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And to tell the truth, she couldn't help wishing he could see, so he could make the game livelier.

Jean clung to his English nurse, who played the fascinating game of pretending to eat his hand.

Two many-branched candelabra, holding wax lights, brilliantly illuminate the game.

The unhappy applicant was naturally obliged to temporarily retire from the game, at all events for that night.

His head fell back limp on MacRae's arm, and the rest of the message went with the game old Dutchman across the big divide.

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Off flew the shell, seven miles it flew; over the Turkish Army from one sea into another.

He conducts this ceremony with the greatest solemnity, occasionally pronouncing these incantatory words, "Plate or shell, sah?"

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Fancy that enormous shell dropping suddenly out of the blue on to a ship's deck swarming with troops!

The same game of finesse was played at his own table; for there De Patinos had for some time assumed an air of civility.

Whoever succeeded in getting the ring on his stick won the game, and carried the prize home as a sign of victory.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985