Word: gruntings
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...remembers, was not great, nor for that matter was the "Half a league Onward," up on the thin green brink of his saucer, however, there teetered an incoherent mass which adicts style cake. It is all very hazy; there were a thousand eyes, and two red ears, a sharp grunt from the possessor of an abused bunion, and then the muffled howl of some lonely offstage Phantom. The Vagabond had faint reminiscences of a woman called Eliza, and he persevered. A rocker creaked, but the jaded cushion was anctuary. And the Vagabond answered a fool who wrote "Wouldst thou...
...build stamina, stretch muscles. Rich, hearty Turfman Kilmer was not rich until after he had built up his father's proprietary medicine business (Swamp-root}, invested shrewdly, bought the prosperous Binghamton, N. Y., Press. When people used to ask what Swamproot was good for, Mr. Kilmer would grunt : "Good for $100,000 a year...
...Although he can only converse with monkeys and is, aside from his ability as a gymnast, convincingly subhuman, Tarzan shows a surprising grasp of the niceties of romantic love. He is only rough once, when he seizes Jane Parker's handkerchief, tears it in half and gives a disagreeable grunt...
...learned to fish, shoot, trap, cook. He became an able air pilot, carpenter, blacksmith, mechanic. He mastered the Eskimo language, invented a typewriter upon which he typed hymnbooks, prayer-books, catechisms in Eskimo script. With other missionaries at Chesterfield Inlet he built a radio transmitter so that Eskimos may grunt at each other over the frigid air. Monsignor Turquetil, bearded nobly and baldheaded, is an able philologist. But chiefly he can gain converts by telling them how best to fish. Says he: "Taking fish out of the net is no easy job. If you take your hands...
...ball at the Charmerace establishment in Paris, he finds that Charmerace suspects him of the same thing. Moreover, his likeliest spy, after climbing into the Charmerace bed without her clothes, not only makes friends with Charmerace but falls in love with him. This causes Lionel Barrymore to grunt, rub his chin with one hand, make his eyes pop. It does not prevent Arsene Lupin from helping himself to bonds, jewels and expensive pictures. Presently Lupin's signed depredations occur at the suburban chateau of one Gourney-Martin, where Charmerace also happens to be staying. After this he steals...