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Why else was the pause prolonged but that singing might issue thence? Why rushed the discords in, but that harmony should be prized? R. Browning Early on the Monday morning three anxious-looking travelers arrived by the first train from London, and drove as fast as might be to the Park Hotel at Ashborough.
One acute observer has pointed out that it is the men of New York who grow haggard, wrinkled, anxious-looking, and prematurely old in their desperate efforts to provide diamonds and balls and Worth costumes and trips to Europe for their debonair, handsome, easy-going, and well-nourished spouses and daughters; while the men of Boston are "jolly dogs, who make money by legitimate trade instead of wild speculation, and show it in their countenances, illumined with the light of good cigars and champagne and other little luxuries," while their womankind are constantly worried by the New England conscience, and constantly creating anxieties for themselves where none exist.
An untidily dressed, careworn, anxious-looking man came forward from a parlour at the rear of his shop. At sight of Pratt who in the course of business had once served him with a writ his pale face flushed, and then whitened, and Pratt hastened to assure him of his peaceful errand. "All right, Mr. Murgatroyd," he said.
He was thinking of the valet he had seen at the station standing by the Danbys' luggage a dark, anxious-looking man, whose likeness to one of the compositors in his own office a young fellow for whom he had a particular friendship had attracted his notice. 'Why do you suppose he puts up with you your servant? he said, bending across to Colonel Danby. He smiled a little, but his eyes betrayed him.
Thereupon a tall, thin, anxious-looking woman appeared, wiping her hands in her apron. "This is little Miss Anderson," said Bruce, "come to bide wi's. Gie her a biscuit, and tak' her up the stair till her bed." As it was the first, so it was the last time he called her Miss Anderson, at least while she was one of his household.
"Occasionally I was so much better that I could go out; but the streets used to put me in such a rage that I would lock myself up for days rather than go out, even if I were well enough to do so! I could not bear to see all those preoccupied, anxious-looking creatures continuously surging along the streets past me! Why are they always anxious? What is the meaning of their eternal care and worry?
Fenger was the kind of man who is always talking to New York when he is in Chicago, and to Chicago when he is in New York. Trains with the word Limited after them were invented for him and his type. A buzzer sounded. It galvanized the office boy into instant action. It brought the anxious-looking stenographer to the doorway, notebook in hand, ready. It sent the lean secretary out, and up to Fanny.
Before I close this lecture I shall be glad to answer any questions that may occur to you as to points that appear to need clearing up or that may have been overlooked." There was a silence of a few moments, and then an anxious-looking man in the rear of the hall rose up.
An elderly woman instantly appeared with a child a few months old, puny and anxious-looking. Mrs. Somers took it from her, and placed it on the table; it tottered and nodded to the chirrups of the guests. Ben, from the opposite side of the table, addressed me by a look, which enlightened me.
He swung a swag on to the platform, shouldered it, pulled out a billy and water-bag, and then went to a dog-box in the brake van. Five minutes later he appeared on the edge of the cab platform, with an anxious-looking cattle-dog crouching against his legs, and one end of the chain in his hand.
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