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He saw the Prussians on the slope behind the village, and was at first puzzled by their exposed position. "The old fox keeps to earth," he was heard to mutter. And so he waited until matters should clear up, and Gérard's arrival should give him strength to compass Blücher's utter overthrow while in the act of stretching a feeler towards Wellington.
Beardsley will have to lay his schooner up or go somewhere else." "You will go with him, I suppose?" said Dillon carelessly. "I am ordered to report at the end of ninety days," replied Marcy, who knew that the question was meant for a "feeler." "If I live I shall do so; and I expect to stay with the schooner as long as she is in the business."
That article appeared in the Nineteenth Century. In the current number of the same review Mr. Mivart has another theological article on "Happiness in Hell." He says he took advice before writing it, so he speaks with permission, if not with authority. Such an article, being a kind of feeler, was better as the work of a layman.
Hastily I looked up at Garrick in surprise. "What is that?" I asked endeavouring to describe it. "Are they there now?" "No," he laughed. "That was the moon shining in. I wanted you to hear what a difference it makes. When a ray of the sun, for instance, strikes that 'feeler' over there, a harmonious and majestic sound like the echo of a huge orchestra is heard.
I do not believe that he was a great thinker, but only a great feeler. Was he the great poet of America, or even a great poet at all? A great poet includes a great artist, and "Leaves of Grass," as has been pointed out times without number, is the raw material of poetry rather than the finished product.
"Dan," he said to his son, "I was sot agin this young feeler when I first saw him on account o' hasty jedgments. Never you be led astray by hasty jedgments, Dan. Naow I'm sorry for him, because he's clear distracted in his upper works. He ain't responsible fer the names he's give me, nor fer his other statements nor fer jumpin' overboard, which I'm abaout ha'af convinced he did.
"Still your remark gives me an idea, Florry. If I happen to run across that young fellow Peasley you remember him, Florry; the boy I'm training for a steamship captain I'll have him out for dinner with me so I'll not have to eat alone." "I thought you didn't care for him socially," Florry put forth a feeler. "Well, he used to remind me considerably of a St.
The rooster was a pretty beast, all red an' blue, an' a good feeler; but he didn't care a hang for money. He turned his head away, an' I sez, "The dollar's good." But the feller had to keep on makin' tests, which didn't interest the rooster any until finally the rooster begun to get some exasperated.
"I thought of riding in for the mail," he answered; "there's a letter I'm looking for." The general flushed and put out a preliminary feeler. "How are you going?" he inquired; "not on one of my horses, I hope?" Eugenia shook her head at Bernard, but he went on recklessly: "Why, yes, I thought I'd take the gray mare." The general shook his head until his flabby face grew purple.
He put on his hat and walked out through the back kitchen into the yard declaring that his friend would find him there, round by the pigsty wall, whenever he was ready to return to Bungay. As soon as Mixet was gone John looked at his sweetheart out of the corners of his eyes and made a slow motion towards her, putting out his right hand as a feeler. 'He's aff now, Ruby, said John.
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