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I had one of my windows out for comfort, and I sang out straight away on the spur of the moment. 'Stocks and stones! I says. 'You come inside, I says, 'and I'll punch your blooming Exeter Hall of a head. "There was a kind of silence and more jabbering, and in he came, Bible in hand, after the manner of them a little sandy chap in specks and a pith helmet.
"My health is there," she added, motioning to Jacques and Madeleine. The latter, just fifteen, had come victoriously out of her struggle with anaemia, and was now a woman. She had grown tall; the Bengal roses were blooming in her once sallow cheeks.
Bates glanced from the wall-paper to the window-box, and from the window down into the back yard, where, beneath the week's washing, flapping in the breeze and the sun, she saw next summer's flowers already blooming. "Did you read that paragraph last week," she asked, suddenly, "about my having been a washer-woman once?" "No. What was it in?" "One of those miserable society papers.
James had a glimpse behind her of a pretty interior: a room with windows full of blooming plants, of easy-chairs and many cushioned sofas, beside book-cases. The woman looked, so he thought, like one who had some private anxiety of her own. She kept peering up and down the road, as they talked, as though she, too, were on the watch for some one.
"And here come Tod and Chief Bignold, just a minute too late." "Hi there, Mr. Ring," called the burly constable. "What is it a riot?" "A massacre, but all the victims escaped. Two blooming foreigners trying to steal an airship out of Mr. Fulton's safe down there in his cellar wasn't that what you said, boys?"
Severally they may have been cultivated and interesting people; and that blooming maiden may really have been the Blue Flower of Romance that she looked before she began to dine. We were entering upon our third view of Genoa with the zest of our first, and I was glad to find there were so many things I had left unseen or had forgotten.
Timothy Merrick, Donald Mackintosh, Oscar Ely, John Cleary and others. The residence streets of Ward six are pleasant with shade trees, blooming gardens and lovely houses. From the most sightly eminence of the ward, the house of William Skinner of the silk-mill overlooks the city.
Anne, affected and interested by her mother's words, and with a secret curiosity to gaze upon the man who ruled on the throne of the prince she loved, came nearer and more in front; and suddenly, as he turned his head, the king's regard rested upon her intent eyes and blooming face. "Who is that fair donzell, cousin of Warwick?" he asked. "My daughter, sire." "Ah, your youngest!
As she spoke she held out her arms, which she had merely dipped into a pail of water regal arms they were, superbly rounded, blooming like full white roses amidst the manure. 'Yes, yes, gently said the priest, 'you have worked hard. It's very nice now. Then he turned towards the wicket, but she stopped him. 'Do wait a bit. You shall see them all.
His crown stood on a cushion at his head, and his queen, the blooming Margaret of France, sat full of smiles at his feet. The young Countess of Gloucester occupied a seat by her side. The countess, who from indisposition had not been at court the preceding day, fixed her eyes on the minstrel as he advanced into the middle of the room, where the page, by Gloucester's orders, planted the harp.
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