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So Halstead went, shrugging his shoulders and muttering as he passed me: "I hope you really can shoot." After he had left I sat alone for a full hour with Dingaan while he cross-examined me about the Dutch, their movements and their aims in travelling to the confines of his country. I answered his questions as best I could, trying to make out a good case for them.
"It's easy enough to say stop" Ridley spoke in a tone of fretfulness "and of about as much use as to cry 'Stop! to a man falling down a precipice or sweeping over a cataract. I can't stop." His old friend gazed at him pityingly, then, shrugging his shoulders, he bade him good-morning. From the bar Ridley drifted to the reading-room, where he made a feint of looking over the newspapers.
The eyes refused, repelled the offer of life with growing obstinacy, and in their expression now appeared a covert fear of the miraculous. The Commander did not believe; for three years he had been shrugging his shoulders at the pretended cases of cure. But could one ever tell in this strange world of ours? Such extraordinary things did sometimes happen.
The laurel-crowned figure made a movement as if he intended to join him, but his companion checked him, and, after a short parley, the older man gave the younger one his hand, flung his heavy head back, and strutted onward like a peacock, followed by his whole train. The other looked after him, shrugging his shoulders; then called to Gorgias, asking what boon he desired from the goddess.
Gris! man!" he said, shrugging his shoulders and drawing in his breath sharply, "you think God is as easily duped as the King! I wish I could think so." He did not speak again until we were half-way back to the Louvre; when he opened his mouth to announce his intention of rewarding me with a tithe of the money recovered.
It may be that the property will not bring as much as you expect. Or I might invest the money in the wrong funds. Money questions are so delicate!" But Daniel said, shrugging his shoulders, "I do not understand why you should hesitate to undertake so simple a thing, when you have already consented to render me so signal and so difficult a service." So simple!
"Rubbish!" retorted Haley, contemptuously. "I shall not despair while I have Him to appeal to." "Just as you like," said the captain, shrugging his shoulders. "You are welcome to all the comfort you can find in your present situation." By this time, Robert was bound to the trunk of the tree by a cord, which passed around his waist.
A man with a gray moustache! paddling in soap-suds like a washerwoman it's as if I were to feed canaries!" added Goliath, shrugging his shoulders with disdain. "But now I've answered you, master, let me attend to the beasts' supper," and, looking round for something, he added, "where is the cleaver?"
"The Nurembergers! the Nurembergers!..." replied the abbot, shrugging his shoulders. "What do you mean?" "They don't hang any one till they catch him." The magistrate regarded these words as a challenge to put forth every effort for the Jew's capture, so he answered eagerly: "We shall have him, Your Reverence, we shall surely have him. They are trapped in the snow.
The Indian, seeing that he had missed, raised his hatchet and once more shrugging his head in his blanket, and turning to look over his other shoulder, attempted to strike again, but the blow was evaded by a sudden toss of his intended victim's head.
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