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Captain Jemmy, taking up three bottles one after another and finding them all empty, ordered up three more, and drew his chair up to the hearth, where he sat kicking the oaken logs viciously with his long legs. The little hunchback stared out on the falling night, rang for candles, and began to pace the room like a caged beast. Before midnight Captain Runacles was drunk.
Ride out with the caged hosseny on a thoroughbred camel or thoroughbred horse, take with you a couple of greyhounds and a dog or so from Billi, get right off the tourist track and let the red rascal out, and see if you don't have some fun before breakfast. Only get off the tourist track, else you will have all the bazaar camels and ponies loping along behind you.
Why had he wantoned on his glittering plumage amidst these harsh and ungenial strangers, dazzling the eyes with his gorgeous hues, charming the ear with his blithesome song thus suddenly to be arrested caged in darkness a victim and a prey his gay flights for ever over his hymns of gladness for ever stilled!
"I don't mean to say country women ain't handsum here, 'cause they be. There is no sun here; and how in natur' can it be otherways than that they have good complexions. But it tante safe to be caged with them in a house out o' town.
"Shall I show you some of my pets? You may not have another opportunity." "I do not understand birds." "Will you not look at the new one caught only to-day?" "Ah, the aristocrat! I had forgotten her. Where is she caged?" "Yonder, a small cage, and with three others not of her breed. She does not sing, citizen, she scolds.
Unbroken ice thickens most quickly. However, when Thayer, after a half-hour of platitudes, went down the steps, Beatrix, locked into her own room, paced the floor, to and fro, to and fro again, like a caged panther, while Thayer walked the streets until time to dress for the stage, and then sang the part of Valentine with a furious madness of despair which merely added another stiff little leaf to his garland of fame.
It was late in the second afternoon when he stepped from the train at Jersey City, to be engulfed in an unimagined roar and congestion. Here, it was impossible to hold his own against the unconcealed laughter of the many, and he stood for an instant glaring about like a caged tiger, while three currents of humanity separated and flowed toward the three ferry exits.
On your ship I could live as forgotten by the world as though I were dead.... And if my presence annoys you, take me far away from France, leave me in some distant country!" She was anxious to evade isolation in the enemy's territory, obliged to obey her superiors like a caged beast who has to take jabs through the iron grating. Presentiment of her approaching death was making her tremble.
'Windy talk, that! he said. Colonel Halkett seated himself. Stukely Culbrett turned a sheet of manuscript he was reading. Beauchamp began a caged lion's walk on the rug under the mantelpiece. 'I shall not spare you from hearing what I think of it, sir. 'We 've had what you think of it twice over, said Mr. Romfrey.
Or would they carry in screaming headlines the announcement that the Gray Seal was caged and caught at last, and in three-inch type tell the world that the Gray Seal was Jimmie Dale! A block down, he turned from Broadway out of the theatre crowds that streamed in both directions past him. The letter!
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