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...gged clods, and sat down on a rust- coated harrow. The cheroot burned with sputterings of salt- petre. They smoked it gingerly, each passing to the ot...

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...: this was the beauty of it in her eyes; and the sight of the black dashes sputtering through the comb filled her with emulation; so that she en- trea...

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... rest, now; for the King’s, inspired by gnawing hunger and the fragrant 114 Mark Twain smells that came from the sputtering pots and pans, turned its...

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...error, who implored him to spare her), fell back in the crowd, crowing and sputtering until he reached a safe distance, when he exploded amongst the a...

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... on my cheek; I look along the dim per- spective of the schoolroom, with a sputtering candle here and there to light up the foggy morning, and the bre... ...on, we fell-to, with our sleeves still tucked up at the wrist, more slices sputtering and blazing on the fire, and our attention di- vided between the...

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...da had come to the house for the night. She helped in putting Hugh to bed, sputtering the while about his soft skin. Then they talked till midnight. W... ...ing-room, wav- ing the most unctuous of black kid gloves and delight- edly sputtering: 388 Main Street “You may well ask how I am! I really do wonder...

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... thing; and imagine an angel suddenly sweeping down out of a better land and setting before him a mighty porterhouse steak an inch and a half thick, h...

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...Tom the word to speak out. T om edged his master out of hearing, and began sputtering a laugh. “Dash’d if I can help it, sir!” he said. “That young To...

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...you whenever you ask me, and then—” More she was saying, but Mr. Pericles, sputtering a laugh of “Sanks!” presented a postured supplication for silenc...

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... and the finale of interlaced ciphers amidst a multitude of little fretful sputtering tongues of flame. Then it was, amid good nights, donning of shaw...

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...ator; but the fog usurper, justifiably impaled by darkened tree limbs, was sputtering and splattering as though wounded and bleeding. She did sense ...

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...over which he had no control and for which he hadn't asked. Kelly woke now sputtering like a drowning man breaking the surface one last time before hi...

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...countenance, and the dignity of his demeanour. I sucked also, but I made a sputtering noise, and must confess that I did not enjoy it. The smoke curle...

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...n silence, the house quaking overhead, the tempest howling without, the fire between us sputtering with raindrops. Our thoughts were far away with the...

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...ing patient may go downstairs; up which John lurks to bed, yawning, with a sputtering tallow candle, and to gather up before sunrise the boots which a...

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...- ing your way through a stone wall. Consequently, that new light had gone sputtering out. But, the airing of the old facts had led some one concerned...

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..., however, gathered round the fire- place, as was a saucepan over a feeble sputtering fire. There was a bit of cheese and bread, and a tin candlestick...

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...e rapid way, And Pallas, not Ulysses, won the day.” Thus sourly wail’d he, sputtering dirt and gore; A burst of laughter echoed through the shore. Ant...

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... purpose to fling it through the window; at the same time blub- bering and sputtering with wrath. A man—one of two who happened to be passing by—caugh...

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...e field of battle with- out risk of life would be destroyed. CHAPTER XVI A SPUTTERING OF MUSKETRY was always to be heard. Later, the cannon had entere...

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...back while he poured the burning liquid through her open lips. Gasping and sputtering, she clawed at him, but he would not relent. When the glass ... ...now, Burke?” Burke, the taciturn captain and owner of the boat, killed the sputtering engine. “It appears we ain’t to be invited up for tea,” he m...

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... or two. The friend of my heart is the farmer who rides, but rides without sputtering; who never makes a show of it, but still is always there; who fe... ... And though, when the hounds are first dashing out of covert, and when the sputtering is beginning and the eager impetu- osity of the young is driving...

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...ont room with a wretched light that seemed to have been crying too and was sputtering out, and I says “Now my dear, tell me all,” and she wrings her h...

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...t. It seemed to me that from his long fingers two quivering flames issued, sputtering, as it were, which penetrated me, and forced me back into one of...

