It seemed to me it would have been different if she had been well and strong, and able to fight her own battle with the hard and cruel world.
Sim would be able to run it up to the shore, and probably had done so beyond the bend.
Turning, I saw Ham Fishley standing at the head of the stairs, and I wondered how he had been able to come up the steps without my hearing him.
As long as I could not explain where I obtained the money which Ham had unfortunately seen, I was not able to clear myself of the suspicion.
I was a powerful swimmer, and nerved by the peril of the stranger in the water, I felt able to do anything.
After a desperate effort, I succeeded in throwing one of my legs over the log; and, thus supported, I found myself better able to work efficiently.
I was satisfied that Sim, after he recovered his senses, would be ableto conduct the boat in safety to the hotel, and I did not worry about my companions.
Her health had improved a great deal, and she was able to sit up all day.
I do not feel able to go," added the poor girl; "and I do not wish to go unless my mother is saved.
I shall never forget your kindness, and I hope I may be able to do something more for you.
Ham's nefarious work appeared to be finished; and, without beingable to decide what I should do, I hurried back to my chamber, even forgetting all about poor Bully in my agitation.
I am glad to be able to say that Squire Fishley did not suffer by his honest confession of his own weakness, for he was true to his pledge, and true to his religion.
I do; and I think I shall be ableto prove it, too.
The first marches of this scheme were duly carried out, and several days elapsed before Napoleon was able to discern the direction of the real attack.
Lord Howe cruised in search of the enemy without being able to bring them to action.
They constructed that medium for themselves, and no force of the reaction which they provoked was able to undo their work.
Materially, it was no more than the crushing of an obstinate rearguard at enormous expense to the assailants, for the duke of York was able to withdraw while there was still time.
Though he appears to have been somewhat rough in his bearing, and too strict a disciplinarian to be much loved, Frobisher was undoubtedly one of the most able seamen of his time and justly takes rank among England's great naval heroes.
In April 1879 he was at last able to visit that province, and the conviction was forced upon him that the government had been unsatisfactory in many ways.
Their great merit is the creation of a language and a style able to give expression to these good gifts.
It was long before they were able to meet equal numbers with confidence, and still longer before they could freely oppose a small corps to a larger one.
But neither Lord Hood, who went home at the end of 1794, nor his indolent successor Hotham, was able to deliver an effective blow at the Toulon squadron.
There was no chance of his beingable to get into the museum, but he was drawn irresistibly thither for the mere pleasure of standing around and watching the people, and hoping that something--something would turn up.
Nevertheless, it is true that during this interview he had not been able to accept her decision as irreversible.
What historian of the heart will ever be able to do justice to those peculiar ties which bound the heart of the negro in years gone by to a race of not always worthy masters?
But why should I say this to you, who as much as any one else have taught me to think thus--I who myself am able to do nothing?
But if so sad and sacred a charge should ever become mine, with his help I will rear such a monument to your memory that as long as it stands none who see it will ever be able to forget you.
I have loved life well, but not so well that I have not been able to prepare to leave it.
He had never been able to understand why, having come, she had gone away with such abruptness.
Moreover, individual Maori sometimes shipped as sailors on board the vessels that touched on their coasts; and so Marsden was able to judge of the character of the race from the actual specimens he saw.
When the naturalist's note-book of our shanty shall have become enlarged and more copious, I may possibly be able to add to this slight sketch of the natural history of Northern New Zealand.
Most of the rising generation are able to read and write in their own tongue, if not in English also; for they all have been, or go, to school.
But afterwards, in the Bay of Plenty, Mercury Bay, and the Bay of Islands, he met with better treatment, and was able to establish friendly relations with certain tribes.
There were now between two and three thousand sheep on his clearings, and, barring accidents, another year ought to see him a free man and able to marry.
They are somewhat long in the back and short in the leg, as compared with Europeans; and both men and women are able to pikau (hump, or carry on the back and shoulders) great weights for long distances.
Had they beenable to march upon it then, it is possible that their attack could not have been successfully withstood, so limited were means of defence at that time.
In anticipation of the coming rush, we reckoned that he would be able to sell all the cargo at a good figure, and have a tolerable sum in hand to carry us on when we took up our claim.
When daylight came, and I was able to reason more calmly about the mystery, I thought I saw a possible solution.
He still had some capital left, and with that was able to buy grass seed, though at a ruinous price in those times, and sow down his burns.
Having eaten kiwi old and young, baked and boiled, roast and fried, I am able to state that its meat is tougher and more tasteless than barbecued boot-soles.
