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The man on the other side of the counter looked through his grated window at the speaker with unusual interest. And in the teller's voice there was a shade of unusual deference as he replied, "Yes, sir." "Tell him that Mr. Greenfield is here." At the magic of that name every man in the bank within sound of the speaker's voice lifted his head and turned toward the face at the window. "Yes, sir.
The eyes of Mary Connynge took in both men with the same look, but her eyes, as did those of the Lady Catharine, became most concerned with the first speaker. "My brother and I are on our first journey to London," continued he, with a gay laugh which did not consort fully with the plight in which he showed. "We started by coach, as gentlemen; and now we come on foot, like laborers or thieves.
Many persons begin wrongly; they attempt to produce tones by forcing the breath out in such a way that all their resources in breathing are at once spent, instead of being husbanded with the care of a miser. As time is the most precious possession of man, as man, so is breath for the singer or speaker. It is his hoard.
The British Furnish Them with Arms and Munitions. Nor did the British confine their encouragement to words. British Agents Greet the Scalping Parties. The Indians made good use of the weapons thus furnished them by the "neutral" British. The speaker, a Delaware chief, afterwards handed the six scalps to a Huron chief, that he might distribute them among the tribes.
The clerks put into the balloting-box as many numbers as there are names on the notice paper they approached 400 on the day in question and then the number is drawn out, and the Speaker calls upon the member whose number has proved to be the lucky one.
C. On almost every subject on which he essayed to speak, he made an impassioned harangue of a quarter, or half an hour; so that inveterate talkers, while Mr. Coleridge was on the wing, generally suspended their own flight, and felt it almost a profanation to interrupt so impressive and mellifluous a speaker. This singular, if not happy peculiarity, occasioned even Madame de Stael to remark of Mr.
"As we don't even know whether it is still in existence, there's no use in hunting for it," Val retorted. Ricky smiled, that set little smile which usually meant that she neither agreed with nor approved of the speaker. She got up from the floor and shook out her skirt purposefully. "I'll remind you of that some day," she promised.
Tess was all the more interested, as she stood listening behind, in finding that the preacher's doctrine was a vehement form of the view of Angel's father, and her interest intensified when the speaker began to detail his own spiritual experiences of how he had come by those views. He had, he said, been the greatest of sinners.
He's their most popular speaker by a long way; but I gather they're a little uneasy about him. Didn't I have the pleasure of meeting him at your house?" "Mr. Bundercombe!" I sighed. "He came down here to help me!" Mr. Ansell put on his hat and beckoned mysteriously. "Come out by the back way," he invited. "We shall hear him. He is going to speak from the little platform there."
He was introduced by Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., Speaker of the House of Representatives. The address was broadcast live on nationwide radio and television. State of the Union Address Ronald Reagan January 25, 1984 Mr. Speaker, Mr.
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