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Exasperated by such impropriety, aghast at the consequences, Mooty doctor alike of laws, of science, and of medicine, and a man of imperative mood sharpened his tomahawk at the Chinaman's grindstone, theatrically testing its edge with distorted thumb.
"You'll be safer this way," the Austrian had said with a smile, after testing their bonds to make sure they were secure. "Looks like we were pretty safe any way you might put us," replied Hal grimly. "You Americans are pretty slippery customers; I won't take any chances with you," was the rejoinder, and Robard took his leave.
However to-morrow I will take you on a journey and find some means of testing your cleverness." So the next morning they made ready for the journey; their father only allowed them to take one meal of rice tied up in their cloths and he gave each of them one pice, which he said was their inheritance.
Norbury to his brother Henry, who had joined him in Milan; and he was now at full liberty to amuse himself by testing in every possible way the extraordinary influence exercised over his relatives by the new hotel. When his brother and sister first told him what their experience had been, he instantly declared that he would go to Venice in the interest of his theatre.
Abraham, as the 'Father of the Faithful, has his faith tested by a series of events from his setting out from Haran, and they culminate in this sharpest of all, the command to slay his son. The life of faith is ever a life of testing, and very often the fire that tries increases in heat as life advances. The worst conflicts are not always at the beginning of the war.
Her urge was to give full rein to the heady happiness and excitement within her to show her love in a kiss. But she held off and, after a few moments, he drew, back, raised one hand and passed it through her hair. Not with affection, she thought, but rather with curiosity; almost as though he were preoccupied with its composition. He rolled a strand of hair between thumb and finger, testing it.
Hazeltine," he said at length, "I will hear what explanations you may have to make in my office later on. I will attend to the testing myself. That will do." Captain Eri silently followed his young friend to the back door of the station. Hazeltine had seen fit to make no comment on the scene just described, and the captain did not feel like offering any.
Now and then she seemed to gain on the wind, but it was a hard struggle. "I think we're going to do it, though," declared Dick, as he went about with the aviator, looking at and testing the various pieces of machinery. "Our speed has gone up a little, and the wind pressure seems less." "It is; a little," agreed Mr. Vardon.
Maud was one of the sweet, open characters who are religious by nature; but though she had asked for God's help every night of her life, she had never been conscious of its presence in such abundance as in this hour of trial. It almost awed her at times to realise her own strength, and this testing of the power of faith was a ray of light shining out of the darkness.
As Indian teak and African oak are now scarcely obtainable, we look upon our colony as a store-house for the British navy; and though we have hitherto vainly battled against prejudice and private interest to make this timber known to our rulers, the day will arrive when the wants of the naval service will compel men in authority to acknowledge the value of wood, which is most highly prized by all who have had the opportunity of testing its qualities.
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