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"Yes," it cried, "when that day is the twenty-first of December!" That let pandemonium loose again, wilder, madder than before. A member threw a pamphlet at Uncle Billy. In a moment the air was thick with a Brobdingnagian snow-storm: pamphlets, huge wads of foolscap, bills, books, newspapers, waste-baskets went flying at the grotesque target from every quarter of the room.
Meanwhile, the gun-boats under Admiral Porter were ordered to attempt to run the land batteries, and April 16, 1863, was selected as the date for their perilous mission. Each vessel had been carefully protected by cotton bales, and the crews stood ready with great wads of cotton to stop leaks, while all lights were extinguished except one in the stern of each ship to guide the one that followed.
That is no excuse. Mr. Grile once taught school up in the mountains, and about every half hour had to remove his coat and scrape off the dried paper wads adhering to the nap. He never permitted a trifle like this to unsettle his patience; he just kept on wearing that gaberdine until it had no nap and the wads wouldn't stick.
He took up the package and tore off the wrapping, revealing two wads of banknotes, and ran his finger along the edges. "And how are you going to live?" he asked. "By working," said the girl; "that's a strange way of earning a living, don't you think, colonel?" "You'll never work harder than I have worked," said Colonel Dan Boundary good-humouredly.
You do not mind very much, it is part of the legitimate expense of modern travel. You accumulate great wads of paper. See the people of Vienna and Warsaw, their inside pockets are all misshapen by the bulge of the money. The pockets of an international traveller are worse. He holds his unnegotiable accumulation of the money which is not worth changing nor yet worth throwing away.
The king intimated that he would, whereupon I directed Piet to bring me my rifle, together with the powder horn the belt, with pouch containing bullets, wads, and percussion caps, was already buckled round my waist; and upon receiving the weapon I held it up for His Majesty to look at, keeping it, however, in my own hands. But this did not suit Moshesh at all; he must needs handle it himself.
Gray nodded and smiled queerly as he thanked the nester, then from his pockets he removed several crumpled wads of currency and a handful of silver. These he counted before saying: "What capital I have is entirely liquid it's all in cash. There is eighty-seven dollars and forty-three cents. It is every dollar in the world that I possess." "Huh?"
They were rolled into the flames on a grating, rolled out into iron buckets, hoisted to the gun-deck, and rolled into the guns, which had been prepared with wads of wet hemp. Then the gun would be touched off quickly and the shot sent on its errand of destruction. Leaving the Congress wrapped in sheets of flame, we made for the three other frigates. The St.
It had its lair in Lawyer Keplinger's office, from which it threatened twice yearly to come out and eat up his mother and Ellen and the little house and farm, and required to have its mouth stopped with great wads of interest which took all Peter's laborious days to scrape together.
Laddie took up his position not far away, a little distance down the beach, having with him a pile of paper wads that he was to throw at his brother. "Are you ready?" asked Laddie. "All ready!" answered Russ. "Go ahead and fire!" "Bang! Bang!" shouted Laddie, making believe he was shooting off a gun. The boys often played this game so they knew just how to do it. "Bang! Bang!"
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