For, when she came to luncheon next day, she told Mary Alice how she had always been "a bit daft about hair.
Godmother flushed as if she were a little bit embarrassed.
Mrs. Filmer's eyes were brim full of tears, but she bravely held them back; and this bit of self-restraint touched Harry far more than if she had flown to pieces in hysteria.
Mr. Filmer bit his lips passionately, and Harry saw that he was disposed to settle his anger upon the innocent.
You are both branches from the same root--though she may be a bit the highest up; and I do think you are as good a man, and as handsome a man, as I know anywhere.
He shook the reins impatiently to this decision, and then suddenly became aware of a bit of vivid coloring among the leafless trees.
It is the grandest bit of play in the world, Yanna," he said, when at last the pieces were reluctantly restored to their box.
And if he thought of the gratification he would find in just naming the affair, in an incidental way, before Bogart and others, it was a bit of pride so natural and so unselfish as to merit a smiling toleration.
Some of them's a bit 'asty, sir, likewise uncontrollable.
The decent ones don't, but even they sometimes have a bit of a struggle.
No, my delightful charmer, this really is a little bit too much .
Winifred bit her lip and looked away with a puzzled discontent.
As the handkerchief was withdrawn a bit of pasteboard was caught in its folds and fell--unnoticed?
I say, do you think she'll let me stay here for a bit longer?
The air-man had shut off his engine, for the buzzing ceased, and he came down to earth, with a graceful swoop that enchanted Beatrice, on a bit of level pasture two fields away.
A bit of Orl right," he reflected; "if only I dared ask her and she said 'Yes.
You're making a bit of a mess of the lawn," observed Lionel, his glance falling on a scarred patch.
I suppose she sometimes gets a bit queer in her head," said Lancelot, conceiving he was somehow safeguarding Mary Ann's honour by the explanation.
The rich people about here may not be so fashionable as those in Kensington and Bayswater, but they are every bit as stupid and materialistic.
To-morrow night a clod, with no more sense or motion than a bit of leather!
Even now he suffered poignantly when he heard the tearing of cloth, the rubbing of a finger against a piece of chalk, or a hand touching a bit of moire.
As for the cold pavement of the cell, he was able to copy it, by means of a bit of rug designed in red squares, with whitish spots in the weave to imitate the wear of sandals and the friction of boots.
He bit his nails while he studied a method of removing these discords and reconciling the determined opposition of the tones.
His largest pincer bit into my shoulder; his hollow shout resounded.
She could remember nothing since that gruesome thing bit into her arm, but the attack of its poison in her veins seemed definitely over.
From the ceiling, with flailing arms and legs, I sank back to the grid-floor; and in a moment I was able to stand upright with so slight a feeling of weight that I could have been a bit of thistle ready to blow away in the least wind.
His face was a bit haggard as he sat in his chair and faced his frank-spoken daughter, whose clear eyes did not waver before his questioning gaze.
But this was no time to undeceive the child, so she said: "The other bit of news is that Sol Jerrems has traded the bill which he thought was bad for good money, so you can buy your things any time you please.
I don't suppose you could find a bitof red thread?
Just now I see your friend Josie coming, and that's a bit of good luck.
I can't afford to bungle so important a thing, you know, and this ten dollar bill, so carelessly given the storekeeper, is going to put one powerful bit of evidence in my hands.
Mary Louise was a bit nettled, failing to find at the moment any argument to refute this statement.
The plot is still a bit ragged and I want to mend the holes before I spread it out before you.
I, a good deal astonished by this wonderful bit of information.
We modestly answered that, having traveled almost incessantly during the last year, we could not help being a bit behindhand in the questions of modern science, and that we were not able to follow its latest conclusions.
What you say is a little bit exaggerated, but there is some truth in it.
However, about a fortnight or so after the book appeared amongst the Anglo-Indians, a cobra bit his own cook.
Swinging backward and forward from the branch, the bachelor jumped at him, bit his ear playfully and made faces at him, chattering all the time.
As soon as the dog was near enough, the cobra bit him.
As to me, I was very disagreeably impressed by this bit of news, I must confess, and wished this unpleasant dinner was over.
The Palace of the Legion of Honor is also a very distinguished bit of pastry.
One must eat every day, and the finest Alexandrine verses are not worth a bit of Brie cheese.
With what bitterness did he behold his whole erection of glory and of poetry crumble away bit by bit!
A miracle, a piece of magic, a bit of sorcery, in short.
So saying, with the dexterity of a monkey, he flung a bit of silver into the gray felt hat which the beggar held in his ailing arm.
The mother was a good simple woman, unfortunately, and she taught Paquette nothing but a bit of embroidery and toy-making which did not prevent the little one from growing very large and remaining very poor.
