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"Be you Dr Fillgrave?" said Joe, with one finger just raised to his cocked hat. "Yes," said Dr Fillgrave, with one foot on the step of the carriage, but pausing at the sight of so well-turned-out a servant. "Yes; I am Dr Fillgrave." "Then you be to go to Boxall Hill immediately; before anywhere else." "Boxall Hill!" said the doctor, with a very angry frown.
The smell of moisture came to his nostrils. "Nothing is more English than an English robin, Mike! In the autumn, when it comes near the house, what a darling it is so well-turned-out, so fearless of humans!" "Nothing," Mike said, "unless it's my mother herself, in her gardening gloves, cutting off the dead heads from the rose-beds." "But she's Irish!" "Well, I meant British.
He was a well-looking, well-turned-out and well-to-do representative of the occupation which he, his father and grandfather had followed, ten years older, perhaps, than his companion, but remarkably well-preserved. He had made money and kept it. "They say that Rockefeller's at the back of them," he remarked. "They may say what they like but who's to prove it?" his young companion argued.
"If he could make a living out of it I should respect him," said the Senator; " though it's like knife-grinding or handling arsenic, an unwholesome sort of profession." "I think they look very nice," said Morton, as one or two well-turned-out young men rode up to the place. "They seem to me to have thought more about their breeches than anything else," said the Senator.
"Stand easy for a moment." Striding across the ground came a dapper officer one of those smart, tall, well-turned-out Frenchmen, who appear to be the essence of soldierly composure. Halting in front of the squad, which was drawn up at attention once more, he, too, ran his eye over the men, passed a remark to the Sergeant which was essentially complimentary, and then advanced a few paces nearer.
There is just so much less for luxury. The people in the streets; the shop-windows; the scale of charges at places of public resort and amusement; the very small number of well-turned-out private vehicles; the comparatively few people who live in houses and not in apartments; the simplicity of the gowns of the women, and their inexpensive jewelry and other ornaments; the fewer servants; the salaries and wages of all classes, point decisively to plain living on the part of practically everybody.
A well-turned-out troika with three really good horses, which get over the ground at the rate of twelve miles an hour, is a pretty sight to witness, particularly if the team has been properly trained, and the outside animals never attempt to break into a trot, while the one in the shafts steps forward with high action; but the constrained position in which the horses are kept must be highly uncomfortable to them, and one not calculated to enable a driver to get as much pace out of his animals as they could give him if harnessed in another manner.
Elliot Lyddell!" "He is hardly ever in my way," said Marian. "And his sister! Her dress! What study it must have taken! In the extreme of fashion." "Caroline's dress is not exactly what she would choose herself," said Marian. "That must be only an excuse, Marian; for though you have a well-turned-out look, it is not as if you were in a book of fashions." "I am not Mrs.
He saw instead a very distinguished-looking and remarkably well-turned-out stranger, smiling pleasantly at him from the front row of the audience. "You are a man, sir," the former declared warmly. "You are giving me a good push off. Fifty guineas is bidden, ladies and gentlemen, for Box A." "I'll go to fifty-five," a well-known racing man called out from the rear.
One of the bands was that of the Constabulary, playing really well, and with magnificent indifference to the other two. I am bound to say they returned it. We had the Constabulary troops, too, as escort, a well set-up, well-turned-out and soldierlike body.
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