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Ayoub obeyed him in fearful alacrity, whereupon Sakr-el-Bahr released his hold and allowed the unfortunate fellow to rise at last, half-choked with dirt, livid of face, and quaking like a jelly, an object of ridicule and cruel mockery to all assembled. "Now get thee hence, ere my sea-hawks lay their talons on thee. Go!"
The half-choked man, ever prone to talking, had no reason for concealing from Caesar what he had seen with his own eyes, and had subsequently heard in the Serapeum and at the table of Polybius.
"What I am trying to say is this. It's easier or at least not impossible to forfeit what you've never had. But afterwards afterwards " His hands closed tightly upon hers again; his voice sounded half-choked. "Avery, I couldn't let you go afterwards," he said. "But, my own Piers," she whispered, "haven't you said that there is no reason no earthly reason " He broke in upon her almost fiercely.
The moose's blind rage threatened to be his own undoing. While he was fighting an imaginary danger, ears and nostrils half-choked by fury, through the calm night Herb Heal, Winchester in hand, had crept noiselessly on, till he reached the very trees which sheltered his friends. Once, twice, three times the rifle snapped. The first shot missed altogether.
It was too apparent. The next day Aunt Mary slept until noon, and then opened her eyes and simultaneously declared: "Next summer I’m goin’ to have an automobile!" Then she looked about and saw that she had addressed the air, which made her more mad than ever. She rang her bell violently, and Arethusa left the lunch table so hastily that she reached the bedroom half-choked.
They just hoak out with a stick or a bit of board what they require for that day's food, picking the large ones and leaving the small ones in the ground. Oats or something else will be seen half-choked with weeds and the growth from the potatoes so left. The slovenliness of these people is most exasperating. Of course they are all Home Rulers in effect, though not in theory.
There was naught of debility, either of body or of mind, to be read in that figure, and with his fears on that particular point set at rest, for the time being, Professor Featherwit called out, distinctly: "Is it all well with you, my good friend? Can you hold fast until the shore is reached, think?" "Heaven bless you, yes!" came the reply, in half-choked tones. "If I fail in giving thanks "
The half-choked man, ever prone to talking, had no reason for concealing from Caesar what he had seen with his own eyes, and had subsequently heard in the Serapeum and at the table of Polybius.
He turned a white, scared face with fear-dilated eyes upward, and said in a half-choked voice: "What's the matter? If what you say's true, give me eternal life, and I'll give it to Science." "My young friend," said Phadrig, with a slow shake of his head, "you are grievously mistaken. You have eternal life already.
Nick had a warm place in his heart for one so timid and distressed as this girl appeared, and he bowed very kindly. "What can I do for you? You appear to be in trouble." "I am in trouble terrible trouble, sir," cried the girl, with a half-choked sob. "Oh, Mr. Carter, I come to you in despair, a girl without friends or advisers, and who knows not whither to turn.
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