Lollie's

She could hear him tip-toe into Lollie's bunk and with forced lightness call softly:

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As Lollie's hand reached out and began coiling the rope, he turned to watch the breakers, that he might time the first dash of his flight back to safety.

Where the Sun Swings North Barrett Willoughby

Toward the end of the book were many of Lollie's own poems, composed for his mother, and beautified with marginal decorations of flying gulls, sailing ships and fat button-eyed daisies, all bearing evidence of repeated erasures with a wet little finger.

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Ellen, with a headache, was lying down in Lollie's bunk.

Where the Sun Swings North Barrett Willoughby

There was a slight belligerent tone in Lollie's voice which Jean, doubtless, failed to catch, for she mused on:

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He sank down on the sand beside Jean, and Lollie's glad shout, as he was clasped in his mother's arms, floated through his mental numbness like a clear toy balloon drifting up in a fog.

Where the Sun Swings North Barrett Willoughby

The fearful velocity of the wind and rain made it impossible for Kayak Bill to keep his tent erected, and in the middle of the night he was forced to move his bedding into Jean's and Lollie's room, where the sisters helped him screen himself off by tacking up a tarpaulin.

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"Oh, dad!" came Lollie's pleading tones, and Ellen knew just how his grey eyes, big now in his small thin face, were raised to his father's,

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Lollie's had a rotten life, and she's just sick of it, that's all.

Jack O' Judgment Edgar Wallace 1903

Maybe Lollie's speaking the truth, but it is just as likely she's lying.

Jack O' Judgment Edgar Wallace 1903