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As yet, her meaning was opaque to him. "Yes, do about it," Catia echoed, in her turn. "They say there's sure to be a vacancy, and that it's a splendid place." "Who say?" Brenton queried cautiously. "All the convocation. Don't be a dunce and pretend, Scott. Anyway, I'm not a mole; I can see which way the weather vanes are pointing. They were all talking about it, while the convocation was going on.
He walked unsteadily along the street in the pleasant evening, and the film of tears that shut the world from his eyes was peopled with far-off and familiar scenes. He saw his father's wide acres, with the sunset gilding the fleeces of his sheep and crowning with fire the stacks of grain and the vanes upon his granges.
He belonged to the Vanes of Camden Street, a beautiful village in the hills near Ripton, and was, in common with some other great men who had made a noise in New York and the nation, a graduate of Camden Wentworth Academy. But Mr.
If any accident should bring you in sight of the dwelling, you will know our rooms by the three smoky vanes that whiffle about its pointed roof, and also, by the windows in that story being occasionally open.
The houses with their fanciful gables and vanes, and tall twisted chimneys invited and enchained the eye. The streets were narrow, and alleys, courts and by-paths abounded in every direction. While they were at a distance they had heard only the subdued noises of the city, above which the bells sounded clearly.
The vanes on the church-steeples seemed to take fiendish pleasure in humiliating the dear old gentleman. If he said it was going to be a clear day, a dense sea-fog was pretty certain to set in before noon. Once he caused a protracted drought by assuring us every morning, for six consecutive weeks, that it would rain in a few hours. But, sure enough, that afternoon it began snowing.
At the same time he could not forget the insult done to his father's vanes, nor the Arab general's warning to be on his guard against Benjamin's enmity; and perhaps, he said to himself, it might be better to avoid a meeting with the powerful priest than to expose himself to the danger of losing his self-control and finding fresh food for his wrath.
All of which give teas in the society columns of the 'Clarion. Or dances. Or dinners. And I notice they're always sandwiched in between the Willards or the Vanes or the Ellisons or the Pierces, or some of our own crowd. I'm curious." "So am I. Let's ask Wayne." Accordingly the city editor was summoned and duly presented to Miss Elliot.
It did not occur to his mind as within the limits of possibility that he himself should marry again. He had always hoped that Sydney twenty years younger than himself, and the husband of a fair and blooming wife would have a son to bear his name. Hitherto the Sydney Vanes had been unfortunate in their offsprings.
Wheel of steam top, ready for blades to be bent. Solder the plates into the tube, allowing an overlap of a quarter of an inch beyond the lower one, to help retain the heat. The top wheel is cut out of a flat piece of sheet iron, zinc, or brass. Its diameter should be about 2-1/2 inches, the vanes 1/2 inch long and 1/4 inch wide at the circumference.
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