The last is sometimes worst as well as best, and this belated remnant is not only the last to appear, but the first to disappear.
Some thought it was the arrival of the belated band.
Perhaps, after all, the lingering and belated confession which Falconer had written in his diary might in some way come to her.
There was something almost approaching a battle over Whiskers, who was an Irish terrier puppy which Hank Jardine had presented to William Bannister as a belated birthday present.
A belated tenderness for his dignity came to Mr. Penway.
Then, a few days later, he suddenly emerged brilliantly radiant in the hectic glow of his belated midsummer madness.
Down in the hotel office three or four of the labourers were growling and swearing over a belated game of checkers.
The tall rock of Ehrenbreitstein on the opposite shore was flooded with light, and a belated steamer was drawing up to the landing-stage, where it presently deposited its passengers.
We find it in Schoener's globes, in the Tross gores, and even so late as 1532, in the belated map of Muenster.
The spirit of the century had not breathed on those peaceful roofs sheltering a belated population which had remained childish, enclosed within the narrow limits of strict religious discipline.
It was seven o'clock, they were not due at Bordeaux till half-past seven; and the belated train was quickening its pace yet more and more, rushing along with wild speed in order to make up for the minutes it had lost.
The belated patients and pilgrims had arrived during this alert.
One old body told me that on the night of her wedding-day, coming home from the Curragh, whither she had stolen away in pursuit of a belated calf, she was chased in the moonlight by a troop of fairies.
Several belated travelers passed, some rather the worse for having imbibed too freely of the cup that cheers, but the one she wished to see was not among them.
The National once more after a lapse of years has its Loveman, a belated Elizabethan who could have walked into the Mermaid Tavern and proved a congenial soul to Kit Marlowe and friend Will.
The United has its Lovecraft, a belated Georgian who says he is nowhere so much at home today as he would be in the coffee-houses of Pope or Johnson.
Sitting there they could occasionally hear somebelated motor working its passage up the hill not far distant.
Possibly a belated movement of troops on one side or the other suggested a surprise attack, and this caused the outburst from quick-firing guns.
The ground grew softer and the grass taller, and on the right-hand side and the left came scattered bushes of May--still splashed with belated blossom.
But Mwres did not display any great interest either in his breakfast or the music; his eye wandered incessantly about the hall, as though he expected a belated guest.
Towards noon his belated slumbers were disturbed by a servant, who came to announce the advent of a visitor, who urgently desired an interview.
He tried to disguise it behind a belated cough, but it was quite palpably a snort of outraged patience and dignity.
The belated train was whistling for the station crossing when he thrust out his pudgy white hand in farewell.
From this I was suddenly awakened by the loud Clang of our front-door Bell, followed immediately by the Footsteps of the Serving Man upon the Landing, and then by a brief Colloquy between him and the belated Visitor.
Far away, a dog barked; some belated Chairman called: "Make room, there!
A little way up the river they passed the packet boat, a little belated and heavily laden, but moving steadily.
There was the fluttering of a veil, the flash of startled eyes, a quick belated wave, and she was gone.
This is the most vulgar liberalism, a belated piece of rationalism in the spirit of the eighteenth century--with the difference that the ideas of Condorcet are replaced by a vulgarisation of the Communist Manifesto.
The affirmation that we demanded peace without reckoning on the effect it would have on the international situation is a belatedecho of Cadet and Menshevik slanders.
Grown men will sometimes refuse every inducement to pass at night near the supposed haunt of a Rakshas, and I have heard the cries of a belated traveler calling for help attributed to a Rakshas luring his prey.
One or two belated shots followed the volley, and a moment later the captain in command, as he waved his men forward, let drop his sword, clenched his fists high above him, and fell headlong in the roadway across their feet.
He went so far as to offer to pay the expenses of the trip as a sort of belated wedding gift.
The occasions were not infrequent when he could smile grimly and pityingly upon one or more of his companions of the night before as they passed him on their belated way home long after dawn.
She finished her belated dinner a few minutes after the deep tones of the clock in the hall had told her that it was ten, and that there were left of the old year but two hours more.
There were still carriages driving up swiftly to deposit belated guests.
They nodded and smiled brightly to belated arrivals of their own set.
By this time Raymond had completely made his belated adieux to æsthetic concerns and had begun to concentrate on practical matters--on his own.
Instead he was now to make a belated return at home, where effort most counted.
Dense black clouds rolled away to leeward, amidst which hovered swarms of swallows and insect-feeding birds with an outer fringe of kites, kestrels and magpies, all preying on belated locusts and coleoptera.
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