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Bronson, "I believe I could have licked you into shape last season so that you would have suited me very well," and he laughed outright. "But now I want you to meet my future farm-manager. He is the very fellow I wanted before I offered the chance to you. I reckon you'll be glad to see him " While he was talking, Mr.
Such an undertaking was suited to his energetic and enterprizing character; and therefore engaged much of his attention. On the return of Charles Wesley to England, he learned more of the situation of the Colonists, and of their great need of religious instruction; and when Ingham came with special reference to procuring assistance, he expressed his readiness to go on the mission.
I would n't let them pass by without a bow or two, if they were a fleet of two deckers!" Apparently this reckless bravado entirely suited the ship's company, for one of the men who had heard the doughty captain's speech called for three cheers, which were given with a will. "Ay, that's a fine hearty crew, and full of fight. Call on all hands, Mr. Simpson."
Her simple bedroom would have suited a prince who loved floriculture, quite as well as a princess. Before all things Bent-Anat loved air and light. The curtains of her windows and doors were only closed when the position of the sun absolutely required it; while in Nefert's rooms, from morning till evening, a dim twilight was maintained.
And Helen was so suited to a nature of this kind, she so guarded the ideal existence in which it breathes! All the little cares and troubles of the common practical life she appropriated so quietly to herself, the stronger of the two, as should be a poet's wife, in the necessary household virtues of prudence and forethought.
From it we infer that the old Saxon system of local justice, the hundred and county courts, had indeed never fallen into disuse since the days of the Conquest, but that they had been subjected to many irregularities of time and place, and that the sheriffs had often obliged them to meet when and where it suited their convenience; and we are led to suspect that they had been used as engines of extortion for the advantage both of the local officer and of the king.
The arrangement suited him very well. I told you that I picked him out of the gutter, and I heard subsequently that he had gone through many an unpleasant skirmish with the police in his day, and if I did not employ him no one else would. After all, he did earn a more or less honest living by serving me.
The simplicity and cheerfulness of her nature, her contented and grateful spirit, were a recommendation to every body, and a mine of felicity to herself. She was a great talker upon little matters, which exactly suited Mr. Woodhouse, full of trivial communications and harmless gossip. Mrs.
In former times, if he laid in a stock of goods suited to tradesmen, and farmers' wives and daughters, if the fashion changed, or they got out of date, he could dispose of them easily to the servants. Now no such thing. The quality did not matter so much, but the style must be the style of the day no sale for remnants.
Peering in, he found, just above the top shelf, a small opening, apparently not meant for use, as it was too close to the ceiling. "Put 'em in here," he said, and, withdrawing the papers from his pocket, he suited the action to the word. Hal now brought the uniforms out from under the bed, and, by dint of hard squeezing, also finally succeeded in secreting them.
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