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"Killed, no," said Gordon, "but he will be if you don't stop crying and making a goose of yourself, Clemency." "We put ice on his head," sobbed Clemency. "He isn't " "Of course he isn't. He was only stunned. That is only a flesh wound." "I tried to git some brandy down him, but I couldn't," said Emma. "Give it to me," said Gordon. He poured out some brandy in a spoon, and James swallowed it.

If the "Y" in North Russia was not a fairly effective organization which went right to the front and stayed there, then a lot of officers and men in the 339th poured slush in my ears.

Every moment instructs and every object: for wisdom is infused into every form. It has been poured into us as blood; it convulsed us as pain; it slid into us as pleasure; it enveloped us in dull, melancholy days, or in days of cheerful labor; we did not guess its essence, until after a long time. Great men are more distinguished by range and extent, than by originality.

On his way he saw an ironwood pole in front of the room, went up to it, and began to dig under it. He found a small bottle which he opened, and he put his first finger into it. He was astonished to see that his finger had become white, and he said: "This must be good to put on the body." He poured some into his hollowed hand and applied it all over his body and hair.

"Give me a sleeping powder, and then you can go." The doctor took the powder, and poured it in a glass of water. The old man drank, but his large eyes followed the changing expressions of the doctor's face, who looked very amused. He did not altogether trust him. "Monsieur Voltaire," said the doctor, "when you make a fire in the oven, draw up the small oven-shutters, else there is too much smoke.

Shaw, fire-boss of the mines. And then in the evenings, when she would be singing her baby to sleep, the little shop would be full of miners, listening in dead silence to the baby-songs, and the English songs, and the Scotch songs she poured forth without stint, for she sang more for them than for her baby. No wonder they adored her.

"If you're feeling a bit off colour, Halibut," he said, kindly, "you'd better have a little brandy to pull yourself together. I don't wish to take a mean advantage." "You're very good," said the other, as he eyed the noble measure of liquid poured out by his generous adversary. "And now to business," said the Major, as he drew himself a little soda from a siphon.

On returning to the place she had left, her eyes met those of Bryan, and for a period that estimable and true-hearted young fellow forgot both grief and sorrow in the rush of rapturous love which poured its unalloyed sense of happiness into his heart. Hycy, however, felt mortified, and bit his lip with vexation.

His looks were full of wildness and horror; his limbs trembled; and his tongue refused its office. He felt no power of resisting the impetuous torrent of reproach that was poured upon him. He hesitated; he was ashamed of his own defeat; he seemed to wish to deny it. But his struggles were ineffectual; every attempt perished in the moment it was made. The general voice was eager to abash him.

The shop had been rather dark, the window being full of books, but now through the open door there poured a little stream of sunshine, reflected from some far off window.