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Or when you were good and said every word of your lessons right; when you watched Mamma working in the garden, planting and transplanting the flowers with her clever hands; and when you were quiet and sat beside her on the footstool, learning to knit and sew. On Sunday afternoons when she played the hymns and you sang: "There's a Friend for little children Above the bright blue sky,"
When they meet the Mameluke beys, they look down and knit their brows; they have made themselves odious to the people, and are hourly becoming more and more detested by them. The thunder-clouds are gathering rapidly on the heads of the Mameluke beys. They see the coming storm in the angry looks of those who approach them; they feel it in the solitude that surrounds them.
He sat on the edge of the bench, motionless, his hands folded on his knees, his head drooping on his breast, his eyes closed, and his brows knit as if in pain. Matryona was silent: and Simon said: "Matryona, have you no love of God?" Matryona heard these words, and as she looked at the stranger, suddenly her heart softened towards him.
"His great ambition his ruling passion was to win a high reputation for skill, integrity, and success in the difficult vocation of a contractor for public works; to give large employment to his fellow-countrymen; by means of British labour and British skill to knit together foreign countries; and to promote civilization, according to his view of it, throughout the world." "Mr.
One devours them with great relish, simply because the keen air of the mountain disposes one to eat something, and there is nothing better to be had. They were hearty, rosy-looking girls, cheerful and obliging, wore the flat, Swiss hat, and carried their knitting work along with them, and knit whenever they could.
Lambert, here is the name of one of your greatest men over a cobbler's stall! Boerhaave. If it were only Herman Boerhaave instead of Hendrick, it would be complete." Lambert knit his brows reflectively, as he replied, "Boerhaave, Boerhaave! The name is perfectly familiar; I remember, too, that he was born in 1668, but the rest is all gone, as usual.
He permitted his female admirers to knit him stockings and comforters, and make him dainty puddings and other delicacies, which he devoured with huge gusto. The friendship of the Archduke Rudolph relieved Beethoven of the immediate pressure of poverty; for in 1809 he settled a small life-pension upon him.
'I don't know, her husband replied; 'there is some mistake; it will be cleared in time. But keep it from Maude; I think the news would kill her. Meantime Tom had sat with his brows knit together, as if intently thinking; and when at last he spoke he said to his father: 'I shall go to Springfield on the ten o'clock train, and you'd better go with me. To this Frank made no objections.
Elinor and Ross were almost equally affected by this speech. "Shades of the summer of seventy-six!" was his rather inappropriate exclamation. And Elinor's expression seemed to Arethusa to be one of incredulity, so she turned back her shirtwaist cuff to prove her statement, and showed the end of a long, knit sleeve. "I don't like to wear it a single bit," she said, "but Aunt 'Liza makes me.
She's our Sunday-school teacher. Oh, Miss Mary!" she called suddenly. Miss Taylor, just sitting down in the easy-chair, turned. "What is it, Alexia?" while Mr. Dyce frowned. At which Alexia laughed over at him. "Please show me about my work," she begged. "You little tyrant!" called Mr. Dyce, as Miss Mary went over. "Do I slip one stitch and then knit two?" asked Alexia innocently.
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