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I remained standing like a stone, but my sword scabbard, reminiscent of some movement, flapped gently against my leg. I thought it was a horrible sound. I sought to stay it, but it continued to tinkle, and I remember that, standing there in the room with the old Earl and my love-'til-death, I thought most of my scabbard and its inability to lay quiet at my thigh.
"I have that," answered the Scotchman in a reminiscent tone. "How many did you kill?" "Four-r ah'm thinking; but ah'm no certain aboot one of them." "Four! And none too dusty. Hit it, MacNab, me boy" the ball would dance in his face "hit it, as if 'twas the one of which you are not certain.
There was something in Edith's sincerity, in her fresh enthusiasm about life, that appeared to strike a reminiscent note in Henderson. Perhaps he remembered another face as sweet as hers, and ideals, faint and long ago, that were once mixed with his ideas of success.
Travers went on as if thinking aloud: "Your conduct was, of course, above reproach; but you made for yourself a detestable reputation of mental superiority, expressed ironically. You inspired mistrust in the best people. You were never popular." "I was bored," murmured Mrs. Travers in a reminiscent tone and with her chin resting in the hollow of her hand. Mr.
I have already written. He whisked Mary away from me, and I had to content myself with contemplating her figure till it disappeared round a bend of the road. Next day in London I found a letter from Peter. He had been very solemn of late, and very reminiscent of old days now that he concluded his active life was over. But this time he was in a different mood.
Every language from Arabic to Spanish is spoken by these the cosmopolites of cosmopolitan San Juan. Pussonally, Mr. Ambrose de Vere Travis spoke only English. Because he hailed from Galveston, Tex., he spoke it with a Gulf intonation at once liquid, rich, and musical. He stood six feet five on his bare soles, so his voice was somewhat reminiscent of the Vatican organ.
The tent was a remarkable spectacle, and so close and reminiscent of black fellow that my first act was to undo the sides and let the fresh air play through. I counted myself very lucky to get off as lightly as I did had I returned an hour later none of my goods and chattels would have been left." "What about the tucker?" Harry asked; "did they get away with the bag they'd stowed it in?"
Still there was a library on board ship and no doubt it would be possible to borrow the works of some standard poet and bone them up from time to time. "Any special poet?" "Well, she seemed to like my stuff. You never read my sonnet-sequence on Spring, did you?" "No. What other poets did she like besides you?" "Tennyson principally," said Eustace Hignett with a reminiscent quiver in his voice.
But when I steered his paw around in front of him he jest grabbed onto that big black pad on the bottom of his foot like it was m'lasses candy, and went off to sleep again as peaceful as a kitten." The man from Coloraydo ended his tale abruptly, with an air of suspense, and Kitty Bonnair took the cue. "What did I do then?" demanded Lightfoot, with a reminiscent smile.
We felt the swing and sweep of the route. The boldness of its stretches, the freedom of its reaches for the opposite slope, the wide curve of its horseshoes, all filled us with the breath of an expansion which as yet the broad low country only suggested. Everything here was reminiscent of long ago. The very names hinted stories of the Argonauts.
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