Inside, I pulled the shades together and closed the door, the matchbox still in my hand.
All this, of course, I didn't catch at the time, because my heart was hammering away excitedly and making my fingers shake as I fumbled for a matchbox in my pocket, I pushed it open and let the matches scatter out.
With no show of alacrity, and with complete indifference of manner, he produced a matchbox and handed it to her, immediately reverting to his newspaper as though considerably bored by the interruption.
Sara flushed, and, having lit her cigarette, tendered him his matchbox with an icy little word of thanks.
The support for the wheel is made of a strip taken from the lid of the matchbox and narrowed at one end where it supports the wheel.
The tender is a matchbox with the sides cut down at one place to make the entrance, and another matchbox makes the windscreen.
For the hood take the outer case of the matchbox and unfasten it where it is joined, and cut off a lengthwise strip about three-quarters of an inch wide, using one of the corners of this for the peak of the hood.
As he raised the matchbox it slipped from his fingers and fell noiselessly in the trail.
But the wooden matchbox was still the most valued of his possessions.
The tears which Louise had bravely forced back ever since her collapse at the discovery of the matchbox on the island, rushed to her eyes again.
After what seemed five minutes he found the matchbox and struck a light, and all the time the torrent of sound poured about his ears with such an effect of bewilderment that he hardly realized what he was doing.
He climbed again into bed, blew the candle out, put the matchbox under his pillow within easy reach, and so once more curled himself up into a ball and composed himself to sleep.
Kneeling there with the matchbox in his hand, there fell upon his spirit a great calm.
He drew forth his steel matchbox with numb and shaking fingers, opened it and stood stricken dumb.
She made an excursion into her bedroom for the matchbox and felt her way to it.
The futility of an empty matchbox is as the effrontery of the celebrated misplaced milestone.
The sudden discovery of the loss of the matchbox had clanged the facts about his ears with the discordant scream of closing gates.
Curious, too, that the matchbox had not been discovered; they must have searched pretty thoroughly by now--perhaps after all it had not been dropped there.
Well, finding your matchbox like that--there in Sannet Wood--and I know you must have lost it just about then because I remember your looking for it here.
It's a matchbox of mine--must have dropped out of a pocket.
There was a visible cloud on Eustace's face as he held the silver matchbox in his hand, as if it would burn him.
Mr Benham, holding up the silvermatchbox which Eustace had picked up.
Is this, or is it not, the same matchbox which you saw in the prisoner's possession?
I should myself select a matchbox with the Nativity, or the Flight into Egypt upon it, if I were going to stay a week or so at Graglia.
I felt as I had done when I found the matchbox in the sanctuary bedroom at Graglia: not that I minded it myself, but as being a little unhappy lest the Bishop might not quite like it.
Feeling that I was in a sanctuary, I was a little surprised that such a matchbox should have been tolerated.
Prepare a matchboxas follows:--Push open the sliding portion about one inch.
I could have had a hundred to one against Matchbox and Bramble coupled.
XLIII When Matchbox galloped home the winner of the Cesarewitch by five lengths, William was lying in his bed, seemingly at death's door.
Lay gently on table and light candle, and as you lay down matchbox with right hand (right side to audience), palm egg in left hand from hip pocket or vest.
The hollow egg is vested, and the second flag rolled up and placed in matchbox ready for production from flame of candle.
I stowed away the eggs in a matchbox with some sand, and left it open on the table of the deckhouse on board.
I should myself select a matchbox with the Nativity or the Flight into Egypt upon it, if I were going to stay a week or so at Graglia.
But his chief distress was to see that little Em cried not like a child, but silently, as she strove to thread needles or to smear matchbox labels.
Out went the gas, and Paul, matchbox in hand, sped stealthily to the office, the summer dews falling and the weeds smelling sweet.
There was a certain deliberation in his movements that Whitney noticed, though he admitted that he might not have done so had not the matchbox incident roused him to suspicious vigilance.
He grasped thematchbox quickly, with thoughts of arson crystallising in his mind.
But in the meantime, with the thought of setting fire to something in his heart and the matchbox in his hand, it was necessary to find the materials for a blaze.
I was composed enough to perceive after some considerable time the matchbox lying there on the mantelpiece right under my nose.
Little mining hamlets composed ofmatchbox houses cling to the face of the precipice like cardboards stuck on a nail.
You see the little square adobematchbox houses of Papago Indians, with the red chile hanging against the wall, and the women coming from the spring, and the men husking the corn.
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