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Updated: July 22, 2025
"We are now in possession of our picture, which we received from Agnew yesterday morning, and we are very much pleased with it; my impression is that it is a very good, well-finished painting: we have not yet concluded where to hang it for a proper and good light.
"But, if I'm forced to be a fool, I might as well have a well-finished job of it." Applerod, his poise nearly recovered, bounded into the office where Johnson sat stolidly working away, his sense of personal contentedness enhanced by the presence of Biff Bates, who sat idly upon the flat-top desk, dangling his legs and waiting for Bobby. Mr. Applerod paid no attention whatever to Mr.
The walls are painted and slightly ornamented; the windows are toned a little and bordered with elegant, well-finished designs; the chancel is fronted with a gothic arch painted in marble pattern and edged with gold; beyond there is a circular window, stained in bright colours. At each end there is a gallery one which apparently contains nothing, whilst the other is devoted to the choir.
What these savages most appreciated in European civilization was well-finished weapons of which at that time they possessed a great quantity for by their help they were the better able to indulge their sanguinary instincts.
It was, perhaps, about two in the morning when a man, very efficient at the trade which he was then following, knelt outside Lady Eustace's door, and, with a delicately-made saw, aided, probably, by some other equally well-finished tools, absolutely cut out that portion of the bedroom door on which the bolt was fastened.
His white moustache alone had a well-finished look, curving jauntily upward. "Sit there!" An authoritative finger pointed Bean to the chair he had lately occupied. He sat nervously, suffering that peculiar apprehension which physicians and dentists had always inspired. "Most amazing! Most astounding!" muttered the professor as if to his own ear alone.
I understand he is by no means prosperous, but at least getting a footing in the country, and the people apparently have rather a high opinion of him. Did I mention that one of the party was a girl?" She saw the quickened interest in Millicent's eyes. With assumed indifference in her voice Millicent asked: "What kind of people were they?" "The girl was handsome well-finished, too.
It is one of those well-finished, middle-class looking establishments, about which you can't say much any way; and if you could, nobody would be either madder or wiser for the exposition.
With the light of their candles they saw a well-finished passage and two or three stairs; it was too dark to see more. "This is the way that Jane was abducted, and this is the way that Esperance went. Let us see where it goes." And Fanfar started first. Hardly had they reached the stairs than they heard the iron door close behind them. In spite of all their courage, they shuddered.
Before they were aware of his presence, he sprang across the fire, seized one of the men, who had a well-finished bone in his hand, round the waist with his two fore-paws, and ran about fifty yards on his hind-legs with him before he stopped.
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