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It was plain, practical, feasible. But there remained a difficulty. How was he to become possessed of the sensible, responsible person who was not too young? "Advertise," suggested his adviser, tersely. Of course! How very foolish of him not to have thought of it! The plainest possible way out of the dilemma. "Thank you, Mrs. Leslie," said the Doctor, rising and taking up his hat. "Thank you.
After a moment's pause he wrenched the bell nearly out of its socket, and a long peal was the result. At last this ceased, and there was no sound in the house. The fair man looked back over his shoulder at Captain Pharland. "Gone!" he said tersely. Then he took from his breast pocket a little bar in the shape of a lever.
Now this was the way in which the boy came into possession of his undreaded rod. He was by nature and heredity one of those predestined anglers whom Izaak Walton tersely describes as "born so." His earliest passion was fishing. His favourite passage in Holy Writ was that place where Simon Peter throws a line into the sea and pulls out a great fish at the first cast.
Whether it was the speech making or the festivities or the hard work or a combination of all three I cannot say, but Robert Hart suddenly found himself over-tired and threatened with a breakdown of health by the time the Exhibition closed. Sir William Gull, the famous specialist, whom he consulted, put the case tersely to him: "If you will do work, work will do you."
Thus encouraged, Jerry made his appeal; and fearing lest Richard should throw him, half-heard, into the same category as Ned, he worded it very tersely. Mahony, who had never given much heed to Jerry no one did was pleased by his straightforward air. Still, he did not know what could be done for him, and said so. Here Polly had an inspiration. "But I think I do. I remember Mr.
Did you think the bells were ringing for you, exclaimed his uncle, 'when there's a great battle won, and Sebastopol taken? 'Telegraphs are always lies! quoth Mr. Cavendish Dusautoy, tersely, 'I don't believe anything has happened at all! and he re-pocketed the sovereign. Meantime Lucy was in a rapture of embracing.
"Lem Vinton, eh? All right, Joe, we're going. Can you tow us around Spider Key?" "Nope. I'm goin' home now," Joe Durgan replied tersely, with the abruptness of one who has done an irksome duty and would avoid further responsibility for the present. Suiting actions to words, he quickened his engine and made off toward the Florida shore.
"Don't be a fool, and do as you're told if you have any respect for your life," said Jill tersely, as she moved her hand slightly so that her aim was on a dead level with a big button ornamenting an inch or so of satin on the middle left of the man's undervest. He stood like an image carved out of consternation, whilst streaks of rage seemed to flash across his livid face.
It seemed enough, considering how glorious he was, that he should merely be. He began to eat again and told the story tersely between mouthfuls. "You know the reason that I stayed up in Edinburgh after I'd sent off Ellen was that I thought I had to show the directors what I'd been doing at Aberfay next Thursday. They were to come on to me after they'd paid their visit to the Clyde works.
When the apomorphia began to do its work there was a struggle of another sort, out of which emerged a pallid and somewhat stricken reincarnation of the governor. "Falkland is waiting at the hotel, and he and MacFarlane can't get together," said Hawk, tersely, when the patient was fit to listen. "Otherwise we shouldn't have disturbed you. It's all day with the scheme if you can't show up."
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