They are sublime and fearful mysteries, into which not even the greatest friend of the Maori has ever been able to penetrate.
But the extraordinary cunning and careful scheming that seemed apparent in this case were, I confess, beyond my powers to fathom; nor have I been able to account for them to this day.
Not being able to take a full wagon, small traders must pay what the forwarding agents demand, or make special terms with them.
They have been able to benefit the commerce of the country to a degree which would have been impracticable if, instead of rates being elastic and freely accommodated to traffic, the traffic had been forced to adapt itself to the rates.
The work which Mr. Grierson, the General Manager of the Great Western Railway Company, has just published on railway rates is a particularly able production, and its appearance now is very opportune.
Continent, and that in wages alone there is a disparity which they would not be able materially to alter.
He has said much and said it well; and indeed he has shewn himself anable advocate for the great interest he represents.
In his able and exhaustive work just issued Mr. Grierson has stated the case for the companies completely, though concisely.
We had not been able to take snapshots since about the middle of September; for, when the sun is near the horizon, though the light is apparently as brilliant as in summer, it seems to have no actinic power.
With this makeshift beacon he was able to keep somewhere near the trail.
Here, however, we were able to chop through the ice until we struck water.
That hope which is said to spring eternal in the human breast always buoyed me up with the belief that, as a matter of course, we should beable to return along the white road by which we had come.
With the increasing appetite caused by the continuous work, three men were easily able to consume four men's tea rations.
We were able to make longer marches when on the main trail because there we camped in the igloos already built on the upward journey instead of having to build fresh ones for ourselves.
By its aid we were able to melt ice and make tea in ten minutes.
I had hoped that Marvin would be able to make a sounding at his farthest north, but there was no young ice near the camp through which a hole could be made.
At last, when they were exhausted, they turned the sledges on their sides, the Eskimos worked out with their feet snow blocks which reinforced the shelter, and they were ableto snatch a little sleep.
MacMillan, being still under the weather with the grip, missed this preliminary training; but I felt certain that he would overtake the experience of the others as soon as he was able to travel.
Other men, seeing the confidence of Council in the newcomer, had sold him tools on time; and as he was really an able farmer, he soon had round him many evidences of his care and thrift.
This he was ableto do, for his corn rows ran alongside the road leading to Cedarville, and his neighbors were passing almost all hours of the day.
Nothing was able to prevent her steady progression and bloom.
They had always laughed with him (not at him, for Claude was able to take care of himself), and no woman before had taken him seriously, and there was a certain charm about the realization.
A fine farm, known as the Higley place, had fallen into his hands in the usual way the previous year, and he had not been able to find a tenant for it.
I don't seem to be able to do much now 'cept sit around and knit a little.
I'm a better woman than I was before, and I hope and believe that I'm better able to be a real mother to my children.
I ain't likely to be no richer next year than I am this one; if I wait till I'm able to send her she won't never go.
It gave Agnes time to recover herself and to beable to meet Will's eyes.
Then that letter came back to his mind; he had never been able to put it out of his mind-he never would till he saw her and asked her pardon.
In summer he wore no coat at all, and even in pretty cold weather he left his vest on his wagon seat, not being able to bring himself to the point of covering up the red and green of his attire.
He came closer to them all than he had been able to do before.
In Tucson he had been able to sit in the smoke, and compass a cheerful deceit of appearance even to himself.
It would have pleased him now to lose; it would have more than pleased him to be able to go to bed quite a long time ago.
I heard the faint reveille at Camp Thomas, but to me it was a call for more bed, and I pushed and pulled the grain-sack until I was able to distribute myself and in a manner doze, shivering in my overcoat.
While losing he had been able to sustain a smooth reticence; now he gave his thoughts freely to the company, and continually moved and fingered his increasing chips.
Hewley might be able to wink after everything was over, but he could not find it in his serious heart to do so now.
We ought to be able to find these Indians in three days.
I don't seem able to stop your foolish talking," he said, "but you shall not chase around like that.
Would nature write so illegible a hand that the mind must wait a long time before becoming able to read what had been inscribed upon it?
Then we shall be able to explain through the "together" (Zusammen) of this plurality what we were unable to explain from the undecomposed a, or from the single constituents of it.
This is denied, however, to us men, who are never able to rise above the opposition of sensuous and intellectual cognition.
The light of nature (the reason and the conscience) is able only to convince us of sin and not to give us complete information concerning our duty,--e.
Pure reason is able only to analyze concepts into their elements, not to connect new predicates with them.
