For half an hour or so she was busy at desk and dressing-table, packing a checque book and her jewels with other belongings in a small handbag.
Well: he did, when I called he had on his desk a trade paper that carried a report of the incorporation of Linda Lee Inc.
I was conducted to within six feet of the man at the desk and in the same shrill voice asked how familiar I was with Russia, with Turkestan, India, and the Far East.
Following Alexis and his sisters into the ex-Emperor's study I laid down the earrings upon the flat-topped desk and apologized for my apparent act of cowardice and cruelty.
When Luther, who was sitting at his desk with a mass of books and papers before him, saw the extraordinary stranger enter his room and bolt the door behind him, he asked who he was and what he wanted.
The foreground filled with Swedish battle-flags, And on his desk the ordinance of the Mark.
She rose, wiped the tears from her eyes, and, going over to the desk where he had seated himself, asked him if he would give her the petition and let her go to Berlin in his stead and hand it to the Elector.
While his mother bustled about the housework at fire or table he sat in a corner of the same room at a plain writing-desk with few or no books at hand, but only one or two drawers with excerpts and manuscripts.
Were I the Dey of Tunis I'd sound alarm at such a dubious move, Lay on my desk despair's thin silken cord, And at my palisaded castle-gate Set up my heavy guns and howitzers.
While such thoughts passed through her mind, the old noble took down one of the large volumes from the cabinet, and unfastening the golden clasps with which it was bound, he laid it on the desk beneath the lamp.
On the table, in the centre of the room, lay a small travelling-desk of George's, which he had left there when packing his things.
At a small desk under the window sat a youth with a remarkably small body and a remarkably large head; so disproportionate were the two I should hardly have been surprised had he put up his hands and taken it off.
With the pale-faced young man I retired to a desk in the corner, where a few seconds sufficed for the completion of the business.
His play he had stolen from the desk of a well-known dramatist whose acquaintance he had made in Deleglise's kitchen.
One day as she sat alone in the library pondering these things the walls of books began to spin around her, and the rosewood desk to rock under her elbows.
Tremors of rage were running through her, and she steadied herself against the edge of the desk lest he should see her weakness.
At length he reached thedesk and stood before her.
Then she remembered his sudden pause when he had come close to the desk and had his first look at her.
Over Mr. Royall's shoulder, as he leaned against the counter, a girl with her hair puffed high smirked and nodded at a dapper drummer who was getting his key at the desk across the hall.
His glance explored the melancholy penumbra of the long narrow room, resting on the blotched walls, the discoloured rows of books, and the stern rosewood desk surmounted by the portrait of the young Honorius.
It will be for next time," he added; and picking up the volume he had laid on the desk he handed it to her.
She pressed her temples hard between her damp hands, steadying herself against the desk while the wave of sickness swept over her.
II The hours of the Hatchard Memorial librarian were from three to five; and Charity Royall's sense of duty usually kept her at her desk until nearly half-past four.
In the emergency, Speaker Stanton left his desk and took the floor to plead for delay.
Senators Campbell, Holohan and Miller sent to the Secretary's desk the following explanation of their votes: "We voted for the Direct Primary bill because it seems to be the best law that can be obtained under existing political conditions.
The clerk at the desk mumbled over their titles; they were voted upon and became laws.
Ariel touched one of the roses upon Joe's desk with her finger-tips.
He opened a lower drawer of the desk and took out of it a pistol; rose, went to the door, tried it once more, and again was satisfied of his seclusion.
It was to be seen immediately that the assistant editor had nothing undaintily business-like about him, nor was there the litter on his desk which one might have expected.
He shook hands with Happy at the end of the sitting, bidding him be of good cheer, and, when the little man had marched away, under a strong guard, began to gather and sort his papers at a desk inside the bar.
He swung round to hisdesk emphatically, on the last word, and Joe turned away and went out quietly.
At an unpainted desk piled high with papers, sat the editor.
It was an age since he stood at his desk in that bank, abhorrent of all gambling methods, to the present moment, when he was actually drawing from his pocket a roll of bills with which to bet on a horse.
