In the morning of the 26th they thought they detected messages passing.
The device of the double pen was promptly detected by Mr. Howliss, his lines were torn over, all to be done again, and Bags’s friendly help was vain labour also.
It was not a fellow detected in cribbing who ought to get into a row, but Tovey who made such a state of affairs possible.
The pig-table, it may be mentioned, was a separate table in the dining-room without chairs, where boys detected in swinish habits had to take their meals standing for the period of their sentence.
Blaize to go to the Head after chapel,” he announced, and David thought he detected a faint smile showing the malicious glee of a fellow-sufferer.
In her face I detected a strange, almost wistful look, an expression which showed that her thoughts were far away from the laughter and chatter of that gay restaurant.
The quick eyes of Forbes had, however, detected me, and, leaning out, he said something to his driver.
At first I could discover nothing, but after considerable searching my eyes at last detected a dark smudge, as though something had been obliterated.
Somehow I read in his grey face a strange expression, and detected an eagerness to get rid of me.
Such method was perfectly safe for the thief, because, unless actually detected in the act of tossing out a bag or parcel, no evidence could very well be brought against him.
They spoke in French, which I detected from the girl's monosyllables, but beyond that I could understand nothing.
His dark eyes were furtive and searching, as though he had detected and resented my undue interest in his daughter.
Though his manner was so open and breezy, I yet somehow detected a curious sinister expression in his glance.
Besides these discoveries of large planets, a great number of small planets were detected in the region of the solar system which lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
Pardoner and the Frere, the significance of which I have given reasons for considering doubtful, no one has yet detected any time-reference which enables us to fix their approximate dates.
I was not aware there were eavesdroppers,' muttered the detected villain.
I listened doubtingly an instant; detected the disturber, then turned and dozed, and dreamt again: if possible, still more disagreeably than before.
Upon sounding the stones, however, at the back, they fancied that they detected a suggestion of hollowness, still not enough to make Roy determine to have the wall torn down.
Remains of fishes have been detected in rocks immediately over the Aymestry limestone, being apparently the first examples of vertebrated animals which breathed upon our planet.
It was a dark night, so that it would have been extremely difficult for any one across the way to have detectedmy presence.
About eight o'clock that night, just as we were giving up hope, I detected a faint noise near my feet; it was for all the world as if some one were forcing a stick through a hole in a brick wall.
Just as I did so my eyes detected a faint glimmer of light low down on the floor ahead of us.
These things I detected and set aside in riper years.
I had detected pious frauds in the writings of some of the advocates of the Bible and Christianity.
A slight motion of the mercury occasioned a larger displacement of the water, and hence the changes in the barometric pressure were more readily detected and estimated.
Barium and its salts can be readily detectedby the yellowish-green colour they give when moistened with hydrochloric acid and heated in the Bunsenflame, or by observation of their spectra, when two characteristic green lines are seen.
The manager was detected and sentenced to transportation, and Barrington fled to London, where he assumed clerical dress and continued his pocket-picking.
The nepheline is in small six-sized prisms, and usually cannot be detected with the unaided eye.
The hole had been made at a spot where the gully was very rugged and covered with creepers, so that any one leaving the fort by this small aperture could scarcely be detected except by an observer placed immediately opposite.
On arriving at the spot, Jack at once detected signs that some one had recently been making investigations there.
For some minutes no sound was heard; then on his left hand Lepoko detected a slight rustle in the brushwood, and he whispered to Jack that the enemy were creeping forward, feeling their way.
But he fancied he detected a patch or two of white amid the mass of black.
Then, leaving their wounded comrade to his fate, they took Samba by the hands and led him rapidly into the forest, following a path which could scarcely have been detected by any except themselves.
Then came a day when Grace detectedan unfamiliar and unpleasing odor in the house.
For himself, he felt as he thought a detected criminal, an outcast, must feel.
Jacques Collin detected a snare in the lawyer's very voice as he spoke the words "Monsieur l'Abbe.
As soon as the Spaniard saw Lucien pale, and detected a malady in the frenzy of suppressed passion, he determined to read to the bottom of this man's heart on which he founded his life.
Within twenty-four hours Carlos had organized a force which detected Contenson red-handed in the act of espionage.
Warned at once by the swift and anxious instinct that scents the presence of an enemy, Collin examined this figure; he saw at a glance that the eyes were not so old as the costume would suggest, and he detected a disguise.
The archer is on guard from midnight until dawn, and even if he detected me, he would say nothing, for we are right good friends.
Dorothy detected by his voice that something was wrong with him, and asked anxiously if he was not feeling well.
The men clung to their beds and sent for me; I plead a respite, in hopes of getting muslin to make ticks; but was soon detected in the act of taking a bowl of broth to one of my patients.
I looked up, a detected criminal, into the face of her who had brought to me this humiliation, and took her for a model.
In reading Congressional debates, I have fancied, that, after the subsidence of those painful buzzings in the brain which result from such exercises, I detected a slender residuum of valuable information.
There is scarce any style so compressed that superfluous words may not be detected in it.
I confess, that, in some discussions which I have had with him on this point in my study, he has displayed a vein of obstinacy which I had not hitherto detected in his composition.
The Indian had detected the approach of Jack before he spoke and before Fred knew of his coming.
He felt it graze his face, and detected something that can only be described as a deepening of the dense gloom as it shot over his head.
The General desires the virtuous to complain of every offender that may be detectedin invading people's property in an unlawful manner, whatever his station or from whatever part of the country he may come.
They supposed that, without torture, no crimes could be detected or punished, and this opinion ruled the administration of justice on the continent until the eighteenth century.
A thermometer detected the change of temperature and a graduated scale marked the distance traversed by the descending weight.
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