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Not wishing to profit by this offensive misapprehension, I was preparing to rise, when a hand was unceremoniously laid upon my shoulder, and turning round I saw behind me one of the official watch a class of men so powerful that at a gesture from their uplifted hands even the fiercest untamed horse will not infrequently stand upon its hind legs in mute submission.
I had not intended to illustrate my idea of amateur technique in self-criticism quite so much with Mr. Burleson, especially as I stand for a bi-partisan point of view. I wish there were some way of dealing with Mr.
All the other houses in the street were so new and so neat, with large window-panes and smooth walls, one could easily see that they would have nothing to do with the old house: they certainly thought, "How long is that old decayed thing to stand here as a spectacle in the street?
He's the man who makes or unmakes you after you have passed the eagle eyes of the proprietor," Dimples laughed. "From what I hear I guess you stand pretty high with Mr. Sparling." "I try to do what is right do the best I know how."
She remembered the lamp with the blue-silk shade, the figure of Eve that used to stand behind the minister's portrait, and the cherry bookcase with the Encyclopaedia in it and "Beacon Lights of History." When K., trying his best to interest her and to conceal his own heaviness of spirit, told her of his grandfather's old carriage, she sat back in the shadow.
Don't think I'm against you. I'm with you in your principles, but the job is too big for you." "We will see," said I. "But I can take it that, provided I keep within the law, His Majesty's Governor will not stand in my way?" "I can promise you that. I'll do more, for I'll drink success to your enterprise."
We went Sunday morning to the cathedral; and the excellent woman who guards the portal where in ancient stone the Last Judgment is enacted, and the cheerful and conceited wise virgins stand over against the foolish virgins, one of whom has been in the penitential attitude of having a stone finger in her eye now for over three hundred years refused at first to admit us to the German Lutheran service, which was just beginning.
Monica motioned to Miss Eade, who followed her towards a more retired spot. 'You have left the shop? 'Left I should think so. Nearly a year ago. I told you I shouldn't stand it much longer. Are you married? 'Yes. Monica did not understand why the girl should eye her so suspiciously. 'You are? said Miss Eade. 'Nobody that I know, I suppose? 'Quite a stranger to you.
"He will be very hard upon you in the way of politics." "I can answer him better than I can you, sir. Mr. Lupton said he would come for a day or two. He'll stand to me." After that his father stopped him as he was about to leave the room. "One more word, Silverbridge. Do you remember what you were saying when you walked down to the House with me from your club that night?"
The rules by which this excellent charity is conducted, are worthy of its authors: success hath fully answered expectation, and the building will probably stand for ages, to tell posterity a favourable tale of the present generation.
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