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Willie did as he was told, and soon felt dry and quite hungry; but he was a thoughtful little fellow, and determined to wait bravely until Bob could get something for him to eat. "Are yer dry, Willie?" asked Bob. "Should jist think I am," replied Willie; "feel me." "Come on, then; let's go and see if we can find some work. Ain't yer 'ungry?" "Little." said Willie briefly.
He entered the room with a look of self-consequence, slightly bowed to the ladies, without speaking a word, and, after briefly surveying them and their apartments, took up a newspaper from the table, and continued to read it as long as he staid. Mrs.
"The ape knew you," he said, "and you spoke together in the ape's tongue. How did the ape know you, and how did you learn his language?" And then, briefly and for the first time, Tarzan of the Apes told his son of his early life of the birth in the jungle, of the death of his parents, and of how Kala, the great she ape had suckled and raised him from infancy almost to manhood.
'I shouldn't wonder if he knows, she said briefly. 'He doesn't know. I shall not distrust him again. He would have told me. 'Then you had better write. 'You see that I ought to? 'Yes, as you promised. But I can't see why you did. This form of consent had to suffice, feminine as it was.
Several authors have left accounts of the real or pretended original discovery of this island of Madeira, all of whom concur in asserting that it was first discovered by an Englishman. Juan de Barros, the Livy of Portugal, mentions it briefly in the first decade of his Asia.
If you have anything to say to me you can say it very briefly here." Shackleby pinched the cigar he was smoking. Laying his hand on Leslie's shoulder warningly, he whispered, "Keep still, you fool." "I don't know that I can condense what I have to say," he answered airily, addressing Thurston. "Fact is, in the first place, and before Mr.
These need only be mentioned briefly before passing to the second group, that of Antarctic travellers in the proper sense of the term, who, with a knowledge of the form of the earth, set out across the ocean, aiming to strike the Antarctic monster in the heart, if fortune favoured them.
We have already seen that fear is diminished in proportion as we understand that our trials are not motiveless, and perhaps this is the point at which to consider briefly what the motives are. Struggle we may define as the act of wrestling with trial, so as to come out of it victoriously. It is a constant element in every human life.
He must have told you," and he was watching her very keenly, "that the stage runs there from Dry Town?" "Yes. But I chose to ride on horseback. Is there anything strange in that?" "Oh, no!" he said briefly. "Just a nice little ride!" "I have ridden long trails before." Again for a little while she watched him with intent, eager eyes; he was silent, frowning into his own cup of coffee.
Influences, of which I shall have to speak, had led him to regard his old creed as imperfect, and to assent to great part of Coleridge's doctrine. Mill does not discuss the metaphysical or theological views of the opposite school, though he briefly intimates his dissent. But it is interesting to observe how Coleridge impressed a disciple of Bentham.
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