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Emma Edwardovna came to the little bit of a cabinet, where formerly Anna Markovna loved to drink coffee with clotted cream; sat down on the divan and pointed out a place opposite her to Tamara. For some time the women kept silent; searchingly, mistrustfully eyeing each other. "You acted rightly, Tamara," said Emma Edwardovna finally.
"Well, now, the young lady is busy with a guest. They haven't waked up yet." "Well, Tamara then." The maid looked at him mistrustfully. "Miss Tamara I don't know... I think she's busy too. But what you want to pay a visit, or what?" "Ah, isn't it all the same! A visit, let's say." "I don't know. I'll go and look. Wait a while." She went away, leaving Lichonin in the half-dark drawing room.
Those glassy eyes; that sallow face; and the fold, the ghastly fold that runs on both sides of the mouth, of that mouth filled with blood now clotting, they show that life is gone. Still the savage keeps his bow well in hand, as with head and neck extended he steals forward slowly, mistrustfully approaching his victim.
Formerly she had felt that he regarded her with indifference and irony, and so had shrunk into herself as she did with others and had shown him only the combative side of her nature; but now he seemed to be trying to understand the most intimate places of her heart, and, mistrustfully at first but afterwards gratefully, she let him see the hidden, kindly sides of her character.
The officers, who had come from the other sheds, were all strangers to Pierre and much better dressed than he. They looked at him and at his shoes mistrustfully, as at an alien. Not far from him walked a fat major with a sallow, bloated, angry face, who was wearing a Kazan dressing gown tied round with a towel, and who evidently enjoyed the respect of his fellow prisoners.
Dave was not yet old enough to see what a very perverted view of legal process these words contained, but his blue eyes looked mistrustfully at the speaker as he watched him pass up the street towards the Wheatsheaf, swinging a yellow jug with ridges round its neck and a full corporation. Michael had been sent to fetch the beer.
It was made by a great master of his craft, as famous in his native land as old Dan Quare is in England, and its mechanism has outlived its creator by more than three hundred years." "Would it be an accurate timekeeper, do you think?" asked Barrant, looking mistrustfully at the motionless face of the moon, as though he suspected it of covertly sneering at him. "I should think so.
'Why, Rufus, what's the matter? asked Mrs. Jenny. 'Don't look like that at a body. 'It's you, mum? said the necromancer. A look of relief came into his wizened face. 'I didn't know but what it might be His voice trailed off into an indistinct murmur, and he smeared his hand heavily across his face, and looked at it, mistrustfully, as if he rather expected to find something else in its place.
The inebriate contorts painfully his face, presses and presses his hands to his burning forehead, and says they are firing a salute in his head, using his brains for ammunition. "Well, now Tom, seein' as how I'm a friend of yourn " "Friend of mine?" interrupts Tom, shaking his head, and peering through his fingers mistrustfully.
Ken eyed it mistrustfully a slab of wood, crossed by a movable metal strip which was pierced with many small, square openings. "Also," said Ken, "the alphabet of the language." "American Uncontracted, or Revised, Grade One and a Half?" Phil asked airily. "They sound equally bad, but if there's any choice, give me the easiest. Sounds like geological survey stuff."
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