A daughter had been born to the young couple during their first year of wedlock, and all three of them looked blooming.
The fish-wives laughed at him till they cried; and he, encouraged, could scarcely say a couple of words without rapping out an oath.
Florent felt constrained to follow him, and the two men walked off, side by side, stepping over the hampers and vegetables like a couple of old friends.
Florent's salary of eighteen hundred francs was no longer sufficient, and he was obliged to take a couple of pupils in the evenings.
By the end of a couple of months Muche was able to read fairly well, and his copy-books did him credit.
Still, she manages to live, selling things by the ha'p'orth and clearing her couple of francs profit a day.
I also well remember a stall at which dog was sold, and, hunger knowing no law, I once purchased, cooked, and ate a couple of canine cutlets which cost me two francs apiece.
Auguste first of all went out into the yard to fetch a couple of jug-like cans full of pigs' blood.
In the middle of it some water was trickling from a couple of taps in the dim gloom.
Then he remained quite still for nearly a couple of hours; and when the moon rose he was fortunately able to catch hold of a branch of a tree above his head.
In the daytime they were sent up in batches of fifty to get a little fresh air from the sea; and as the crew of the ship feared them, a couple of cannons were pointed at the little bit of deck where they took exercise.
I'll wander now and borrow A couple of blankets from the R.
A couple of these passages, which are all that redeems the book from dullness, may be given as specimens: .
A huge Russian officer bursts into Sylvia's room one night and is pitched out of the window by a couple of acrobats.
I was at my very worst, just then; besides a couple of potatoes and a crust of dry bread, no solid food had passed my lips for seventy hours.
He has promised to contribute something toward sending her younger sister here for a couple of years.
For a couple of days before school closed an invitation came from Mrs. Danforth, urging Martine to spend a week at Plymouth.
The best is a wagon-roof awning, made simply of a couple of parallel poles, into which the ends of the bent ribs of the roof are set, without any other cross-pieces.
When we halted, we laid our bags on a couple of poles, to keep them from the ground, as in the drawing.
A couple of leather or iron loops Fixed to each keg, and made to catch on to the hooks which are let flush into the sides of the pack-saddle, will effect this.
Asses ought to be able to carry them well; a couple of asses would probably carry a greater weight than a single pack-horse, and would give no greater trouble; if so, their hardiness would be invaluable.
Peas do not begin to swell for a couple of hours or more.
Secondly, I have frequently heard it estimated, as the result of the ordinary experience of social life, that a saloon is warmed by each couple of candles somewhat more than it is by the presence of a single guest.
If, however, they had a couple of hours' leisure to master the knack of working these sticks, I think they would succeed in producing fire before the end of that time.
Captain Palliser says that a couple of days is sufficient for two people to complete an entire punt of this description.
Two bits of paper and a couple of sticks, arranged as in the drawing, serve pretty well to direct a flash.
I fancy, Tompkins," Ned said, "that we are a couple of fools.
The newly married couple were absent for three weeks.
Then with some difficulty he lifted the broken door into its place, put some props behind it, fetched a couple of blankets from his bed, and lay down near the powder, and there slept quietly till morning.
However, oi can hold on for another coupleof months; they know anyhow as it ain't from cowardice as I doan't join them.
He says he has got interest in London at the Horse Guards, and will get the application of the lord lieutenant backed up there; so I hope that in a couple of months at latest it will all be settled.
He obtained lodgings near the centre of the town, with an old couple who took quite an interest in him.
There is no railway station within ten miles of that drear region, and it seemed a fitting meeting-place for the couple who came there that day.
We've had many a couple come to us directly after their marriage, and I believe that lots of them have just gone over the border for a Scotch marriage.
The employer in question supported his foreman and refused to take thecouple back.
The judge took a couple of sovereigns from his pocket.
The more hearers they have, the more egotistical the couple become, and the more anxious they are to make believers in their merits.
