The pulling of weeds in the corn, the driving of cattle to pasture were as the doings of ants in a dirt-heap.
It was the Doctor's merry interest in their doings which made young men so unnecessary to Rose as well as to Josephine.
That night he lodged with the ferryman, who told him all the gossip of the place, and particularly of the great doings of a valiant knight clad in red armour.
So Tannhaeuser once more returned to court, and took part in the gay doings there.
The crowd was already very large at that hour, but it seemed altogether engrossed in the doings of an individual who was knocking down a gilded eagle on the top of the gate.
And all his subordinates and co-workers were made to share the advantages of the system, because their slightest doings also reflected glory upon him.
The general details and course of events given in this story are, so far as regards the private life and doings of King Alfred, from his life as written by his chaplain, Asser.
Then I minded that this would terrify the Lady Thora maybe, and that put me out of conceit with my doings for a moment.
There is great talk of his doings in Neustria {xii} beyond the Channel.
So Einar took me, having had no part in his father's doings towards us, and hating them moreover.
Now I saw no more of Osmund the jarl, for Odda knew that the lesser folk would mistrust me if I had any doings with the Danes.
However, I will say this, that if every man made as little of his own doings and as much of those of his friends as did the honest ealdorman, it were well in some ways.
He hurried on; but then some men began to question us about the doings off Swanage, and Kolgrim told them such tales that they shivered, and soon we had a crowd round us listening.
So I could not dissuade him, and ever as I tried to do so he waxed more cheerful, and made sport of me, throwing my own doings in my teeth, and laughing about Thora.
There are times when I have to ask them which of my own doings they are singing about now.
They traced their descent from Norman times, and their doings are still the theme of many legends in Penwith.
Hard by the lighthouse stands a notice-board of the National Lifeboat Institution, giving a plain record of the doings of the successive lifeboats that have been established down below, in Polpear Cove.
After a slight sketch of his doings in Breslau and Grottkau, he states, "that every friend of his must feel persuaded that the above letter proceeded from his inmost convictions.
I did not like being called to account for my doingson my own Hill.
Oh, I had the news of his mighty doings the world over.
Whether this were no other than an Effect of the Knights peculiar Humanity, pleas'd to find at last, that after all the tragical Doings every thing was safe and well, I don't know.
Now, Doctor Demar, what do you think of such doingsas that?
Nothing definite, but we think we will be able to strike a track soon; there have been strange doings at Mr. Ragland's house.
All through his voyage and residence in India, the Bishop kept a journal of the doings and scenes of each day, full of interesting sketches, both in pen and pencil.
Why, in the meantime I intend to keep my eyes and ears wide open and do a little scouting around Gold Run until I get a line on the doings of Peter Levine and his crowd--if he has a crowd.
There are many contested matches on track and field, and on the water, as well as doings in the classroom and on the school stage.
And perhaps, if your own doings were so curiously examined, you might find it inconvenient to reply.
She paused in the corridor and reckoned up her doings with an eye to Gondremark.
Suspicious at first of the meaning and doings of these strangers, he very soon found them advantageous.
She had seen all the wild doings of the privateering and free-trading days, and recalled as a comparatively recent event the raiding of the Island by the men of Herm, though that happened forty years before.
It had seen strange doings in its time, but had been so long retired from the active list, that he undertook to load and fire it himself before he said any more about it.
Such a suggestion cannot be thought out of place or ill-timed, for doings of this kind are the very vocation of the vessels paraded before us.
He spoke to her of the will of God, and of the wickedness of which she would be guilty if she took upon herself to foretell the doings of Providence.
The lesson had been engraved on her heart, and might have been read in all the doings of her life.
This was to the intense delight of his brothers, over whose doings he assumed a power which their mother was unable to withstand.
Any outward honour, not earned by the deeds or words of him so honoured, but coming from birth, wealth, or from the doings of another, was an idolatry.
How many of her daily doings had he ever witnessed?
Although in exile, as it were, the mother and the daughters had succeeded in creating a pure and lovely home, and had held aloof from the petty jealousies and small doings of the little town in which they were residing.
My son-in-law confided to me that the redoubt was perhaps unnecessary, but that his men would lose their good qualities if allowed to lounge about idly; he also hoped that the news of their doings would spread across the Rhine.
The supper over, the boys went up to their dormitory, and here as many of the cadets as could crowded in, to talk over the doings of the past vacation.
Yes, an' they told me some wonderful stories of your doings down south.
But his doings are nothing to the working of another wafer-shelled bivalve, whose tiny habitations are so thickly imbedded in the body of a nodule of flint as to render its exterior like a sieve, diducit scopulos aceto.
But while numerous pamphlets and essays have been written on our collegiate systems of education, the general development and present doings of Young America in the universities remain untouched.
We tell them that they are fools and idiots; we speak of their doings as though there had been some plain course by which the war might have been avoided; and we throw it in their teeth that they have no capability for war,' etc.
I have robbed a gentleman of three guineas; so let us husband them well, and let me have no more teasings; for sooner or later these doings must bring me to the gallows, and all to satisfy your clamors!
Who performed ghost doings himself, in order that you might not be disappointed?
I, too, am a Christian, as you very well know, and have no veneration for such savage gods and devils, but I have heard strange tales of their doings and of the power of their priests.
As she spoke, there was an expression which seemed to say, "And I would like to help do it!
Iola smiled, and the gentleman was nonplussed; but he could not deny that one of the powers of knowledge is the power of the strong to oppress the weak.
Now the works of this world are not ordered save by the doings of its people, and men's doings are divided into four divisions, government, commerce, husbandry and craftmanship.
The chroniclers are silent about the names of the subsequent bishops, until they record the doings of Norman times.
