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Though in '61 he advocated a foreign war as a means for bringing together North and South, and desired to shelve practically Lincoln while he himself stood at the front to manage the turmoil, he made no more mistakes than statesmen in general.
'We have met before this? he asked. 'Once, Paul replied. 'Castle Barfield? 'Exactly. 'If you'd rather shelve that 'Certainly not between ourselves. The hostess took the escort of the eminent diplomatist who was the doyen of the party. The men followed as it pleased them. Ralston and Paul went last. 'I am a prophet, said Ralston, subduing that richly hoarse voice of his.
"It is that Eastern thing is it not? the marble pool and a half veiled figure lying beside it with one hand in the water?" "Yes, but I've had to shelve it. Did I show you that last sketch for the Keats picture?" "You did, Orlando; but dismiss the idea that I am going to play Phryne to your Apelles. It won't come off.
Leaving Ebiásu next morning, I found the banks of sand, clay, and small pebbles beginning to shelve. We passed over slaty rocks in the bed; and the depth of water was often not more than three feet. Women's washings were seen on the left bank, and the river had risen after they had been worked. We could not approach them on account of the reefs and the current.
Their plan of a day and night shift had been abandoned; the trouble engendered by their first attempt had been enough to shelve that sort of program. Hour after hour they toiled, until the gray mists hung low over the mountain tops, until the shadows lengthened and twilight fell. The engines ceased their chugging, the coughing swirl of the dirty water as it came from the drift, far below, stopped.
You're too theoretical to-night for a place of traditions. We'll shelve our little cabaret till some hour when genius burns, and instead I'll plunge you straight into common frivolity, as though you were some Cockney tourist getting his week-end's worth! Have you ever heard of the Bal Tabarin?" "Never. And I would much much rather " "No, you wouldn't! I have spoken. Come along!"
For it was my intention to go from England straight down to the oases of the Djerid, Tozeur and Nefta, a corner of Tunisia left unexplored during my last visit to that country there, where the inland regions shelve down towards those mysterious depressions, the Chotts, dried-up oceans, they say, where in olden days the fleets of Atlantis rode at anchor....
Couldn't you sort of shelve the Justine question for a while?" "Dearie, be advised," Mrs. Salisbury said, with solemn warning. "You DON'T want a girl like that, dear. You will be a SOMEBODY, Sandy. You can't do just what any other girl would do, as Owen Sargent's wife! Don't live with Mrs. Sargent if you don't want to, but take a pretty house, dear.
I understand, so let us drop the subject, my boy. And this five hundred pounds " "I cannot lend it to you, Professor. The fact is, I lost heaps of coin at Monte Carlo, and am not in a position to " "Very good, let us shelve that also," said Braddock with apparent heartiness, although he was really very angry at his failure.
The sides are in most places precipitous, but to the north they shelve up by degrees in terraces of sloping rock which a man can easily clamber up. The first terrace is only a few feet deep, and accordingly a number of men can form here along the brink and fire across the plain, being totally concealed from the advancing troops.
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