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Updated: May 13, 2025
"Lower the drawbridge, and open the gates," he called down to the warders. The countess hastened down the stairs to the courtyard, followed by Francois and Philip, and received her two unexpected visitors as they rode across the drawbridge. "Madame," Conde said, as he doffed his cap courteously, "we are fugitives, who come to ask for a night's shelter.
He doffed his cap and jumped down and tapped out his pipe, and the dogs sprang up expectant; Punch, grave as ever but light on his feet for instant start; Scamp twisting himself into figure-eights, and rending the air with such yelps of delight that not a word could they pass. "Johnnie! Stop him!" shouted Graeme.
"I never thought to die in my bed, captain," said the latter nonchalantly. "Sooner or later, what does it matter? And you must know that before I was a pirate I was a gentleman." Turning, he doffed his hat with a flourish to those he had quitted. "Hell litter!" he cried. "I have run with you long enough. Now I have a mind to die an honest man."
To this fairer, more imperial dame gold lace doffed its hat and made its courtliest bow, and young planters bent to their saddlebows, while the common folk nudged and stared and had their say. So she passed like a splendid vision through the street perhaps once a week.
Madame Defarge set wine before the mender of roads called Jacques, who doffed his blue cap to the company, and drank. In the breast of his blouse he carried some coarse dark bread; he ate of this between whiles, and sat munching and drinking near Madame Defarge's counter. A third man got up and went out.
"I condemn you only for one thing for that flat bottle behind the books." "But you wanted it." "For that reason you should have kept it away. You should have obeyed orders." "You asked me to doff my cap, so I doffed my discipline." She was standing on the ground, holding the door open as she talked; again he was aware of the charm of her pink and white. "Good-bye, Hilda."
They do not spare their shoes by reason of economy, but because they walk better without them. Donned for propriety, doffed for convenience. The young lady who is "on the market" is expected to wear leather on high days and holidays, and she submits another martyr to fashion. Yet even as the hart panteth for the water-brooks, so longeth her sole after her native turf.
The turbulent democracy of the former, led into the field, doffed the citizen, donned the soldier; and obeyed the orders of a commander whom as citizens they detested, and whom when they were led back to the forum at the end of the summer campaign they were ready again to oppose and to impeach.
Miss Dory said so, an' Elder Covil knows, only he's done gone Norf or somewhar. It's all right, an' you'll know 'tis the minit you see Miss Dory's face innocent as a baby's. Good day to you." He doffed his hat with a kind of grace one would hardly have expected, and walked rapidly away, leaving the Rev. Mr.
It may be added that he possessed, what few stage-singers appear to possess, a remarkably well-formed leg a firm-knit calf tapering to a small ankle and a shapely foot; but, as he had now doffed his professional silken stockings and silver-buckled shoes for ordinary evening wear, his merits in this respect were mostly concealed.
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