I whirled round, and there, on one of those dry gravel beds, was the
biggest snake I had ever seen.
It was with this extraordinary procession trooping at his and Maria's heels into a confectioner's in quest if the
biggest candy- cane ever made, that he encountered Ruth and her mother.
One was quite full of square paper boxes, which grew in clusters on all the limbs, and upon the
biggest and ripest boxes the word "Lunch" could be read, in neat raised letters.
Dey's done it--yes, en dey was de
biggest quality in de whole bilin', too--kings!"
For it was the Game that had been questioned, its verity and worth, the Game itself, the
biggest thing in the world--or what had been the
biggest thing in the world until that chance afternoon and that chance purchase in Silverstein's candy store, when Genevieve loomed suddenly colossal in his life, overshadowing all other things.
The
biggest boy in his dormitory, Singer, took a dislike to him, and Philip, small for his age, had to put up with a good deal of hard treatment.
Every boy had adventures to tell; but perhaps the
biggest adventure of all was that they were several hours late for bed.
And in the
biggest canoe house, the club house of the stags, where no Mary might come under penalty of death by torture, the captives were stored.
Many's the man would have given his head to have had my lady told, if they had known,--for, to be sure, the
biggest lord in the land might be proud--but, I protest, I have a great mind not to tell you." Jones fell to entreaties, and soon prevailed on her to go on thus.
It was the
biggest clubhouse, and the
biggest club, in all Chicago; and they had prizefights every now and then, and cockfights and even dogfights.
Meantime, the big organ is booming and crashing and thundering away, doing its best to prove that it is the
biggest and best organ in Europe, and that a tight little box of a church is the most favorable place to average and appreciate its powers in.
Michael could not see them, save when he was being taken out or brought back, but he could smell them and hear them, and, in his loneliness, he even started a feud of snarling bickeringness with Pedro, the
biggest of them who acted as clown in their turn.