United States or Belgium ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Whether my plan was successful or not, I shall leave my reader to judge. I found Weir busy as usual, but not with a coffin this time. He was working at a window-sash. "Just like life," I thought tritely perhaps. "The other day he was closing up in the outer darkness, and now he is letting in the light." "It's a long time since you was here last, sir," he said, but without a smile.
A faint color grew under her tan, and waned, but her eyes wavered not the breadth of a hair. It was the colonel who finally was forced to turn his gaze elsewhere, chagrined. His face was not unfamiliar to her. "Beauty is a fickle goddess," remarked Ducwitz tritely, settling himself firmly in the saddle. "In giving, she is as blind as a bat. I know a duchess now but never mind."
"You'd kick, by golly, if you was goin' to be hung," Slim bantered tritely and belatedly, and gulped remorsefully when he saw that he was "joshing" an unconscious man. "We better get him home. Irish, you " Weary looked up and discovered that Irish and jack Bates were already headed for home and a conveyance.
"Tell them I am going down to Beerjand to consult with Heshmet-i-Molk, the Ameer of Seistan, and see if it is possible to get through to Quetta via Beerjand." "Ever hear of Dadur?" queries Mr. Gray. "Ever hear of Dadur, the place of which the Persians tritely say: 'Seeing that there is Dadur, why did Allah, then, make the infernal regions? That is somewhere in Beloochistan.
Coldly, tritely, he sets down the bald, bare facts of the tragedies that wrecked the Hyndses. With a strange lack of emotion he chronicles Richard's death, and adds: "At the Pleasure of God his Birth fell upon a Wednesday, at Sun-rising, the which was by some Accounted Favourable. His Death came upon a Friday, at Noone, it Raining heavily."
Mr. Rollin's tone was unusually serious and even slightly embarrassed. I looked up with curious surprise from my dreamy observation of the water. Then I thought of what Grandma Keeler had said to me about laboring for this young man's spiritual good. "I think we all ought to seek it," I observed tritely, giving a long, studied artistic stroke to the oars.
The mill was gone; the blade was still hanging in its sockets, a useless, distempered thing; the boiler was bent and blackened, the belting burned; the carriages and muley saws and edgers and trimmers were only so much junk. He turned at last to Ba'tiste, to ask tritely what he knew could not be answered: "But how did it happen, Ba'tiste? Didn't any one see?" The Canadian shrugged his shoulders.
Such vicissitudes, frequent in all trading communities, excite but a passing interest; and after the customary commonplaces commiserative of the fallen fortunes of the still youthful widow, and gratulatory good-wishes for the prosperity of the ci-devant clerk, the matter gradually faded from the minds of the sympathisers, save when the rapidly rising fortunes of Derville, in contrast with the daily lowlier ones of Madame de la Tour, suggested some tritely sentimental reflection upon the precariousness and instability of all mundane things.
Let's round this corner " She stopped short, for as they cut suddenly from the side street into the main avenue they almost stumbled into a crowd! "What's up?" asked Shirley tritely. "An arrest," answered a man pushing his bicycle. "And I guess old Sandy ain't made no mistake this time. He's caught the banshee!" "Yes, sir," snapped an overgrown boy. "That's what she is.
I look through these drawings, conceived all so tritely and stupidly, so hopelessly and helplessly, yet executed many of them so very well indeed, and I sigh over the haphazard way in which mankind is made. However, my concern is not with the tragedy of these draughtsmen, but with the specific forms taken by their humour.
Word Of The Day