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I cried, excitedly, for the wires were dangerously near. "I'm doing my best, Griggs," grunted the inventor, twisting this wheel and pulling that lever. "Don't worry, we'll sail over them all right. We'll just pshaw!" With a gentle, swaying kind of bump, the auto stopped. We had grounded, so to speak, on the telegraph wires. "That's the end of this trial trip!" I remarked, caustically.
Then another bump, and then still one more! We were fast! Were we really to be saved at the very last minute? It began to look like it, like the beginning of the end, but it would not do to build too much on this slender foundation. The engines continued working, but no progress was made; they were reversed still no movement.
"I tell you I'm all right, father," said the poor boy, on recovering from the state of insensibility into which his fall had thrown him. "But you're covered from head to foot with blood," exclaimed the anxious father, examining him all over, "though I can't find a cut of any sort about you only one or two bruises." "You'll find a bump on the top of my head, father, the size of a cocoa-nut.
A brilliant October morning was just breaking when a final bump of the train ended the none too musical snoring of Slim Goodwin and he came to a sitting posture, his first yawn almost instantly to give way to an exclamation of surprise. It was strange scenery he was gazing upon, and for the moment he had forgotten where he was.
Her state of nervous expectancy on the second day was shown when the inevitable contingent of English officers arrived a little before dinner; for as they appeared without previous warning in the parlour door, Janice gave a scream, which startled Philemon, who was relying upon but two legs of his chair, into a pitch over backward, and brought the squire's gouty foot to the floor with a bump and a wail of pain.
Zeke and his mate took in the oars. The wanigan shot forward below the gate WHACK! BUMP! BANG! and the scow stopped so suddenly that its four men plunged forward in a miscellaneous heap, while Zeke narrowly escaped going overboard. Almost immediately the water, backed up behind the stern, began to overflow into the boat.
Their great milky-white bodies would come heaving along and bump against me, giving a very "crawly" sensation. The circle of short tentacles and the four horse-shoe-shaped ovaries distinguish this jelly-fish from all others.
He heard confusedly the droning of insects, and the distant mournful call of a whip-poor-will. The roar of the car was strangely missing. What had become of it? And where was Arima? These were the first questions he asked himself as he became able to think without confusion. He now became aware that his head hurt, and raising his hand, he found a large bump under the hair above his right temple.
A winding staircase designed upon hygienic principles, to bump your head at intervals, takes one to a little iron gallery full of the most charming and varied display of cooking-stoves and oil-lamps.
I had to bump Fatty a bit makin' the catch; but when he sees what the game is, he comes back with the friendly grin. "There!" says Vee, tintin' up. "Now behave." "Sorry," says I, "but I had to field my position, didn't I? Once more, now." "Certainly not," says Vee. "Besides, there goes the curtain." And if it hadn't been for interruptions like that we might have had a perfectly good time.
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