Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 15, 2025
During this remarkable speech Mr. Wesley sat without a smile. At the end of it, he lifted a small handbell from the writing-table and rang it twice. Mr. Wright made sure that this was a signal for his dismissal. He mopped his face. "Well, it can't be helped. I've been a fool, no doubt: but you've had it straight from me, as between man and man."
Luttrell, in measured tones, "that Angela and I may also have an objection to residing in a place which will henceforth have so many painful memories attached to it." "If that is the case," said Brian, after a little pause, "there is no more to be said." "I will ask Angela," said Mrs. Luttrell, stretching out her hand to a little handbell which stood upon the table at her side. Brian started.
And she rang a silver handbell and gave an order. She addressed the servant in her usual tone, but to Tignonville's ear her voice seemed to fall to a whisper.
"It is time for me to interfere," said John's mother; and she rang a small handbell in the deckhouse. "Oh, don't, mother!" said John, with a piteous look. "Oh, Mrs. Hardy! what are you going to do with Him?" asked Helga, with concern. "First, he shall have no more breakfast, because he has finished," said Mrs. Hardy; "and then I will condemn him to " "No, no!" said Helga, beseechingly.
But his hair was so matted about his cheeks that Walker could not distinguish a feature. "If I was only near enough to see his eyes," he thought. But he was not near enough, nor would it have been prudent for him to have gone nearer. The witch doctor commenced the proceedings by ringing a handbell in front of every hut. But that method of detection failed to work.
There was an exclamation I think of surprise, for surely a young man would not have minded the pain? and he put his hand up quickly to his face. Priscilla got up just as quickly out of her chair and rang the handbell furiously, her eyes on his, her face ablaze.
Only yesterday the invalid had recovered sufficiently to rout the doctor and stagger down to the telegraph-office; and to-day, propped up with pillows on the uncomfortable stuff-sofa, he was expiating his rashness with a day of miserable coughing. At the sound of his handbell, the landlady, a buxom dame of forty-five autumns, hastened to the couch of her profitable visitor.
In the course of her letter, Madame de Quinet found it necessary to refer to Eustacie. She rang her little silver handbell for the hall.
"I shall be glad, Sir Philip, if you will send down a couple of your men to fetch the horses up to your stables; as I shall start, as soon as the gates are open, tomorrow morning." "I will do so, at once." And the governor rang a handbell on the table. "Send two of the men up here," he said, as an attendant entered. A minute later a door opened, and two soldiers came in, and saluted.
Dilly Dedalus, loitering by the curbstone, heard the beats of the bell, the cries of the auctioneer within. Four and nine. Those lovely curtains. Five shillings. Cosy curtains. Selling new at two guineas. Any advance on five shillings? Going for five shillings. The lacquey lifted his handbell and shook it: Barang! Bang of the lastlap bell spurred the halfmile wheelmen to their sprint.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking