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"Thank you," said the Captain, as Mrs Morley took a cigar-box from a shelf and then lit a cedar-wood match at the table lamp. "I wonder how the Doctor's going on," he continued, as he lit his cigar. "Ah, I wonder too," said Mrs Morley. "Hope the poor beggar isn't much hurt. But Mr Stripes' claws are rather ugly things.
"Has the woman confessed where she hid the Roman?" he asked of Caleb. "No," he answered, "she says that she knows nothing of any Roman." "Is it so, woman?" "It is so, Rabbi." "Bring her up," he went on sternly, and they passed through some stone chambers to a place where there was a staircase with a door of cedar-wood.
Deringham recoiled a pace when a somewhat gory fowl struck him on the knee, and then sat down on a pile of cedar-wood staring at the speaker. "I wish to see Mr. Alton as soon as possible," he said. The other man looked up again, and grinned. "You'd better not," said he.
Mullins, shawls, and other tissues are likely to have come by the same route as the cinnamon; and these may possibly have been among the "blue clothes and broidered work and rich apparel" which the merchants of Asshur carried to Tyre in "chests, bound with cords and made of cedar-wood."
Toffy began to fidget with some things on a little table, and opened without thinking a carved cedar-wood work-box which had remained undisturbed until then. He found inside it a little knitted silk sock only half-finished, and with the knitting needles still in it, and he closed the lid of the box again softly. Peter walked into the corridor and looked out at the silver night.
Less losses sustained by failures, expenses of commission and brokerage, and salary of three generations of trustees, as per statement annexed 13,775,000 212,175,000 Francs 212,175,000 "It is quite right," said Samuel, after examining the papers, contained in the cedar-wood box.
Leprosy once thoroughly engrafted on our nation, and nor cedar-wood, nor scarlet, nor hyssop, nor clean birds, nor ewes of the first year, nor measures of fine flour, nor offerings of any sort, shall cleanse us for evermore. Let us turn to pleasanter prospects the Joss House, for instance, one of the several temples whither the Chinese frequently repair to propitiate the reposeful gods.
By the time he had seen his luggage deposited in the cabin he had secured for himself alone, engaged a deck chair, and taken a look over the ship which was new, and as handsome as much oak, fragrant cedar-wood, gilding, and green brocade could make her many other passengers were coming on board.
It was a large and handsome boat, built of cedar-wood and richly gilt, with an image of John, the patron-saint of the family, for a figure-head. The nimbus round the head was a crown of lamps, and large lanterns shone both at the bows and stern of the vessel. The Mukaukas George was reclining under an awning, his wife Neforis by his side.
The spare room became the most interesting place in the house. It was all so thrilling: the pulling out of the drawer, the breathless moment until you made sure that the presents were safe, the smell that came out of the drawer to meet you, an indescribable smell of lavender and well-washed linen, of furniture polish and cedar-wood.
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