I'll go and look about, and come back in time to put you in your chair, Jack,' said William.
Felix would not be content to leave Mr. Lamb alone in the shop; and all the good of these three days would be undone.
She avoided Cherry, and only talked to Marilda of externals.
Wilmet has been obliged to stay at home to attend to him.
Here is such an opportunity as you may never have again.
Though he must have been Dutch, this youth is not the conventional Dutchman in seven knickerbockers perched on a barrel, but is small and insignificant, in spite of his magnificent get-up.
When the concert was finished we came out of the theatre.
Seizing his brush, he finished the sign in fifteen minutes, and I directed the carpenter to nail it over the door leading to the back stairs.
Some twelve thousand spectators were present, and before the exhibition was finished they began to call loudly "The King!
When the tour was finished the Bureau wrote him that "In parting for the season please allow us to say that none of our best lecturers have succeeded in delighting our audiences and lecture committees so well as yourself.
But before he had half finished his representation of Booth, in the soliloquy in the opening act of Richard III, the house discovered that he was very drunk, and began to hiss.
Hardly had he finished reading this when a letter was brought to him which had been found on the porch of the old Ordinary.
He told her that he finished his work every day with a pleasant consciousness of having removed one more stone from the barrier which divided them.
Some such sensation as this, though it was not recognized as a finished thought, raced along the impressionable soul of Elfride.
They had Barbara sitting in the big Morris chair while they finished adjusting bandages and garments.
He finished with the abrupt question, "Were you at Santa Ysobel last night?
And when I had finished I was positive of two things; the study had no other entrance than the apparent ones, and the diary of 1920 had been removed from the room since Worth saw it there the night before.
Her voice was musing; she looked straight ahead of her as she finished softly, "What time do we go?
Part way down a hurdy-gurdy in a tent began to get patronage again; the school children in white dresses with pink bows in their hair had just finished a stunt in the Square.
He settled back with a protesting air of being about to leave us, and finished squeakily, "Didn't need to prove that he had Clayte's suitcase.
Miss Ri finished her glass with a "Here's to Phebe!
Not even a card found its way from Linda to Berkley, though in her upper drawer lay a half-finished blue silk tie.
Now--" But he had not finished his sentence when another figure loomed up in the doorway of the dimly lighted waiting-room, and who should come forward but Wyatt Jeffreys.
Linda finished freeing the paper from its wrapper.
The girls delivered themselves of the news of their adventure with supposed burglars to the great entertainment of Miss Ri, and then a message coming to Bertie from her mother, she departed while Miss Ri finished her breakfast.
Mr. Swinburne is about ten years his junior, both in age and in authorship; one may perhaps assume that the work upon which their reputations will rest is finished for both of them.
And it came to pass, that when Jesus had finished these parables, he departed thence.
I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.
March 18th), we finished the monotonous Wady Kuwayd, which mouths upon the rolling ground falling coastwards.
The survey soundings were not finishedtill nearly eight a.
As Patience finished speaking, she abruptly left the room.
In that case, no; but she would lose nothing thereby; for I should make it a personal matter, and would see that her education was thoroughly finished at my expense.
Upon riding up to her I found her in the last gasp; the random shot had struck her behind the shoulder, and I finished her by a ball in the head.
In vain he tried to drown them off by diving; as his head again rose above the surface, the dogs were at their places: his struggles were useless, and the knife finished him.
We had hardly finished the last cup of coffee when the trackers returned, having found another herd.
Having finished his rubbing, he tore up several bunches of grass, but without eating them he threw them pettishly over his back, and tossed some from side to side.
Smut and Bran had him by the ears, and a thrust with the knife finished him.
He was neat-handed and quick with his job, and havingfinished it he went back into the house, and reappeared again with a large rough bath-towel on his arm.
It was morning ere he had finished the long story he had to relate to the beautiful girl, and when morning came he led Amalie to her mother's home.
The young men finished their meal, went to a vaudeville show for a little while, and then proceeded to the house where the pretended Spaniard was to receive his money.
My brother, the present baron, is twice my age, and he had involved the estates as prospective heir before I was born, and when he came into possession he finished them up.
Suddenly he told me he was not working at it; but I did not understand whether he had finishedit or merely dropped it; I never asked.
He was the most consummate public performer I ever saw, and it was an incomparable pleasure to hear him lecture; on the platform he was the great and finished actor which he probably would not have been on the stage.
