Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Quenrede laughingly assured her. "I shall have to marry a rich man and get my things from London." "It will probably be the other way," declared Mother. "Stand still, Queenie, I can't measure properly if you will dance about!" Though she was ready with a joke, as a matter of fact Quenrede was having a severe struggle not to be snappy.
"Will you come again?" asked the flowers; "there are many more that have stories to tell." "I shall be glad to hear them," said Martha, "for I had no idea that flowers could tell such interesting stories." Not that he is old now, for Jack is a snappy, bright fellow, and will never really grow old that is, in anything but experience.
Other neighbors were continually running in to see Mercy, or to bring something for the invalid. At first, in her old, snappy, snarly way, Mercy would say: "Old cat! just wanted to see how humpy and mean I look. Thought I was as ugly as a bullfrog, I s'pose. I know what they're after!"
If you hate my horse I vote we go no farther!" "What a cross man!" I said to myself, seeing him flushed and snappy; but a ringing "Halloa!" brought our deliberations to an abrupt end. Havoc and I shot down the road, passing the blustering field; and, hopping over a gap, we found ourselves close to the hounds, who were running hell-for-leather towards a handsome country seat perched upon a hill.
Back went a snappy reply: Everything is under control; each new report is being thoroughly analyzed by our experts; our vast files of reports are in tiptop shape; and in general things are hunky-dunky. All UFO reports are hoaxes, hallucinations, and the misidentification of known objects. Another wire from Washington: Fine, Mr. Bob Ginna of Life is leaving for Dayton.
She must have slipped in while we were sound asleep, and oh, I don't wonder we slept after that dance, do you?" rattled on Polly, scrambling around to close the window and turn on the steam, for the morning was a snappy one. "Whow! Ooo!" yawned Peggy, to whom late hours were a novelty and who felt as though she had dropped asleep only ten minutes before.
If they have not some poor lad to bring to worship, or to scorn, they have no heart to help their hands; and the work is done silent and snappy. They are wishing they were at home, and could get their straight, yellow hair on to crimping pins, because Laurie or Johnny would be coming to see them, it being Saturday night." "Then the Bishop thought your niece would be more reverent?"
And when he reached home, he hid under the big leaves of the rhubarb plants in the garden just the other side of the fence from the watering trough. Here he stayed until the doctor had driven off on his afternoon round of visits to his patients, and everyone else on the place was taking a nap. Then he barked three quick, snappy barks for Tabby, but she did not come. He barked again.
You are to do everything in your power to retard the enemy advance, harass their troops, and especially harass their advanced positions and lines of supply. Do you understand?" "Perfectly, sir." "Good! Take off at once! I will at once get out all other available ships and lead them against the lines at Chateau-Thierry. You've the head start, and must, therefore, take Dormans. Snappy, now!"
The crowd, crushed in the corridor, caught the cry and passed it along. "Coquenil! Coquenil!" The down in the courtyard it sounded, and out into the street, where a group of students started the old snappy refrain: "Oh, oh! Il nous faut-o! Beau, beau! Beau Cocono-o!" In vain the judge thundered admonitions and the clerk shouted for order.
Word Of The Day