The former is able to intuit only, the latter only to think; knowledge can arise only as the result of their union.
Sensibility furnishes the material manifold, which of itself it is not able to form, while the understanding gives the unifying form, to which of itself it cannot furnish a content.
You won't be able to put it down once you start it.
In fact, although he had made up his mind many days ago to enlist my support, yet he had been so closely shadowed that it was only now that he had been able to make my acquaintance and snatch a few hurried words with me.
So rapid was my progress now, under the spur of my desire for human companionship, that within a very few days I was able to graduate from my primers and read real books.
I had now progressed far enough in my mastery of their language so that Doggo was able to explain to me the reason for the existence of this committee.
I had now made sufficient progress with the spoken language, so that we were able to chat quite pleasantly together.
There must have been some very able statesmen in the Imperial Council at that time, judging by the terms imposed by our conquering nation.
Now it is evening, and I shall be ableto get my bearings by the pink light in the west.
This was indeed a favor, for, although I had been ableto get plenty of fresh air in the courtyard flower gardens and on the roofs, yet I had felt cramped and restrained, and had longed for the freedom of a run in the open fields.
As I could already transmit a three-dimensional picture of an object, and as Flambeau had been able to transmit formless matter, then by combining our devices in a single apparatus I found I could transmit physical objects unchanged in form.
Fortunately I have a good visual memory, for I was no moreable to invent sounds for the ant words, than I would have been able to read aloud a Chinese laundry ticket.
Picking up a tree branch, I hacked at the cords which bound him, until finally he was able to fly away, trailing a large section of the web after him.
We have not been able to ascertain exactly, but I think we can take it.
We did not carry looking-glasses, so I am not able to speak of myself; but my colleague was a subject for a painter.
A year afterward I was able to return these family mementoes to their owner in Jackson, Mississippi.
He was able to give me a pair of large boots in place of my own, which lacerated my sore and swollen feet.
It is the profoundest mystery of these times how the few Yankee peddlers and school-marms there have been ableto convert them into our bitter enemies.
Perhaps it is the invariable law of revolutions that, even while the revolters are in a numerical minority, they are able to carry the majority with them.
My health is broken, and I shall not live long; but it is a great consolation to know that I have been able to help some men who love the Union made by our fathers.
The more I saw of the Army of the Potomac, the more I wondered at its invincible spirit, which no disasters seemed able to destroy.
Afterward there was a rupture among the really loyal men; a fierce quarrel, in which the able but unscrupulous Blairs headed the opposition, and some zealous and patriotic Unionists co-operated with them.
But Treadaway was an excellent pilot, and the footmen, able to take paths through the mountains where no cavalry could follow them, would probably have less difficulty than we.
Thomas officially reported that Fremont would not be able to move his army for lack of transportation.
And while I dissent utterly from the doctrines of this address, and shall endeavor to refute some of them, candor compels me to say that it is the most able and the most logical speech I ever listened to.
We were soon able to pass through the hospitals little moved by their terrible spectacles, except when patients addressed us, exciting a personal interest.
Able to leave but few troops in St. Louis, he fortified the city in thirty days, employing five thousand laborers.
But not for another moment did this hesitation continue, for Reuben ran to the edge of the rock, both arms extended, and scarcely able for the breeze to keep his little feet firm upon the ground.
There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will, with the temptation, also make a way to escape that ye may be able to bear it.
As has been explained, the beginner is now able to make his selection from a wide variety of makes, ranging in price from L5 ($25) upwards.
Nor is he driven harder to achieve this end: he is able to do it because all waste motions have been eliminated.
The instructor or officer had thus a complete control over the whole installation, and was in a position to make sure that his instructions were being followed, as well as being able to tell whether his men were quick in sighting.
When the projecting mechanism has been stopped, and the result has been read, the shot-hole has to be obliterated before the film is able to resume its forward movement.
Thus this French investigator was able to photograph even the most minute organisms.
Naturally, being familiar with the working of his favourite and knowing what he can do with it, he feels more at home when he is able to have it fitted to his moving-picture machine.
As he developed his inclinations, and his work became appreciated, he was able to anticipate a comfortable income, owing to the steady demand that arose for his handiwork.
By this means, also, he is able to use the standard cinematograph camera and film without any modifications, the images upon the sensitized celluloid ribbon being of the normal size.
A man of such experience and ability isable to sum up the value of a plot in an instant.
The handy man, however, will be able to devise a light-tight box, either for the electric light or gas.
