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I went with the boat to lend a hand, and the second mate of the brigantine told me that the young captain had refused to listen to the mate's suggestion to shorten sail, when the officer told him that the wind would certainly come away suddenly from the N.E. The consequence was that a furious squall took her aback, and had not the jibboom and then the upper spars carried away under the terrific strain, she would have gone to the bottom.
I'll get the lump-fish; but 'tis the last cure you'll try. If it fails, back you go t' Wolf Cove." "Oh, my!" said she, taken aback. "Back I goes, does I! An' t' Wolf Cove? Oh, dear!" My father sent word to the masters of the cod-traps, which were then set off the heads, that such sculpin as got in the nets by chance must be saved for him.
"Worington has some notion that the Marshal may go to the Arsenal to-night with the writ. I mustn't neglect the boy." Virginia stood in front of him. "Won't you let me go?" she pleaded The Colonel was taken aback. He stood looking down at her, stroking his goatee, and marvelling at the ways of woman. "The horses have been out all day, Jinny," he said, "I am going in the cars."
I do not pretend to be a judge of these matters, but really I believe Salina was a little taken aback, when she came forth into the porch, with her dress nicely tucked up, and her shawl folded in a fashion that left one arm at liberty, and saw uncle Nathan sitting there in the dark, instead of standing by the cheese-press, hat in hand, determined to escort her as a man of spirit ought to have been, after the trouble she had taken with the shawl.
And he wanted to bargain with me for my DEAD ones! Look here, Chichikov. You are a swine! Yes, by God, you are an utter swine! Is not that so, your Excellency? Is not that so, friend Prokurator ?" But both his Excellency, the Public Prosecutor, and Chichikov were too taken aback to reply. The half-tipsy Nozdrev, without noticing them, continued his harangue as before. "Ah, my fine sir!" he cried.
I do not love your country, Monsieur, and my rare visits there do not linger in my mind." "Your husband," he reminded her, "asked me to visit you here." "My husband's friends," she replied, "are not mine." The calm insolence of her manner towards him took him aback. He had scarcely expected such a reception. "I can only apologize, Madame," he said with a bow, "for intruding.
"Why, yes, your Honor, I had " "What did you have?" "I had a bottle of something I don't know what it was something that burned " There was again a laugh round the courtroom, stopping suddenly as the magistrate looked up and frowned. "Have you ever been arrested before?" he asked abruptly. The question took Jurgis aback. "I I " he stammered. "Tell me the truth, now!" commanded the other, sternly.
I saw him start when I lifted my head, as if he were taken aback. I said nothing, but he led my horse off the road down among the trees with a deep little thicket where none could see us. As we went I was thinking like a windmill; for I knew I had seen the little red brooch before. "When we reached the little open space, I asked him what he wished with me. "'Your purse, madam, said he.
He turned to me unexpectedly a face of profound melancholy; his expression had in it, oddly, a trace of sternness; and I was somewhat taken aback by this evidence that he was still bearing vicariously the troubles of his client. So deep had been the thought I had apparently interrupted that he did not realize my presence at first. "Oh, it's you, Paret. Yes, I've left Elkington," he said.
But it was enough to take me aback. I had looked to see her face lighten at our news; instead it wore an expression I had never seen on it before. Catherine, so kind and gentle, calling us fools! And without cause! I did not understand it. I turned confusedly to Croisette. He was looking at her, and I saw that he was frightened. As for Madame Claude, she was crying in the corner.
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