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Updated: May 24, 2025
"Which is the 'Silver Lion'?" she called, her voice echoing in the empty street. Soon, between rugs on a bed in the "Silver Lion," between a single sheet doubled in two, she slept propping the lockless door with her suitcase. The Renault slept or watched below in the courtyard, the moon sank, the small hours passed, the day broke, the first day in Charleville.
Varin filled his cup with an unsteady hand until it ran over, and propping his body against the table as he stood up, replied, "A toast for Ville Marie! and our friends in need! The blue caps of the Richelieu!"
Only, as she sat there opposite to him, one slim hand propping the brow, her look invited him. He thought he saw his advantage.
But the heavy infantry, who by this time were crowding through the breach, neither heard nor heeded his curse. He lost consciousness and did not recover it till Herse, after lifting up her son and propping him against a plinth, pressed a cloth against the stump of the lance still remaining in the wound to staunch the swiftly flowing blood, and sprinkled his brow with wine.
She recalled the sweet scent of the buffalo grass with a vague sense of depression and irrevocable loss. She turned restlessly beneath the covers, and in doing so her face came in contact with the moistened surface of her pillow. Propping herself up on her elbow, she looked curiously at the tell-tale bit of linen.
Captain Benson, the master of the tavern, was propping the hat of one of them over his head. "It is not altogether their fault, Colonel," said my landlord, with a grim look of humour. "Jack Firebrace and Tom Humbold of Spotsylvania was here this morning, chanting horses with 'em. And Jack and Tom got 'em to play cards; and they didn't win the British Captains didn't.
I asked. "No, going to sleep in it," said he. "We'll set it up slantwise before the fire, open the doors and lie down in it. I've a notion that it will keep us warm, even if it isn't very soft." The wardrobe was about four feet wide, and, after propping up the top end at an easy slant, we lay down in it, and took turns getting up to replenish the blaze in the oven.
"That means: 'Oh, come!" said Manlius laughing, propping himself carelessly on one elbow upon his couch. Carinus ordered his lectica to be brought, and had himself lifted into it. "No man has ever done that," whispered the barber, filled with envy; "given up his own bride to another." "Meanwhile you are the ruler of Rome," said Carinus to Manlius. "Let the fellow who writes my name come.
Aunt Jane was one of those rare housekeepers whose kitchens are more attractive than the parlors of other people. "And gittin' religion is different, too," she continued, propping her feet on the round of a chair for the greater comfort and convenience of her old knees. "Both of 'em is a heap easier than they used to be, and the organs is a heap better.
Columbine set down the tray again with a hint of exasperation. "You're just like a child," she said severely. "A great, overgrown boy, that's what you are!" "All right," said Rufus, propping himself against the door-post. "It's not all right. It's time you grew up." Columbine picked up the full glass, and, carrying it daintily, advanced upon him.
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