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Still without moving from the spot, the doctor's agent replied two or three times, meanwhile watching her surroundings very closely. Within half a minute the first of her friends came in sight. It was a young woman. At a distance of about twenty yards she appeared to be about five feet tall and sturdily built.
She remembered how the wind had blown up the white table-cloth, her cold, momentary shiver of fear, her relief when she had seen Gaspare walking sturdily into the room.
Tom was glad enough to do this, and in a few minutes they were going back over the dark track Tom had come, the harness jingling from the horses' hames, and Mr. Blodgett trudging sturdily along by the animals' heads. They came to the top of the ridge from which the stalled car had last been seen by Tom. "There are the lights!" he cried. He was glad to see them.
"We're going to push him off th' sled," said the other boy, with a dreadful grin. At this Joel looked all around in despair for a moment to see if any one was coming who would help. "Davie's ankle. O dear me!" he thought. So he got between the sled and the biggest boy. "You let him alone!" he cried sturdily, setting his teeth tight together.
But Will said sturdily, 'Mistresses, you may do as you will; I will neither eat nor sleep in that evil house. There is a scent of death and sin breathing from it; I perceived it as we stood at the door. 'And will you desert us then, Will? said Althea. 'Have you come so far, to forsake us now? 'Who spoke of forsaking? growled Will.
Again and again did Eric seek to force an opening under the other's guard, and just as often were his blows parried. The beggar stood sturdily in his tracks contenting himself with beating off the attack. For a long time their blows met like the steady crackling of some huge forest fire, and Eric strove to be wary, for he now knew that the other had no mean wits or mettle.
Over this possibility they faced each other, a tragic middle-aged pair, helpless as is the way of middle-age before the attacks of life on their young. "It will kill her, Walter." "She's young," he said sturdily. "She'll get over it." But he did not think so, and she knew it. "There is a rather queer element in it," he observed, after a time.
The fact that there were so many students trained sturdily in rural homes in the bracing air of western New York, who on every working-day of college life tramped up the University Hill, and on other days explored the neighboring hills and vales, gave us a body of men sure to do well as athletes.
We have a memorable instance of this policy in the Athenian envoys, who, upon receiving a most ominous doom, but obscurely expressed, from the Delphic Oracle, which politely concluded by saying, "And so get out, you vagabonds, from my temple don't cumber my decks any longer;" were advised to answer sturdily "No! we shall not get out we mean to sit here forever, until you think proper to give us a more reasonable reply."
You would not like anybody to take them, if they belonged to you." "It don't make no odds," said Hephzibah sturdily, but looking down at the same time. "He'll get it out of us some other way." "Get it out of you?" said Daisy. "Yes." "What do you mean?" "He gets it out of everybody," said Hephzibah. "Tain't no odds." "But Hephzibah, if those trees were yours, would you like to have Mr.
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