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What will they say when my world-worn old veteran bursts, or rather bumbles, into view?" I felt slightly crestfallen, for the first time. When one is an editor, one doesn't like to think one has been caught napping. "You said you ought to get two hundred pounds for your Panhard, if you sold it," I reminded him. "That's a good deal of money.
She could not help fretting about Allee lying ill at home, Glen took a sleepy spell and spent many hours each day napping when she wanted to play with him, the little house had soon been put in order, everything was unpacked and in its place, the minister and Elizabeth were compelled to devote much of their time to making the acquaintance of their new parishioners and becoming familiar with this new field of labor; so Peace was necessarily left to her own devices more than was good for her.
It was a still day, with a little haze, like white sand sifted across a sunbeam on a kitchen table. The lad was quiet-like all day, chasing me about with his eyes. "Sick?" says I. "No," says he. "Whitmarsh drunk?" says I. "No," says he. A little after dark I was lying on a coil of ropes, napping it. The boys were having the Bay of Biscay quite lively, and I waked up on the jump in the choruses.
"I just knew that Hazy was planning how to spend the afternoon napping." "I'll volunteer to drive all the way, this afternoon," Harry offered. "That will give all of you fellows a chance to harden yourselves more on the first day." "If you want to know a good definition of 'generosity, then ask Hazy," snorted Dalzell. "Come on!" cried Dick good-humoredly. "Scatter. Some for wood, some for water.
The Evening Post The message The administration caught napping McDowell Congress slowly feels its way Seward's great facility of labor Not a Know-Nothing Prophesies a speedy end Carried away by his imagination Says "secession is over" Hopeful views Politeness of the State department Scott carries on the campaign from his sleeping room Bull Run Rout Panic "Malediction! Malediction!"
My love for her absorbed my thoughts, and paralyzed my courage. Of the qualities that have contributed to what success I may have had, I put in the first rank a disposition to see the gloomiest side of the future. But it has not helped to make my life happier, invaluable though it has been in preventing misadventure from catching me napping. So another year passed.
So was it with our three friends upon this occasion. They were scarcely rid of the Blackfeet, who found them too watchful to be caught napping, when, about daybreak one morning, they encountered a roving band of Camanchee Indians, who wore such a warlike aspect that Joe deemed it prudent to avoid them if possible.
But he was not napping; on the contrary, he was very much on the alert, for his head turned slowly from side to side, quiescent as he seemed; there would be little movement pass unobserved within range of that pair of eyes. "Maybe he is," MacRae replied. "Anyhow, I think we'd better wait a while ourselves." For nearly an hour Bevans kept his position.
He is never so much in his majesty as in his night-watch, where he sits in his chair of state, a shop-stall, and environed with a guard of halberts, examines all passengers. He is a very careful man in his office, but if he stay up after midnight you shall take him napping. Is one that has much learning in the ore, unwrought and untried, which time and experience fashions and refines.
I will be led by Him, obey Him alone, and by no other human thoughts and inventions. I renounce all erroneous and wicked opinions against the holy universal Christian apostolic faith. I will never take any part in the meetings of Picards or other heretics." If Augusta thought that by language like this he would catch his examiners napping, he was falling into a very grievous error.
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