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Updated: June 1, 2025
Beside the couch, between it and the dais, Milo had set the treasure-chests, leaving the lids wide-flung, the contents but thinly concealed by silken shawls.
Yet he could not even resent the superintendent's gesture, wide-flung and arrogant to all beholders. Again the superintendent looked to have the right of it. He clicked to Girl o' Mine and she came to him, out of the way, like an obedient puppy. And then began the performance for the benefit of the car windows, and which the car windows enjoyed.
"I'm double-crossed," said John Flint, soberly and sadly, "Anyway I look at it " he swept the horizon with a wide-flung gesture, "it's bugs for mine. I began by grannying bugs for him," he tossed his head bull-like in my direction, "and I stand around swallowing hot air from you " He glared at Laurence, "and what's the result? Why, that I've got bugs in the bean, that's what!
For a moment his pale, expressionless face was transformed, his secret was at any one's mercy. That, however, was the affair of an instant only. He was used to shocks and he survived this one. He moved a little on one side from his prominent place in the centre of the wide-flung doorway. He stood by one of the divans and watched. She was tall and fair and slight.
Then abruptly, moving with a quick, light tread that made no sound, he crossed the room to one of the wide-flung windows and stopped there. From across the quiet garden there came the strains of "The Blue Danube," fitful, alluring, plaintive that waltz to which countless lovers have danced and wooed and whispered through the years.
"Gosh!" muttered the man as he turned away. "There's nothin' doin'-but it did give me a start!" On the bed the woman smiled grimly but the man did not see it. It was snowing hard when Jim got back from town Tuesday night. He came blustering into the kitchen with stamping feet and wide-flung arms, scattering the powdery whiteness in all directions. "Whew!
"Shut up that ungodly racket!" snapped Kirby, entering his tent and lighting his lamp, as the first piercing notes of the traditional mourner chant exploded through the unhappy Najib's wide-flung jaws. "Shut up! You'll start every hyena and jackal in the mountains to howling! It's bad enough as it is without adding a native concert to the rest of the mess." "But, howadji!" pleaded Najib.
No good sticking to the awlicular if you've anything of the embraceshunist in you. He embraced his own ample bosom with wide-flung arms, as a London cabman might on a frosty morning. 'Man is naturally multivorous when he's not a vegetable. Howjerliketerworkferme? 'Very much indeed, said I, rising sharply to the spur. 'H'm!
"Next year," suggested Mordaunt, without turning his head. "Perhaps," she said, a little dubiously. Bertrand said nothing. He was looking out to the wide horizon with a far look in his eyes, almost as though he saw beyond that sparkling sky-line, even beyond the sea itself. The strains of the military band from Sandacre reached them as they turned in at the wide-flung gates.
He found himself presently back in the cool and pleasantly austere surroundings of his sitting room and threw himself into an easy-chair drawn up in front of the wide-flung windows. A strong breeze, against which a flight of seagulls leaned, was stirring the trees in the Embankment Gardens and ruffling the surface of the water.
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