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In fact, both the Sheriff and his hopeful Deputy declared with a sneer, that the necessity of holding the meeting might possibly be set aside, by the House of Commons passing the Bill.
'I can have no occasion, replied Fairford, 'for holding any discussion with these gentlemen, or with any others, on the circumstance which I have just witnessed it could only have become the subject of my conversation by mere accident, and I will now take care to avoid the subject entirely.
"Passing my hand over him, I found he was holding himself in his present position by means of his forelegs, which were stretched out upon the floor. What a dog this must be, who could climb a wall! But I gave no time to conjectures of this sort. How could I avail myself of his assistance? In what manner could he enable me to escape from that dangerous tower? "Suddenly a thought came to me.
Come come said Bridget holding the palm of her left hand parallel to the plane of the horizon, and sliding the fingers of the other over it, in a way which could not have been done, had there been the least wart or protruberance 'Tis every syllable of it false, cried the corporal, before she had half finished the sentence I know it to be fact, said Bridget, from credible witnesses.
Ships so designed may reach the ground of action later than those which have more speed; but when they arrive, the enemy, if of weaker fighting power, must go, and what then has been the good of their speed? War is won by holding on, or driving off; not by successful running away.
He had put his right hand the hand holding the thing he had taken out of the drawer behind his back. He was very pale; the sweat had broken out on his sallow, thin face. For a horrible moment there floated across Sylvia's sub-conscious mind the thought of Anna Wolsky, and of what she now knew to have been Anna Wolsky's fate.
Kate's part in the pageant was humble enough, her duties being limited to holding articles of costume until Miss Knag was ready to try them on, and now and then tying a string, or fastening a hook-and-eye.
These 'witches' would fix their minds upon other people, or their animals, and by holding a concentrated mental picture there, would send forth thought-waves affecting the welfare of the persons being 'adversely treated, which would influence and disturb them, and often bring on sicknesses.
Mme. de Lorcy moved to and fro, when suddenly she descried a little old woman, sixty years of age, with a snub nose, whose little gray eyes gleamed with malice and impertinence. Her chin in the air, holding up her eye-glasses with her hand, she scrutinized all the pictures with a critical, disdainful air.
The Arab at once recognized his foe of the previous evening; but they soon came to a friendly understanding Paula confessing her folly in holding a single and kindly-disposed man answerable for the crimes of a whole nation.
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