United States or Vietnam ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
In this state of severe privations, and with very light clothing, they passed the nights lying on the shore, benumbed with cold, incapable of enjoying, even in the smallest degree, the solace of sleep, and expecting with anxiety the return of day.
Go thou and bring back the Pandavas. If they do not come back, let them go treated with respect and affection. Let those my sons go with weapons, and cars, and infantry, and enjoying every other good thing." Vaisampayana said, "defeated at dice, after the Pandavas had gone to the woods, Dhritarashtra, O king, was overcome with anxiety.
I was rather wondering at and enjoying the unusual clearness and energy of thought of which I felt capable, when the clock in the hall began striking, and, almost at the same moment, the clock of the old Church of St Andrew began striking also.
So the impatient one refrained, but he cast many envious looks downward, and a little later could have been seen stretched out on his stomach, prying off bunches of the 'coon oysters with a knife, and enjoying a little side treat. It was easy to run upon the reef, but to get off was another matter, especially with a falling tide.
He drew the large rocking-chair from the kitchen where winter and summer it occupied a place by the window, that Bertrand in his moments of rest and leisure might sit and read the war news aloud to his wife as she worked out to a cool grass plot by the door, so that he might still be near enough to chat with his daughter, while enjoying the morning air.
Everybody knew, also, that John Stavely was not expecting anybody by the boat or any freight, either; and Stavely must have known that everybody knew this, still it made no difference to him; he liked to seem to himself to be expecting a hundred thousand tons of saddles by this boat, and so he went on all his life, enjoying being faithfully on hand to receive and receipt for those saddles, in case by any miracle they should come.
Do you love me, Parys? say if you have any love for your Marjory say if your affection is changed towards those dear pledges of our happiness, who, enjoying the sports of their age, are unconscious that their father is meditating that which may, ere the morn's sun gild those woods, render them fatherless, and bring sorrow o'er the house of Henderland?
"My sister says I'm a fraud that I really have a frivolous mind and that my serious look is a hollow pretense." And so they talked on, not getting better acquainted but enjoying the realization of how extremely well acquainted they were. When he was gone, Madelene found that her father had been in for some time. "Didn't he ask for me?" she said to Walpurga. "Yes," answered Walpurga.
I spare my readers the account of my delight on coming home, my happiness while there enjoying a brief space of rest and liberty in that dear, familiar place, among the loving and the loved and my sorrow on being obliged to bid them, once more, a long adieu.
And then to have that new sensation sprung upon them, and find that an unknown prowler had paid them a visit in their absence, was, as Bandy-legs expressed it, "too, too much." But because the boys lounged around camp was no reason why they were not enjoying themselves hugely.
Word Of The Day