O'Malley did not show up at mess and Stan began to wonder where he had gone.
He was merely reporting a bit of mess rumor he had heard the day before.
After mess Stan got a call from Colonel Holt and hurried off, leaving O'Malley and Sim together.
When the briefing was over, they crowded out of the room and into the mess for hot coffee and sandwiches.
If their comrades were surprised to see Uncle Sam standing with two children by his side while the others passed into the mess tent with cups and plates in hand, no one said anything.
The mess of pork and beans and the black unsweetened coffee evidently were what I needed, for I began to mend wonderfully ere I was half through the course.
Come along and I'll throw together a mess for you.
Besides, I was expected to uphold the honor of our Gentile mess along with my own honor.
After supper the sound of revolver shots burst flatly from a mess beyond us, and startled.
Miss Marston was all out of patience with me already, and when, soon after that, I made a mess of my Latin, she got very angry, and walked me right down to the study.
I have yet to see the woman I would give a brass farthing to marry, or for whose mess of connubial pottage I would sell my good bachelor's birthright.
Time was when I made a pretty mess enough of my own!
In one particular Lyon acquitted his successful rival; it had puzzled him that irrepressible as he was he had not got into a mess in the service.
She hated what she called the mess of the ship and the idea, if she should go above, of meeting stewards with plates of supererogatory food.
A separate mess and quarters received the warrant officers and sergeants; whilst the officers were allotted what had once been the accommodation for passengers.
Competition in regard to the best kept mess was keen.
Add to these two factors the want of experience on the part of the mess orderlies in equally dividing up the food supplied them--then the occurrence of the complaints can be easily understood.
Mess orderlies saw to the drawing of rations, serving of meals, and cleansing of mess utensils.
He and his myrmidons were suspected of undue zeal in impounding and placing in the ship's store any hammock, blanket, or mess utensil, whose owner had momentarily left them unguarded on deck or in some other open space.
Each table accommodated a messof a number varying from 12 to 22 men.
Utensils were polished like silver and arranged in designs that often displayed much originality on the part of the mess orderlies.
The mess tin could be used as either saucepan or kettle, and its lid as a frying pan or drinking vessel.
That evening in his own Mess he very pleasantly entertained some of the officers.
He will get himself into such a mess that it won't be easy for him to get out of it.
Do you mean to say, Boots, that you think a man who has made the ghastly mess of his life that I have, ought to feel free to marry?
Around one of the dismal, smoky fires an especially dejectedmess found a spokesman with a vocabulary rich in comminations.
Some wag of the mess had said something jocular; to a man they were laughing convulsively.
He found Warrener and Wylde Payne there, and presently he began to tell "what a confounded mess he had made of it down stairs.
If he didn't get just the right focus, the thing came out all wrong: he always made a mess of his groups.
Brand and I went back in the car, and I dined at his mess again.
The concierge had told us that it had been the mess of a German headquarters and this gave Fortune his cue, and he entertained us with some caricatures of German generals and officers, amazingly comic.
On my way back to Brand's mess I told him all I had heard about Eileen's trial, and I remember his enthusiasm.
He ordered me to go round to my mess and bring back some food, while he boiled up a kettle and got busy.
VII I dined with him in his mess that evening, before going on with him to spend an hour or two with Eileen O'Connor, who had a room in some convent on the outskirts of Lille.
At the mess table that night Charles Fortune was in good form.
While he stood watching her from the brig's deck, he suddenly remarked that they were making a mess of it, and calling two boys to bring the dingey alongside, he was pulled into the shore.
Rosario, and to join the officers' mess on the voyage.
I usually do make a messof everything I undertake.
The crowd began to trickle down the long steps to the feast in the mess hall.
Now look what a mess Billy's done got us in; he all time got to perpose someping to get chillens in trouble and he all time got to let grown folks ketch em.
The marauders had made a sorry mess of the room, and I thought Bates’ lip quivered as he saw the wreck.
I thought he had some sense, and that you’d see to it that he didn’t make a mess of this thing.
We’ve made such a mess of our separate lives that the best thing we can do is to try and combine them.
Then he treated the whole mess to champagne, declaring it was his birthday, and when somebody denied that, he turned almost fiercely on the caviller.
His mother came back home and saw the mess they were making, and started making some sandwiches.
They had quite a busy afternoon, and his father said that it was time to go home, even if there was still a mess in the kitchen for them to clean up.
Bath water sopped the piles of robes and made a mess out of the bearskin rug; but the ring attendants carted everything off, removed the waterproof canvas from the ring mat and prepared to get the match underway.
Yers ole po white trash, dats what my farder and my mudder ses you is, and us cullud ladies haint ergwine to mess wid you nary bit und grane.
After mess that evening Bob told the story, as modestly as he could.
The officers all stood up, and the colonel introduced them to Captain Langton--who was, he told them, going to dine at the mess that evening.
If I might have died and left him to enrich and gladden the world, I should have felt that I had not made such a mess of everything after all.
Only that I had made a mess of everything and broken my wife's heart, which he did not seem to believe.
I saw her as she wrote these words: "I have made a great mess of it.
I--I'm afraid I should make such a messof it," I murmured at last.
I believe everybody does make a mess of it who tries to arrange things for himself.
I have made a mess of my life," Adelaide had said, and I felt that I might chant the same dirge.
