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I leaned back and languidly scanned the scene; eyes halfshut, senses half-awake. An Arab sheikh passed swiftly with his curtained harem; and then went filing by in orderly and bright array a number of Mahommedans, the first of them bearing on a cushion of red velvet, and covered with a cloth of scarlet and gold, a dead child to burial.
An instant later and he lay at our feet, helpless and maimed for many a day; and the standing army of the King was deprived of 1/60th of its strength. Blithelygo and I were at Levuka, Fiji, languidly waiting for some "trader" or mail-steamer to carry us away anywhere.
Although he was staring placidly into the fire he did not fail to note the quick start that the baronet gave. And it was not a feigned start. Fairfield could not understand this indirect method of attack. "What!" he stammered. "You nearly arrested him?" "It was touch and go," said Foyle languidly. "Some of our men got on his trail and followed him until he reached here.
One end of the island showed a curious profile of a man's face, and I recognized it as Dragonera; but what the bay was called I didn't remember, though I had a sort of dim recollection of an anchorage for small craft there. Anchorage it was sure enough too, for as we rose the inlet further, I saw a small screw boat riding there to some sort of moorings and lifting languidly to the swell.
The military operations in the Netherlands during the whole year 1598 were on a comparatively small scale and languidly conducted. The States were exhausted by the demands made upon the treasury, and baffled by the disingenuous policy of their allies.
The sun set in a spendthrift glory of state and color, the water was as if translated to celestial climes, languidly the fair moon arose. And I forever Vesty's face, in some dream of youth and happiness, outlying my estate; pictured, apart from me, yet new-creating me with joy. Afar off in earth-meadows, the love-note of the thrush not for me, yet passing dear and sweet.
Ruth obeyed passively when Slyme told her to sit down, and, lying back languidly in the armchair, she watched him through half-closed eyes and with a slight flush on her face as he deftly covered the sleeping child with the bedclothes and settled him more comfortably in the cot.
The servant lasses are all promised for the fleece-folding; and it's a poor house that won't keep one woman busy in it." "Sophia and Charlotte will go then?" "Excuse me, father," answered Sophia languidly. "I shall have a headache to-morrow, I fear; I have been nervous and poorly all the afternoon." "Why, Sophia, I didn't think I had such a foolish lass! Taking fancies for she doesn't know what.
I can easily get a bit more of the stuff to match, and it will make it quite comme il fait," "But who are you?" said Kitty, who had never laid eyes on Carrie before. "I'm Elma's sister. Now you know." "Elma's sister?" said Kitty. "But what have you come to my room for? What do you want here?" "To speak to you. I want to help you if you'll let me." "To help me?" said Kitty languidly.
Daru advised turning Moscow into an armed camp and wintering there. "A lion's advice," said Napoleon, but he put it aside. The question of retreat would soon be imperative, and that he sometimes discussed, but only languidly, until, on October eighteenth, without warning, a truce made by Murat was broken, and his command driven in.
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