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But what he had seen in Garth church made him determined to say something to Greatorex, after all. He went on his northerly round the very next Sunday and timed it so that he overtook his man on his way home from church. The after-dinner pipe made Jim peculiarly approachable, and Rowcliffe approached him suddenly and directly. "I say, Greatorex, why don't you marry?
This calls for a strong Federal program in the field of resource development. Its major projects should be timed, where possible to assist in leveling off peaks and valleys in our economic life. Soundly planned projects already initiated should be carried out. New ones will be planned for the future.
"The gunner, who was apt to scoff, With jokes most aptly timed, Said Sam might any day go off, 'Cause he was always `primed. "Sam didn't want a feeling heart, Though never seen to cry; Yet tears were always on the start, `The drop was in his eye. "At fighting Sam was never shy, A most undoubted merit; His courage never failed, and why? He was so full of `spirit.
'That will do for the present, said Philip, and at that instant there came a loud summons at the door, whereat the miserable Barter started, and clasped his hands in renewed terror. He fancied an officer of justice there, his arrival accurately timed. Philip, throwing a glance about the room, and assuring himself that there was no means of unobserved exit, answered the summons in person.
It was customary to time the performance, as one would time a race, but in the instance of riding Blue Smoke the man was timed rather than the horse. So far, Bailey himself held the record. He had stayed with the outlaw fifteen seconds. Pete learned this, and much more, about Blue Smoke's disposition while the men ate and joked with Mrs. Bailey. And Mrs.
He then told me that Regnard, as usual, had timed his visit to Brabant, so the brothers could be there together, and half laughing and half chagrined, told me that Regnard, in his white Austrian uniform, was very captivating to the eye. And they both desired Francezka, who laughed at all suitors to her hand.
"We timed that excellently," he agreed. "Come up and have a chat to-morrow, Jimmy, if your wife will spare you." "I'll be round before eleven, sir," the fisherman promised, with a grin. Sir Henry waited for the closing of the door. Then he leaned forward for several moments.
This was especially the case when the pleasure was a delicate one, as his pleasures mostly were; and on this occasion the moment he looked forward to was so rare and exquisite in quality that well, if he had timed his arrival in accord with the prima donna's stage-manager he could not have entered the Academy at a more significant moment than just as she was singing: "He loves me he loves me not HE LOVES ME! " and sprinkling the falling daisy petals with notes as clear as dew.
They had a look-out man sitting at the far end of a long tunnel of rock and stone; when we fired he gave the signal, and the Boers got into cover; and twenty seconds afterwards, when our shell, beautifully aimed and timed, arrived on the hill, it spent itself upon the flinty rock.
In the lifted head, the brightened eyes, the gracious though stately bows cast right and left, Constantine published the pleasure the reception was giving him. A long flourish timed his march through the kiosk of the gate, and along the shell-strewn, winding road, to the broad steps leading to the portico of the palace; there, ascending first, he was received by the Princess.
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