United States or Indonesia ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
The supposition was confirmed within five minutes, when the Italian, leaning over toward the other, in an apparently careless manner, began cautiously inserting his hand into his watch-pocket. The instant Tom saw this, he bent forward and shook the Californian's shoulder so vigorously that he started up, and demanded in a gruff voice what was the matter.
Pleased with a rattle! Then, as if fearing he might be going too far, he smiled that disarming smile of his, and said good-humouredly, 'I know now why you are called a good hostess. 'Why? asked the lady a little anxiously, for his compliments were not always soothing. A motion towards the watch-pocket.
A sword is worn at the left hip: a handkerchief is carried in the right pocket, if at the side; in the left, if in the coat-tails: in either case for the right hand to get at it most easily. A watch-pocket is made in the left breast; a pocket for railway tickets half-way down the right side.
I've no watch-pocket, and you've no watch. So, s'posin' you carry the watch for me, and tell me what time it is when I ax ye? That won't be too much trouble will it?" "Are you in earnest?" asked Frank. "Yes, I be, clean up to the hub. The truth is, I can't carry that watch with any kind o' comfort, and I'm bent on gitt'n' it off my hands, ef I hef to throw it overboard. Here!
I've got the key, and that's all right, too. But when you talk of makin' a watch-pocket for nothin', I tell ye a saint couldn't stand that." Frank, who thought he had learned to know pretty well the man's oddities, was puzzled this time. "I didn't mean to offend you, Tucket." "No, you didn't. And now see here, Manly. We'll jest compromise this matter, ef you've no 'bjection.
The prince put his hand to his watch-pocket. It was empty, and he recognized the watch which the chamberlain held as his own. "Who brought it?" said he, in amazement. "An unknown mask, in an Armenian dress, who disappeared immediately." We stood looking at each other. "What do you think of this?" said the prince at last, after a long silence. "I have a secret guardian here in Venice."
"Things always do seem a long time a-coming when you're longing for them, so to speak, day and night, sir." "Yes, it's quite true that 'a watch-pocket never boils," said Bobbie. "I shall leave off rattling the money-box, and try and forget all about it till Friday."
The Big Doctor frowned at him, and winked too, while he laid his huge white hand on his watch-pocket, tapping with his middle finger on the spot which, as he knew, the average layman dedicated to the heart. He trusted to Larry's quickness, and did not trust in vain. "A sort of heart attack," Aunt Freddy had said.
"With a needle and thread I brought from home, and with another old pocket," said Frank. "Well, you air the cutest! Say, what'll ye tax to make me one? I don't care to hev it very large; a small watch, so." A dry proposal, that. It was not enough to furnish watch and watch-key; but Frank was required also to provide a watch-pocket. "What do ye say?" asked Seth, with a shrewd squint.
In a little pocket, somewhat smaller than a watch-pocket, but occupying pretty nearly the same situation as a watch-pocket on each thigh, there was placed a small box, something like a watch-case, but smaller; into this box was introduced a watch- spring in a wheel, round about which wheel was wound an elastic cord, for regulating the force of which there was a separate contrivance.
Word Of The Day