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Perkenpine, her guide, was an energetic woman, and under her orders the men who brought the baggage bestirred themselves wonderfully. Just before supper, to which meal the Raybolds and Mr. Clyde had been invited, the latter came to Mr. Archibald, evidently much troubled and annoyed.
As he spoke the blue-clad damsel bestirred herself and brought me a clean trencher that is, a square piece of thin oak board scraped clean and a pewter pot of liquor. So without more ado, and as one used to it, I drew my knife out of my girdle and cut myself what I would of the flesh and bread on the table.
July 3d, we saw the D'Estrees people taking Embden; D'Estrees, quiet so long in his Camp at Bielefeld, had at once bestirred himself, Kolin being done; shot out a detachment leftwards, and Embden had capitulated that day. Adieu to the Shipping Interests there, and to other pleasant things!
Far have I wandered, much have I bestirred myself on the back of the earth." "Then bestir yourself now! and do not loiter here, if Wanderer is the world's name for you!" Mime, with his head full of his dark little projects, has a deep dread of spies and interference.
"Do you mean that if I take that wagon you have done with me forever? Do you?" "I meant precisely what I said." Kate suddenly bestirred herself. The coldness in her eyes turned to anger, a swift, hot anger, to which the man was unused, and he shrank before it. "If you are sane you will leave that wagon to me. You do not want it for your haying to-morrow.
The company bestirred themselves with one accord, and to the roughest and most laconic gave him a brief "Good-day." "You're English," said a good-natured Welshman, "ar'n't you, my lad?" "Ay, mester," was the reply: "I'm fro' Lancashire." He sat down on the edge of the rough platform, and laid his stick and bundle down in a slow, wearied fashion.
Lawrence expect to gain? the sage lord asked. He had not known women devoid of a positive practical object of their own when they bestirred themselves to do a friendly deed. Thanks to her conquest of Mrs.
Then in a very few minutes, because the creatures of the sea seem unable to fear what does not move, the life of the sea-floor again bestirred itself, and small, misshapen forms that did not love the sunlight began to convene in the shadow of the boat. Presently, from over the side of the boat descended a dark tube, with a bright tip that seemed like a kind of eye.
But Washington bestirred himself at last, and Paine was voted an estate of 277 acres, more or less, and a sum of money. This was in 1784. Three years afterwards Thomas visited England, where he kept good company and was very usefully employed engineering, for which excellent pursuit he would appear to have had great natural aptitude.
But, still, only boys though they were, hope did not yet quite desert them. The indomitable courage of youth triumphed over disaster. For a few seconds neither could speak. However, when the ship had disappeared, going away as silently as she had approached them, they bestirred themselves to see what damage the cutter had sustained. Bob was the first to recall his scattered wits.
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