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He had, however, a little residue of that discipline which, working in a great industrial organization, begets qualms as to extreme courses. He looked reflectively at the leaden pot and said in reply: "I'd never believe in anything where that Ingolby is concerned till I had it in the palm of my hand. He's as deep as a well, and when he's quietest it's good to look out.
Hospitals for men and women are situated in the quietest parts of the mission, where also are placed the schoolrooms. The Indian children attend the same school as the children of the white colonists. A certain number of them, chosen from those who exhibit most intelligence, are taught music plain-chant, violin, flute, horn, violincello, and other instruments.
'Gentle Rachel, I fear I trouble you; sweet Beruna, I thank you for your zeal. I am better now; the shock was great. These are strange tidings, maidens. 'Yes, dear lady! who would have thought of your brother turning out a Captain? 'I am sure I always thought he was the quietest person in the world, said Beruna, 'though he did kill Alschiroch.
And I thought, maybe you were out of your head and imagined those things. Oh, Maida,” Rosie’s voice actually coaxed her to favor this theory, “don’t you think you imagined them?” Maida laughed. “No, Rosie,” she said in her quietest voice, “I did not imagine them.” For a moment neither of the two little girls spoke. But they stared, a little defiantly, into each other’s eyes.
They did not know that they were going down to help dedicate the great Northwest to freedom. Great movements in the affairs of men are like tides of the seas which reach and affect the remotest and quietest nooks and inlets, imparting a thrill and a swell of the general motion. Father Gibault brought the wave of the American Revolution to Vincennes.
As soon as we got there he said, "You were in the right; we must remain friends. Promise me not to tell anyone of what has happened." I gave him the promise; we shook hands, and everything was over. The next day I took up my abode in one of the quietest streets to finish my second volume on the Polish troubles, but I still managed to enjoy myself during my stay at Gorice.
Langford was the most visibly impatient. The hasty bustling of her very quietest steps gave such torture to Frederick, as to excuse the upbraiding eyes which he turned on his poor perplexed mother whenever she entered the room; and her fresh arrangements and orders always created a disturbance, which created such positive injury, that it was the aim of the whole family to prevent her visits there.
The wind blew roughly, the wet squalls came rattling past them, skimming the pools on the road and pavement, and raining them down into the river. The clouds raced on furiously in the lead-Coloured sky, the smoke and mist raced after them, the dark tide ran fierce and strong in the same direction. Little Dorrit seemed the least, the quietest, and weakest of Heaven's creatures.
Murphy endeavored to find those whose sole-leather flesh had stopped a bullet, but could not. However, digging his fingers into the breasts and shoulders of a few of the quietest convinced him that the story could not be far wrong. The stiffened muscles felt like bones.
Running down to the scene of the orgies, they found that the blacksmith, who had hitherto been considered and really was one of the quietest men of the party, was now among the drunkards.
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