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The muttering of the thunder grew louder, and at times a particularly loud crash told that a bolt had struck somewhere in the vicinity of the cave. "But, bless my watch-charm!" exclaimed Mr. Damon, "I didn't know lightning made diamonds." "It does not always," went on the scientist. "But great heat and pressure are necessary to create the gems.
Familiar as I was with my friend's methods, it was not difficult for me to follow his deductions, and to observe the untidiness of attire, the sheaf of legal papers, the watch-charm, and the breathing which had prompted them. Our client, however, stared in amazement. "Yes, I am all that, Mr. Holmes, and in addition I am the most unfortunate man at this moment in London.
Such things are not local to California. California is in the limelight just now and such things are naturally prominent." "It looks awful bad for good fruit and vegetables and fish to be thrown away when folks have to pay ten cents for a loaf of bread no bigger than a watch-charm," said Collie. "It is bad. Crookedness in real estate transactions is bad.
Hump Doane and Jim Rowlett were there, and Aaron Capper and Lincoln Thornton a handful who could speak with the voice of public opinion thereabouts, and while he carved industriously at his watch-charm basket, Parish Thornton glanced at the cripple. "Mr. Doane," he said, "once, standin' on this identical spot, ye asked me a question thet I refused ter answer.
On the cross is his new number; for officially a "Zoner" is always a number; that of the brass-check he wears as a watch-charm alive, that at the head of his grave when his canal-digging is over.
Her room was at the head of the stairs, an' she had a rope goin' over the transom with a bell hangin' to it, close in front of my door. The bell was to be my signal if she heard the Chink attack before I did. Just before she went upstairs she reached into the bosom of her dress an' fished out a real revolver, about the size of a watch-charm.
Crewe approached the desk with that genial and brisk manner for which he was noted and held out his hand to the railroad president. "We are both business men, and both punctual, Mr. Flint," he said, and sat down in the empty chair beside his host, eyeing without particular favour him of the watch-charm, whose cigar was not a very good one.
Crewe approached the desk with that genial and brisk manner for which he was noted and held out his hand to the railroad president. "We are both business men, and both punctual, Mr. Flint," he said, and sat down in the empty chair beside his host, eyeing without particular favour him of the watch-charm, whose cigar was not a very good one.
Jake bought everything the newsboys offered him: candy, oranges, brass collar buttons, a watch-charm, and for me a 'Life of Jesse James, which I remember as one of the most satisfactory books I have ever read.
'But th' sisymoid bone is sometimes seen in th' fut, sometimes worn as a watch-charm.
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