United States or Samoa ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
"I said it was a damn shame that he isn't dead," came the reply. Edith was bending over the body. "Leave him alone," Hans commanded harshly, in a strange voice. She looked at him in sudden alarm. He had picked up the shot-gun dropped by Dennin and was thrusting in the shells. "What are you going to do?" she cried, rising swiftly from her bending position.
"It's nothing to do with oneself one's used, that's all. The child will be on its own legs, thrusting you away before you know where you are. It will want to claim its responsibilities ancestors and all " Peter said nothing Maradick went on: "You know we were talking one night and were interrupted you're in danger of letting the things you imagine beat the things you know.
He kept thrusting out his lips and drawing them in again, at the same time wrinkling his forehead into the frown which signified that he was trying to shape a thought. 'Mr. Lott, resumed the tailor, with a gravely troubled look, 'may I ask if John Roper made any mention of my son? The timber-merchant glared, and Mr. Daffy, interpreting the look as one of anger, trembled under it.
"I thought so," responded the other, thrusting his hands into his breeches pockets. "And pray, sir, what were you sent there for?" "Stealing pigs," returned the incorrigible Tom, with the gravity of a judge. The words were scarcely pronounced when the questioner called the coachman to stop, preferring a ride outside in the rain to a seat within with a thief.
Ross plunged forward, thrusting a hand impetuously into the black mass of the dead fire. To his astonishment, he touched warmth! Hardly daring to disturb those precious bits of charcoal, he dug around them, then carefully blew into what appeared to be dead ashes. There was an answering glow! He could not have just imagined it.
He could not but follow the little man, tripping under the vines, thrusting his way through thorn-hedges and over crumbling walls, till he came to a flight of ancient steps, streaked grey and green with moss, leading down to a weather-stained cellar-door. The door opened into dusky vaults and from a niche in the wall the little cooper took a candle and a huge bowl.
"Well, don't stumble across me again, that's all," grumbled the other, watching Noodles suspiciously, and ready to catch him at his tricks by suddenly thrusting out a foot, and tripping him up for Noodles was so fat and clumsy that when he took a "header" he always afforded more or less amusement for the crowd.
This is what he thought: "I'm struck all of a heap." Marius rose to his feet trembling, despairing, radiant. He fumbled in his pocket and stalked furiously to Thenardier, presenting to him and almost thrusting in his face his fist filled with bank-notes for five hundred and a thousand francs. "You are an infamous wretch! you are a liar, a calumniator, a villain.
"Farther out this way, if you please, Rose, where we shall have a better view over the wide plain, the valley, and the long, tame ridge of hills on the other side, shutting it in like human life. It is a landscape that never tires, though it has nothing striking about it; and I am glad that there are no great hills to be thrusting themselves into my thoughts, and crowding out better things.
Vickers, thrusting him back in his chair, shouted insults in his ear until his friend, awaking to the true position of affairs, turned to the beginning again and proceeded with much unction to read aloud the document that Mr. Tredgold had given to Selina some months before. Mr.
Word Of The Day