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...(arme blanche), by sword-cutlery? The wheels of Langres scream, amid their sputtering fire halo; grinding mere swords. The stithies of Charleville rin... ... But mutiny in a Robespierre Con- vention, above all,—it is like fire seen sputtering in the ship’s powder-room! One death-defiant plunge at it, this ...

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... pickets were meanwhile within musket range; there was maintained a steady sputtering of shots; and yet a party of Tamasese women were here on a visit...

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...Salters between the shoulders, and drenched him from head to foot. He rose sputtering, and went forward only to catch another. “See Dad chase him all ...

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..., however, gathered round the fire- place, as was a saucepan over a feeble sputtering fire. There was a bit of cheese and bread, and a tin candlestick... ...error, who implored him to spare her), fell back in the crowd, crowing and sputtering until he reached a safe distance, when he exploded amongst the a... ...ing patient may go downstairs; up which John lurks to bed, yawning, with a sputtering tallow candle, and to gather up before sunrise the boots which a...

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...its all-developing fury, we find some Three. Mortals driven rabid we find; sputtering the acridest logic; baring their breast to the battle-hail, thei...

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...y. From this last alternating flicker of rationality, the miser fell back, sputtering, into his previous gibberish, but it took now an arithmetical tu...

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... going to guess, at five o’clock in the morning, with my brains frying and sputtering in my head. if you A Tale of Two Cities – Dickens 126 want me t...

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...recognised, and sat staring at her fire, unobserved. Attracted by a louder sputtering than usual, as the rain came 489 Charles Dickens hissing down t...

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...ch a glanc- ing of lights, such a whispering of voices, such a smoking and sputtering of wood newly lighted in a damp chimney, such an air- ing of lin...

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...h” which turns out to bear the stamp of monomania, leaving them helplessly sputtering, desperate to speak out but unable to. Winesburg, Ohio registers... ...ived long enough to be- come a grotesque. Hesitantly, fearfully, or with a sputtering incoherent rage, they approach him, pleading that he listen to t... ...f defeat settled upon him and he wanted to weep. After the hours of futile sputtering at nothingness that had occupied the afternoon and his failure i...

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...ce? or fiend? Man was it who marred heaven’s image in thee thus?’ Then, sputtering through the hedge of splintered teeth, Yet strangers to the tong...

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... the ox. And he stood holding in his hand the horn of the ox of the field, sputtering away the filth, and spake among the Argives: “Out on it, it was ...

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...y task, Know not the storm sign, when in blazing crock They see the lamp oil sputtering with a growth Of mouldy snuff clots. So... ...de bellows in and out Let the blasts drive, some dip i’ the water trough The sputtering metal: with the anvil’s weight Groans Etna: they alternately i...

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...owd of senseless arguments, he wets the book lying half open in his lap with sputtering showers. Aye, and then hastily folding his arms he leans forwa...

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...ismes, and that incurable Avignon of the Pope’s: a continual crackling and sputtering of riots from the whole face of France;—testi- fying how electri... ...its all-developing fury, we find some Three. Mortals driven rabid we find; sputtering the acridest logic; baring their breast to the battle-hail, thei... ...(arme blanche), by sword-cutlery? The wheels of Langres scream, amid their sputtering fire halo; grinding mere swords. The stithies of Charleville rin... ...t. But mutiny in a Robespierre Convention, above all,—it is like fire seen sputtering in the ship’s powder- room! One death-defiant plunge at it, this...

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...ad,” said George, reappearing 126 A Room with a View from his plunge, and sputtering at the sun. “Water’s wonderful. Mr. Beebe, do.” “Apooshoo, kouf....

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...iculated in a stammering voice an unintel- ligible name. “Again!” The same sputtering of syllables was heard, drowned by the tittering of the class. “...

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...rsy, with his spindle shanks wide straggling over his poll. Then mine host sputtering, with a full-mouthed laugh, 679 Rabelais said to his guest, By ...