The sight of the press and its varied appurtenances threw his mind into the defensive blank coma which rendered him incapable of the simplest intellectual effort.
You must get a little blank book, and rule it off for the scores.
They inserted the form, slipped a blank envelope in the corner and were ready for the first trial.
Mr. Stafford opened a camp stool, sat down, and produced a long blank book.
And on the blank white wall ticked solemnly a big round clock.
The boys' looks brightened, their courage returned; and although they still had an occasional relapse of sickness, they felt quite different beings, and would not have returned to the blank misery of their cabins upon any consideration.
For a few seconds there was a fierce struggle, but in desperation Ansell drew his revolver and fired point-blank at one of his captors, who staggered and fell back with a bullet-wound in the face.
But ere they could reach him he had jumped again to his feet and, levelling his revolver, fired point-blank at them.
You have saved my life," she faltered in blank amazement.
Then she sobbed, burying her pale face in both her hands in blank despair.
In the weeks you have spent at my side I have realised that life will now be a blank when you have left my roof.
She was sitting in blank despair, her elbow upon the arm of the seat, her head bent, her hand upon her brow, her whole frame convulsed by sobs.
In all these weeks we have been together we have begun to know each other, we have been companions, and--and you have many a time cheered me when I felt inblank despair.
Blank blanket," he yelled, "what the blank are you doing?
The captain filled up a blank which he took from a pigeon-hole, and gave it to Lemuel.
The disposition to box his ears vanished in almost hysterical laughter, until the blank surprise on his face recalled her to the fact that the man was, at any rate, paying her the highest tribute in his power, and had a right to be heard.
So, on his last visit to Gleneira, where he spent all his rare holidays, he had told himself point-blank that he of all men in the world was bound in honour not to take advantage of his ward's innocence and undisguised affection.
The precise Miltonic movement in blank verse has never, to our knowledge, been caught by any later poet.
I groaned inwardly, and only by an effort concealed my blank consternation.
It lay full in the light, and I noticed blank surprise in the faces turned towards me.
We should best begin by writing in a blank book week after week what happens to our tree for a year.
And he had named Charlotte, named her again, and she had MADE him--which was all she had needed more: it was as if she had held a blank letter to the fire and the writing had come out still larger than she hoped.
What was singular was that it seemed not so much an expectation of anything in particular as a large, bland, blank assumption of merits almost beyond notation, of essential quality and value.
At the same time that this attempt left her blank she understood a good deal, she even not a little shared the Prince's mystic apprehension.
Leaving his card, with a request that Mr. Blank would communicate to him Alice's address, Greenleaf hired a conveyance to the railway.
It was shut, and a placard informed him that Mr. Blank was attending court at the county-seat.
Or for a single occasion the form may be without any blank spaces, and the phrasing read, "Request the pleasure of your company.
Blank Company Limited, or any other improving record of the same sort.
He would have been perhaps more guarded, but it was so plainly his last word to her; Llewellyn Stanhope was proclaiming the departure of his people in ten days' time upon every blank wall.
I wanted more than that for a memory throughout the blank time that is coming.
The dead blank hopelessness of life and its conditions, then, had still contained this, had culminated in this?
As he stood, framed in the doorway, his vision was drowned in the blank darkness of the little building.
For a long while he sat, staring at the blank wall before him; then quietly rose and stole toward the door.
There is a lightness and delicacy, too, that would seem to be contrary to our notions of the adaptiveness of blank verse.
There is rarely a rhyme, practically all being iambic blank verse in lines of irregular length.
Who, for example, ever saw a lullaby in blank verse?
After the sitting, the matter is punctuated and lined as nearly in accord with the principles of blank verse construction as the abilities of the editor will permit.
I think, from his blank look of amazement, that he was under the impression that I had taken too much champagne, or something.
The screen had not been set back, and a blank space was visible on the wall.
By the way, if I had wanted to puzzle him and find a blank in his universal acquaintance, the best chance would have been to ask him about the clergyman.
To this exceedingly novel declaration of love, Cyn responded by releasing the bough she held, and staring at him with distended eyes and a perfectly blank face; for once in her life, speechless.
I admit I do not exactly answer to the average description, and my heart is not broken--there is only a blank in it--something dead that can never live again.
Instead of the look of gratitude and pleasure that the Landgrave had expected to see on Dick's face, there was one of blank dejection.
Necker proceeded to fill in the blank spaces of a document he had meanwhile taken from a drawer in his desk, and to which a signature and seal were already affixed.