As he resumed his place at his desk close to the brother and sister, Alan looked defiantly at him.
You put those notes back, Mr. Mortimer," he said, tapping the desk with two fingers of the right hand.
And there was Mr. Horsfal, as large as life, sitting behind a desk with a pile of letters in front of him.
I went to my writing desk and addressed an envelope to Lady Rosemary Granton.
Perhaps one of the most common forms of this is seen when the prospective customer appears to be very busily interested in something at his desk and allows the salesman to stand an indefinite length of time and then turns suddenly upon him.
Never pound the desk or shake your finger at a prospect.
They assemble at the corner of the Rue Rambuteau, and a portable desk is brought forward, at which a man takes his seat.
He could scarcely believe that he had been busy at his desk a little while ago, and that just before the winter day closed it and the rain began to fall he had laid down the pen with a sigh of relief, and had slept in his chair.
He opened the desk of his bureau, and was confronted by the heap and litter of papers, lying in confusion as he had left them.
He had gone free one bleak morning in February, and after those dreary terrible weeks the desk and the heap and litter of papers had once more engulfed and absorbed him.
He strove to allure himself to his desk by the promise of some easy task; he would not attempt invention, but he had memoranda and rough jottings of ideas in his note-books, and he would merely amplify the suggestions ready to his hand.
He seemed by slow degrees to awake from a long and heavy torpor, from an utter forgetfulness, and as he raised his eyes he could scarcely discern the pale whiteness of the paper on the desk before him.
How he had toiled and labored at the desk before him!
There was nothing in his desk that he could produce as evidence of his capacity, no fragment even of accomplishment.
He leaned his head on his desk overwhelmed with the severity of his own judgment.
He was aware that if he chose to sit down now before the desk he could, in a manner, write easily enough--he could produce a tale which would be formally well constructed and certain of favorable reception.
The left portion of the desk becomes dominant as demanded by service.
This applies the three division rule to the satisfactory appearance of the desk at B.
She turned from the desk and looked at Ellen with the same animated expression of face.
I should have known that living-room was yours if I hadn't had your Aunt Lucy's famous old desk to give me a clue.
Then, too, in one corner stood a fine old mahogany desk of quaint design and many drawers and pigeonholes, one and all sacked, their contents turned out to litter the floor.
Sybarite left the room he found her established at a desk in the basement hallway.
Fezziwig, skipping down from the high desk with wonderful agility.
In came a fiddler with a music book, and went up to the lofty desk and made an orchestra of it and tuned like fifty stomach-aches.
When Bertie Fellows received this letter, which ended all his Christmas hopes and joys, he hid his face upon his desk and sobbed aloud.
As for Ah Wu, very meekly he crossed the room to the writing-desk where he kept his accounts.
When he looked into the outer room he was able to observe several opium smokers, and Ah Wu himself, who was seated at his desk at the doorway.
The president put the papers on his desk and wrote a letter to Professor Gordon.
The head of the Tariff Department put his feet on his desk and yawned.
He tossed the papers on to the stenographer's desk, took his feet from his own desk and went out to lunch.
He grew more intense each night, and strode back forth behind his desk and pounded the Bible like an assassin.
The deacons nodded their heads together in counsel, and when they turned to the desk Pill was gone!
A very comfortable arrangement for those who occupied the back seats, but torture to the adults who were obliged to cramp their legs inside the desk where the primer class sat on school-days.
I pounded the desk with the gavel, I shook my head in the negative, but to no avail.
At her desk were three typewriters, respectively from England, France, and Germany, for use in writing the languages of those countries.
The fire and animation which he imparted in the delivery of his speeches certainly conveyed no impression that they might have been carefully prepared and considered at a desk in a study.
He sat down at his desk and pulled open a drawer as he said: "I want to read to you incomplete drafts of portions of my Message which I should like to have you criticize, as on some of the subjects I have not yet fully made up my mind.
When we arrived in the evening, the President was already at his desk correcting the typewritten pages, of which there were about twenty.
