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They had taken her high up so high that no prying eyes could time them, and there Tom had opened the motor for all the power in it. They had flashed through space at the rate of one hundred and twenty miles an hour. "If we can only do that in the race, the ten thousand dollars is mine!" exulted Tom, as he slanted the nose of the aeroplane toward the earth.
All secrets are holy, but secrets of State are under a seal next to divine. Next to divine! She was the mouthpiece of his ruling principle. 'I 'm not, prying into secrets, Quintin persisted; 'all I want to know is, whether there 's any foundation for that article all London's boiling about it, I can tell you or it's only newspaper's humbug. 'A pretty sort of answer I should get.
By hiding behind Deimos we should escape the prying eyes of the Martians, even when they employed telescopes, and thus be able to remain comparatively close at hand, ready to pounce down upon them again after we had obtained, as we now had good hope of doing, information that would make us masters of the situation. On One of Mars' Moons.
This was easily seen, for the ground was soft about the bubbling spring, and would have retained a fresh print. "All right then, now for the bunkhouse," ordered Garry. They entered by prying loose one of the shutters and hopped inside.
She had not formed any idea of how searching would be the investigation of the places where any of her husband's papers might be found. Her own study was not exempt from the prying eyes of the detectives. This room, sacred to her, which Roland himself never entered without permission was ransacked, and forever desecrated in her eyes.
I flushed hotly and said: "Look here, have you nothing better to do than prowl around prying into other people's business? Did that girl tell you that?" "Never mind whether she did or not. The main thing is, you did that contemptible thing. And you felt ashamed of it afterward. Aha! you feel ashamed of it now!" This was a sort of devilish glee.
She would belong to a She sprang up at the recollection, and drew the curtains of the window closer together. "We will shut out the cold, inquisitive, prying old world," she said. "It shall not look, shall not listen! It is a hard, cruel world, my Paul.
His manner of accosting me partook more of kindness than civility; and his inquiries were not free from the familiar, prying curiosity which prevails in every corner of our island, and, I must say, in the north in particular. "Where do you come fra, na if it be a fair question?" inquired he. "From B ," was the brief and merely civil reply. "An' hae ye come frae there the day?" he continued.
It is foolish, because they are themselves as ignorant as those whom they pretend to teach; and is sinful, because it is prying into that futurity which God, in mercy as well as wisdom, hides from men. God indeed orders all things; but when you have a mind to do a foolish thing, do not fancy you are fated to do it. This is tempting Providence, and not trusting him.
When George could hold the flask, he pushed the investment out of the cylinder and chipped at it with a screwdriver. A hip appeared. "The Flying Lady," Oliver said. "Damn!" George said, chipping and prying. Gobs of oatmeal colored investment fell away. "Not bad!" George held up the Lady and the heart on their bronze tree. "We cut them off and polish. . ."
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