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Out his arms went, in eager greeting. For the girl, laughing and flushed, and very beautiful, was coming down the stair at the end of the hall. Never had the engineer beheld a sight so wonderful to him as this woman, clad in the Bengal robe; this girl who smiled and ran to meet him. "What? Were you frightened?" she asked, growing suddenly serious, as he stood there speechless and pale.
I see you have taken good care of my dog, and now if you will come with me to my house, he and I will do our best to entertain you. Here is our company." As the old woman spoke there was a sound of far-off flutes and bugles, then a glare of lights. And a great company, clad so grandly that they shone with gold and jewels, came in open chariots, covered with gilding and drawn by snow-white horses.
It cannot, however, be denied that the spirit of Christianity has ameliorated the condition of civilized peoples, cooperating in this with beneficent inventions. Never were the mass of the people so well fed, so well clad, so well housed, as today in the United States.
"I never said anything of the kind. I said Mrs. Fream was going to the flower show. Hurry up, Jan." "Well, will I do? Will I satisfy the hedges and ditches, do you think?" Jan asked later, as she appeared in the hall clad in the white raiment Meg had commanded. Meg turned her round. "Very nice indeed," she said. "I'm glad you put on the expensive one.
Heinz's cheeks were also glowing from his struggle with the courtier, who considered it a grave offence that a knight should dare to appear before the Emperor at a peaceful social assembly clad in full armour. His appearance created a joyful stir among the other members of the court nay, in spite of the sovereign's presence, cordial expressions of welcome fell from the lips of ladies and nobles.
Now she is in full-face, now in three-quarter face, now in profile. In this picture she wears a blue cloak, in that picture she is clad in a grey. She is alone with the Child in a bower of tall roses, or she is seated on a high throne. Perhaps the painter has varied the composition by the introduction of St.
Mr Neeld was still at Fairholme; he had been pressed to stay and needed little pressing; in fact, in default of the pressure he would probably have taken lodgings in the town. He could not go away; he had seen Addie Tristram buried, and her son walking behind the coffin, clad in his new dignity. His mind was full of the situation. Yet he had shrunk from discussing it further with Mina Zabriska.
They were at this a good while, with such ferocious looks that the charcoal-burner and his wife durst not leave their home. "I can still see them as they sat grinding their knives," said the man. "They looked terrible with their great beards that had not been cut or tended for many a day, and they were clad in rough coats of skin, which were tattered and befouled.
"Yes, but look at his dress and that of his companions," exclaimed the others. "Just what Perriche said," repeated the first. "They are devils, not men," cried out a second. "Just what Pierriche said. They are clad in sheet-iron." "Yes, that is true. Sheet-iron men!" And the frightened women, leaving the clothes on the jetty, fled precipitately up the bank.
Agatha, though void of emulation for the Cambridge Local, always competed with ardor for the honor of being first up or down stairs. They soon returned, clad for walking, and left the college in procession, two by two, Jane and Agatha leading, Gertrude and Miss Wilson coming last.
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