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It appeared to be holding on to the bars of the window, and its attitude suggested climbing.
Hatzfeldt sat down and played a few bars in rather a halting fashion.
I am consciously glad there are bars to the windows.... Night:Midnight has gone.
"To who it may concern: "Know all men by these presents that I, James McGinty, now of Minóok (or Rampart City), Alaska, do hereby give notice of my intention to hold and claim a lien by virtue of the statue in such case" He had read so far when Maudie, having jumped down off the bar with her fists full of nuggets, and dodging her admirers, wormed her way to the Colonel.
He jabbed the bottle across the bar at Donnegan and spun a glass noisily at him, and the "floater" observed the angry bartender with a frightened side glance, and then poured his drink gingerly.
I must explain here, that there is a small, raised lawn on this side of the house, upon which this door opensthe windows of the study being barred on this account.
" "Well, take me down there and give me an introduction," urged the youth from Watauga, in a tone of animation which was barred from Uplift affairs.
They rose; they went to the bar for a drink; but while the winner led the way, two of the losers dropped back a trifle and fell into earnest conversation, frowning.
"That's what I call genius," he observed, as he clapped the shutter tight and shot the bar into place.
The Colonel shot the bar across door and jamb for the second time that day.
" Sin lifts bars against success: the root of failure lies in irreligion.
The moment it opened under his hand, he felt a hysterical impulse to leap out of the room swiftly and slam the door behind himto put a bar between him and the eye of the colonel, just as a child leaps from the dark room into the lighted and closes the door quickly to keep out the following night.
A leading K.C. with a political pull would of course be selected by the Attorney-General, but there were several K.C.'s who possessed these qualifications, and therefore there was room for differences of opinion among the junior bar as to who would get the offer.
The suggestion for purifying the New York Bar by classifying its tenders is a good one and should be acted upon.
Psmith, inevitably perhaps, became an equally prosperous counselor at the bar like Perry Mason, specializing, like Perry, in appearing for the defense.
Perhaps Evans had made a mistake in identifying Hill as the man who had been carried into his bar after being knocked down.
A greaser touched the crosshead-slides with a tallow swab, and a panting fireman thrust a bar through the furnace door.
The accused were forced to its bar without previous warning.
At this crisis I ascended the bridge and climbed down along the walls on the inside of the fence; suspending myself from the lowest iron bars along the bridge, I thus dropped myself into the yard below!
Some writers say that the windows should have cross bars before them; but if they do not descend within three feet of the floor, such an arrangement can hardly be required.
Shuffling along, they made their way down three successive corridors and through three doors, each of which was locked and barred behind them.
We left the 'Magnolia' after four days and four hours upon the sand-bar near Turkey island, upon seeing the 'Woodruff' approach.
The general impression was, that he was infinitely better fitted for the bar than for the church.
A bridge and a mill dam having been destroyed during winter the only means of crossing was by a ford three feet deep at the mouth, an uncertain passage because the sand bar over which one could walk shifted after heavy rain when the stream was swollen with flood water.
During this series, the animal was startled by the sound from one of the sliding bars under the floor, and in the sixth trial he refused to work.