Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
He just craned out his neck and read it, and to his infinite surprise found the vice-bailiff who had signed the writ was the friendly alderman. He took courage and assured his captor there was some error. But finding he made no impression, demanded to be taken before the alderman. "What say you to that, Jacques?" "Impossible. We have no orders to take him before his worship. Read the writ!"
Ez I war a-ridin' along through the woods this mornin' I kem acrost a striplin' lad a-walkin' through the undergrowth ez onconsarned ez a killdee an' ez nimble. An' under his chin war a fiddle, an' his head war craned down ter it." He mimicked the attitude as he stood on the hearth. "He never looked up wunst.
They must come from the rattle of arms, orders given in whispers, footsteps slipping on the fat soil of plough-lands. Listening heads craned over our parapets. Each man was trying to hear, to understand, to see, and to divine, and each felt intuitively that the enemy was about to renew his assault. The most absolute silence and the most impressive calm reigned in our trenches.
Crackers were popping on all sides, horses were prancing wildly, frightened by the unusual clatter, and people were laughing and shouting to one another as they craned to catch a first glimpse of the oncoming cortège. A silence fell suddenly as the grand marshal rounded the depot, leading the way north to the grove where the exercises were to be held.
He told me that the theatre is open all the year round; they do not make much money in the summer because the people prefer to be in the open air, but in the winter ! and his gestures indicating how they sat shoulder to shoulder and craned their necks to see over one another's heads and wiped the perspiration off their foreheads and scattered it upon the floor, were rapid, precise and eloquent.
Finally they were all gone and he saw himself take a last look about him as he stood alone on his elevation. He then craned his neck and turned his face to the oval nothingness flapped his arms, and with a thrilling sensation flew heavenward. His body went through the air a little sideways but it flew, and the rest did not matter.
'Lord, said Merlin, 'God's hand is drawing you to Him, and these your lords desire you to name your successor ere you pass from life. Is it not your desire that your son Arthur shall take the kingdom after you, with your blessing? Those who craned towards the bed started and looked darkly at Merlin and then at each other; for none had heard of the son whom the wizard named Arthur.
Mathilde turned her full face toward him, shedding gratitude and affection as a lamp sheds light before she answered: "You were terribly unkind to me yesterday." "I know. I'm sorry." "I shall never forget the way you kissed me, as if I were a rather repulsive piece of wood." Pete craned his neck, and met the suspicious eye of a guard.
His quick eye saw the two ladies, and he raised his broad-brimmed hat like a Stuart cavalier, and smiled. "Waiting for your champion, eh?" he asked with cynical friendliness. "Well, work hard, because that will soften his fall." He leaned over, as it were confidentially, to them, while his friends craned their necks to hear what he said: "If I were you I'd prepare him.
Anxious to be included in the picture, the driver of the bridal barouche has craned his neck forward. On the evidence of the costumes, the picture had been taken about 1902. Our bureau in the cellar of Wisteria Villa was connected directly with the trenches.
Word Of The Day