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But seven men are more apt to be surprised." "Two ag'in' three ain't such bad odds, pal. But the first gun that pops, we'll have the whole town on our backs." "Then we'll have to do it without shooting. You understand, Denver?" Denver scratched his head. Plainly he was uneasy; plainly, also, he was more and more fascinated by the idea.
The Philosophy of Pie-Crust: Pie-crust perfection depends on several things good flour, good fat, good handling, most especially good baking. A hot oven, quick but not scorching, expands the air betwixt layers of paste, and pops open the flour-grains, making them absorb the fat as it melts, thereby growing crisp and relishful instead of hard and tough.
With the wind where it is, hounds are bound to push anything that's in front of them up to the high ground." As soon as Dale went to order his gig the clumsy facetiousness was renewed. "'Tes a pity you ben't a hound yersel, Mr. Allen." "Ah," said Veale, "if the wood pucks cud transform him on to all fours, what a farder he'd mek to th' next litter o' pops at the Kennels."
"Da is jes like apples in a tub yo' shoves 'em under, an' up da pops, bright as eber." And the owner of Putnam Hall laughingly agreed with Alexander. "I trust that you will never be troubled by Dan Baxter again," said Dora Stanhope to Dick, after he had told her the story of the treasure hunt. "I trust so myself," replied Dick. "But he's like a bad cent, sure to turn up when not wanted."
'Nikolai Eremyitch, mistress wants you. 'Who's with the mistress? he asked the page. 'Aksinya Nikitishna, and a merchant from Venev. 'I'll be there this minute. And you, mates, he continued in a persuasive voice, 'better move off out of here with the newly-appointed stoker; if the German pops in, he'll make a complaint for certain.
I tell him I can get on without a guide. "But I would go on the most reasonable terms. I would go for as low as ten pounds a month and my expenses." "Would you go for nothing?" Bunker wakes up and pops this out at him so suddenly as to quite take his breath away. He expands his hands at his trousers pockets, shrugs his shoulders and looks volumes of reproach.
Dick started toward the trail leading homeward, but Bill checked him, with a slow: "Hold on a minute." The younger man turned back, and waited for him to speak. "I'd kind of like to go down to the High Light for a while," the big man said awkwardly. "We ought to go round there and see Mrs. Meredith, and patronize her as far as a few soda pops, and such go, hadn't we?
A mattock cannot be struck against the most mouldering tumble-down tower but out pops, from some cranny or loophole, the gray pate of some superannuated hanger-on, who has lived at John's expense all his life, and makes the most grievous outcry at their pulling down the roof from over the head of a worn-out servant of the family.
"The funniest thing! They all kept up till half an hour ago. Then it got rougher and rougher and now they're all three laid out. Poor Moms says it's the smell of the rubber matting, and Granny says she had too many of those perfectly whiffy old cigarettes, and Pops says he's plain seasick. Serves 'em rippingly well right taggers!"
Why, in came my Lord Admiral's players from London town, ruffling it like high dukes, and not caring two pops for Sir Thomas, or Sir Edward, or for Stratford burgesses all in a heap; but sat them down at the table straightway, and called for ale, as if they owned the place; and not being served as soon as they desired, they laid hands upon Sir Thomas's server as he came in from the buttery with his tray full, and took both meat and drink."
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