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... of each in eager haste. Then he found a crock of goat's milk. Lifting it to his mouth, he drank with big, quick gulps until he had to stop for breath. Just as he was about to raise it to his lips again, some instinct of danger made him look up. There in the doorway stood Brossard, bigger and darker and more threatening than he had ever ... — The Gate of the Giant Scissors • Annie Fellows Johnston
... and the others will come after us," said Jeanne, rather anxiously. But just as she uttered the words a rather shrill crow made both Hugh and her stop short and look up to the top. They saw Houpet and the others standing round the edge of the hole. Houpet gave another crow, in which the two chickens joined him, and then suddenly the stone was shut down—the two children found themselves alone in this ... — The Tapestry Room - A Child's Romance • Mrs. Molesworth
... 19. Look up the meaning of ham, wick, and stead. Think of towns whose names contain these words; also of towns whose names contain the word ... — Civil Government in the United States Considered with - Some Reference to Its Origins • John Fiske
... draw their water from, holding on with weary fingers to the slimy mosses, fearing each new energy of grasping muscle is the last that Nature holds in its store for you; and then, weary almost unto death, you look up and see two human faces peering above the curbstone, see the rope curling down to you, swinging right before your grasp, and a doubt comes,—have you ... — The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 10, No. 58, August, 1862 • Various
... mistress," returned Jennie, who admired John greatly from her lowly sphere, and who for her own sake as well as Dorothy's was jealous of Queen Mary. "They do walk together a great deal on the ramparts, and the white snaky lady do look up into Sir John's face like this"—here Jennie assumed a lovelorn expression. "And—and once, ... — Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall • Charles Major
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