If England does not take steps now, I am afraid that when the Siberian Railway is finished Russian influence will predominate throughout the whole of China.
The roofs are placed upon the pillars, and only when the roofs are finished are the walls built up like screens.
Yet such is army training all the world over, that in five minutes the General was doing the polite in the most finished style.
If it were ever finished and could last, it would rival the Corniche Road for magnificence of scenery.
And now, pale and tired, Hilda stood gazing upon her finished work.
There's twenty cents left over," explained May, as she finished reading the items.
Then each lass took a fair drink of what was within, and when it had passed all around, Little John finished what was left, so that not another drop could be squeezed from it.
So the yeomen lay behind the hedge and finished their midday meal; but still the time slipped along and no one came.
Then, even as he finished speaking, something fell rattling among the dishes on the table, while those that sat near started up wondering what it might be.
Alas," quoth he, when the good dame had finished her speech, "this is indeed an ill case.
Then he charmed the betel-stand and the first dish of cooked food, pushing the latter aside and covering it with a small dish-cover as he finished the charm.
Glanvill addressed an expostulatory letter to the inhuman Aristotelian, who only replied by calling it a recantation, asserting that the affair had finished with the conviction.
One of the most finished portraits of Pope is the Atossa, in his "Epistle on Woman.
I cannot implicitly adopt all the sentiments of the critic, but it exhibits a highly-finished portrait, enamelled by the love of the artist.
But one highly-finished composition he had himself published; it is a philosophical review of Despotism: had the name of Gibbon been affixed to the title-page, its authenticity had not been suspected.
He declares he could not have "given the world so finished a coxcomb as Lord Foppington, if he had not found a good deal of the same stuff in himself to make him with.
This he carefully finished for the press, but could never get published.
Jimmy and I had a bottle of chlorodyne apiece, but they were empty in an hour or so and our whisky was finished soon afterward.
I want to go to work as soon as I have finished my grape jam.
The truth was that we had finished everything for the day, except the interminable proof-reading, by the time he reached what the country editor grandiloquently refers to as "our sanctum sanctorum.
He was getting up his last "effect"; but he never finished it.
We laid it under ground, of course, and it was all finished in a couple of hours or so.
During the first three days, I finished turning my old diary into this narrative form; it only required a chapter or so to bring it down to date.
Here," said Callias, when the man had finishedhis repast and was thanking him, "here is something to help you along till you can find friends or employment.
Just as I had finished my entries yesterday an Athenian with whom I have struck up a great friendship asked me to come with him on an expedition.
But when we saw him drinking the poison, when we knew that he had finished it, we could restrain them no longer.
A guest when he had finished his cup would jerk out any dregs that might be left.
It was not actually finishedtill twenty-three years later.
A few moments afterwards a slave introduced Xenophon; and before the two friends had finished their greetings it was announced that dinner had been served.
Phaedo left the room hastily when he had finished his narrative.
And when it was spoken and heard came a second silence, even longer than the first; and yet what they had said was begun in badinage, and was finished without serious thought by either man or woman.
The half-finished portrait of Mrs. Patrick Shallop looked at him with one reproachful eye from the easel; but Graham paid no heed to the neglected portrait; he was deeply engrossed in pursuing his thought and preserving it in a tangible shape.
As he finished speaking, the three men entered, and the sheriff laid his hand on Horton's shoulder.
Summer and autumn were past, and the first month of winter was drawing to its close, when Graham finished his picture.
As he finished speaking, the man noticed that the visitor had grown very pale, and now stood leaning against a marble pillar as if for support.
You never came for those last sittings, Horton; my picture is not finished yet.
As I finished each volume it went into the fire; and I stood over it until the last leaf was ashes.
We'll have to wait till he's finished now, or he'll eat us alive.
At about half-past four he finished that curious fantasy, Roc's Eggs, Strictly Fresh.
He finished it standing on the turf by the sidewalk, ignoring passing acquaintances, nervously biting and mouthing a cigar that had gone out.
He had already finished The Cauliflowers of the Caliph.
But she, very quietly, finished what she had to say.
Then with a slight fluttering of her pale, blue-veined eyelids and a compression of her thin lips she looked down again and in a neat practised librarian's hand finished printing out a title on the-catalogue card before her.
