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His words outcome of views forcibly expressed by his partners in Mincing Lane that morning were the foolhardy action of one who pokes a tigress with a stick. The tigress shook herself. "Now, I wonder what you mean by that?" she challenged. Mr. Chater dropped the stick; precipitantly fled. "Of course it was all new to Bob," he granted, throwing a bone.
I want to explain something that he ought to know. He would never listen before; now he cannot help himself." A violent fit of coughing seized the officer, preventing him from replying. Presently recovering he cleared his throat, and left them precipitantly. He was gone but a few moments. "You may see him for a short time, ladies," he reported. "This way."
Deaf alike to their exclamations and their questions St. George sat staring unseeingly through the window, his mind an abyss of fear. Then the cab drew up at the door of his hotel and he turned upon the two men precipitantly. "See," he cried, "in a boat on the open sea, would you two be at all able to direct a course to Yaque?" Both men smiled suddenly and brilliantly.
Just as the man with the hurt arm, who was slender, and had a dandified walk, entered this open space, a gust of wind came into it with him; and there came, also, from the other street, a robust gentleman of medium height, holding his head high and walking briskly. Caught by the gust of wind, my gentleman from the second story window ran precipitantly into the other.
That seemed to be why he hid his whole load in the crook of a big bough, and, returning to the lawn, ate bread he could wait to catch no worms for his own use, it appeared as fast as he could. Three false alarms sent him precipitantly into his tree upon this occasion, and one real alarm a passing boy caused a fourth retreat.
"Uncle Dick," she murmured, and with the slightest of gestures indicated Rand standing in the door. Colonel Churchill started, precipitantly left Mr. Hunter, and crossed the floor to his guest of two weeks. "My dear sir, you came in so quietly! I welcome you downstairs. Gilmer says you're a strong fighter.
And yet after all, though the poor came to town very precipitantly, as I have said, yet I must say the rich made no such haste. The men of business, indeed, came up, but many of them did not bring their families to town till the spring came on, and that they saw reason to depend upon it that the plague would not return.
New disciples often joined Sri Yukteswar in exhaustive criticism of others. Wise like the guru! Models of flawless discrimination! But he who takes the offensive must not be defenseless. The same carping students fled precipitantly as soon as Master publicly unloosed in their direction a few shafts from his analytical quiver.
I'd have made him or anybody else speak out before he should have kissed my face for his pleasure. But you are one of those precipitantly fond things who are yearning to throw away their hearts upon the first worthless fellow who says good-morning. In the first place, you shouldn't have loved him so quickly: in the next, if you must have loved him off-hand, you should have concealed it.
The most singular event in my life brought further confirmation-an event which now impels my deathbed message. "It was an interview with a sage in the Punjab. While our family was living in Lahore, one morning the servant came precipitantly into my room. He insists that he "see the mother of Mukunda." "These simple words struck a profound chord within me; I went at once to greet the visitor.
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