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Usage examples of loft.

Celeste watched him with restless activity, made him take physic, applied blisters to him, went back and forth in the house, while old Amable remained at the edge of his loft, watching at a distance the gloomy cavern where his son lay dying.

Then old Amable, vanquished, without uttering a word, climbed back to his loft.

There were no memories to wake in the happy young hearts in the loft at Billabong that night.

The Window-Cleaner Tells his Name 6 The Search for the Missing Papers 7 The Secret Hiding Place 8 The Thief Escapes 9 The Runaway Coach 10 The Papers Recovered--and Puddleby Again FOREWORD When my husband, Hugh Lofting, wrote and illustrated this story of Pippinella, the green canary, for the New York Herald Tribune his intention was some day to publish the material in book form.

JOSEPHINE LOFTING PART ONE I THE DOCTOR MEETS THE GREEN CANARY THIS story of the further adventures of Pippinella, the green canary, begins during the time of the Dolittle Circus.

I went out again to look at the roof, getting as close as I could to the sides of the loft.

It could only light a loft, inhabited or uninhabited, above some rooms in the palace, the doors of which would probably be opened by day-break.

As soon as were opposite to it I told Balbi what I had done, and asked him if he could think of any way of getting into the loft.

This was Captain Cozenage, whose record while in charge of the Homicide Squad was without parallel in the annals of crime: as a result of which he had been, in rapid succession, switched to the Loft Robberies, Pigeon Drop, Unlicensed Phrenologists, and Mopery Squads: and was now entrusted with a letter-of-marque to suppress steamboat gamblers on the East River.

Head, MDCCXI, with dedicatory epiftle to his worthy friend Charles Cox, efquire, Member of Parliament for the burgh of Southwark and having ink calligraphed statement on the flyleaf certifying that the book was the property of Michael Gallagher, dated this 10th day of May 1822 and requefting the perfon who should find it, if the book should be loft or go aftray, to reftore it to Michael Gallagher, carpenter, Dufery Gate, Ennifcorthy, county Wicklow, the fineft place in the world.

The Tap Inn was mostly eatery and drinkery, with five empty stalls that barely merited the title of stable, but there was an overhead loft, and another copper gained me the privilege of paying three coppers to sleep there and three more to stable Gairloch.

Haskell called up his eprouvette mortars and put them just beyond the lip of the crater and had them loaded with a scant ounce and a half of powder, since all they had to do was loft the shells fifty feet to where the Federals milled about like a pen of shoats waiting for the hammer between the eyes.

As the long-limbed gleeman scrambled down the ladder from the loft, Lan spoke, stiffly formal.

I then threw into the loft the bundles and the fragments that I had broken off the window, and I stepped down to the monk, who welcomed me heartily and drew in the ladder.

She broke away from him, spread her wings, and, lofted into the dense, stultifying atmosphere of the lab-orb, returned the defective heuristic net to its circuit clamps high above his head.