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"Four francs and four francs fifty centimes," she said, her eyes full of tears, while the farmer's wife, who was looking at her askance, asked in much surprise: "Is the lady ill, as she is crying?" He did not know what to say, and replied with some hesitation: "No no but she lost her watch as we came along, a very handsome watch, and that troubles her.
It will be amusing to listen to them. 'But mother knows all of them. 'They must be strangers in the town or they wouldn't be visiting the potteries, surely. 'I hadn't thought of that; I suppose you're right, and hastening a little, they overtook the party that was being shown round. The Dissenting clergymen looked askance at Mr.
Then it was that the lust of the chase would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a man whose knowledge was not that of other mortals. When I saw him that afternoon so enwrapped in the music at St.
He was very long-bodied and rather short-legged, with great tufts at his fetlocks, and the general look of a huge rat, in part doubtless from having no hair on his long undocked tail. He was biting vigorously at his manger, and Richard could see the white of one eye glaring at him askance in the gloom. 'Dunnot go nigh him, sir, cried Jacob Fortune, who had come up behind.
Always after Ellen's mother had said to her father that she thought Ellen looked pindling he was late about coming home from the shop, and would turn in at the gate laden with paper parcels. Then Ellen would find an orange or some other delicacy beside her plate at supper. Ellen's aunt Eva, her mother's younger sister, who lived with them, would look askance at the tidbit with open sarcasm.
"Did you know anything about him, then?" inquired Lord Thornaby. "I led for the Crown," replied the barrister, with a twinkle. "You might almost say that I measured the poor man's neck." The point must have been quite unpremeditated; it was not the less effective for that. Lord Thornaby looked askance at the callous silk.
His eye leered askance, seeming to wish to play around the person of his master, as, it will be seen, his language endeavored to play around his understanding. The hands crushed the crown of a woollen hat between their fingers, and one of his feet described semicircles with its toe, by performing nervous evolutions on its heel. "Well!" ejaculated Myndert, regarding each in turn.
Our party had been scarcely in time, and had been disposed of in seats close to the door, where Clarence was quite out of sight of the disdainful young lady and her squire, of whom Emily begged to hear no more. She looked askance at the cards left on the hall table the next day- -'The Rev. Christopher Fordyce, and 'The Rev. F. C. Fordyce, also 'Mrs. F. C. Fordyce, Hillside Rectory.
It is remarkable that this barbarous and immoral worship, though looked at askance except in its own holy places, is by no means confined to the lower castes. So far as theology and metaphysics are concerned, these defences are plausible. The Śakti is identified with Prakṛiti or with the Mâyâ of the Advaita philosophy and defined as the energy, coexistent with Brahman, which creates the world.
Beaton stood gloomily aloof, as if waiting to be approached on the right basis before yielding an inch of his ground; Colonel Woodburn, awaiting the moment when he could sally out on his hobby, kept himself intrenched within the dignity of a gentleman, and examined askance the figure of old Lindau as he stared about the room, with his fine head up, and his empty sleeve dangling over his wrist.
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