Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 5, 2025
"They make no hole in its body they shoot it without ruffling even its feathers." "How, how?" cried Charles, fastening upon his tutor, whom he now regarded no longer as a mere man of Latin. "They charge the gun with water," said Mr. Russell, "and the poor little humming-bird is stunned by the discharge." The conversation next turned upon the entertaining chapter on instinct, in Dr.
There was not a sign of life, or a sound or a movement, except that of the little breeze ruffling the young leaves on the chestnuts in the road outside. "I'll explain to Mr. Simmons that I come early so as to be able to tell him about the little maid, while he'd got a few spare minutes before the train came in," he decided, and, with a sigh of relief, made his way into the station.
He found himself presently back in the cool and pleasantly austere surroundings of his sitting room and threw himself into an easy-chair drawn up in front of the wide-flung windows. A strong breeze, against which a flight of seagulls leaned, was stirring the trees in the Embankment Gardens and ruffling the surface of the water.
He took a chair opposite to her and sat for a moment perplexed as to his next move. Sylvie did not help him at all. Ruffling the violets among the lace at her neck, she looked at him attentively from under her long golden-brown lashes, but maintained a perfect silence. "The news has been received by the Holy Father with great pleasure," he said at last.
He had a two-horse wagon, and he was loading it with rails from a big pile; there were two dogs with him, and when they saw the boys they came towards them snarling and ruffling the hair on their backs. Jake said not to mind them they would not bite; but they snuffed so close to Frank's bare legs that he wished Dave would call them off.
Has he had a quarrel? Is his body uneasy? Is he afraid when he sees the rainy dark? O Krishna, Giver of Bliss, why do you not come? As a girl waits by her bed looking out through her door, it is the prospect of Krishna's arrival not of an ordinary lover's that makes her happy. 'As she runs, her blue dress hides her limbs. She hears the wind ruffling the trees and the birds shifting in the night.
There were whole seas of sewing to be waded through, Mrs. Williams said, before she could have any spare afternoons. It really was appalling to think of the amount of ruffling and tucking and side-pleating and puffing that must be gone through, before the summer wardrobes of herself and her little daughters would be completed.
We speak of being "goaded" to do a thing when some one persuades or threatens or irritates us into doing it. But a goad was originally a spiked stick used to drive cattle forward. The word goad, then, as we use it now, is a real metaphor. Again, we speak of our feelings being "harrowed." From this meaning it has come to have the figurative meaning of wounding or ruffling the feelings.
"To be sure," put in Dick Bush. "Won't their eyes open when they see this! I just guess!" "Finest trick I ever played in my life, don't you know," drawled one of the dudish boys. The fire was kicked out and they took themselves to their boat. A strong wind was coming up, ruffling the surface of Firefly Lake. "Wish we didn't have to row in the wind," said Ham Spink.
And she turned and held the hand-mirror high, to be sure of the line of her tilted hat, gave a touch to the turn of her wide, close belt, a flirt to the frills of her bodice. The wind was lightly ruffling and puffing out the muslin curtains of the windows, and from the garden below came the long, silvery clash of eucalyptus leaves.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking