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He loved to watch his friend's meekly perplexed face on such occasions. Heaven knows how long the affair might have lasted but for the fact that a husband, or somebody, unexpectedly turned up a husky little man with a cast in one eye, who looked uxorious to an alarming degree. He carried her off in the nick of time to save Mr. Eames from social ostracism, mental dotage, and financial ruin.
Among the witnesses of the above scene, when the independent citizens of Ghent meekly posed as the duke's children, were envoys from George Podiebrad, ex-king of Bohemia. Lately deposed by the pope, he was seeking some favourable ally who might help him to recover his realm.
But next an impression came upon him that he was running away from persecution, and that this ought not to be, and that he ought to face the enemy, or at least not to hide from him, but meekly wait for him.
Yet, according to Hill, he suddenly abandons this attitude for one of trusting credulity, meekly accepting the assurance of the man he distrusts that Sir Horace Fewbanks's unexpected return from Scotland on the very night the burglary is to be committed is not a trap to catch him, but a coincidence.
Isabel's kindness at length opened her heart, and she put the letter into her hand. Poor little thing, it was very meekly borne: 'Please don't tell no one, ma'am, she said; 'I couldn't hear him blamed! 'But what does he mean? He must be under some terrible error. Who is this Ford? 'It is Delaford, ma'am, I make no doubt, though however he could have got there!
"Couldn't make it, go, hey?" Ben smiled, but did not answer. "I may give you something to do," said Kirk, in a patronizing tone. "You've been employed in this store, I believe." "Yes, I was here some months." "I'll give you two dollars a week." "Thank you," said Ben meekly, "but I shall have to take a little time to decide say the rest of the week." "I suppose you want to help your mother move?"
Two lions fight until one is laid low; the lioness looks calmly on until the little problem of superiority is settled, and then she goes off with the victor. The horses on the Pampas have their set battles until one has asserted his mastery over the herd, and then the defeated ones cower away abjectly, and submit themselves meekly to their lord.
Nothing, replied he. 'I can well believe it! she said. 'You don't know even how to pick up a bundle. Oh, you can come near; I am cleverer than you, and know how to pick up a bundle very well. The king blushed at her words, which he felt had a great deal of truth in them, and took up the bundle meekly.
"There!" said Rupe, giving the helpless nape a final squeeze. "That's the way we do up at the Third." Penrod rubbed his neck and asked meekly: "Can you do that to any boy up at the Third?" "See here now," said Rupe, in the tone of one goaded beyond all endurance, "YOU say if I can! You better say it quick, or " "I knew you could," Penrod interposed hastily, with the pathetic semblance of a laugh.
"Would you mind," I suggested, meekly, "telling me in which direction this mythical fence is situated; what kind of a fence it is; and where I carry to when I get through it?" The Captain chuckled.
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