United States or Eswatini ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
In the midst of this bazaar, where splendor revealed the owner's want of occupation, Sommervieux's famous picture filled the place of honor, and in it Monsieur and Madame Guillaume found their chief consolation, turning their eyes, harnessed with eye-glasses, twenty times a day on this presentment of their past life, to them so active and amusing.
I had a letter yesterday from Sir J. Lambert, who says he can contrive to send the Badge safely. I hope he sends my letters regularly. March is still at Lord Spencer's, where he amuses himself, as he tells me, excessively. I will write more after dinner, when I hope to be more amusing to you. I am glad for your sake and mine that they are still in town.
Saxon temporarily forgot his worries and relapsed into quite amusing reminiscences of certain adventures in France. If only our spirits would keep up to the point to which, with much effort, we screw them, all would be well: unfortunately they often have a tiresome knack of descending with a run. When tea was finished and cleared away Mr.
You can put on running shorts and a blazer and potter about the grounds, feeling strong and athletic, and delude yourself into the notion that you are training for the sports. Ten minutes at the broad jump, five with the weight, a few sprints on the track it is all very amusing and harmless, but it is apt to become monotonous after a time.
Although she could see through you as if you were plate glass, she made it a point to ask Sara all the questions she could think of. Over in Nice, you know. Of course Sara told her everything, and now she's quite sure she can't be mistaken in people. Really, Miss Castleton, she's very amusing sometimes, mother is." Hetty was looking straight ahead, her face set. "What did Sara tell her about me?"
Despite the evident intended authoritativeness of the book for it was marked "Permitted to military staff officers" I found it amusingly full of erroneous conceptions of the true state of affairs in the outer world. This teaching of a child-like mind the rudiments of knowledge was an amusing recreation, and so an hour passed pleasantly.
She had found him amusing in the first days of their acquaintance, and possibly she might again find him diverting, but this afternoon he had chosen ill for his call. She was quite sure she detested him. For the first time she measured him by standards of which he could know nothing, and found no good thing in him. What had Marsh meant when he forced this most undesirable acquaintance on her!
"Oh, yes." "He seems well . . . and in good spirits? Contented? Is he that type of young man? Happy?" "I don't think he is really very happy, though he is cheerful and and amusing. I don't see how he can be very light-hearted." "Why?" She shook her head: "I believe he I know he must be in painfully straightened circumstances." "I have heard so," nodded Colonel Arran.
She ventured to laugh a little too a very little; and that was the charm of her to him the clear-eyed, delicate gravity not lightly transformed. But when her laughter came, it came as such a surprisingly lovely revelation that it left him charmed and silent. "I wonder," she said, "if you can be amusing except when you don't mean to be." "If you'll give me a chance to try " "Perhaps.
It was quite amusing to see the anxiety shown by some of those present to effect the same purpose. The senator kept shaking hands with all around, repeating over and over again, "Glad to see you, citizens, glad to see you." Amongst others, a gentlemanly-dressed negro with a gold-headed cane pressed forward and held out his hand.
Word Of The Day