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Livingstone, who partially overheard what he had said, stopped him and asked "where he was going?" Feigning a yawn and rubbing his eyes, John Jr. replied that "he was confounded sleepy and was going to bed." "'Lena, where did he say he was going?" asked her uncle. 'Lena trembled, for John Jr. had clinched his fist, and was shaking it threateningly at her.
Ain't you ashamed to swindle a green little kid out o' the money that he wants to send to his widowed mother?" "Go off and 'tend to your own business, if you know what's good for you," said the larger of the men threateningly. "Keep your spoon out o' other folks' soup. This young man knows what he's about. He kin take care o' himself. He ain't no chicken. You ain't his guardeen."
Your whole valor consists in being able to pin, with a round pin, a tiny little fly to the bottom of a box, but if you find an opponent, like yourself, you draw back before him." "I shall not draw back," said Lorand irritated; and there appeared before his soul all those figures, which, pointing their fingers threateningly, rose before him from the depths of the earth.
Odd as this mode of horticulture may seem to us, it has its exact parallels in Europe. On Christmas Eve many a South Slavonian and Bulgarian peasant swings an axe threateningly against a barren fruit-tree, while another man standing by intercedes for the menaced tree, saying, "Do not cut it down; it will soon bear fruit."
The emptiness left by easy joys, untasted, is ever growing in my life. And the day may come when I shall feel that, could I but have the past back, I would strive no more after the unattainable, but drain to the full these little, unsought, everyday joys which life offers. 27th June 1892. Yesterday, in the afternoon, it clouded over so threateningly, I felt a sense of dread.
I bowed and went towards the door, and was already on the threshold when he called me back once more, and said: 'Remember your parents and their fate! He spoke solemnly, almost threateningly, but he said no more and hastily turned his back on me. What could he mean to convey by this warning? Every day and every hour I think of my father and mother, and keep Irene in mind of them."
She went on like this for a long time, sometimes saying it in to herself, sometimes out loud. All at once she got such a fright that she gave a loud scream. Beret was kneeling up in bed looking at her; her sparkling eyes, hot face, and short breathing showing a terrible state of excitement. "Who is he?" she whispered, almost threateningly.
"Did you hear me?" demanded Bert. "Yes." "Then what's your answer?" "That I heard you, Bert." "You young puppy!" cried Dodge, advancing threateningly. "Don't you address me familiarly." "I don't care anything about addressing you at all," retorted Prescott, flushing slightly under the insult. "At present I can make allowances for you, for I fully understand how anxious you are.
I must have splashed a little in my weakness and excitement, for I plainly perceived the figure of a man hastily leap to his feet, with an oar-blade uplifted threateningly above his head. "Don't strike, Burns!" I managed to cry aloud. "It's Wayland."
The Polish deputies look threateningly upon the bold duke, who dared to enter upon the government of Prussia before he had given his oath of allegiance; the papal nuncio turns his head aside with sorrowful looks, and can not bear to see a heretic, an apostate, invested with authority over a Catholic country.
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