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"Same way we tickled them," replied Arcot, carefully studying the control instruments, "with the gravity ray! We knew all along that gravitational fields drank out the energy they simply pulled it out faster than we could pump it in, and used four different rays on us doing it. Which speaks well for a little ship! But they burned off the relux on one room here, and it's a wreck.
So you see I am not the kind of girl to be going out to parties." "You will have to be very learned if you are going to be a governess," said Grace; "I suppose you are always studying." "I work pretty hard at my books," said Hetty; "but I am not clever. And how I am ever to be as well informed as Miss Davis I don't know. Some things I remember quite well, and other things I am always forgetting.
Rhyming Joe was too intent on giving due weight to his pretended disclosure; Lawyer Sharpman was too busy studying the chances of that disclosure being true. It was evident that the young man was acquainted with his subject. If his story were false he had it too well learned to admit of successful contradiction.
So for about six days we devoted ourselves to studying how to get out of the "jack-pot" we had got into, without losing our stake. We were not kept very long in suspense, for early one beautiful April morning we learned the terrible news that Farragut's fleet had passed the forts, and General Butler with a large land force was marching on the city.
His steady gaze was fixed upon the young Roman, as if studying the exact measure of strength that remained to him. There was nothing else for it.
The young man repaid their hospitality by an easy generosity of speech covering affairs which neither Mrs. Makebelieve nor her daughter had many opportunities for studying.
This book, gossip, is of authority for two reasons, first because it is very good, and secondly because it is said to have been written by a wise and witty king of Portugal. All the adventures at the Castle of Miraguarda are excellent and of admirable contrivance, and the language is polished and clear, studying and observing the style befitting the speaker with propriety and judgment.
Atterby-Smith, after studying me for a long while with a cold eye, rose majestically and swept off to bed followed by her offspring. Afterwards I ascertained from Mrs.
And going over the lines again, one by one, the crafty Claude pretended to be giving a drawing lesson, while he was really studying every feature of his model. "If you please, my lady," whispered Grace to Valencia; "I wish the gentleman would not." "Why not?" "Oh, madam, I do not judge any one else: but why should this poor perishing flesh be put into a picture?
"He is always studying something," exclaimed the author. But what Rodin wanted us to see was his head of Clemenceau. When the covering was lifted, there stood the very embodiment of the man who is supreme in France to-day, Clemenceau. The sculptor's face kindled and lighted up. "The lion of France!" How massive the features! How glorious the neck and the shoulders!
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