He bit his lips and his wrath was drowned in a crimson flush.
But one must practise a bit of hermetic science when one is only procurator of the king in the ecclesiastical court, at thirty crowns tournois a year.
They had only asked for a minute between the rounds, but as I'd given them half a minute too long in the first round, I chucked in a bit extra in the rest, so that they were both pretty fit by the time I started them again.
It was maddening to have an exclusive bit of news treated in this way.
After a bit Rand-Brown began to get cautious, and wouldn't rush, so the fourth round was the quietest there had been.
Well, they're bound to be a bit sick at losing, so they'll play up all the harder on Saturday to console themselves for losing the cup.
Oh, he gassed a bit until I told him I'd kick him if he said another word.
He mucked five out of every six passes I gave him, too, and the ball wasn't a bit slippery.
As I had come to the end of my stock of photographs, and was getting a bit sick of the game, I got up to go, when in came another ornament of Chesterton from a room at the back of the shop.
Study looks a bit better now," he added, as he was going, having looked round the room.
I believe he was a bit of a pal of Patterson's at the time.
He didn't have a bitof breath left in him, by the time he finally got it going.
But I don't think it matters the least bit in the world beside the fact that I love you.
Look here, Paul, Americans that happen to be colored people ought to have everybit of the same chance to amount to their best that any Americans have, oughtn't they?
He hadn't been sure the first day, but now he had had a chance to get used to her face being so long and sort of pointed, and her eyes long too, and her black eyebrows running back almost into her hair, he liked every bit of her face.
Only I'm not a bit afraid of the plain, nor the way that's before us.
Well, it was a little bit like being in church, when you could see the twilight come down very slow like this, and settle on the tree-tops and then down through them towards you.
They squeezed their hands together a little bit more, and then Elly went down the road, walking very carefully.
That was because mostly they wanted to know about things she hadn't once thought of noticing, and weren't a bit interested when she tried to talk about what she had noticed.
She ran back to her work-basket, cut a length from a spool of thread, wound it around a bit of paper, and went again to the window.
She hadn't never settled down, not a bit really, for all she had been married and was a widow and was old.
It was good, she reflected, to be able to know that that was the way you looked from the outside, and not to care a bit because you knew firmly that there was something else there that made all the difference.
After a bit I reached my hand out cautious, and felt the heel of a ridin' boot.
Olaf bit off a hunk the size of a walnut from his own piece, an' proceeded to make juice, as though his life depended upon the amount of it.
Carmichael bit his lips; he tried to hold himself down, he honestly tried for some time; but he wasn't quite able.
One afternoon after the fall round-up, me an' Spider found ourselves in a mighty rough bit o' country on the north slope o' the Wind River range.
The other kids roasted me and made all manner o' sport; but they knew I would fight 'em if they got too superfluous, so after a bit they went on about their business.
I try to be as careful as I can," sez The; "but I own up I allus feel a bit nervous till I get back to my bunk.
His hair was gettin' a bit frosty at the temples; but aside from this, he hadn't aged none since the first day I had seen him.
He held one hand still, an' puttin' the other into his mouth, bit off the thumb.
I will simply draw attention to this neat little bit of color that I have the honor to present to your inspection.
Captain wanted just a bit of general expert advice from me," said Dink defiantly.
Cockrell stopped short, bit his lip and said sternly: "Line up now.
We had a bitof a shindy," he said desperately, trying to give it a tragic accent, "and I bumped my head.
Stover saw a bit of blue felt with the white splash of a wing across, a fluffy shirtwaist, and a skirt that was a skirt, and nothing else.
He slacked a bit at the end as Stover, not waiting his coming, plunged in to meet him.
I was the freshest bit of verdure, as the poet says, that ever greened the place.
But kindly give your aged and respected grandparent this bit of advice from me, 'Don't fight the Delaware Valley and Eastern.
Only get one central bit of it right, and the rest of the Puzzle falls into its place in a longer or a shorter time.
I am not a bit better in my age--I am just as fond of the women and just as ready to be misled by them as ever, with one foot in the grave.
He stopped a bit there, and then he said on a sudden, 'Do me one favor, my angel!
The druggist whose label had been found on the crumpled bit of paper now appeared on the stand, to make the position of my unhappy husband more critical than ever.
Here are my messmates come to talk a bit with you.
Sure it's many a swait bit and pipe I had beside ye.
Hand me the line, Bumble, and a bit o' that bird we got yesterday.
Ailie gave it a bit more biscuit, which it received graciously, and devoured voraciously; whereupon she put forth her hand, and sought to pat the little creature on the head.
I searched every bit o' the bank for a plank before we came hoff, an' couldn't find a morsel as big as my 'and.
What a very pretty bit of coral I see over there, close to the white rock; do you see it?
