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"Like Jules Verne's thing in A Trip to the Moon." But Cavor was not a reader of fiction. "I begin to see," I said slowly. "And you could get in and screw yourself up while the Cavorite was warm, and as soon as it cooled it would become impervious to gravitation, and off you would fly " "At a tangent." "You would go off in a straight line " I stopped abruptly.
'You ought not to have anything which the others have not got, said the chamberlain, who had accompanied the princess; and he bade the child stand outside for a minute, while he took away the shaving and the mouthpiece, and made the Shifty Lad change his place. Then he called the child in, but the little girl knew him again, and went straight up to him with the apple.
Saunders looked rather melancholy, but said nothing for the first two or three minutes; then as she combed Marian's hair straight over her face, she began, "I hope you enjoyed yourself, Miss Marian?" "Oh, Saunders," said Marian, "I'm very tired; I don't think I shall ever enjoy myself anywhere but at home."
Their intimacy is founded on something more solid than that. It's a genuine friendship or I have never seen one." "Do you mean to say you don't know he is in love with her?" ejaculated Bertie. "But he won't make love to her," Lucas answered quietly. "He is drawn by a good woman for the first time in his life, and no harm will come of it. She is one of those women who must run a straight course.
"No; I came straight from the Castle of Zenda." "But," she cried, "he expected to find you at the hunting lodge. Ah, but now I recollect! The Count of Rischenheim was greatly vexed to find, on his return, that his cousin was gone." "Ah, he was gone! Now I see! Rischenheim brought a message from me to Count Rupert." "And they missed one another, your Majesty?" "Exactly, my dear young lady.
At the foot of the hill beyond the bridge begins a roadway, planted with young aspens, that leads in a straight line to the first houses in the place. These, fenced in by hedges, are in the middle of courtyards full of straggling buildings, wine-presses, cart-sheds, and distilleries scattered under thick trees, with ladders, poles, or scythes hung on to the branches.
Day before yesterday in Vienna still and now, with the farewell kisses still on one's lips, scarcely torn from another's arms, straight into the fire. And not blindly, unsuspectingly, like the first ones. For these poor devils now the war had no secrets left.
It may not be in our generation, but the time will assuredly come when, as has been well remarked, 'the living vigour of humanity will break through the monotony of modern arrangements and assert itself in new forms forms which may cause a new generation to feel less regret at being compelled to walk in straight lines.
I haven't opened a law book for twenty years and now it's too late. People of our class" here he looked away from his companion and talked straight at the foot of the bed "People of our class my boy," he repeated slowly "when they reach the neck and crop period you spoke of, are at the end of their rope.
The Master managed to keep a straight face when Dick absently intimated that he was afraid there was no harm done as yet. "It would make Betty miserable to go against my wishes, I think," continued the Master, "and I don't want her to be made miserable. That's why I'm talking to you now.
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