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With the stopping of the motor she was falling like some wobbly balloon, swaying hither and thither in the ether currents. But Professor Roumann was not one to give up easily. He kept at his task, aided occasionally by Professor Henderson and by the boys whenever they could do anything. Finally the German cried out: "Ah, I have discovered the trouble. It is that scoundrel Axtell! See!"
But I did not leave her side, knowing exactly what had happened. We had snapped our mainsheet, that was all; letting the boom swing out and putting us in the trough of the waves where we might expect a few wobbly minutes until the sailors could work in a new line. There was no danger and I reassured her at once, but she merely asked: "Was my father on deck?"
It is the greatest wonder to me that we were not all shot on the spot when we stood there staring up, as one very young lieutenant descended three steps at a time with a revolver in one wobbly hand which was shaking like an aspen leaf, and a pair of field glasses in the other. I think the sudden excitement may have unnerved him and there is no doubt, this time, that the gods favored the innocent.
She will think you are a great blue bird ready to fly out and meet her." "I wish I were a gull. I'd fly right to her dear shoulder and peck her cheek. But are you sure I'm not too heavy, Karl? This thing is wobbly and I lean on you awfully for such a fat lady as I am." "I can endure it! I say, Hannah, now she is so nearly here, I'm beginning to get excited myself. Die niedliche Kleine!
"Well," remarked Mr. Grigsby, when the hotel man alertly left, "I've been in worse quarters." "Don't bump your head," warned Mr. Adams. It was a dormer room. The ceiling, of bare rafters, sloped sharply. The walls also were bare, made of unsurfaced boards, warped and cracked. There were two "beds": one a low bunk, home-made and solid but not pretty, the other a wobbly canvas cot.
He wrote the prettiest set of verses To Drusilla in June just dashed them off while he was watching her sketch Cooper's Bluff from the southwest " "He is really quite wonderful," added Drusilla, sincerely, "and so generous and helpful when my drawing becomes weak and wobbly " "Mr.
"There, my dear," concluded Straws, "those feet are pretty wobbly to walk, but flattery moves on lame legs faster than truth will travel on two good ones. Besides, I haven't time to polish them properly, or the mess in the frying-pan will spoil. Better spoil the poem than the contents of the flesh pots! Now if dear me, Celestina, if you haven't let the coffee pot boil over!"
John Colver was in the neighborhood, and wanted to know if Carpenter would meet him. "Who is John Colver?" asked the prophet. And it was explained that this was a dangerous agitator, now under sentence of twenty years in jail, but out on bail pending the appeal of his case to the supreme court. Colver was a "wobbly," well known as one of their poets.
It's always good to have something to lean aginst. Since John died Empty's the only thing I've got to lean aginst, though I must say he's mighty wobbly at times." Douglas followed Mrs. Dempster into the little bedroom off the kitchen where the invalid girl was lying.
At daybreak Peter Ferrara came to the house. "How are you?" he asked. "Sore. Wobbly." MacRae had tried his legs and found them wanting. "It was a bad night all round, eh, lad?" Peter rumbled in his rough old voice. "Some of the boys got a line on the Blackbird and hauled what was left of her around into the Cove. But she's a ruin. The engine went to pieces while she was poundin' on the rocks.
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