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From this he was aroused by the cessation of the music and the hum of subdued approbation by which it was followed. Above the hum swelled the imposing voice of M. Louvier as he rose from a seat on the other side of the piano, by which his bulky form had been partially concealed. "Bravo! perfectly played! excellent!
If the Doctor expects the company is to remain solemn during the next quarter of an hour he knows nothing at all about the school over which he presides. Once more enter Tony on his crutches to receive another prize. "Bravo, Tony!" "Hurrah for the Dominican!" "First Greek prize Wraysford." Wraysford advances gravely and slowly. The instant he appears there arises a cheer the mightiest of any yet.
"Bravo, my hearty!" cried Mr Fosset, lending Stoddart a hand to lash himself to the cylinder, while Grummet held a screw-wrench and other tools up to him. "You ought to be a sailor, you're so smart!" "I prefer my own billet," retorted the other with an air of conscious power. "I am an engineer!" Mr Fosset laughed. "All right!" said he good-humouredly. "Every one to his trade!"
On the other hand, his more practised colleagues heard the detail of the Bravo with politic coolness. The effect of all factitious systems is to render the feelings subservient to expediency.
The wizard threw back his head dress and long horsehair wig, and showed the grinning face of young Jack himself. "Bravo, Jack," said his comrade, Harry; "you did it ever so much better than the other conjuror did." "Was he frightened?" inquired young Jack. "Poor old Mole! I never saw him so alarmed before." Harvey and old Jack enjoyed the fun every bit as much as the boys.
Get them, then go on for the Man Higher Up! Leave me, when A drop back in the dark to-night; if A'm in my senses, A'll shout a bravo and give y' a wave! Y'r the Man on the Job, the Nation's job! 'Tis not by bludgeons and bayonets, 'tis by ballots and brains y'll fight this battle out; and fight y' must or y'r freedom will go the way o' the old world despotisms down in a welter.
He bought a grand house at Toorak, then he bought a wife to do the honours of the grand house, and when his domestic affairs were quite settled, he bought popularity, which is about the cheapest thing anyone can buy. When the Society for the Supplying of Aborigines with White Waistcoats was started he headed the list with one thousand pounds bravo, Meddlechip!
"Not really," David said, "she's as sound as a nut. She's only going through the different stages." "To pass deliberately through one's ages," Beulah quoted, "is to get the heart out of a liberal education." "Bravo, Beulah," Gertrude cried, "you're quite in your old form to-night." "Is she just the same little girl, David?" Margaret asked. "Just the same. She really seems younger than ever.
Donna Ynez Bravo, who was sister to the prisoner and wife to Nicolas de Ribeira, one of the fugitives, on hearing the situation of her brother, hastened to the camp accompanied by her father, and threw herself at the feet of Gonzalo, whom she earnestly implored to spare the life of her brother.
All that seemed far away now, yet the words of the song brought it back, and his extraordinary imagination made the scenes at Bigot's ball pass before his eyes again, almost as vivid as reality. Once more he saw the Intendant, his portly figure swaying in the dance, his red face beaming, and once more he beheld the fiery duel in the garden when the hunter dealt with Boucher, the bully and bravo.
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