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"A matter of two hours, for we must go by the Black Sail and come back to Wastdale Head, and that's round-about, thou knows."
The effect was astonishingly good, but despite all the decoration, the townsfolk seemed determined to preserve the quiet of the Sabbath, and although there were crowds everywhere, the only noise that broke the stillness was that of the steam round-about that had been erected on a triangular patch of grass.
They had hardly mentioned the affair to each other, and then only in a round-about manner, but each guessed at the other's knowledge. Georgie was aware that for some years now Judith had seen very little of Killigrew, but how or why the severance had come about neither she nor Ishmael could guess.
You are able to help a measure along in many ways, if you choose. I want to ask you to work for the bill as well as vote for it." "It takes so much of one's time, Miss Hawkins and time is money, you know." "Yes, I know it is especially in Congress. Now there is no use in you and I dealing in pretenses and going at matters in round-about ways. We know each other disguises are nonsense.
I read one or two of them myself, and was astonished; perhaps not so much astonished as something else, to find, that at the end of one of his tall-worded, long-winded, round-about sentences, he contradicted what he had said at the beginning. My studies led me to make considerable changes both in my views and way of speaking. With regard to my views.
But overflowing with complimental flourishes, yet respectfully distant his address, all the way we flew; for that, rather than galloping, was the motion of the horses; which took, as I believe, a round-about way, to prevent being traced.
I expressed wonder that he had not been farther on, and he explained that he went a 'round-about' way to avoid passing the old abbey, as he did not want to see 'The Monk. On questioning him, he told me that a monk was often seen in the churchyard."
Gilbert Palgrave held her in such small respect that he waited with patience for her to come, although married, into his arms. And there was not a man or a woman on the Round-about, except Alice, who really cared whether she ever went back again. The greedy squirrel peeked at her from behind a fern, recognized his old playmate, and came forward in a series of runs and leaps.
They took a more round-about path home than that which had brought them into the wood, and at one point it led them through a clearing from which there was a wide view of undulating ground scattered with houses here and there. One house, a pleasant white-walled dwelling, stood conspicuously forward amid copses a couple of fields away.
Secondly, The monopoly of the colony trade, has, in many cases, forced some part of the capital of Great Britain from a direct foreign trade of consumption, into a round-about one.
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