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But at the door she paused to look back dubiously, over her shoulder. "What's the matter now?" "The roses. I believe after all I shouldn't have tried that vine effect; I ought to have kept them in water, in the vase. It's so hot, they already begin to look a little wilted, out on the dry tablecloth like that. I believe I'll "
Then he ventured into the heat and glare of Broadway where humanity stewed and wilted. At Thirty-second Street he ran into Burman, with whom he had all but cornered wheat. "You're the man I wanted to see," said Percival. "Hurry and look! I'm melting fast." "Come off on the yacht." "My preserver! I was just going down to the Oriental, but your dug-out wins me hands down.
Ben sat down next to the old lady, and the room, from which the older guests were quietly disappearing, was enthusiastically cleared for dancing. The air, close already, became absolutely insufferable now; the men's collars wilted, the girls' flushed faces streamed perspiration. But the cool side-porch was accessible, and the laughter and noise continued unabated.
Crawford went crazy because of this secret. The only thing they found out about him was that he used to be a sailor." Tired, madam? That is nothing remarkable. So are we, whose faces you see from across the footlights, faces like rows of wilted plants in the gloom of this decrepit theater. We are all very tired. It is Saturday afternoon.
"My gentle Saint Lucia," he said in praise, as he turned from her to the next sister in age. "Cherry, give an account of your wanderings." "I wandered downstairs as far as the library I guess that is what you call it." "And then what?" for she stopped as if her tale were told. "That's all. I stayed there." "Oh!" The President wilted, Mrs.
"Marjory-" And then his brain must have roared with a thousand quick sentences for they came tumbling out, one over the other. Her resistance to the grip of his fingers grew somewhat feeble. Once she raised her eyes in a quick glance at him. Then suddenly she wilted. She surrendered, she confessed without words.
In 1860-65 I saw the grape in a piteous plight: the huge bunches were composed of dwarfed and wilted berries, furred and cobwebbed with the foul mycelium. The produce fell to 100-150 pipes, and at present only some 200 to 300 are exported. The Peninsula and the West African coast take the bulk; England and Germany ranking next, and lastly Spain, which used the import largely in making-up wines.
Stanton extended to the tender touch of her maid a wilted hand, lifted by a stiffened arm, the raising of which pumped a groan from the lady. The white glove which incased the hand and arm was smutched liberally in telltale fashion. "Pull it off, Hibbert! But careful! Don't pull off my fingers unless they are very loose and beyond hope. But hurry! Let me know the worst as soon as possible."
His expression was nearly a grimace; as though he had just swallowed a disagreeable medicine. He pursed his lips and held tight to the lapels of his coat, his piercing yet distressful eyes blinking rapidly behind their glasses with a kind of nervous malice. "Well, my delightful and learned young friends " The class wilted in anticipation.
It took place in the midst of a spell of sultry weather, during which the sun shone day after day with brazen strength and the heat was intense. It was the sort of weather Piers revelled in. It suited his tropical nature. But it affected Avery very differently. All her customary energy wilted before it, and yet she was strangely restless also.
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