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He initiated us first into the mysteries of theoretic Thugism, and then extended his hospitality by a ready offer to show us the practical side of it, if we agreed to pay for a sheep. He said he would gladly show us how easy it was to send a living being ad patres in less than three seconds; the whole secret consisting in some skillful and swift movements of the righthand finger joints.
He noticed many little things acutely in his unhappiness; how nicely the silver vases were cleaned, and that the piperack was kept on the righthand side now instead of the left. "You'll come round." "If you knew how impossible it seems to me you wouldn't say that." "I suppose I shall be worrying over this business all day as well as all night?" "I hope not.
You see the original note was evidently torn into two or three strips and we have only got the righthand one, so we don't get a single complete sentence , but what we have is mighty suggestive.
Waddington, the only existing member of the firm, entered -a large, untidy-looking man, also dressed in most uncomely fashion, and wearing an ill-brushed silk hat on the back of his head. He turned at once to his righthand man. "Well, did you land him?" he demanded, with some eagerness. Burton shook his head regretfully.
'Whoever lives there, thought Alice, 'it'll never do to come upon them THIS size: why, I should frighten them out of their wits! So she began nibbling at the righthand bit again, and did not venture to go near the house till she had brought herself down to nine inches high.
He had no idea what it meant, although his agent certainly did. "If there are any special matters which should be handled in general session, now is the time to bring them up," said Powart, and remained standing. An undersized man with a remarkably large head of hair spoke up from the righthand side of the table: "I want to suggest that it is high time we sent another expedition to Alma."
He bounced over the fence without waiting to open the gate, and angrily confronted astonished Anne, who had risen to her feet and stood looking at him in some bewilderment. Mr. Harrison was their new righthand neighbor and she had never met him before, although she had seen him once or twice. In early April, before Anne had come home from Queen's, Mr.
There was a great Moody revival in progress in Boston, and Miss Willard was the righthand assistant of Mr. Moody. To her that revival must have been marked with a star, for during it she met for the first time Miss Anna Gordon, who became her life-long friend and her biographer.
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