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The parlor struck her as looking uncommonly shabby, but without stopping to sigh for what she had not, she skillfully made the best of what she had, arranging chairs over the worn places in the carpet, covering stains on the walls with homemade statuary, which gave an artistic air to the room, as did the lovely vases of flowers Jo scattered about.
You must be prepared to be very patient with him, for he will find everything irritating and wearisome, even your services; nothing will please him; you must expect grumbling " "He will be uncommonly hard to please," said La Cibot. "Look here, mind what I tell you," the doctor said in a tone of authority, "M. Pons' life is in the hands of those that nurse him; I shall come perhaps twice a day.
David: "No, I said it deliberately. Men are mostly hateful things, but I think in business they're more dependable than women think more about telling a lie or letting any one down. The point for you to seize on is this if you haven't noticed it already: that Beryl has become an uncommonly good business woman. "Beryl's talk is getting ever so much less reckless.
On the one hand the physicists cut up matter into molecules, atoms, corpuscles, and as many more such subdivisions as their future needs may make them postulate, and the units at which they arrive are uncommonly different from the visible, tangible objects of daily life.
Of such it is written, "Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted." An Authentic Ghost Story For some remarkable reason, ghostly legends were uncommonly rife, about this time, among the servants on Legree's place. It was whisperingly asserted that footsteps, in the dead of night, had been heard descending the garret stairs, and patrolling the house.
Twelve times twelve are a hundred and forty, no, that's too much; twelve times eleven how much is twelve times eleven?" Mrs Foster did not ask this of Amy; no, she gazed up at the ceiling, where an uncommonly large spider was affixing its web, with the design, no doubt, of lowering itself down to the tea-table, and demanded the solution of the problem, apparently, from that creature.
I found that Jerry was an uncommonly good man, a conscientious, capable officer, and I promoted him. The Senator called upon me to express what I am sure was a very genuine feeling of appreciation. Poor Jerry died, I think of consumption, a year or two after I left the Department.
The substantial difference comes to something uncommonly like this: Eighteenth century tyranny meant that you could say "The K of Brrd is a profligate." Twentieth century liberty really means that you are allowed to say "The King of Brentford is a model family man."
"Shake it before using," said the Doctor; "and the sooner you make up your mind to speak right out, the better it will be for your digestion." "Oh, Mr. Peckham! Walk in, Mr. Peckham! Nobody sick up at the school, I hope?" "The haalth of the school is fust-rate," replied Mr. Peckham. "The sitooation is uncommonly favorable to saloobrity." I've come with reference to another consideration. Dr.
"You do look uncommonly fit, I suppose you've had a gorgeous time." Thus invited, Owen launched forth into an account of some of his most thrilling adventures, and the time flew as he recounted the tale of the glorious nights and days he had lived through, or made his hearer laugh with his stories of the various attendants and their humours.
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