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From side to side he would swing the glasses and search for anything that looked like a suspicious light on land or water then turn to what lay dead ahead.
The day passed more slowly than it seemed possible for any day to pass; always the man in the shop; always the deep eyes of the silent Hindoo upon him. It was a relief when, once, Mr. Chalker looked in and surveyed the shelves with a suspicious air, and asked if the old man had by this time listened to reason.
Johnnie had guessed from the tone of the priest that a "rakin'" was something not altogether pleasant; had concluded, too, that it would fall to the lot of Big Tom. So he gave the address gladly, and as his two new friends stepped forward, was himself ten feet away in a flash, and going in the wrong direction! "Here, now! Here!" called the officer after him, at once stern and suspicious.
"I'm not sure yet, Captain," Mike hedged. "May I borrow these three books?" He held them up in his hands. "May I be so bold as to ask why, Mister Gabriel?" "I just want to look at them, sir," Mike said. "I'll return them within a few hours." "Mister Gabriel," Captain Quill said, "after what happened last night, I am suspicious of everything that goes on aboard this ship. But yes.
Once Isabel had seen him pause, too, on one of his return journeys, suspicious of the dim figures beneath, silhouetted on a branch against the luminous green western sky, with the outline of a mouse with its hanging tail plain in his crooked claws, before he glided to his nest again.
But, even if Head were independent, it was not with an authority useful to the dignity of his position; and the whole affair has a suspicious resemblance to one of John A. Macdonald's tricks. The voice is Macdonald's voice, if the hands are the hands of Head.
"Once, sir, you were guilty of a deceit," said Washington, sternly, "and the present conditions are enough similar to make me suspicious. Are you certain that the fact that Miss Meredith's happiness is concerned in this officer's fate, has had nothing to do with the quality you have given to his status?" Despite the tan, General Brereton's cheeks paled. "My God, your Excellency!" he burst out.
The early scarcity of iron in Scotland is confirmed by Froissart, who says, "In Scotland you will never find a man of worth; they are like savages, who wish not to be acquainted with any one, are envious of the good fortune of others, and suspicious of losing anything themselves; for their country is very poor.
The first march I taught my young companion the art of becoming his own butcher, cook, &c.; for I killed, skinned, washed, cooked, and eat a fine young kid, of part of which I made a curry, and grilled the remainder; of this my young friend partook, with most excellent appetite. After tea we moved into a village for the night; for some suspicious fellows had already been seen loitering about.
On the last night of the seven years he went to his favourite public-house again, and wished for five pounds. After he wished, a little man entered and spat the sovereigns into the tumbler, and they all drank all night. Next morning Billy went back to his smithy. The devil, who had grown suspicious, turned himself into a sovereign and appeared on the floor.
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