There is another kind of couple who coddle themselves, and who do so at a cheaper rate and on more spare diet, because they are niggardly and parsimonious; for which reason they are kind enough to coddle their visitors too.
As we find ourself in the predicament of not being able to describe (to our own satisfaction) nice little couples in the abstract, we purpose telling in this place a little story about a nice little couple of our acquaintance.
When you have ascended the narrow staircase which, in the present temporary House of Commons, leads to the place we are describing, you will probably observe a couple of rooms on your right hand, with tables spread for dining.
Mr. and Mrs. Merrywinkle are a couple who coddle themselves; and the venerable Mrs. Chopper is an aider and abettor in the same.
If one of a friend’s children die, the formal couple are as sure and punctual in sending to the house as the undertaker; if a friend’s family be increased, the monthly nurse is not more attentive than they.
There is no outward sign by which an egotistical couple may be known and avoided.
This morning the old couple are cheerful but serious, recalling old times as well as they can remember them, and dwelling upon many passages in their past lives which the day brings to mind.
Mr. and Mrs. Chirrup are the nice little couple in question.
The dowry consists of gold pieces in an old-fashioned silk purse, and is formally presented to the young couple at the committee dinner which takes place after the drawing.
The first thing which had to be done, some three weeks before the day of our departure, was to pack and send down by wagon a couple of portmanteaus with our smart clothes.
She did not know; she supposed it was lonesome; he never stayed home for over a couple of months, and then would be off, for no one knew how long.
Presently there came a low knock at the door, and Kitty appeared, very fresh and rosy from her walk, and entering, laid upon the table some papers and a couple of letters.
I exclaimed, throwing a couple of handfuls on the table.
The married couple after this make a public declaration of the love and regard they entertain for each other, and still holding the rod between them, dance and sing.
Whilst I remained among them, a couple whose tent was adjacent to mine, lost a son of about four years of age.
This is the whole of the ceremony required, and the separation is carried on without any murmurings or ill-will between the couple or their relations; and after a few months they are at liberty to marry again.
Newt day they went to Breda, where the Prince of Orange insisted upon their passing a couple of days with him in his castle, Easter-day being 11th April.
And over an above all this, while he was contemplating a general war with intention to draw upon the States for unlimited supplies, behold, they were haggling for the support of a couple of regiments which were virtually their own troops.
The marriage duly took place despite the old gentleman, who, although not apparently reconciled during the remainder of his life, pleasantly surprised the young couple by leaving his granddaughter four thousand pounds when he died.
Jerome's hat in a new place, or introducing a couple of goldfinches.
Oh," cried Ralph, "you do not know what a lively couple there is out there.
There is absolutely no reason why we should not be as happy and contented as if we had each made a couple of thousand dollars apiece on a good voyage.
When Captain Horn had cautiously advanced a couple of yards into the interior of the rock, he stopped, raised his lantern, and looked about him.
The youngcouple passed our window again on their way to their customary walk.
The sea-floor and the man-like creatures had disappeared, and a couple of fish chasing each other dropped suddenly by the window.
Brooks advanced up the laboratory, smacking down a couple of guineapigs at each table.
About midnight excited hails were heard from a boat about a couple of miles out at sea to the south-east of Sidmouth, and a lantern was seen waving in a strange manner to and fro and up and down.
No one on the quarter-deck spoke for a couple of minutes.
One would think a chap would go and get himself dressed a bit decent--say a couple of dozen pairs of trousers at a West End tailor's; but he never did.
In two places, one above the other, the steel gave place to a couple of circular windows of enormously thick glass, and one of these, set in a steel frame of great solidity, was now partially unscrewed.
For a couple of days Pollock's sensations were full of the sweet, pungent smell of chloroform, of painful operations that caused him no pain, of lying still and being given food and drink.
We're going to lay off about a couple of miles, 'fear he should hit us when he comes up," said his mate.
