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I poured myself out a little of the stimulant, and drank it off.
You puzzled me not a little in those days, Slade.
A little to my left, the side of the Pit appeared to have collapsed altogether, forming a deep V-shaped cleft in the face of the rocky cliff.
I had a sense, a certain awareness (I could learn little by sight), that the earth was enduring a very great fall of snow.
I know so little about the tribes, except those who come to Calabar or send their girls to our Institute.
This left us without a team; but we cared little for that, however, as we had made up our minds to remain there till spring, when, and it was decided, that one of us should go to the nearest settlement and get a yoke of oxen with which to haul our wagon into some place of safety where we could leave it.
Our eyes were dazzled so we could make out little at first.
Next the plain there is, first, a series of smooth hills, planted with a rich and showy vegetation that differs but little from that of the plain itselfas if the edge of the plain had been lifted and bent into flowing folds, with all its flowers in place, only toned down a little as to their luxuriance, and a few new species introduced, such as the hill lupines, mints, and gilias.
I only realised by degrees that people held off a little from me sometimes, as the wife of a Republican deputy.
For, though its ticking indicated most certainly that it was still going, the hands were pointing to a little before the hour of midnight; whereas it was, as well I knew, considerably after that time when I had witnessed the first of the strange happenings I have just described.
You can embellish them a little on the handbills, and you can announce that the cannon that the Strong Woman fires from her shoulder weighs a hundred or two pounds more than it actually weighs; but unless a Strong Woman is really strong and no mistake, she might as well try to pass herself off as a Living Skeleton or a Two-Headed Girl at once.
It was a little after midday when we reached the town, which is perched on a high bluff, overlooking the coasts, and contains about a thousand houses, built of bamboo, and covered with palm leaves.
" "But it couldn't have been anything else," said Billie, trembling a little with the reaction.
He had accepted to dine one night with an English family, who lived in a villa a little out of town.
I thought they would have let her go, but she died a little beyond the bull.
Overhead, the sky was of a uniform cold grey colorthe whole place being lit by a stupendous globe of pale fire, that swam a little above the far horizon, and shed a foamlike light above the quiet waters.
"How little like a man of sense you speak," said the other; "how readily you have chimed in with the prejudices of the vulgar!
To influence this larger public, therefore, men who could write came little by little into a larger demand.
For a few miles below the Teslintoo it is a little over the ordinary width, but then contracts to about two hundred yards which it maintains with little variation.
All this time, the water in the Pit had been creeping slowly up, and now stood but a little below the opening.
In this manner Cincinnati played through the middle of the season always just a little behind most of its opponents.
It was a little under knee-deep.
For a moment she wondered if perhaps he came to reprove her for too many questionings, and rose up and advanced a little towards him with folded hands and a thankful heart, to receive the reproof if it should be so,for whether it were praise or whether it were blame, it was from the Father, and a great honor and happiness to receive.
" Patricia's voice faltered, and she stretched out her hands a little toward her husband in an odd gust of friendliness.
If the condition of the conquered is sufficiently serious the situation of the peoples most favoured by the Entente in EuropePoland and Greece, who have obtained the greatest and most unjust increases in territory, having given for a diversity of reasons extremely little during the Waris certainly not less so.