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Face, arms and feet were bare and face, arms and feet were liberally powdered with FLOUR. Certainly no one who saw Peg that night could ever forget the apparition. Peg's black eyes, in which shone a more than usually wild and fitful light, roved scrutinizingly over the church, then settled on our pew. "She's coming here," whispered Felicity in horror.
The Senator looked at his companion scrutinizingly for a moment to see if he meant any thing personal, and then replied, "Undoubtedly, undoubtedly. I have had their interests greatly at heart. There will of course be a few expenses, but the widow and orphans will realize all that Mr. Hawkins, dreamed of for them."
She went back to her seat and opened the book. She looked at the first page with a grave face. She knew it would be rude to smile, and she was very determined not to be rude. But it was very odd to find herself expected to study a page which told her that "le pere" meant "the father," and "la mere" meant "the mother." Miss Minchin glanced toward her scrutinizingly.
"I thought so," said Dick, smiling complacently. Richard Varley followed Nicholas into the presence of Mrs. Kent. The latter looked scrutinizingly at him as he approached, hoping that it might be an impostor. But, no! there was no mistaking his appearance. It was, indeed, her brother. "How d'ye do, Helen," said Dick, with ostentatious cordiality.
Looking about scrutinizingly, as those born and bred on the frontier learn to do early in life, Dick saw his father's rifle twenty feet or more away, and between it and him a trail of blood through the sage-brush, then a sinister, crimson blotch on the sand. Mr.
When I reached home I stopped before the big mirror that hung in the hall and did what I had never done before in my life looked at myself very scrutinizingly and wondered if I had any beauty.
Want him to tell you?" and she almost laughed outright. "Wait a minute wait a minute!" came the summons. "What's your big hurry?" They both stopped. Each knew enough for that. The man of the law, shaking that treacherous stick on its red cord, was now beside them. He pushed his cap back to make sure nothing interfered with his gaze. This he fixed scrutinizingly on the two girls.
My landlady sat right opposite and looked at me. I added up these score of figures first once down, and found the total right; then once up again, and arrived at the same result. I looked at the woman sitting opposite me, waiting on my words. I noticed at the same time that she was pregnant; it did not escape my attention, and yet I did not stare in any way scrutinizingly at her.
"Gracious me! what has got into Mirandy?" And he looked scrutinizingly at the little, fine, thin, faintly-traced inscription on the package, as if the writer had begrudged the ink that must be expended on the letters, or from a subtle and mystic self-sympathy had made the chirography faint, delicate, and attenuated as her own self.
Isn't there any thing wrong with her anywhere?" Dr. Eben smiled in spite of himself at this offhand, non-professional view of the case; but he answered, sadly: "Not what you mean by any thing wrong; if there were, it would be easier to cure her." Hetty knitted her brows, and looked at him in her turn, scrutinizingly. "Have you had patients like her before?" "Yes," said Dr. Eben.
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