United States or British Indian Ocean Territory ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
"Don't care, Bob. I really don't mind not going to the sale." Mrs. Peabody was in the pantry, straining the milk. "We're going," whispered Bob. "You meet me right after dinner at the end of the lane. I'm sick of being knocked around, and I think Jim Turner will be at the sale. I want to see him. Anyway, we're going." "But but Mr. Peabody will be furious!" ventured Betty.
To his request of an audience, he was answered, that the King had commanded that none should be admitted to him for some time; yet so singular were the tidings of the Constable's slaughter, that the captain of the guard ventured to interrupt Henry's privacy, in order to communicate that event; and returned with orders that Flammock and his prisoner should be instantly admitted to the royal apartment.
Young Somers watched that lesser rival start down the bay before he dropped below to report the fact to Benson. "What can it mean?" wondered the young captain, going hastily on deck. "Is the Seawold craft going into some test that we're not asked to meet?" "If so," ventured Hal Hastings, "why isn't one of the gunboats putting out to sea with her."
Then she dusted the corner of the sofa a little with her skirt before sitting down on the edge of it, just as the country people are wont to do, at which the countess secretly smiled. "Yes, my husband would certainly at this moment be a prisoner among the Turks," said the countess to Milly, "if your husband had not saved him. Mine had ventured forward a little too far.
But as soon as Constantius, after the battle of Mursa, became master of the sea-coast of Dalmatia, a band of noble exiles, who had ventured to equip a fleet in some harbor of the Adriatic, sought protection and revenge in his victorious camp. By their secret intelligence with their countrymen, Rome and the Italian cities were persuaded to display the banners of Constantius on their walls.
Though we heard the cries of wild beasts in the forest, none ventured near us, as we kept up blazing fires all night. Next morning, even before our party were stirring, the old chief and his followers were on foot, preparing to continue their march towards the sea-coast.
Still there were some courageous, faithful servants of the king who ventured to take his part even there. Louis had now been summoned to the bar as an accused person, and the Convention had transformed itself into a tribunal whose function was to pass judgment on the guilt or innocence of the king!
Had Hampden's earlier counsels prevailed, Rupert never would have ventured on his night foray; had his next suggestions been followed, Rupert never would have returned from it. Those failing, Hampden has come, gladly followed by Gunter and his dragoons, outstripping the tardy Essex, to dare all and die.
I ventured to inquire of her, soon after, if she had finished her education; and she replied, with a slight tinge of satire, that she studied regularly every day, at various "short intervals, which could not easily be explained."
I thought then that I fixed that hour because everybody would hate it because of the heat and uncertainty as to style of clothes. "All right, dear," answered Matthew, carefully, as if handling conversational eggs. "Miss Ann, where do you want us to fix the wedding er bell and altar?" Polly ventured to ask timidly a few days later. "The parlor, of course, Polly.
Word Of The Day