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Her stock had been masters of men. As the King of Beaver slowly turned about the circle he encountered this rebel defying his assumption, and paused in his speaking a full minute, the drowsy farmers seeing merely that notes were being shifted and rearranged on the table. Then he began again, the dictatorial key transposed into melody. His covert message was to the new maid in the congregation.
Hinchcliffe rearranged these last to make some sort of causeway; I brought up the hurdles; and when Pyecroft and his subaltern had dropped a dozen hop-poles across the stream, laid them down over all. "Talk o' the Agricultur'l Hall!" he said, mopping his brow "'tisn't in it with us. The approach to the bridge must now be paved with hurdles, owin' to the squashy nature o' the country.
He rearranged his cape, took off the cap, and, putting the plumes in better relation, restored it to his head thrust his gloves on one side under a swordless belt, and the ponderous key under the same belt but on the other side, where it had for company a straight dagger of threatening proportions. Lael kept watch on these movements, doubtful if the stranger were aware of her presence.
Brookenham, who had remained quite on her own side of the room, explained to her friend. "Where's he off to?" this friend enquired with a casual advance and a look not so much at her hostess as at the cushions just rearranged. "Oh to some places. To Brander to-day." "How he does run about!"
She was ready to meet the train exactly two hours and a half before it was due, and she combed David's hair three times, and whenever she couldn't sit still another minute she got up and dusted the railing around the porch, brushed off his lounging jacket, and rearranged the roses in the vase on his table. "David, I honestly believe I was homesick. I didn't know it before.
Under this influence all social and conversational values are shifted and rearranged. A "scholarly" man no longer means a man who can talk well on literary subjects but a man who understands the eighteenth amendment and can explain the legal difference between implementing statutes such as the Volstead Act and the underlying state legislation.
The manager moved a wire basket of carbon copies of letters from the left side of his desk to the right, staring at them thoughtfully; rearranged his pencils in a pile before his ink-well; glanced at the point of an indelible pencil with a manner of startled examination; tapped his desk-blotter with his knuckles; then raised his eyes. He studied Mr.
I happened to know one or two German words, and when incautiously I chanced to let her have a look at them she seized my hand and did a skirt dance. Then presently she ran out into the kitchen, took everything from every shelf, and rearranged the articles in a manner adapted to the uses of nothing human.
Mah raght wife, she daid an' then Ah mahied this yeh light-shaded gehl fum th' quahtahs, an' she's wild an' misled yes, seh." Again he was troubled, but I held him to it. "You thought a good deal of her, didn't you, Clem?" He studied a moment as he rearranged the roses in the bowl on the table, seeking a way to let me understand. Then he sighed hopelessly.
Madam Schuyler arranged and rearranged the folds, and finally stood back to look with half-closed eyes at the effect, deciding that very few would notice that the bride was other than they had expected until the ceremony was over and the veil thrown back.
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