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I spread the map of Africa before him, and tracing a line from Cairo to Sennaar, and from thence westward in the latitude and supposed direction of the Niger, I told him, that was the route, by which I was anxious that Africa might, if possible, be explored. He said, he should think himself singularly fortunate to be trusted with the adventure. I asked him when he would set out.
At the time, this repast struck no one; and apart from the apprehensions which the Master confided to his disciples, who only half understood them, nothing extraordinary took place. But after the death of Jesus, they attached to this evening a singularly solemn meaning, and the imagination of believers spread a coloring of sweet mysticism over it.
"The little Marteen" was singularly unapparent at this moment Here was just the ordinary appalling Englishman who had not the imagination to understand what a desperately heinous crime it would be to kill two of the Guardia Civil, who was simply going to do it the moment it became necessary, and would not lose one minute of his sleep until his dying day because he had done it.
The Honorable Joseph H. Choate must certainly be reckoned among the best conversationalists of our time. His manner, both in conversation and in public speaking, is singularly gracious and winning. He is unsurpassed as a story-teller. His fine taste, combined with long experience as a public man, makes him an ideal after-dinner speaker.
"Did it kill many people?" "Sorra the one," said McConkey. "But I'll tell you what it did do." His voice sank to a hoarse but singularly impressive whisper. "It made flitters of the statue of the old Queen that was sitting fornint the City Hall. The like of thon is nice work for men that's wearing the King's uniform." Bland burst into a sudden fit of boisterous laughter.
Janie had responsibilities banks and buildings full of them and a heart to please into the bargain. Singularly complicated questions are rather cruelly put before young women, who must solve them on peril of It would sound like exaggeration to say what.
It was useless even to mention it to me, for the Sieur de la Rochefoucauld was instructed merely to hint the matter. Though ill-humour here evidently peeps out beneath affected condescension, yet the tone of this letter is singularly moderate, I may even say kind, in comparison with other letters which Napoleon addressed to Louis.
It had lured him out into mid-ocean and smoothed the sea and stilled the winds and given him a singularly sympathetic comrade, and then it had turned and delivered him a thumping blow in mid-chest. "Yes," he said, after an attempt at the usual formal congratulation, "you certainly ought to do better with Miss Garland waiting for you at Northampton."
The first ran: 'Good luck. Hope you win. McCay. The second also ran: 'Good luck. Hope you win. McCay. So, singularly enough, did the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh. 'Great Scott! said Sigsbee. 'He seems to have been pretty anxious not to run any risk of missing you, Gossett. As he spoke, Archibald, close beside him, was looking at his watch. The hands stood at a quarter to two.
During this time, with the exception of three days, the weather and temperature were pleasant. It rained one day, and during two days the winds blew strong and cold from the north-west. The nights are cool, but fires are not requisite to comfort. The snow-clad mountains, about twenty-five or thirty miles to the east of us, contrast singularly with the brilliant fresh verdure of the plain.