They never took him anywhere to call and if visitors came to the house, they showed an almost panickydesire to get him out of the way.
Did the old people get panicky at the thought of entertaining a wild man from Virginia, and send an SOS for Gerald, he wondered.
She don't seem nervous or panicky at all, like most women would, breakin' in on a roughhouse scene like that.
From some youngsters that might have called for such panicky protests as Mother and Mrs. Purdy-Pell put up; but young Robin had a good head on him, and didn't act like he meant to develop into a rounder.
They're beginnin' to talk, but I guess I was jest sort of panickywhen I talked with Shorty.
Learning that cool minds were dominating the panicky crowd, and that the bullboats were being properly launched and were ready for use if the worst came, he gave his undivided attention to the saving of the Belle.
To panicky minds came magic words of evil portent; the Alamo and San Jacinto.
And he knew the panicky feeling of self-preservation which might cause some greenhorn of the caravan to shoot true at the wrong time.
A second stab of sparky flame split the darkness and Robideau reeled back into the arms of hispanicky soldiers.
I had completely recovered from the disturbingpanicky condition which had so confused me in the first rush of things.
With us orders were orders, but the Kanakas were panickywith terror, and that cemetery with nobody in it seemed to them like tempting Providence.
Satterlee gave him a quick, blank, panicky look, and then, with a pitiful bravado, took a step forward with an attempted return to his usual confident air.
Sidney had a panicky thought of the little room upstairs.
He's never said a cross word to me--even at first, when I was panicky and scared at every sound.
Still, if she should be the one--I could feel the panicky shivers chasin' up and down my backbone just at the thought.
Three little girls are huddled panicky around this young party who wears a brown velvet tam at such a rakish angle on top of her wavy brown hair.
At the end of the turkey run though I finds Joe starin' through the wire with a panicky look on his face.
Night retreats, not to be commended, panicky conditions.
I was compelled to report this alarming situation to Ogilvy and Dickinson and a few chosen members of a panickyboard of directors.
With a slight panicky sensation I climbed the stairs, with their endless shallow treads, to hurry through the silent hallway to the schoolroom.
It seemed to her that ever since Richard's call on Linda's Christmas household yesterday she had walked strangely detached and isolated, with odd booming noises in her ears, and a panicky thumping at her heart.
Truly, honestly--" Nina was beginning, when both girls were smitten into panicky silence by the sound of the slipper Harriet deliberately dropped on the floor.
We'll likely go far enough from town so there won't be no panicky fears of a hostile raid.
Suddenly leaping erect, he cast anxious glances around him and a panicky fear gripped him and turned him into a wild beast.
A frightened, half panicky look came into Blue Bonnet's face.
I have always gotten perfectly panickyover those little beasts ever since I can remember.
To make a panicky abandonment of the country and of the trains and detachments en route to it, would have been hardly less disgraceful than a surrender of the whole.
It was a panicky retreat after the hot little fight by Siber's brigade at Fayette C.
Laura, then clapped her hand over her mouth and turned a panicky red as she caught Miss Walters' eye upon her.
For a moment the girls had a panicky impulse to drop the basket and run, but on second thought they decided that that would be just about the worst thing they could possibly do.
And you should have seen him tint up and glance panicky at Marjorie the first time she put it over on him.
All of a sudden too, my mouth had gone dry and I had a panicky notion that my brain had ossified.
Briscoe might get it away from me, or he might not; but I wa'n't goin' to get panicky over it.
The only disturbance comes when Selma butts in pushin' the tea cart, and, just from force of habit, I makes a panicky breakaway.
She sort of moans out this last panicky and shrinks against the wall.
I hears her summonin' Vee panicky and sketchin' out the details.
They bunched together panicky and started back for the lib'ry.
Almost unconsciously she pressed her hand against her heart to still its rapid beating as her panicky thought was questioning: "Do you really want to send that letter to Jean Sawyer?
Of course it is not true," her panicky thought kept repeating.
She wondered if the Ranger's sudden charge had not simply frightened Panfilo into a panicky flight, and she tried to put her thoughts into words the Mexican would understand, but his answer was unintelligible.
As mutinous prisoners in a jail delivery overpower their guards, so did Dave's long-repressed emotions gain the upper hand of him now, and so swift was their uprising that he could not summon more than a feeble, panicky resistance.
The decisive consideration, however, was the fact a baby was the only thing except a jewel-case that a panicky woman in fear of being torpedoed would stick to.
She was throwing out a cloud of smoke and zigzagging in a panicky sort of way in an endeavour to avoid the shells which were exploding nearer and nearer at every shot.
And to a man of his age, New York in midsummer in a panicky season is not a recreation.
A feeling of panicky horror surged through Zip as he saw the airbot re-orient itself in his direction.
Meanwhile, the blond pirate had screamed for help in a panicky voice, turned, and was dashing down the corridor toward the elevators.
I know that the market opened quiet and that later Coal Tars broke and there is a flurry--a panicky feeling perhaps.
By God, I don't mean to be run away from my home by a panicky notion of hard times.
I was awful panicky at first, thinkin' like as not he was lost, but where d'you think I found him?
For one panicky moment the small boy had forgotten his friend's assumed name, and he had been on the verge of saying "Mr. Edrington.
There are lots of panicky people in the Mark Twain.
Once the brave leader walked into a panicky group and it was enough to look calm.
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