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She paused and looked away from him to escape evidence of the pain which she knew her words were giving him. His face seemed haggard in the feeble flicker of the candle. Stiles had sat silent throughout, poking some dried pine-needles into a little heap with a stick. He continued carefully to poke them together and scatter them again, poke them together and scatter them again.
"Thanks for your polite way of putting it," said I. "'Witch' is a nicer epithet than 'beast. I wish I almost wish I'd never seen any of you!" "I don't," said he. "And I don't believe Somerled does. To go back to the time when we didn't know that the witch-child existed would be going back from electricity to candles." "You have a pretty way of poking fun at me," I laughed.
Red-roofed buildings of stone and adobe entirely cover the hillside, with here and there a dome, a tower, a church steeple shooting upward, or a tell palm poking its head above a garden wall the glittering green contrasting well with the ruddy tiles and the pink, gray, blue and yellow of the painted walls.
Number two proved to be a letter from Charlotte, and as Ruth opened it a dainty handkerchief trimmed with narrow lace insertion and bordered with pink wash ribbon dropped into her lap. I thought I couldn't show my devotion to you more than by poking a needle in and out. "Glenloch won't seem the same without you, and I can't bear to think you've really gone.
Here, you Jim," he added, poking a recumbent figure in the adjoining cot. "Roll out! It's reveille!" Jim sat up at once and rubbed his eyes, and, after a hurried consultation, the two men turned the two children with their faces to the wall in one corner of the tent, while they made a hasty toilet in the other. "Now, then, out with it," said Uncle Sam a few moments later. "Que vooly-voo?
Sept. 13 The weather was again favorable for our work of burning the logs but, despite a strong wind, they burned slowly and we had to keep poking and turning them to get a hot blaze. The smoke and heat were like to overcome me, but Sloot went ahead. He was born in the bush and all its work is second nature to him. Washed in the pond and got to bed late.
After Primrose was gone to bed, the Sphynx became much more ill- tempered and demonstrative, snarling considerably at the approach of some of the party, some of whom replied with convulsive laughter, some, such as Jasper, with demonstrations of 'poking up the Sphynx. She had a question for everybody Fly was asked, 'Which was best, a tree or a Butterfly's ball? and answered, with truthful politeness, that where Mysie and Val were was best of all.
Ichabod Wright, and ferocious pedants like Professor Francis Newman, and conventional worshippers of such idols as Scott and Macaulay, when they found him poking his seraphic fun at the notion that Homer's song was like "an elegant and simple melody from an African of the Gold Coast," or at lines so purely prosaic as All these thy anxious cares are also mine, Partner beloved; or so eccentric as
After a time Ned came to the door of the tent and beckoned to Jimmie. "Suppose we go and get some pictures of the mountains," he said, when the boy entered. "We haven't taken a snap-shot since we came here. "I'm strong for it!" Jimmie declared. "We might go and take a few snaps at the counterfeiter's den. That will be fine!" "What's that?" demanded Frank Shaw, poking his nose into the tent.
'To the village, it has run off to the village, shrieked a peasant woman in a cap of extraordinary size poking her head out of a dormer window. I went out of the house. "'Where is my Tresor? I asked and at once I saw my saviour.
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