In two days' time we were pretty chummy, and he told me how his battery in the early days of the war had put over a stunt on Old Pepper, and had gotten away with it.
I gave up the bandagingstunt as a bad job, and then fainted.
This perhaps was not the greatest stunt in the world, but it got back at the officer who had told me, "Yes, we take anything over here.
Well, a few days later, the battalion was up in the line again, and was sent into a little stunt opposite Fleurbaix, to straighten out a salient.
I think Barbara sealed her own fate, so far as he was concerned, when she let Worth pique her into doing a concentrating stuntat Vandeman's dinner table last night.
Her father had her down at the station doing a stunt for a bunch of professors.
The girl had gone into her stunt with a sort of angry energy.
It'll be quite some stunt to get the amount together by ten o'clock Monday," he said slowly.
The minute the man left us alone, he turned to her with, "I've got a stunt for you.
Part way down a hurdy-gurdy in a tent began to get patronage again; the school children in white dresses with pink bows in their hair had just finished a stunt in the Square.
We won't make any time, if we have to stop, and go through that circus stuntevery little while.
What wonderful stunt did you manage to carry through so early in the day, down in this forsaken country?
On one occasion the secretary of an important base said he had arranged a new stunt for us that evening--the formal opening of a hut in the Indian Cavalry Hospital Camp.
Another stunt he is going to pull off is canned cheese sandwiches.
I am the Rural Kid these days and a stunt like that suits me from the ground up.
That stunt keeps them at heel all the time and so busy trying to keep track of you that they don't have time to look for any other dame.
Talk about fun, this sixty laughs in sixty minutes stunt looked like a Methodist watch meeting.
Another took the hooks out of her marsel wave and did that time-worn stunt of 'Laska.
I wish these New Yorkers were that way--nothing personal dear--but they have become so callous to feeding the merry-merry that they have the big eat dodging stunt down to a science.
It was merely the ordinary stunt of beer and beefsteak and beefsteak and beer, but the hours were enlivened by the vaudeville performances of the guests.
Do you think a stunt like that is worthy of my attention?
It would be part of his stunt to reach through or around the opposing center and steal the quarter-back's memorandum book, thus placing the enemy hors de combat!
I was feelin' a little nervous, to begin with, for I'd billed myself to do a stunt I don't often tackle.
Sure enough, Cornelia Ann was aboard, a bit hazy about the kind of a stunt that's expected of her, but ready for anything.
They were so tickled to get them two freak left overs off their hands that they almost adopted me into both families, just for the little stunt I did in bilkin' them P.
Yes, you see Perk, it happens to be a big day atstunt flying, with fat prizes for the winners.
The one where the stones were concealed in a life preserver and they staged a 'man overboard' stunt just as the ship came into the harbor.
Of all the expedients that can well be contrived to stunt the natural growth of a new colony, that of an exclusive company is undoubtedly the most effectual.
The monopoly of the company can tend only to stunt the natural growth of that part of the surplus produce which, in the case of a free trade, would be exported to Europe.
Nope, even pulling the old hitch-hiking stunt wouldn't get us a thing.
Anyway, Freddy pulled that sun "eclipsing" stunt and saw the six planes streaking down toward the Skua.
Scriven's leonine face beamed; the stunt had come off.
The scenes raced much too fast; the glideway's continuous curvings, steep ascents and power dives were like stunt flying through an ack-ack barrage.
I tried that firststunt of mine without either, and that's where the psychology came in.
She hove in sight presently, accompanied by the Fanny, which was out with her on some special stunt of their own.
It was a day of very low visibility--not over a mile and a half, or two miles at the outside--and I was out on a bit of an escort stunt of small importance.
Yet the wily old skipper, literally on a moment's notice, brought off a stunt that could not have been improved upon if it had been the result of a year's thought and experience.
There was a good deal of solace, however, in the fact that none of the Huns were getting back to tell what happened to them, so that this identical stunt was left open for use again.
In fact, I think that their possible loss was about my worst worry when I tried my first 'Q' stunt on.
Fritz is as full of ways that are dark and of tricks that are vain as Ah Sin, but--with the hounds at his heels--nothing so foolish as that oil and bubble stunt of popular fiction.
The success of any kind of stunt for harrying the U-boat is very largely a matter of psychology, and this is especially so in the 'Q' department.
Although the Whack got all the kudos for the sinking, there is a decided possibility that a bit of a stunt the Smack brought off before ever we came up may have been largely if not entirely responsible for us getting the chance we did.
It had no effect on his enthusiasm, though, for he was out on the same stunt the next night.
