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Tacks, run in and pour Mr. Officer a drink from that bottle on the sideboard!" Diggs stood there swallowing his palate in delightful anticipation until Tacks handed him a brimming glass from which the brave thief-taker took one eager mouthful, whereupon he emitted a shriek of terror that could be heard for miles. "Water! water! quick! I'm a'burnin' up!" cried the astonished Diggs.
The locust-trees within the quadrangle drearily tossed their branches to and fro in the wind, the bark very black and distinct against the persistent gray lines of rain and the white walls of the galleried buildings opposite; the gutters were brimming, roaring along like miniature torrents; nowhere was the fox or the owl to be seen.
Why throw it away to get me out of a place in which I shall only be for a few weeks longer? Another thing another thing " She dragged a ridiculous handkerchief from her sleeve; dabbed her brimming eyes. "Another thing I'm afraid to risk it. I'm afraid to be alone and looking for a place again. There now you know. I'm a coward."
Rougeant came back with the mug brimming. The conversation continued to flow, so did the cider. The men were getting excited. "It's time for us to go out and choose a hiding-place," said Tom. "Yes, let us go," said his uncle. They went out. The farmer hid himself behind a hedge, Tom went opposite him on the other side of the road also taking advantage of the cover which a hedge afforded him.
What have they been doing?" asked the young scout leader, with boyish curiosity brimming over. "I won't tell you that, Paul; but they are wanted by the Government. And sometimes we agents have to go about our business with great caution, in order to discover enough evidence on the suspects to convict.
For," as he would add, "does a man want righteousness? there it is laid for him in Christ; does he want merit? there is the treasure full and brimming over; does he want rest and peace? they are also provided for him; does he want faith? there also is faith prepared for him; but the times and the seasons, these are not given to him to know; and, if confusion and every evil work now prevail, Christ being all, he will bring order out of confusion, when the fulness of the time shall come.
"What my husband did," said Rachel, "was to lock the doors and refuse to let her out until she had begged my pardon." "I hope she did so," said Hugh Woodgate, with the emphasis which often atoned for the inadequacy of his remarks. "In about three minutes," replied Rachel, dryly, with some pride, but no triumph in her tone. Morna had not spoken. Now she took a quick step forward, her eyes brimming.
Grown tall and elegant, her hair in waves about her ears, in a rich restrained tumult about her head, her eyes brimming and full of fire, her lips rich, her bosom generous she was not the Nan who swung upon a gate and wished that hers was a soldier's fortune.
There was a merry fraternization between the two parties a characteristic English scene, in a characteristic setting: the men in their tweed shooting-suits, some with their guns over their shoulders, for the most part young and tall, clean-limbed and clear-eyed, the well-to-do Englishman at his most English moment, and brimming with the joy of life; the girls dressed in the same tweed stuffs, and with the same skilled and expensive simplicity, but wearing, some of them, over their cloth caps, bright veils, white or green or blue, which were tied under their chins, and framed faces aglow with exercise and health.
Spillikins; "we shan't have any more tennis." "Goodbye," said Norah, and as she said it and put out her hand there were tears brimming up into her eyes. But Mr. Spillikins, being short of sight, didn't see them. "Goodbye," he said. Then as the motor carried her away he stood for a moment in a sort of reverie.
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