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Updated: May 15, 2025
She did not dream that she had got the whole thing upside-down; that if the Governor was a social pariah he himself was no whit better, and had thrown himself upon the Governor's mercy. "I shall do what I can," he said. "You can see that I am very fond of him; he has been enormously kind to me."
The names of two of the friends of Mr. FitzHerbert are, Mr. Bassett and Mr. Fenton. The names " "Bah!" "You are playing with us " "The names," murmured the priest slowly, "of two of Mr. Fenton's friends are Mr. FitzHerbert and " A face, upside-down, thrust itself suddenly almost into his. He could feel the hot breath on his forehead. "See here, Mr. Alban. You are fooling us.
She was 'possessed, as of old, with a sort of devilish 'secondary personality. She probably wrote treatises left-handed and upside-down. They often begin that way. The mother, lately bereaved, was convinced of her daughter's occult powers. She nursed the delusion, formed a circle, sat in the darkness, petting the girl when things happened, mourning when the walls were silent and there you are!
"Yes; but isn't it splendid of them to set off and come all that way, just because I asked them? By Jove, we must look sharp and get the place smartened up a bit." And sure enough the whole place was soon turned upside-down cartloads of sand coming in for the garden walks and the courtyard, and painters hard at work repainting the houses.
'It's as much of me as is left, sir, after a fortnight of this work, Mr Tapley replied, 'What with leading the life of a fly, ever since I've been aboard for I've been perpetually holding-on to something or other in a upside-down position what with that, sir, and putting a very little into myself, and taking a good deal out of myself, there an't too much of me to swear by.
True, the man at the radar screens was upside-down with reference to himself, and Sanford had hooked a knee negligently around the arm of a firmly anchored chair with his body at right angles to Joe's own, but at least Joe knew where he was and what he was to do. "Go ahead and report," said Sanford sardonically.
I feel like Alice in Wonderland or some other upside-down world. We live in much discomfort, which is a little unnecessary; but no one seems to want to undertake housekeeping. I make soup all day, and there is not much else to write about. All along the Yser the Allies and the Germans confront each other, but things have been quieter lately.
Fortunately the Indian failed to interpret an upside-down smile, particularly with the moustache, as it were, below instead of above the mouth, and a cigarette in the lips. It was too complicated. "And were you obliged to buy and wear a pair of these spectacles, Tiger?" asked Pedro, after a few silent puffs.
Tom, peering anxiously into the obscure, could make out nothing but a policeman, a foot-guardsman with a clothes-basket, and a drunken slattern carrying her baby upside-down. He was growing anxious. Big Ben's booming tones had already warned him it was a quarter past eight, when, suddenly, so close to him he could almost touch it, loomed the figure of a woman.
Pretending not to have seen the officer, Cadet Kelton drew in his breath with a sharp whistle. It was not loud, but it was penetrating, and it carried the warning. Swift as a flash Prescott caught upside-down Mr. Ellis, and fairly rolled him out under the canvas edge at the back of the tent. Greg instantly shoved the prostrate Mr. Briggs through by the same exit.
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