... least, we did. Also a maid. But maids, I understand, are greatly diminished. There appear to have been tragedies in Bainbridge. Have you eaten sufficient bacon to listen calmly to an extract from Aunt Caroline's last? Sit tight, then— ... — The Window-Gazer • Isabel Ecclestone Mackay Read full book for free!
... talk to myself out loud and think of something cheerful. And I don't mean to be one of those chaps who spends his time in jail counting the stones in his cell, or training spiders, or measuring how many of his steps make a mile, for madness lies that way. I mean to sit tight and think of all the good times I've had, and go over them in my mind very slowly, so as to make them last longer and remember who was there and what we said, and the jokes and all that; I'll go over house-parties ... — The Exiles and Other Stories • Richard Harding Davis Read full book for free!
... immediately the idea of launching a preventative attack; his ships might reach Xochitl to find it undefended, and then return to find Tanith devastated. Things like that had happened in space-war. The only thing to do was sit tight, defend Tanith when Viktor attacked, and then counterattack if he had any ships left by that time. Prince Viktor was probably reasoning in ... — Space Viking • Henry Beam Piper Read full book for free!
... it was like. She called to her, "Don't stick your head out, you silly cuckoo. You'll be hit." She said to herself, If I think about it I shall feel quite jumpy. It was one thing to go tearing along between two booming batteries, in excitement, with an end in view, and quite another thing to sit tight and still on a motionless car, to be fired on. A bit trying to the nerves, she thought, if it went on long. She was glad that her car stood next to the line of fire, sheltering Gwinnie's, and she wondered how John was getting on ... — The Romantic • May Sinclair Read full book for free!
... I would sit tight with all my gifts and glories, And even preach to unconverted Tories, That the fixed system that our land inherits, Viewed from a certain standpoint, has its merits. I'd guard the laws like any Radical, And keep each precedent, however small, However ... — Poems • G.K. Chesterton Read full book for free!
... thought something had happened?" said Raffles, leaning back in my chair as he lit a cigarette, and looking much amused. "What would you say if something had? Sit tight, my dear chap! It was nothing of the slightest consequence, and it's all over now. A stern chase and a long one, Bunny, but I think I'm well ... — The Amateur Cracksman • E. W. Hornung Read full book for free!
... do is to sit tight and hold on, I guess," Janice said. "That is what daddy says he does when things look stormy ... — Janice Day, The Young Homemaker • Helen Beecher Long Read full book for free!
... to bury the dead animals, and to drag them further away was out of the question in the daylight. There was nothing else to do but to sit tight... — "Contemptible" • "Casualty" Read full book for free!
... himself, "to sit tight. If he has the list, let's collar it. If he hasn't, let's collar him. And, if possible, let's collar both. Lupin and the list of the Twenty-seven, on the same day, especially after the scandal of this morning, would be a ... — The Crystal Stopper • Maurice LeBlanc Read full book for free!
... deep space, Tony; am I supposed to tell you your job? Go by the book. Either launch another messenger and sit tight for instructions, or get out and ... — Attrition • Jim Wannamaker Read full book for free!
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