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And I detected him wringing his hands stealthily. "But what sort of siege could it be? Without any need for me to repeat my friend Pajol's message, he dared not cut the water off from the besieged. They had plenty of meat. And, indeed, if they had been short he would have been too anxious to send food into the stockade had he been able.
Brailsford, in his very interesting book on "The War of Steel and Gold," and by other writers, to show that our diplomacy is the tool of international finance, and that the forces created by British taxpayers for the defence of their country's honour, are used for the sordid purpose of wringing interest for a set of money-grubbers in the City, out of a poor and down-trodden peasantry overburdened by the exactions and extortions of their rulers.
I easily found, by the frowning looks directed towards me by the three gentlemen present, that I had been guilty of great imprudence in saying so much; but Cabert, wringing his hands, uttered, with the most despairing accent, "I am lost! and most horribly has the unfortunate woman avenged herself." "What would you insinuate?" "That I am the victim of an enraged woman," replied he.
'If I do not hear from you, I am staying at the Mitre Inn. Mr. Thomasson, I bid you good-night. My lord, your servant. And with that, and though Mr. Thomasson, wringing his hands over what had occurred and the injury to himself that might come of it, attempted some feeble remonstrances, Sir George bowed sternly, took his hat and went down.
I couldn't find my rifle I had hoped for, and only a couple of boxes of revolver cartridges were in my open trunk, that I guessed Marcia had gone through too. I would have felt like wringing her neck, if it had not been for Paulette and Macartney. I had no room for outside emotions till I knew about those two. I slid back to my doorway to get Collins, and he was gone.
"True, my good sir; nevertheless I may venture to say that I know you well, for there's a termagant of an Irish woman down at the camp going about wringing her hands, shouting out your good qualities in the most pathetic tones, and giving nobody a moment's peace because she does not know what has become of you.
Layard; and probably I never shall be. I have my own ideas about matrimony, and the conditions under which I would undertake it are not at all likely ever to be within my reach." Again he implored, for at the time this woman really held his heart, wringing his hands, and, indeed, weeping in the agony of a repulse which was the more dreadful because it was quite unexpected.
But he had yet more to learn. While Captain Spark and Tim Flynn were wringing the water out of their heavier garments Bob replenished the fire and soon had some fish broiling, for he had caught more than he needed. It did not take long to finish the simple meal, and then the captain spoke. "We'd better take a survey of the island," he said, "to see what sort of a place we've landed on.
Dazed, I put my hand to my hair to find it warm and wringing wet. When I had been hit, I knew not. But I shook my head, for the very notion of that cockpit turned my stomach.
Fiddler came roaring into the room ahead of its owner. "By the Lord Harry, it's a cold night Hello! What's this? Liveried servants again? Well, upon my soul, I Ah, there you are, Bingle! How are you, Force?" The next instant he was wringing Mr. Bingle's hand and booming Christmas greetings to every one in hearing and out of it, for that matter, such a voice he had! "Mary?
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