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"Do you think she'll have another fit?" The doctor made an evasive gesture, and then replied: "In any case the others will be less violent." He had asked Rosalie for a glass and water-bottle. Half-filling the glass with water, he took up two fresh medicine phials, and counted out a number of drops.
'Here, said Toby, as the young Jew placed some fragments of food, and a bottle upon the table, 'Success to the crack! He rose to honour the toast; and, carefully depositing his empty pipe in a corner, advanced to the table, filled a glass with spirits, and drank off its contents. Mr. Sikes did the same. 'A drain for the boy, said Toby, half-filling a wine-glass. 'Down with it, innocence.
Deane rose and took down the square black bottle and the diminutive wine-glass beside it. Half-filling the latter, a thimble-full in verity, he drank it in two or three delicate little sips, puckering his large under-lip to receive them.
The boat had almost reached the summit, when the water came rushing over her bows, half-filling her; but the crew persevered, and the wounded men began bailing away with might and main. "Pull away, pull away, lads!" shouted Rhymer; "there's only one more, and we shall be clear of them."
And something was presently done; for although my representations and suggestion had been met and rejected with scorn and derision, an argument of a most convincing character was soon brought to bear upon the contumacious ones, in the shape of a green sea that came right in over the bows, half-filling the forecastle, and frightening the occupants out of their wits, while it carried away some thirty feet of bulwark on the port side.
After a time Tom exclaimed: "Hullo, Ruthie! do you really think this is right?" "What do you mean?" He held up the lantern in silence. Ruth and Ralph crowded forward to look over his shoulders. There was a heap of rubbish and earth half-filling the tunnel. It had not fallen from the roof, although neither that nor the sides of the tunnel were of solid rock.
I think of it in a whimsical and fantastic image, the best I can find. Imagine a box in which there are a number of objects like puff-balls, each with a certain life of its own, half-filling the box. Some of the puff-balls are small, hard, sterile; others are soft and expansive; some grow quickly in warmth and light, others fare better in cold and darkness.
Occasionally, however, one of those chasing waves would come after us, at a racer's speed, invariably breaking at such instants, and frequently half-filling the boat. This gave us new employment, Rupert and myself being kept quite half the time bailing. No occupation, notwithstanding the danger, could prevent me from looking about the cauldron of angry waters, in quest of the ship.
When the time came for filling the glasses, he had the satisfaction of hearing Madame Fontaine herself give him orders to draw the cork of a new bottle, after all. Mrs. Wagner turned to Jack, standing behind her chair as usual, and asked for some wine. Madame Fontaine instantly took up the nearly empty bottle by her side, and, half-filling a glass, handed it with grave politeness across the table.
They had to bale her out continuously, for the waves broke over her each moment, half-filling her on many occasions.
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