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...staggered off, and she was left alone on the walk in a daze. She gazed in at the window of the store, her eyes riveted on a pile of porous-plasters. Did she think to heal her wounded heart? Slowly she entered the store, laid five cents on the counter, and said in a voice full of suppressed emotion...
...following day I volunteered my services as an instructor in swimming, and gave my pupil her first experimental lectures at high tide; while the Yale man, from the shelter of a pile of drift-wood, cast rancorous glances at us and soliloquized in good round New Haven English...
...large volcano, called H. U.; out of the mouth of the volcano would be flying plank walks, scholarships free to all, voluntary chapel, and smashed marking systems. The powerful force within the volcano would be called the Crimson. For supports, I would have on one side a large pile of contributions, and on the other a long subscription-list. For a motto, 'Let that be supported which supports...
...twenty," said Chaucer, shoving his chips out. The chips were made of slabs of doughnut from the kitchen, cut thin, and beautifully polished to look like ivory. Epaminondas went him twenty better, and they continued to pile up chips in a dreadfully reckless manner, until there were doughnuts enough on the table to have killed all the ostriches between Cairo and Capetown...
...sitting on the pile...