By removing the cap from the tube upon the rear face of the camera, and looking through it as if through a telescope, he is able to look squarely upon his screen.
Fitzgerald made no answer, but stared out of the window, and thought of his darling lying sick unto death, and he able to do nothing to save her.
Afterwards, all his love centred in his daughter, and he thought he would be able to spend his declining years in peace.
This closed Royston's evidence, and Calton sat down very dissatisfied at not being able to elicit anything more definite from him.
Depend upon it, if the four lovers whom Puck treated so badly had lived in Australia they wouldn't have been ableto sleep for the mosquitoes.
I think he'll be able to tell you where he lives--it's Grey Street or Ackland Street, I fancy.
If she was above ground she must certainly have seen the handbills, if not the papers; and though not able to read, she could hardly help hearing something about the one topic of conversation throughout Australia.
You think that you will beable to find the woman who wrote that?
The fact is," he said aloud, "Fitzgerald is able to prove an ALIBI, and he refuses to do so.
Most of those present knew the facts only through the medium of the newspapers, and such floating rumours as they had been able to gather.
They are admire-able in lots of ways," Rose-Ellen answered.
Since Jimmie's infantile paralysis, three years before, he had been able to walk very little, and school had seemed out of the question.
They will not be very appetizing, especially if they had to be a frequent meal, yet onion soup is made from the same materials, and in France is a very favorite dish, even with those well able to put meat in it if they wished.
For, after devoting say a few winter months to perfecting yourself in a few things, you will be able to teach your cook, who is often ambitious to excel if put in the right way.
In April or May the birds collect at their various stations, never quite to leave them again until the young are able to fly.
The young are hatched covered with close down, and able to swim at once.
The young of all Limicoline birds are hatched covered with down, and are ableto run soon after their breaking from the shell.
As soon as the young are able to fly the movement south begins.
It swims equally as well and buoyantly, with the same peculiar bobbing motion; whilst on the land it is able to run and walk with ease.
The young are always hatched covered with down, and soon ableto accompany their parents on the water.
As may be gathered from the foregoing remarks the Great Northern Diver is a proficient in the art of diving, and is said to be able to remain as long as eight minutes beneath the surface--a period of time which seems incredible.
It is able to weather many a storm at sea, doubtless obtaining much shelter in the deep hollows of the mighty waves.
The young are hatched covered with down, able to swim with ease almost immediately.
Great caution and gloves are recommended, for the Puffin resents intrusion and bites fiercely, being able to inflict a nasty cut with its powerful beak and sharp claws.
The young, as usual, are hatched covered with down, and able soon to follow the female to the water.
When on the top of this I am able to show that the blood mark on the windowsill was deliberately placed there by Barker, in order to give a false clue to the police, you will admit that the case grows dark against him.
He was cordial and intimate with Douglas, and he was no less friendly with his wife--a friendship which more than once seemed to cause some irritation to the husband, so that even the servants were able to perceive his annoyance.
He is the only flaw in that chain so far as I have been able to test it.
It was of the first importance, however, that we should be able to prove who placed it there.
Take my word for it that they won't be able to hold you.
Watson's umbrella, I was able last night to fish up and inspect this bundle.
I hadn't much time to make it all clear to Barker and to my wife; but they understood enough to be able to help me.
McGinty had instruments enough already; but he recognized that this was a supremely able one.
Now, gentlemen, perhaps you will allow me to give you the views I have formed first, and then you will be able to arrive at your own.
But even within this inner fortress of the law the long arm of the Freemen was able to extend.
I know some girls, who have formed themselves into a band called a 'King's Daughter Circle,' and they meet once a week to sew for somebody who is not able to do her own sewing.
He was able now to possess two suits and he wore his best one with the clean linen and the new tie.
They told him that if he would be quiet and do as they said, he would probably be able to go home the next morning, and with this promise he was obliged to be content, and allow himself to be undressed and put to bed.
So, it was with great satisfaction that she obeyed the bishop's orders, and bought for the boy a good, serviceable outfit as soon as he was able to walk about his room.
I suppose so, but all the same I maintain that these companies that are amply able to treat their men better, ought to do so.
As he grew stronger and able to sit up, books and games and pictures were provided for his amusement, yet still the hours sometimes dragged somewhat heavily, but it was better when he was well enough to walk about the house.
From what you tell me the girl has been doing twice as much as she was able to do, and living in that little oven of a room with nothing like the fresh air and exercise she should have had, and very likely not half enough to eat.
She welcomed him with a feeling of glad relief, assured that at least he would be ableto find out where Theo was.
