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Updated: June 17, 2025
"Davey! David Rand!" "Perhaps so, Capitao. I do not know. But he spoke English." "By thunder! David Rand! Merry, where's that picture?" Knowlton was already unbuttoning his pocket flap. Quickly he produced the photograph. "That the fellow?" Lourenço studied the face. The eagerly anticipated affirmative did not come. "I cannot say surely.
Howbeit thou'rt my comrade sworn and brother-in-arms and as such I shall trust thee to the death, Martin." "And shall find me worthy, Adam despite thy curst tongue." "Death is an ill thing, Martin!" "Is it?" says I, and laughed. "Aye," he nodded, "an ill thing to him that hath ambitions above the brute. See here!" Unbuttoning his doublet he showed me a shirt of fine chain-mail beneath his linen.
"I'm not sure; after, I think. Yes, it was after; for I remember that I had a deuce of a time unbuttoning my coat to get at my trousers' pocket." "You dropped this key into your trousers' pocket?" "I did." "Mr. Cumberland, let me ask you to fix your memory on the moments you spent in the hall. Did you put on your hat before you pocketed the key, or afterwards?" "My hat? How can I tell?
Unbuttoning his overcoat, he took from an inside pocket, the torn half of a large envelope, and unlocking the drawer of his desk, hunted for a similar fragment. Spreading them out before him, he fitted the zigzag edges with great nicety, and there lay the well-known superscription: "Last Will and Testament of Robert Luke Darrington."
All buttoned-up men are weighty. All buttoned-up men are believed in. Whether or no the reserved and never-exercised power of unbuttoning, fascinates mankind; whether or no wisdom is supposed to condense and augment when buttoned up, and to evaporate when unbuttoned; it is certain that the man to whom importance is accorded is the buttoned-up man.
hae other things to do wi' them up yonder unbuttoning them to make room for the beef and the bag-puddings, and the claret-wine, nae doubt that's the ordinary for evening lecture on this side the border." "There's no such plenty of good cheer in your country, my good friend," I replied, "as to tempt you to sit so late at it."
A drop of brandy will do us no end of good." Unbuttoning his leather surtout, he produced a flask from an inner pocket, filled its metal cup, and offered it to the girl. "You first, if you please, Miss Shannon. No I insist. You positively need it." She allowed herself to be persuaded, drank, coughed, gasped, and returned the cup, which Wertheimer promptly refilled and passed to Lanyard.
Again he knocked, and Green, unbuttoning his greatcoat, flung it off and laid it across his arm. He could drop it easily in case of an emergency. Still there was no answer to the knock. "Luckily I swore out a search warrant," muttered Foyle, and searched in his own pockets for something. It was a jemmy of finely tempered steel gracefully curved at one end.
"That hurt you?" said Dick, after unbuttoning the uniform and taking out the carefully folded handkerchief just as Mrs Corporal Beane had brought it to him from the wash. "Yes, but not very much," said the Colonel. "Go on, it will be cool and refreshing."
It bent its head and sniffed wonderingly at that which had once been its master. There was a singular, scared look in its eyes. Steinmetz pushed aside the enquiring muzzle. "If you could speak, my friend," he said, "we might want you. As it is, you had better continue your meal." Paul was unbuttoning the dead man's clothes. He inserted his hand within the rough shirt.
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