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A moment later I heard his voice from an adjacent corridor; 'Has the doctor gone? it asked. I did not hear the answer. But a minute or two later a tall man in a frock coat entered the room and walked up to me. I could see the top of a stethoscope protruding from one of his inner breast-coat pockets. 'Name of Freydon? he said tersely. 'Yes. 'Ah! Will you step this way, please, to my room?
Palmer has tersely said: "We are terrorized by custom, and inclined to adjust what we would say to what others have said before," and he might have added: It must be said in the same manner. I cannot help asking why men and women should be terrorized by custom the method followed or prescribed by other men and women.
You've no right, positively no right, to take such a chance away from them." "Chance for what?" asked Kate tersely. "Education, travel, leisure, every opportunity in the world," enumerated Nancy Ellen. Kate was handling her gloves, her forehead wrinkled, her eyes narrowed in concentration. "That is one side of it," she said.
There is oil in parts, there's tin, there's coal, and there's thousands and thousands of miles of forest. You're a surveyor?" "Passed all my exams," Tavernake agreed tersely. "You are the man for out yonder," Pritchard insisted. "I've two years' vacation dead sick of this city life I am and I am going to put you on the track of it. You don't know much about prospecting yet, I reckon?"
He saw no locating stakes, such as a prospector always sets up conspicuously to mark his claim; and there were no signs of the precious metal, and no holes to indicate an attempt to find it. "What's your guess, Dick?" said Ford tersely. The assistant shook his head. "I haven't any coming to me. But I don't like mysteries." "Where was this party?" "About a mile and a half below here.
The girl stood aside to let Carew pass her by. "She is good to everybody," she assented quietly. "I hope Mr. Weldon won't think of going away until he can be moved with perfect safety. It is really no trouble to have him here, and the nurse is very capable." And Carew bowed in agreement. Once outside the door, however, he freed his mind, tersely and with vigor.
I have on deerskin pantaloons, a deerskin overcoat, a beaver cap and buffalo overshoes; and so, as I tersely observed before, Never mind. Let us laugh the winds to scorn, brave boys! But why is William Glover, driver, lying flat on his back by the roadside; and why am I turning a handspring in the road; and why are the horses tearing wildly down the Wahsatch mountains?
In January, 1864, he expressed it tersely: "The South has made the interests of slavery the issue of the war. Two years later Thaddeus Stevens, as radical leader in Congress, enounced the same doctrine in no more trenchant terms.
The principles thus tersely stated were eagerly adopted, and going forward with his scheme, it may be said the Academy was his design, and its organization his work. In recognition of his superior abilities, the grateful Academicians elected him their High Priest. We have seen how the public received the motto of the society.
Gentle Annie was lowing plaintively. The chickens were scurrying about the yard, cackling hysterically as they dodged this and that herder. The two pigs, Sundown reflected consolingly, seemed happy enough. Loring, standing in the doorway, pointed to the stove. "Get busy," he said tersely. That was the last straw. Silently Sundown stalked to the stove, rolled up his sleeves, and went to work.
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