrs.
And in the way of making ropes from sand, it must be owned there never was such twisting and untwisting, as that appointed Hanbury. She is affected with spitting of blood, shortness of breath, constant coughing, swelled legs and water on the chest; yet she danced a minuet with me," lucky Hanbury. "There is great fermentation at Court.
The voices, as they mixed in their several parts, and ran through them, untwisting and again entwining all the links of the merry old catch, seemed to have a little touch of the bacchanalian spirit which they celebrated, and showed plainly that the musicians were engaged in the same joyous revel as the MENYIE of old Sir Thom o' Lyne.
She watched him, twisting and knotting and untwisting her gloves. "When did this thing come?" asked John, a slight tremor in his tone. "This morning," Mrs. Jack answered, her voice choking. "Why did you not bring it to me?" he asked. "Why did you take it to Dick? You and he should not come to me; on the contrary, you and I should have gone to him. But never mind now.
The sight of his own flag had reminded Clay that the banner of Mendoza still hung from the mast beside which he was standing, and as the officer approached he was busily engaged in untwisting its halyards and pulling it down. The lieutenant saluted him doubtfully. "Can you tell me who is in command here?" he asked.
His penetrating eye detected the materials for a coverlet in the strips of painted canvas nailed to the deck. He managed without tools to tear off some pieces, and, by untwisting some tarred rope, to fasten them together; thus providing a quilt, which, if not comfortable, was at least waterproof, and served to draw over us when a shower came on.
"Yes, I recollect," said Dick, tying a knot to keep the hairs from untwisting; "and father said he ought to have been ashamed of himself, for agate was good old Saxon, and so were all the words our people use down here in the fen. I say, what are they talking about now?"
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