They were playing an American dance--a sort of skating step; people rose; couple after couple took the floor; and Sengoun looked around for a partner.
Stull's pasty visage turned sourer: "Do you mean we lose a couple of days in this God-forsaken dump because you'd rather go to Saratoga in a runabout than in a train?
There lived in Rome in 1679 Pietro and Violante Comparini, an elderly couple of the middle class, fond of show and good living, and who in spite of a fair income had run considerably into debt.
Mother promised her a couple of eggs to set under a hen.
After a couple had paired, and were nest building, the father always drove every other bird from his location.
They are the handsomest couple I ever have seen in my life!
Let somebody else have that nine thousand dollars clean profit from the investment of three, all in a couple of days.
Suppose I drop through there with a quick-turn proposition that would need two or three thousand, and would show that much profit in a couple of months?
I'll have McDermott take me down and lock me up on suspicion for a coupleof hours, so you can bring him down and show me to him.
A couple of men, one nattily dressed and with curly hair, and the other short and fat and wearing a flaming waistcoat, passed on their way down to the betting-shed and carelessly tipped their hats.
Just after the couple had cleared the end of the porch a series of derisive meows broke out.
And when the young couple drove away in the bright, shining new rig behind the handsome bays, Mrs. Bubble watched after them with something almost like wistfulness.
I've a good one to-day that I'm going to send in a couple of hundred on.
But he'd only gone about a coupleof yards when he threw up his arms and pitched over on his face.
Hereupon the Captain visibly braced himself, squared his shoulders, took off his hat, crossed the room in a couple of strides, and Barnabas was alone.
I've been to 'ave a look at a couple of 'em this mornin'.
It is not by chance that I couplethe names of Handel and Beethoven.
The two first volumes contained eleven Chandos anthems, of which two have a couple of versions and one has three.
They were the most polished and distinguished couple in Germany at the Court of Hanover.
Margaret accompanied her brother upon his entry into the world, the young couple repairing to Blois, where Louis XII.
Nérac has, however, retained intact a couple of quaint mediaeval bridges, which Margaret must have ofttimes crossed in her many journeyings.
Some idea of their appearance may be gained from a couple of the miniatures adorning a curious manuscript catechism composed for Margaret and now in the Arsenal Library at Paris.
This auspicious event took place at the Château of Angoulême, then a formidable and stately pile, of which nowadays there only remains a couple of towers, built in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
I think you're the couple of sports," I said laughing.
Well," he said at last, "I call you a couple o' sports!
Unfortunately the hunt did not end there, as some French farmers, not accustomed to the rare sight of half a couple and two mongrels hot after a hare scudding across their fields, lodged a complaint!
I thought it was work during the week, and a couple of visits for the Sundays that he is away.
This seemed to give Elizabeth sufficient material for a pondering silence, which lasted a couple of minutes.
He came home only a couple of days ago on leave, and will be here till January.
Then, looking up, she saw it was Elizabeth at the piano, and there followed a couple of obviously wrong notes.
And after dinner you and I must have a couple of words together, if it is only the question of expense that troubles you.
He had spent a couple of rather lonely weeks at Heathmoor since the departure of his neighbours, and he was pleased to find how much he missed Edith.
For a couple of days after her final rejection of Edward, when Edith's absolute determination not to give him up voluntarily had been known to her, the apathetic quiet of the step taken, of deliberate renunciation, had been hers.
For a couple of minutes perhaps she had lain still in the delicious consciousness of restored vigour, and of delight in the new freshness of the early day.
I see nothing odd in his having to stop up in town all the week; and as for his going away for a couple of Sundays to see his friends, what could be more natural?
Colonel Fanshawe, with Elizabeth still on his arm, stepped over a couple of sleeping prostrate forms.
I wonder if we had better eat a couple of biscuits now in case we can't find a suitable place soon.
She was so bad that in the whole world there was none other like her to make a couple of them.
