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It took but a single glance to discover the relationship between them. Twins never looked more alike only Tom's features lacked the delicacy of outline which belonged to his sister. "Tom!" cried Ruth, on the other side of the excited youth, "don't keep us on tenter-hooks. Surely nothing has happened to Jane Ann?" "I don't know! They won't tell us much about it at the station," exclaimed the boy.
Who dost expose it, yet claw those that crave it? Art become freakish? dost the wanton play, Or doth thy testy humour tend its way? Comparison. This rose God's Son is, with his ruddy looks. But what's the bush, whose pricks, like tenter-hooks, Do scratch and claw the finest lady's hands, Or rend her clothes, if she too near it stands?
I asked. "'Oh, it's only a rotten, silly yarn that he has picked up somewhere. You're not to tell him, Raggerton. "'I don't see why I am not to be told, I said, rather sulkily. 'I'm not a baby. "'No, said Alfred, 'but you're an invalid. You don't want any horrors. "In effect, he refused to go into the matter any further, and I was left on tenter-hooks of curiosity.
Frank was busy about his own affairs and paid little attention to him, but Jill was on tenter-hooks to know where he had been, yet dared not ask the question. "Merry's brother wants some cards. He liked hers so much he wishes to make his lady-love a present. Here's the name;" and Jill held up the order from Harry Grant, who was to be married in the autumn. "Must wait till next week.
'That seems safe, said Merton. 'But it cuts out some of our most powerful teachers. 'Serve them right! said Miss Martin. 'Teachers! the arrant humbugs. 'You will report at once on your return? said Merton. 'I shall be on tenter-hooks till I see you again. If I knew what you are really about, I'd take counsel's opinion. Medical opinion does not satisfy me: I want legal.
He looked round upon the hangings, but the mixed groups of silken and worsted huntsmen were as stationary as tenter-hooks could make them, and only trembled slightly as the early breeze, which found its way through an open crevice of the latticed window, glided along their surface.
"But oh unkind you 've forgotten the sugar." He gazed helplessly at the tea-table. Anthony brought him the sugar-bowl. "Are those cruffins?" he asked, eyeing a dish on the cake-stand. "They 're mumpers," said Miss Sandus, pushing the cake-stand towards him. "But you 're keeping us on tenter-hooks." "I 'm so sorry. It's beyond my control. I must eat a mumpet.
However, he did not know this; and, while the old dame was spinning her yarn, Bob employed the time by looking at the model of a ship over the mantelpiece, which brought back to his mind all about the Bembridge Belle, making him feel on tenter-hooks lest they should be late for dinner, and so be unable to go down afterwards and see the wreck, as the Captain had arranged.
If they do not pull together it is useless. When we get the sledge going we are on tenter-hooks lest it stop again on the next soft slope, and this often occurs. Sledging is real hard work; but we are getting along." The surface was better on February 2, and the party covered six miles without relaying.
She was expecting a new admirer who was infinitely to her taste and from whom she hoped to reap great advantages, a contrast in every way to the old, a Mirabeau come to life again, a Danton rehabilitated and turned army-contractor, a lion who talked of pitching every patriot into the Seine. She was on tenter-hooks, thinking to hear the bell ring at any moment.
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