Supposing you were sure it was so, there is yet the danger of interfering with those who know all about him, and can do the best for him; and there's the danger of what my mother might be tempted to do the moment any one moved in the matter.
I know somebody that could tell you about him, but I wish I know anybody that could tell us about her--I mean Miss Wylder.
He entered into the life that was going on about him, and so in the house of God became one of the family.
A handful of Greeks had come up to Jerusalem to the Passover, and they desired to see Jesus, perhaps only because they had heard about Him, and to gratify some fleeting curiosity; perhaps for some deeper and more sacred reason.
How much that metaphor says to us about Him as the Foundation, in all the aspects in which we can apply that term!
And yet there was this delicacy about him, that he never over-praised what he brought us to see, any more than one would over-praise a friend of whom he was fond.
Everything goes off smoothly, except there is a momentary panic over a fractious bull, who plunges into the crowd; but the six white jackets areabout him in an instant, and entangle him with their ropes.
If all the other girls are crazy about him, that ought to be enough, I should think.
Then he drew out a purse of money and a store of golden rings, and set them in a bag of otter skin, and buckled it about him.
Eric sprang back to deck while stones and spears hissed about him.
More than once he cleared his throat to commence, while Mr. Drew pulled his scant clothing closer about him, his whiskers playing in the breeze.
For all the while it was balanced in a hundred ways by the illimitable respect which his character and his doings compelled from those about him.
Close by, in the little vicarage orchard, were fruit-trees in blossom; the air was mild and fragrant, though to the young man from the warmer south there was still a bracing quality in the soft western breeze which blew about him.
In case she happens to hear of this young man, and speaks to me about him, I doubt not she will cease to think of him, as soon as she comes to know he is my nephew.
Abou Hassan was in great surprise to hear the delightful harmony; but when he opened his eyes, and saw the ladies and officers about him, whom he thought he recognized, his amazement increased.
Sidenote: Sir Bleoberis challenges the knights of Cornwall] Therewith Sir Bleoberis arose and looked about him, and he perceived that there was near by where he stood a goblet of gold very beautifully chased and cunningly carved.
Then, when they were gone, Sir Tristram stood panting and glaring about him like a lion at bay.
But when she saw the great danger Sir Phelot was in, she ran and clasped her arms about him, and cried out in a very loud and piercing voice upon Sir Launcelot to spare Sir Phelot and to slay him not.
Nothing irritated the Vicar's temper more than the feeling of having been too free and communicative with people who did not care about him, a thing he was very apt to do.
Ignorant gamesters, who stood aloof after having lost two or three napoleons, contemplated the lucky Englishman and wondered about him, while some touch of pity leavened the envy excited by his wonderful fortune.
He will shortly have all his estate in his hands; for, like bias, he may carry it about him.
You shall know him by his narrow velvet cape, and serge facing; and his ruff, next his hair the shortest thing about him.
He stands like a centre unmoved, while the circumference of his estate is drawn above, beneath, about him.
They began to talk and Wilbraham took it at once as accepted that his Friend knew all about him--everything.
There was nothing at all to distinguish him from a thousand other officers of his kind, and yet from the moment I saw him I had some especial and personal feeling about him.
She pointed out to me that I had been wrong and she right about him, from the beginning.
His black eyes would sparkle, and his tiny fingers clutch at it, when the mother put it about him as he swayed in Abel's courageous grasp.
And it seems to me as if you thought he'd got 'em about him.
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