Word: staringer
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Curling Atlantic waves swept in one morning last week over the long sand dunes on the sea coast just above Bordeaux. Occasionally a wave burst over the sea wall, spattered with tingling droplets an old man who sat hunched upon a bench, staring seaward. Grey skies shrouded the 85th birthday...
Gun One L. Green, guest of the LaSalle hotel in Chicago, lolled on the seat of a taxicab, very drunk. The cab stopped at his destination, the chauffeur opened the door politely, found himself staring into the unsteady muzzle of a revolver. Mr. Green exhibited a certain tipsy truculence in...
The customs men had gone through her boxes quickly and she was free to leave. Most of the other passengers from the Majestic still sat about, perched on trunks or, wearily, on baggage carts, in the salt-smelling cavern of the pier. She moved away, accompanied by a handsome woman...
Lean and nervous Captain King in a dirty blue uniform leaned over the rail, his bloodshot eyes staring into the water. Dejectedly he said, "We've done everything we can. Two months of it and we're tired!" He gave orders to capture the two capricious, runaway pontoons...
An insurance clerk sat in an office in Cornhill, England, arranging typewritten papers in neat dockets and whistling cheerily as if to show his indifference to the rain that beat a tattoo on his roof -like drumming hoofs, he thought. King George of England sat staring politely into the same...