United States or Ireland ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Thus there were short intervals, on successive days, when Claude was able to devote himself to Mimi, for the laudable purpose of beguiling the time which he thought must hang heavy on her hands.
On being appointed Instructor to the Normal School, he says, "I am obliged to hang my harp on the willows of my river, and to accept an employment useful to my family and my country. I am afflicted at having to suspend an occupation which has given me so much happiness." He enjoyed in his old age, a degree of opulence, which, as much as glory, had perhaps been the object of his ambition.
Don't try to do anything and injure your broken arm. You certainly had a tough time of it." "Yes, I guess I did. I can't do much to help you." "You don't need to. We're all but finished. Just hang around and watch me work. There isn't much to do." But though Jack gave an invitation to remain near him, the other seemed to prefer being off by himself.
This gave the man an errand into the toll-house to get one, and, by way of marking his attention, when he returned he said, in the negative way that country people put a question: 'You'll not need a ticket, will you? 'Yes, I'll take a ticket, said he. 'Oh! hang it, no, replied Sponge; 'let's get on! stamping against the bottom of the phaeton to set the horse a-going.
"It is a great thing to know that my child has in her the blood of all those wonderful people whose portraits hang in the hall. I want her to be worthy of her name." She could have said nothing better. Aunt Claudia's face was lighted by the warmth in her heart. "Such a lot of ancestors for one little fat Fidelity," she said; "put on her nightgown, Mary, and I'll rock her to sleep."
This is not the place to be the general rendezvous of a gang of robbers. Offenders of this sort hang on the skirts of large towns. From the commission of their crimes they hasten into the crowd, and hide themselves in the populousness of great cities.
If a Jew or a Christian is guilty of Murder, he is Burnt alive without the gates of the City; but for the same Crime the Moors and Arabs are either Impaled, hung up by the Neck over the Battlements of the City, or thrown upon Hooks fixed upon the Walls, below, where they sometimes hang in Dreadful Torments for Thirty and Forty hours together before they Expire.
"You'll want me to walk over with you and come for you afterwards, I expect." "Only to take me. It may be late when I come away if a good many SHOULD ask me to dance, for once! Of course I could come home alone. But Joe Louden is going to sort of hang around outside, and he'll meet me at the gate and see me safe home." "Oh!" he exclaimed, blankly. "Isn't it all right?" she asked.
"Yes," he said, realizing that he must humor her it was difficult to remember that this lovely girl was insane. "Let me see, now just what was I in prison for? I do not seem to be able to recall it. In Nebraska, they used to hang men for horse stealing; so I am sure it must have been something else not quite so bad. Do you happen to know?"
Alcock's and there drank and had good sport, with his bringing out so many sorts of cheese. Then to the Hillhouse at Chatham, where I never was before, and I found a pretty pleasant house and am pleased with the arms that hang up there.
Word Of The Day