[The Amazing Marriage by George Meredith]@TWC D-Link bookThe Amazing Marriage CHAPTER XVI 20/25
Catching to hear? It is worth a stretching of them on the rack to hear that low buzz-hum of their inner breast...
By heaven! we have them at their best when they sing that note. His watch was near an hour of the contest, and Brailstone's man had scored first knock-down blow, a particularly clean floorer.
Thinking of that, he was cheered by hearing Chummy Potts, whose opinions he despised, cry out to Abrane:-- 'Yeast to him!' For the face of Todds was visibly swelling to the ripest of plums from Kit's deliveries. Down he went.
He had the sturdy legs which are no legs to a clean blow. Odds were offered against him. 'Oh! pretty play with your right, Kit!' exclaimed Mallard, as Kit fetched his man an ugly stroke on the round of the waist behind, and the crowd sent up the name of the great organs affected: a sickener of a stroke, if dealt soundly.
It meant more than 4 showed.
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