Bother your grandmother," shot back the insolent retort, whereat the lordly house detective plucked the young man by the arm.
Never mind that--I want you to find a policeman," commanded Gladwin.
If ever a young lady's fur was up, as the saying is, such was the case with the enraged Helen Burton.
Officer Phelan yielded to the grip of the mystery and his attitude toward the Jap changed.
Again he plunged his head into the capacious can and succeeded in reviving his heart action.
Sometimes two or three persons call themselves a lecture-committee, and employ lecturers, themselves risking the possible loss, and dividing among themselves any profits which their course may produce.
A few uniformly command the latter sum, and lecture-committees find it for their interest to employ them.
When the government of the Province was restored to Lord Baltimore in 1716, an act was passed appointing commissioners to inspect the records and to employ clerks to transcribe and bind them.
While in the employ of the Emperor, Cabot offered his services to his native country, Venice, but was unable to carry his purpose into effect.
He took a spiteful pleasure in boasting in their presence that he wouldn't employ a "teetotaler on his ship.
Every mechanical device is employed to simplify the tangle for the comfort of the busy minds that must constantly employ themselves in solving it.
We had better not let him hear us breathe that, for there are men in his employ who remember the first council of the operating department staff after this G.
There was not a railroad in the country that dared employ him, despite his excellent technical training.
The department that will employ the great rank and file of the railroad's army of employees is the operating department, called by some big roads the transportation department.
Some little skill, which is easily acquired by practice, is necessary in order to employ setting-blocks to advantage, but in the case of small species and species which have refractory wings they are much to be preferred to the boards.
In practice the most approved method is to employ a jar charged with cyanide of potash or with carbonate of ammonia.
The apical and upper marginal spots are more or less well silvered.
Alcoholic specimens are liable to become shriveled and discolored, and are not nearly as valuable as well-inflated and dried skins.
Mrs. Isabella Bird Bishop describes a tribe of people living at Biratori, on the Island of Yezo, Japan, and bearing the name of Ainos, whose women employ their time in weaving mats.
Indeed on one historic occasion he erased certain words in a document; and where in the Koran he rebuts the charge of "taking notes," he does not employ the obvious retort that he could not write, but gives a far less convincing answer.
Of late years, however, it has been found advantageous to employ a proportion of malt made from the thinner and more husky foreign barleys, mostly six-rowed varieties.
As it is rich in specific expressions for the various aspects of certain ideas, it is requisite to employ always the most appropriate term suited to the particular aspect.
Those who saw that they must employ conjecture to a certain degree, were willing to indulge it a little further.
Upon every distinct Species of these Obscurities I have thought it my Province to employ a Note, for the Service of my Author, and the Entertainment of my Readers.
His intention, as he tells us, was to make poetry subservient to philosophy, and to employ it in tracing the principles of human conduct.
Sche refused nott his offer; bott knowing his simplicitie, sche was glad to employ him for her advantage.
Hunters and trappers in the employ of American and British companies roamed over the whole region.
Proctor, brutal and haughty, was a fit leader under a government that would employ savages in a civilized warfare.
It is impossible to employ a native in this work, because the Wannias would not have the same regard for a native as for a European, and one of their caprices to which they are so often subject might interfere with the work.
The Dessave de Bitter is to employ the Lieutenant Claas Isaacsz in the Public Works Department on his return from Putulang after the transport of the elephants, being a capable man for this work.
We are on good terms with them, and it would be inexcusable to employ any new men whose maintenance would be a heavy expenditure.
In twenty yards I had caught him up, and had to employ all my strength to keep hold of him, for he was bent on getting away.
Some of the women whose story I shall tell do not work for sweaters, but are treated almost as badly by the powerful and wealthy firms who employ them.
Without you, I would be compelled to employ a secretary; but he could be bought, without a doubt.
And in the most concealed corner of her heart will it not happen that she uses that word 'kiss' in the more comprehensive sense in which the French sometimes employ it?
In speaking of sexual things in the towns people veil their thought more; even the lower class in towns employ more restraint, more euphemisms, than peasants.
The task of subduing so powerful an instinct as the sexual impulse, otherwise than by giving it satisfaction," he writes, "is one which may employ the whole strength of a man.
It is probable, Mallet conjectures, that all these people might intend by such a rite to preserve their children from the sorceries and evil charms which wicked spirits might employ against them at the instant of their birth.
There are twenty mullet fisheries within ten miles of Swansboro, which employ from fifteen to eighteen men each.
The buthiful boy From the banks of the Shannon, Was there to employ His excellent cannon; And besides the long files of dragoons and artillery.
The Prince of Peace--the Prince of Peace was born, Employ us, while we pray!
I would like fine to see yon French nobleman, Davie; and I daresay you could find an employ to yoursel', and that would be to speir at the lassie for some news of your affair.
There never was the solan made that wroucht as that solan wroucht; and it seemed to understand its employ brawly, birzing the saft rope between the neb of it and a crunkled jag o' stane.
It remained for a new people, starting, perhaps, from the same state of culture, but with new energies, to discover and employ metals in the construction of tools and implements.
During the Summer of 1884, while in the employ of the Bureau of Ethnology, he visited the place, taking with him a thoroughly competent surveyor, and made a very careful plan of the work for the Bureau.
Not content with the liberty they take with the contents they employ the bottle-makers’ art to deceive us in the quantity of the precious stuff: Vanilla beans 1 ounce.
In order to employ the compound prepare a solution either in water, alcohol, or other suitable solvent and immerse in or impregnate with such solutions the organic substances to be operated upon.
Showing at a glance what means to employ in removing any kind of stain from any kind of fabric.
Employ tact and neatness, and you will be surprised at the result.
The Division Commander has full authority to employ his brigades as he thinks best for the attainment of the purpose in view.
We have neither such a uniform type of horse nor sufficiently skilled riders as to be able to employ the same method to all indiscriminately.
Having by this line of reasoning determined the number of men he can afford to employon foot, he must next make up his mind as to their tactical distribution.
But how many of our Cavalry officers are sufficiently acquainted with these to employ them practically?
One should be able to detach from or reinforce them, as circumstances require; break up Corps and Divisions, to reform them elsewhere; and employ their Leaders and Staff first with one, then with the other.
On the remaining portion of the front we must endeavour to employ as little Cavalry as possible, and to supplement it in the duties of security by Infantry, whilst leaving reconnaissance to be dealt with by patrols.
But we had yet a few days to spare, and we could employ them profitably in looking over this Denver, the marvelous city of the plains.
The mines are operated by the Pleasant Valley Coal Company, who employ about one hundred men and produce a daily output of three hundred tons, which is constantly increasing to meet the growing demand.
