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"Haven't noticed any, sir." "You had better have your box-respirator ready. It seems to be coming in a cloud down the valley." I dozed off again, but half an hour later the uneasy movements of "Ernest" roused me. I sneezed several times, and felt a burning in the throat. This was undoubtedly gas.
A sea voyage in these parlous days meant but one thing to the people of South America: a visit to an unsentimental land whose traditions, if any were cherished at all, went back no farther than yesterday and were to be succeeded by fresh ones tomorrow. At least, such was the belief of the Latin who still dozed superciliously in the glory of his long-dead ancestors.
The figure in these two phases haunted the lawyer all night; and if at any time he dozed over, it was but to see it glide more stealthily through sleeping houses, or move the more swiftly and still the more swiftly, even to dizziness, through wider labyrinths of lamplighted city, and at every street-corner crush a child and leave her screaming.
"No, but we'll shut him up for a week or so," said Amos. "Move over, Lizzie." "Goodness," exclaimed Lizzie, "I must have dozed off for a minute!" In the laughter that followed, Levine started the car homeward. During the trip, the story was told of Lydia's mishap, Billy and Lydia interpolating each other in the telling.
And when we get to five minutes we are on the descent, rapidly counting our way out of the house, into the fresh air, where we were half an hour back, among those happy beasts in the pleasant Gardens! Mrs. Burman's eyelids shut. 'I said you would come. Victor started to the fire-screen. 'Your sight requires protection. She dozed. 'And Natalia Dreighton! she next said.
Let him have how do you say it in English, it is a Turkish phrase let him have his stomach full of conciliation." Abdul dozed on his cushions for a moment. Then he reopened his eyes. "Is there anything else you want to know," he asked, "before I retire to the Inner Harem?" "Just one thing," I said, "if you don't mind. How do you stand internationally?
And leaning her head against the back of the chair, poor, weary Mistress Brewster closed her eyes, and even dozed, while the three girls busily carried on their tasks, with low-voiced murmurs of talk that rather soothed than disturbed the sleeper.
It was with a contented feeling of having done everything right and of being quite "the little white-haired boy" that I gradually dozed off. Next morning dawned brightly and uneventfully, and we had about an hour's work improving details of our trenches before breakfasts were ready. This was caused by a large party of men mounted with wheeled transport of some sort.
When she brought it, he played for a few minutes, and dozed off still grasping the toy in his hands. At twelve the doctor came, and again at four, when the patch of sunlight, by which she told the hours, had begun to grow fainter on the windowsill. "He is better, doctor, isn't he? Don't you notice that he struggles less when he breathes?"
Its garrison was withdrawing from that place and handing it over to destruction. There was some strange sound in the room. He had dozed in a chair. Some strange sound, or had he imagined it? He sat up tensely and listened. It was her breathing, a harsh and laboured sound. He stepped quickly to the bed and looked and then ran into the passage and called loudly, "Effie! Effie!"
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