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Their features were far from being disagreeable; their Voices were soft and Tunable, and they could easily repeat any word after us, but neither us nor Tupia could understand one word they said. Wednesday, 11th. Gentle land and Sea breezes. Employed Airing the Bread, stowing away water, Stores, etc. In the night the Master and Mr.
She concealed it in her glove, and during the whole of the drive she neither saw nor heard anything. It was the custom of the Countess, when out for an airing in her carriage, to be constantly asking such questions as: "Who was that person that met us just now? What is the name of this bridge? What is written on that signboard?"
When the Conklins draped their Oriental rugs for airing every Saturday over the veranda and portico railings of the house front, Colonel Morrison accused the Conklins of hanging out their stamp collection to let the neighbours see it.
Madame Andrews, you are a Greek statue! Miss Earl, put your hair back a little from the left temple. There, now the veins show! Where are your gloves? You look charmingly, my dear; only too pale, too pale! If you don't contrive to get up some color, people will swear that Sir Roger was airing the ghost of a pretty girl. There is the bell! Just as I told you, he is punctual.
"He is too ready with his spiritual experience, that little man! too fond of airing it," said the minister to his daughter. "I don't quite know what to make of him. He is a favorite with Mr. Wingfold; but my experience makes me doubtful. I suspect prodigies."
'All the same, you might lend me a nickel for car-fare. Kloot thought his departure cheap at five cents. He handed it over. The poet went. An instant afterwards the door reopened and his head reappeared, the nose adorned with a pleading forefinger. 'You promise me all this? 'Haven't I promised? 'But swear to me. 'Will you go if I swear? 'Yup, said Pinchas, airing his American.
Generally her ponderous mass of dark auburn hair was down, that the breeze might have the felicity of aiding Sidonie, the maid, in drying and airing it. About her shoulders the point of her that the photographers always made the most of was loosely draped a heliotrope scarf.
'Talking of platefuls reminds me of sausage and mash, said Darkey. 'Don't interrupt. Well, five of these gay little dolls wanted to go to Hong Kong, and they arranged with the Chinese sailors to stow away; I believe their friends paid those cold-blooded fiends something to pass them down food on the voyage, and give them an airing at nights.
It was on his stuffy shelves that poor Benjamin's coat had lain compressed and packed away when it might have had a beautiful airing in the grounds of the Crystal Palace. It was from his stuffy shelves that Esther's mother had redeemed it a day after the fair soon to be herself compressed and packed away in a pauper's coffin, awaiting in silence whatsoever Redemption might be.
Then, probably in reference to the prudery with which she occasionally covered her conduct, "In the meantime," said he, "it will be her prudence, to take care that they be not tarnished and moth-eaten, for want of opening and airing, and turning, at least once a-year." Those matters seem to have sought no concealment whatever.
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