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"Neither is that coffin," said I, as if by a sudden inspiration. The man seemed taken aback, as Old Rogers might have said. He looked at the coffin and then looked at me. "Well, sir," he said, after a short pause, which no doubt seemed longer both to him and to me than it would have seemed to any third person, "I don't see anything amiss with the coffin.
Wid Gardner himself presently approached the door, to be suddenly taken aback when he met the somewhat robust and blooming young person who had just arrived. "You've knew Mrs. Gage for some time?" he managed to say at last, to make conversation, after he also had declared himself pleased to meet the newcomer. "Lived together for years," said Annie. "Only real pal I ever had.
Oh! she's at church." "Why aren't you there, too?" He opened his blue eyes, taken aback by the cool clearness of her voice. "Well, I can't abide the parson if you want to know. Shall I put up your pony?" "But perhaps you've not had your sleep out?" said Laura, politely interrogative. He reddened, and came forward with a slow and rather shambling gait.
But she had neither smile nor blush for him; on the contrary, when the dim light that entered the dingy staircase disclosed who awaited her, she drew back a pace with a look of dislike and embarrassment. 'My good girl, he said, speaking on the spur of the moment for the reception took him aback 'what is it? What is the matter?
But, when he wotted of it the least, the door was driven at so that it brake asunder, four men all-armed burst in, and there was Gunnar and his fellows. They set on Grettir; but he caught up his weapons which hung over him, and then drew aback into the corner, whence he defended himself, having before him the shield, but dealing blows with the short-sword, nor did they have speedy luck with him.
When I felt her kisses on my lips, I was taken aback; I had thought of her only as a beautiful child, but now I recognized the woman in her, and I was a married man. "A sound of anxious hallooing reached our ears. It was made by the negroes which Don Manuel had sent out in search of his child; and as the first fury of the storm had now spent itself, we parted from each other.
You've no business here. Go to your study." "You can't send us." "Can't I? Then I'll thrash you if you stay," said Flashman savagely. "I say, you two," said Diggs, from the end of the hall, rousing up and resting himself on his elbow "you'll never get rid of that fellow till you lick him. Go in at him, both of you. I'll see fair play." Flashman was taken aback, and retreated two steps.
So long as you can head east-and-by-north, you are doing well, and you can stand on till you open the light from that northern headland, when you can heave to and fire a gun; but if, as I dread, you are struck aback before you open the light, you may trust to your lead on the larboard tack; but beware, with your head to the southward, for no lead will serve you there."
"He's got a touch of hysterics," said Von Koren gaily, coming into the drawing-room, but seeing Nadyezhda Fyodorovna, he was taken aback and retreated. When the attack was over, Laevsky sat on the strange bed and thought. "Disgraceful! I've been howling like some wretched girl! I must have been absurd and disgusting.
The Prophet bounded into the library, tingling in every vein. His panther-like entrance evidently took the two conversationalists aback, for Malkiel the Second, who had been plaintively promenading about the room, still on his toes according to the behest of Mr.
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