I entered, flinging the door wide and striding in fast, as it was my wont to do now; for I had found that in entering with aplomb, and mounting the estrade with emphasis, consisted the grand secret of ensuring immediate silence.
And as he spoke, he took back the young man on his horse, and set him where he had found him.
His first move was to seek his generous, devoted wife, so that he might show her the mysterious treasure he had found, and claim her sweet sympathy in his joy, which would be incomplete without it.
I thought we had found a treasure at last, but instead of good money there's nothing but a lot of pieces of gilded lead and such-like in it.
Was this another snare spread for him by some envious wretch who begrudged him his brilliant success that evening, and was jealous of the marked favour he had found in the eyes of the fair ladies of Poitiers?
We had found several in a beaver dam, and I had killed two as they sat close together; but they floated against the breastwork of sticks out in the water some four feet deep, where the escaping current might carry them down the stream.
Until this moment we had found no chance of speaking together, except in the presence of others.
It had found a tree with a notice pegged upon it, reading, "God bless our home!
If it was knowledge that he sought, he had found it, and no mistake!
We had foundout a good deal without any more, I thought.
His eye fell on a large, purple satin coverlet heavily embroidered with gold, a splendid piece of late seventeenth-century Venetian work that his grandfather had found in a convent near Bologna.
So the lad was looking rather sulky, as with listless fingers he turned over the pages of an elaborately illustrated edition of Manon Lescaut that he had found in one of the book-cases.
Suddenly I determined to leave her as flowerlike as I had found her.
And when next he had picked up his violin, what a beautiful, beautiful song he had found about it in the vibrant strings!
Here, like this," he explained, rummaging his pockets until he had found a silver dollar to lay on his open palm.
As he looked at the boy's rapt face, he remembered David's surprised questioning at the first dead squirrel he had found in the woods.
To oblige me, however, he took more care; and, when he had done all that one comrade could for another, he did avail himself of the cover he had found for me.
He had deputed me to screw in the ends of the clubs, and to replace the latter in the fender where we had found them.
But Raffles insisted on hearing how he had found us out, and smiled as though he had known what was coming when it came.
He went through it a second time, very carefully, then folded it up and left it where he had found it.
He had not found what he wanted, though he had foundthat it would take all of a man's time to be polite, and that he would have to live a preliminary life in which to learn how to be polite.
He had found no new one, and now he could not find the old one.
And not without inward pride, and not without reason, he thought that any other man would long ago have been in difficulties, would have been forced to some dishonorable course, if he had found himself in such a difficult position.
The deputation, though it had been summoned at Alexey Alexandrovitch's instigation, was not without its discomforting and even dangerous aspect, and he was glad he had found it in Moscow.
On entering the study Ryabinin looked about, as his habit was, as though seeking the holy picture, but when he had found it, he did not cross himself.
His luck had changed; the tables had ceased to back him, and he had found himself up to his knees in debt.
Rowland envied the happy youth who, in a New England village, without aid or encouragement, without models or resources, had found it so easy to produce a lovely work.
He returned it the next day with disgust; he had found it intolerably depressing.
He had found one in the person of Madame Grandoni, for whom Mrs. Light and her beautiful daughter were a pair of old friends.
A roll, after he had found her a seat, was easily procured.
It was a rough, oblong stone pan, rather like a small kitchen sink, which Phillips, who never wastes anything, had found in a ditch and had used for his precious hens.
He had found out--from Genet, I reckon, who was with the President on the day the two chiefs met him.
Legends were in existence of wealthy gentlemen who had lost children, and who, after many years of sorrow and suffering, had found them in the character of sweeps.
When the gentleman without the coat had found it—which he did in less than ten minutes—he ran back to the hats, and Gabriel Parsons pulled up.
Jesus heard that they had cast him out; and when he had found him, he said unto him, Dost thou believe on the Son of God?
That they could be none other than Thurid and his party I was convinced by the size and build of the boat I had found.
From without we saw hundreds of guardsmen pouring into the courtyard, and along the lower corridor from which I had found my way to the armory we could hear the clank of metal and the shouting of men.
The simple fact that we had found no reptiles in the corridor through which we had just come was sufficient assurance that they did not venture there.
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