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Imperiously beckoning to a waiter, he commanded him to "wipe that grease spot off that plate, and bring him some butter!" Let us give more than the grease spot. Better go to the other extreme, and drown our friend's neglected parsnips in fresh, pure un-oleomargarined, and entirely sweet butter. To no other estate are there so many varieties of phases as to that of matrimony.
I saw they wanted to get out, so I went and held their horse for them, and they got down and went into the house." "Did you see their faces?" "No, sir; not then. They had veils on." "Very well, go on." "I hadn't been to work long, before I heard some one calling my name, and looking up, saw Mr. Stebbins standing in the doorway beckoning.
That jolly soul turned to him for explanation, and at the same time the lawyer whom Squire Gaylord had touched on the shoulder responded to a few whispered words from him by beckoning to the prosecuting attorney, who stepped briskly across to where they stood.
Then you and I can walk away into those beckoning woods, and I can have you all to myself." Indeed she was worth having. With the witchery that some girls know, she had made a very picture of herself that morning, as I have said.
Now the rain is over, your carriage is at the door, the country smiles and the wet highway waves a beckoning hand. We have worn through a cloud with cloudy discourses, but we are in a land of shifting weathers, 'coelum crebris imbribus ac nebulis foedum, not every chapter can be sunshine.
Not that he was overfond; but each bottle temporarily weeded out that crop of imperishable debts, that Molochian thousand, that Atalanta whose speed he could not overtake, having no golden apples. To him the world grew roseate and kindly, viewed through the press of the sparkling grape, and invariably he saw fortune beckoning to the card-tables. "Now, then, Jack, I've got you where I want you.
You couldn't have done anything that would please me more, and I'm delighted to see how well you ride. Now, will you mount again, or shall we turn Mac out and take you in?" asked Dr. Alec, as Aunt Jessie proposed a start, for the others were beckoning them to follow.
As my friend and myself passed he said to me, 'The President seems to notice you turn toward him. 'No, I said, 'I don't care to be recognized. At that instant Mr. Lincoln started from his seat, advancing quickly to the iron railing, and leaning over, beckoning with his long arm, called: 'Hubbard!
With a stick and a handkerchief, he twisted on a tourniquet, muttering condolence: "Pain much? Lost my balance, you know. That better? What a clumsy accident!" Then, dodging out from the plantain screen, and beckoning, "All you chaps! Come over here!" Nesbit came running, but at sight of the bloody victim, pulled up short. "What ho!" he whispered, first with a stare, then a grin of mysterious joy.
See, she advances with one hand armed with Justice, while the other points to that exquisite symmetry half revealed, as if beckoning thitherward her children back again to the pure founts of life! "Be not afraid," she cries, "of the noise of my garments and their blood-stains; for this is the blood of a new covenant of Freedom, shed to redeem and perpetuate a chosen land."
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