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We are always trying to wire for things, but not a word gets through. We were summoned to dine at the palace last night. Everyone very charming. 31 December.. Prince Murat came to dine and play bridge. Count Groholski turned up for a few days. My doctor vetted me for my cold. Business done none. No sailor ever longed for port as I do for home. Tiflis. 1 January, 1916.
I've taken his hospital work; people are really extraordinarily kind to me!" Jim summarized. "Oh, you've been vetted, there's no question of that," she agreed thoughtfully.
Nurse Beaton absolutely and flatly refused to be parted from her charge, and the curious party of three set sail for England in due course. "Hm! He's every inch a Stukeley," remarked the General when Damocles de Warrenne was ushered into his presence in the great library at Monksmead. "Hope he's Stukeley by nature too. Sturdy young fella! 'Spose he's vetted sound in wind and limb?"
Betterton! who in his private character was as amiable as any he borrowed from the poets, and therefore was always deservedly considered as the head of the theatre, though vetted there with very little power.
"Antoun" had "vetted" the alleged scarab and pronounced it a modern forgery; but nobody else knew that, and as a prize it was popular. The sky had that clear pale blue of dawn, when day first realizes that, though born of night, it is no longer night.
Conroy. Sir John Chartres stumped out, saying to Gilbert in the corridor, 'It's all very fine, but the question is shall I or we "Sir Pandarus of Troy become," eh? We're bound to think of the children. 'Have you been vetted? said Miss Henschil, a few minutes after the train started. 'May I sit with you? I I don't trust myself yet. I can't give up as easily as you can, seemingly. 'Can't you?
In the centre of the vast floor my astonished eyes beheld a group of stripped men; the pink of their bodies startling the tan. "These are our crowd," said Matthews. "They've been vetted, an' we're putting 'em through their paces." "They don't look a bit like raw material," I said. "No, we don't use either raw men or raw meat for that matter in the Guard," Matthews replied. "Life's too short."
On his arrival at Monksmead he had been "vetted," as he expressed it, by the Burra-Sahib, the General; and then taken to an attractive place called "the school-room" and there had found Lucille.... "Hullo! Boy," had been her greeting. "What's your name?"
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