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Warner started, but, quickly recovering himself, he laughed uneasily. "Tush!" he said, "I put no faith in it. Some one has been deceiving you, my friend." But the other passengers took it more seriously. "You evidently know something that we do not," said Parker. "I do," answered Melville. Col. Warner looked at him searchingly, but did not speak. Now was the time to test George Melville's nerve.
In the bright morning light that streamed in through the tendrils of honeysuckle clambering around the window, Dr. Grey looked searchingly at the orphan, and could scarcely realize that this pale, proud, pain-stricken face, was the same rosy round one, fair and fearless, that had first met his gaze under the pearly apple-blossoms.
Virginia, on hearing the news, rode over from Bellegarde, and flinging her reins to Nicodemus ran up to Anne's little dressing-room. "Whom have you invited, Anne?" she demanded. Anne ran over the long list of their acquaintance, but there was one name she omitted. "Are you sure that that is all?" asked Virginia, searchingly, when she had finished. Anne looked mystified.
In intense silence Kennedy passed before each of us, holding up the blue-print and searchingly scanning the faces. No one betrayed by any sign that he recognised it. At last it came to Revalenko himself. "The checkerboard, the checkerboard!" he cried, his eyes half starting from their sockets as he gazed at it. "Yes," said Kennedy in a low tone, "the checkerboard.
Staines stood and fixed his eyes on the patient in profound silence. Lady Cicely scanned his countenance searchingly, and was struck with the extraordinary power and intensity it assumed in examining the patient; but the result was not encouraging. Dr. Staines looked grave and gloomy. At last, without removing his eye from the recumbent figure, he said quietly to Mr.
III. Boldly and searchingly personal as the preceding words had been, the final turn of Christ's answer must have had a still sharper and more distasteful edge. He had struck a blow at Jewish trust in outward connection with Messiah as ensuring participation in His kingdom. He now says that the Gentiles shall fill the vacant places.
Peter Dillon handed Bab an envelope addressed to "Miss Barbara Thurston," looking at her searchingly as he did so. Bab colored hotly under his almost impertinent scrutiny as she reached out her hand for the envelope. She had an uncomfortable feeling at that moment that perhaps Peter Dillon knew as much about the contents of the envelope as she did. "Thank you, Mr. Dillon," she said in a low voice.
Mooanam made no reply; but he gazed intently on the gathering clouds, and then looked searchingly into Bradford's fine expressive countenance, as if to be assured that he had heard and understood aright.
The sun was burnishing her hair into an aura, and the clear light shone searchingly on the fresh bloom of her cheek, the violet of her eyes and the crimson of her lips revealing no flaw. She was all lovely and young, and yet Brent thought, she was alarmingly, almost paradoxically clever.
"Sit down," grunted the ranchman, motioning Bob to one of the straight-backed chairs while he himself sank into the rocker. As Bob obeyed, the dog stretched himself at his feet. Searchingly the ranchman scanned the boy's face, and the silence was becoming embarrassing when Ford broke it by demanding suddenly: "What did you say your name was?" "Bob Nichols." "Where do you come from?" "New York."
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