But gradually, as its nature leaked out, the demand increased.
Solomon's chief respect for his father sprang from the halo of military service encircling Moses ever since it leaked out through the lips of the Bube, that he had been a conscript in Russia and been brutally treated by the sergeant.
Particularly if it leaked out at a time when the Lieutenant and the Countess lay in the peasants' power in the peasants' camp?
Suppose he succeeded, what would happen if it leaked out later that the prisoner had been hidden all the time in the Lieutenant's huts?
From many sources it leaked out that the Kaiser looked on the Most Reverend John Ireland as an enemy of his projects both in Europe and the United States.
It leaked out long ago that in the 'interview' His Imperial Majesty alluded to Archbishop Ireland in rather disrespectful terms.
It had graduallyleaked out as their friendship progressed that Nance's home was not an abode of happiness by any means.
After having sailed along this coast seven hundred leagues or more, besides visiting numerous islands, our ships became greatly sea-worn and leaked badly, so that we could hardly keep them free with two pumps going.
Luckily for him, the shirt, or rather under-shirt, business leaked not out; at least not to reach the ears of any one in the Mexican capital.
That position of hers lasted in her family until the terms of the Peace Treaty leaked out, and then were published in full.
The news of Brand's marriage with a German girl had leaked out, though his people tried to hush it up.
The bald announcement made some days later by the Minister of Defence (when the news leaked out) that the Convoy had been within 100 miles of the sea fight, was the only information vouchsafed.
I can't imagine how they could have leaked out, for I should have said that that old affair had long since been forgotten even by the society gossips.
The wind continued high till evening, when to our great disappointment we discovered that nearly all the composition had separated from the skins, and left the seams perfectly exposed; so that the boat now leaked very much.
If it leakedon your head why didn't you move your bed?
The rain done leaked in on my haid an' I reckon I's gonter die er the ammonia.
The lifting gas, which was contained in the big bag, had simply leaked away, and of course Noddy and Jack Pender did not know how to make any more.
The second marvel was that in spite of the enormous numbers of people coming and going, no secrets leaked out.
Although the local press wrote up the affair as genuine, the secret somehow leaked out, and we had to make our bow at the prize distribution the following evening.
As the hard bump came, the flour in the barrel jingled loudly and leaked rum profusely from the compound fracture.
The damned story leaked out somehow, and has been going the rounds ever since.
It had leaked out that Roger had bought for a great sum an opal "Eye of Horus," supposed to be the mate of a curious ornament possessed by his adopted sister, and the only other jewel resembling it, in existence.
As Tom had feared might be the case, it was soon discovered that, either from the hot atmosphere or the pressure to which she had been subjected, she leaked considerably.
She leaked slightly, but Desmond declared that it was not through the place where she had been repaired, and they found after getting some distance from the shore that they could easily bale out the water which made its way in.
No intimation of such an intention had leaked out.
He was sure that it was little less than a miracle that the matter had not leaked out.
Either here in London, or over there in Russia, it leaked out.
The news about the Nastirsevitch jewels leaked out somewhere, Mr. Allerdyke.
There seems to be no doubt that the knowledge that my cousin was carrying the jewels leaked out here--and from Fullaway's office," he answered.
I denied most positively having done so; upon which Nicholson suggested that we should proceed together to the telegraph office and see whether the information could have leaked out from there.
I need hardly say we got unmercifully chaffed on our return to camp, when the result of our expedition leaked out.
The searchlight and wireless were tangled up together, and the electricityleaked into everything.
Where she did not leak outside she leaked internally, tank leaking into tank, so that the petrol got into the main fresh-water supply and the men had to be put on allowance.
She had to shift the wretched thing twice; once because the bolts that held it down were smashed (the wire hawser must have pretty well pulled it off its seat), and again because the hull beneath it leaked on pressure.
All the plates under the old gun-position forward leaked; she leaked aft through damaged hydroplane guards, and on her way home they had to keep the water down by hand pumps while she was diving through the nets.
A single glance at the contents, covered though they were with the filth that had leaked in through the opening, was sufficient, and the three men exclaimed almost with one breath, "THAT IS DR.
Two days an' a night we were at the pumps, for she leaked like a sieve.
Still, it might be as well for him by that time to be upon his homeward journey, for he knew that if by any chance the true facts leaked out there would be no hope of mercy from the furious diggers.
The secret leaked into the ears of some boys, and set their mischievous wits at work.
Although policy forbade giving publicity to the fact that aid from abroad was near at hand, sufficient informationleaked out to diffuse among the people pleasant hopes for the future.
Intelligence of this request leaked out, and the people of Boston were greatly irritated.
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