You will be able to do far more and better work in the world, with an education, than without one.
As long as I'm able to work you're just as welcome here as the rest--you and the baby too.
Parma, therefore, was ableto occupy the banks of the river, and to build forts which threatened the town and protected the army of workmen who were soon busily engaged in constructing the bridge which was to close the channel.
The raw material came from England, and by prohibiting the exportation of wool England was able to well-nigh ruin this branch of the trade of Flanders and Brabant.
At last, on the advice of a friend, he cut down the tree, and after that he was able to repose in peace.
His reputation grew, and in thirteen years he was able to purchase the site at the Marche du Vendredi.
He said that the play constantly grew upon him, and that with such revision as they should be able to give it together when he reached New York, they would have one of the greatest plays of the modern stage.
Should he always be able to bear and forbear, as he felt she would, with all her variableness and turning?
He thought that they would all do better as they familiarized themselves with the piece, and he deeply regretted that Mr. Godolphin had been able to give it only once in Midland.
They were as if stunned by the blow that had fallen on them, as all such blows fall, when it was least expected, and it seemed to the victims as if they were least able to bear it.
Hilary groaned in his despair of being able to imagine an injury sufficiently atrocious to inflict on Maxwell for having brought this grief upon his girl.
I trust that you will be able to supply my place, and I offer you my best wishes for the success of your enterprise.
She felt the motherly joy a woman has in being able to appease the hunger of the man she loves, and now she was glad that she had not postponed the fillet till dinner as she had thought of doing.
Yes, but that was when I thought you would be able to subdue Salome.
I dare say Maxwell will be able to hold his own," said Hilary, but not so much proudly as dolefully.
Mrs. Maxwell was too much vexed to forgive him for making the suggestion which he had already dropped, and she left the room for fear she should not be able to govern herself at the sight of her husband condescending to temporize with him.
Maxwell would be able to judge, he said, from the newspapers he sent, of the view the critics had taken of the piece; but this would not have mattered at all if it had not been the view of the public, too.
Possibly some of your correspondents might be able to throw light on this point.
This condition of virtual bankruptcy might have been avoided had Robert Morris been able to carry out the reforms which he proposed when he became superintendent of finance in 1781.
The Continental currency was never redeemed, and was consequently a forced tax on those who were least able to pay, since every holder lost by its depreciation while in his hands.
The success of the Revolution was, nevertheless, due to the personal qualities of these officers and their troops, when directed by able commanders.
His argument was that the country ought to beable to defend itself in time of war, It was not expected at this time that a protective tariff would become permanent.
Americans on the upper Mississippi had been able to send goods to the sea and to receive return cargoes without the payment of Spanish duty.
Congress was no longer able to resist the movement: on Feb.
Had any one that was ableto protect us come and set up his standard, we should all have flocked to it, even though it had been a monarch.
He was able to break through the power of court influence, and to appoint efficient commanders.
With the proceeds of these loans the government was able to pay the accumulated interest on the foreign loans, and thus to keep its credit above water in Europe.
Washington, with his remarkable judgment of men, had selected an able staff of officials, representing all the sections of the country.
That Congress was able to make no better provision for the finances was due to a decline in its prestige rather than to a lack of interest in the war.
He had also the prestige of his little court, and was able to form at least a small party of adherents.
I'm certain now that Susan will be able to face and bear it.
Will he ever forgive me for not having been able to make friends, first, with Jeanne-Marie?
It's a piece of cold constructive reasoning from the admitted data, and I shall be greatly surprised if it doesn't on the whole agree with what you've been able to obtain.
But all the same, there's a family history back of her that not one man in fifty would be able to forget.
It needed, and had not been able to obtain, the boulevard wit of a Sacha Guitry to carry it off.
Susan says she has never beenable to understand why Sunday happens to be called a day of rest.
You're both trying to be kind; but you won't be able to make me forgive myself--not this time.
I know nothing of the literary market, but I haven't counted on her being able to earn so much--for a year or so, at least.
Have you been ableto form any reasonable notion of how such an accident could have occurred?
With this lead, I was at lengthable to persuade Lucette and Maltby to listen, sullenly enough, to my written analysis.
In darker days, I hope you'll be able to say that poor, peeny little creature has done the same by you.
Mrs. Ambient had evidently the enviable English quality of beingable to be mute without unrest.
She was able to gratify this trust--she spoke as if we might expect to see him during the day.
I'm not without hope of being able to make it decent enough," he said as I went back to the subject while we turned up our heels to the sky.
