Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: April 30, 2025
All through the Middle Ages first Flanders, later the Burgundian Netherlands, had exerted their sobering and regulating influence between France, on one side, and England or Germany on the other.
He ate them all himself slowly, and was so very quiet and well-behaved all the time that Tommy hoped he was sobering down. They had gone a little way from the shop when he found that the clown was eating tarts. 'You might give me one, said Tommy; and the clown, after looking over his shoulder, actually gave him all he had left, filling his pocket with them, in fact.
An unerring knowledge of men in general and of his own son in particular indicated to Hector McKaye, upon the instant that the latter appeared at the family dinner-table, that his son's first day in command had had a sobering effect upon that young man.
O friend! when one thinks of the miseries and the misfortunes, the sorrows and the losses, the broken and bleeding hearts that began life buoyant, elastic, hopeful, perhaps boasting, like you, there ought to be a sobering tint cast over our brightest visions.
I ought to be awful wise," Bruce answered ironically. "Yes," sobering. "I've learned something I'm not liable to make the same mistake twice." He added ruefully: "Nor, by the same token, am I likely to have the chance. I suppose I've got the reputation of being something midway between an idiot and a thief." Burt seemed to consider.
"I have oodles of time," said Linda, "but I warn you, you won't know me if I put on that frock, Katy." "Yes, I will, too," said Katy. "Katy," said Linda, sobering suddenly, "would it make any great difference to you if I were the only one here for always, after this?" Katy laughed contemptuously. "Well, I'd warrant to survive it," she said coolly.
In fact, one scene shifter insisted that Shirley, as the Black Terror, had reached Werner's side and had struck him before the cry, while an extra girl with a faint lisp described with sobering accuracy the flight of a mysterious missile through the air. I realized then why Kennedy had made no effort to question them.
I thought we were succeeding; she has seemed more considerate and less fault-finding." "She certainly has," Evelyn agreed quickly, and the two looked at each other. There was an instant's silence; then Just spoke: "How do you know but you'll find her quite a different proposition when she wakes up? A plunge like that is a sobering sort of experience, I should say, for a girl who can't swim.
This act of violence, instead of sobering the rest, induced another to take up the quarrel, and another and another joining, in a short time the greater portion were engaged in a deadly hand-to-hand struggle. The officers contented themselves with merely shouting and ordering them to desist, and of course their commands received no attention.
The premiership, too, had a sobering effect upon Palmerston; he grew less impatient and dictatorial; considered with attention the suggestions of the Crown, and was, besides, genuinely impressed by the Prince's ability and knowledge.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking