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Calculating his distances with judgment, the surveyor laid out his metes and bounds in such a manner as to include the pond, all the low-land, and about three thousand acres of hill, or mountain, making the materials for a very pretty little "patent" of somewhat more than six thousand acres of capital land.
Presently, the vitalities of the locomotive having been restored, the train rolled on, and Lorrimer took to calculating the chances of fulfilling his appointment that evening. He at length abandoned the hope, and resigned himself to the afflicting prospect of a solitary Sunday in a strange place. At eight o'clock, P.M., the Boston station was achieved. Then followed, for Mr.
The cook stood speechless, and the tall man sauntered leisurely through the several apartments of the boat, calculating their dimensions and inspecting the furniture, and pausing occasionally to handle such articles as appealed to his curiosity.
He was a chestnut burr, abounding with briers without and with substantial goodness within. He had the strong-grained practical sense, the calculating worldly wisdom of his class of people in New England; he had, too, a kindly heart; but all the strata of his character were crossed by a vein of surly petulance, that, half way between joke and earnest, colored every thing that he said and did.
While they were manœuvring, calculating, hesitating, guarding the customary avenues of approach, Bolivar would surprise them by concentrating a superior force upon a point which they imagined safe from attack, and, by throwing them into confusion, would cut up their forces in detail.
I asked, as I saw her breath come fast; for the smallest emotion moved her form. "You don't think, John, you don't think, dear, that you could lend me any money?" "All I have got," I answered; "how much do you want, dear heart?" "I have been calculating; and I fear that I cannot do any good with less than ten pounds, John."
Neither Lady Augusta nor her mother, in calculating the advantages and disadvantages of an alliance with his lordship, ever once considered his habits of listless idleness as any objection in a companion for life. After dinner the day cleared up the ladies were dressed in their archery uniform the carriages came to the door, and Lord George was happy in the prospect of driving his new phaeton.
Willingly hurrying to the place of execution, the murdered men had saved the calculating blacks the trouble of carrying their carcasses. Then four went back for the nervous escapee. He was safe, for the tracks were as obvious to them as a plough furrow to a European. Crouching beside a fallen, decaying tree, where bird's-nest ferns grew outrageously gross, they found him; and they jeered.
She made no reply, and in the silence he watched her closely. What could account for such an eclipse of all her young vivacity? It was clear to him that that fellow was entangling her in some monstrous way part and parcel no doubt of this militant propaganda and calculating on developments. Winnington's blood boiled.
There was a hard, calculating light in his eyes eyes which alternated between a soft, friendly blue and a steely gray. Finally he looked up at Leverage. "What's your idea, Eric?" "About him sendin' word he was out when we know he ain't?" "Exactly." "It looks darn funny to me, Carroll! 'Pears like he didn't want to discuss the affair with us." "He don't know who we are." "He can guess pretty well.
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