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He deliberately clamped down the lid upon such reflections and bethought himself of the business which brought him along the street. Turning off the main thoroughfare, he passed half a block along a cross street and entered an office building. Ascending to the fourth floor, he entered an elaborate suite of offices which bore upon the ground glass of the entrance door this legend: LEWIS AND COMPANY
His arguments were not elaborate, or studied in point of finish, but they were strong, downright practical, and to the point. In this sense he was a fine and effective speaker to courts and juries. These same characteristics he exhibited upon the Bench.
"I came out here to find my uncle busily pruning and chopping the dead underwood away, but I had no more to do with it than you had!" "What's that you're eating an apricot?" Martin said to Anne, in his laughing way. "I was going to say that if it was a peach, you are a cannibal!" "Oh, help!" Alix ejaculated, with a look of elaborate scorn. "No, but where were you last night?"
His advertisement set forth that his pupils would be taught "reading, elocution, penmanship, and arithmetic; algebra; astronomy, history, and geography; moral philosophy, commercial law, and political economy; English grammar and composition, and, also, if required, the French and Spanish languages by natives of those countries." This elaborate scheme was never put into execution, as Mr.
Say!" he exclaimed, a moment later, as he was ushered into the workroom and caught sight of the new set, which was partially completed. "You're certainly going into it pretty heavily this time, aren't you? I didn't imagine you were working up anything so elaborate." "We thought we might as well make something pretty good while we were about it," said Bob.
She was the most sweet-tempered and generous of women, and she would have placed any one of her elaborate costumes at my disposal had I expressed the least desire in that direction. I answered: "No, dear; I certainly have no regular ball 'fixings, for I never expected to dance here, or anywhere for that matter.
In the year 1771 Anna Green Winslow wrote in her diary an account of one of these elaborate hair-dressings which she then saw. She ends her description thus: "How long she was under his opperation I know not.
Many an ingenious placer has had the binders of his very worst risks that he had been totally unable to cover freshly typewritten every morning in order to convey the impression that the order had that moment been secured by his firm and that the hesitating counterman to whom it was being presented with elaborate indifference was the first the best friend of the placer to whom the line had been offered.
These are the tools, if I may so express myself, which our elaborate system of school discipline puts into the hands of our scholars; possessed of these, they may use them in whatever direction they please afterwards, they can never be an incumbrance.
Elaborate preparations had been made for the reception. An arch of green boughs at the top of which gleamed the word "Vivat" in yellow roses spanned the road, on either side of which were ranged twelve little girls in white, with flower-baskets in their hands.
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