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The dead name was mossy; the letters were dim; But they spelled out "James Woodson," and mused upon him, Till Harry said, poring, "I wish I could know What manner of man used the bones down below."
Poring so intently over those ancient papers with their great Old English capitals, their stiff flourishes, their quaint abbreviations, we should scarcely have been startled to see a peruked head bend above them and a hand with noisy quill go tracing along the lines of those long-ago "Whereases" and "Be it knowns."
Dare, with a sigh; he is evidently in the last stage of exhaustion. I daresay any time next month you will still find us here poring over these identical books, but we shall be dead then there is at least comfort in that thought." "One wouldn't think so, to look at you," said Gore, pleasantly. "You can go away, Roger, you really can," says Dulce, irritably.
Edwy replied, "Nay, my host; this is almost my first day of perfect freedom, and I only left London, and my uncle the king, a few days back. Dunstan has gone down to Glastonbury, for which the Saints be thanked, and I am released for a few days from poring over the musty old manuscripts to which he dooms me."
Peter was still poring over his ledger one dark afternoon in December, his bald head glistening like a huge ostrich egg under the flare of the overhead gas jets, when Patrick, the night watchman, catching sight of my face peering through the outer grating, opened the door of the Bank.
He published these radiant descriptions of ancient Judaea in the dismal year of the "captured recruits." The youths of the ghetto, who had been poring over talmudic folios, fell eagerly upon this little book which breathed the perfumes of Sharon and Carmel.
He continued poring over the plans, while Bosinney went into his bedroom to shave and dress. The two walked back to Montpellier Square in silence, Soames watching him out of the corner of his eye. The Buccaneer was rather a good-looking fellow so he thought when he was properly got up. Irene was bending over her flowers when the two men came in. She spoke of sending across the Park to fetch June.
Really, Aunt Hannah, between her home-hunting in the morning, and her furniture-and-rug hunting in the afternoon, and her poring over house-plans in the evening, I can't get her to attend to her clothes at all. Never did I see a bride so utterly indifferent to her trousseau as Marie Hawthorn and her wedding less than a month away!"
And I shan't see you...." She held him to her, her breast against his, desperate with the dread of being separated from him. "It's easy for you, at sea, with the wind and the sun; and something fresh to see, and something happening all the time. But me in a dark room, poring over bits of straw and velvet to make hats for soppy women, and then going home to old Em and stew for dinner.
Nance, poring over every detail of the photograph, held her own counsel. She was thinking of the night she had stood in the drug-store door, and he had kept the motor waiting while he smiled at her over his shoulder. That was a smile that remembered! "You want to be careful what you say to anybody," Birdie continued, "there ain't any use airing it around where you live, or what you been doing.
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