He had turned actor to gain a livelihood; and was going to Parma with two actresses, one of whom was interesting.
I told him I would not have stirred a finger, even if he had turned up her clothes.
We gave our promises, and the good father proceeded to gratify us with a sight of the riches which nature had lavished on him, and in the course of an hour he had turned us into women.
He was astonished to see me, and I was more astonished still to find that he had turned taverner, for he gave an excellent dinner every day to all who cared to pay a rouble, exclusive of wine.
Whether I had turned to a lawyer, whether I appealed, appellated, or had employed any other kind of legal remedy, I do not know.
This was a swamp of moral degradation to which not only the older ones had turned, but we younger ones were also led right into it and very much of our nature as children got stuck in it and had to be left behind.
Luckily, the department of culture and public education, I had turned to, proved to be more reasonable and more humane than the seminary's management.
He had turned of a glowing heat, and was asking himself whether the news could be true.
But that Decima was suffering from some intense agitation, there could be no doubt; and the next moment her face had turned of that same ghastly hue which had startled her brother Lionel when he was handing her into the carriage.
Only a few minutes afore, it had turned my inside almost out.
With a crash I had turned it on its side, wedging it against the door, its legs against the stairs.
Rosie had taken her courage in her hands, and coming in had turned up the light.
And this time hehad turned it off with a laugh, and had said: "Signora, you are like the Signorina!
And she felt as if her friend of years, the friend whose life she had perhaps saved in Africa, had turned in that moment into a stranger, or--even into an enemy.
He had turned up the collar of his "smoking," and drawn the silk lapels forward over his soft shirt-front.
For the most part the conversation had turned on the bridegroom's plans and projects.
The lonely figure had altered its course in the interval; it had turned, and was advancing toward the trees.
I have already told you that my stepfather made an attempt to discover me some years after I had turned my back on the Scotch school.
Presumably untouched for over six years, the wear and tear to which, as one of the arteries springing from a great port, it had been subjected, had turned a sleek highway into a shadow of itself.
Finding that he had run out of petrol, while he was passing through Tarbes, he had turned into a side-street to refill without obstructing a main thoroughfare.
I had turned my attention in the laboratory to a story I was writing, when I heard the telephone ring.
It came when the hated snitch--for gangdom hates the informer worse than anything else dead or alive--had turned a sufficiently dark and deserted corner.
I had turned just in time to fling myself between her and whatever object she had in mind.
Elaine, by this time, had turned on the lights and had run to the window to look out.
Before he could overtake the runaway carriage ithad turned to the roadside and upset.
He had started to swim for the shore, only a few hundred yards away, but presently, feeling no pain and believing himself unhurt, he had turned back to assist in the rescue of the others.
He had turned to that place and found these three things: "Trades, Offices, Gas Works.
I reflected that even in those untoward times there must have been latent in Biddy what was now developing, for, in my first uneasiness and discontent I had turned to her for help, as a matter of course.
The tide, beginning to run down at nine, and being with us until three, we intended still to creep on after it had turned, and row against it until dark.
He had turned towards me now, and was shaking his head, and blowing, and towelling himself.
Tretheway, an elderly man of grave manners and benevolent aspect, remembered the visit of Mr. Marston Greyle well enough when he had turned up its date in his case book.
He had turned round; he was forcing his mother to look at his now moody, unhappy face.
And then he had turned on her with a torrent of impetuous, burning words--words of ardent love, of anguished longing, of eager pleading.
He had turned it all over in his mind, and had been now eager about it and now bashful.
He had turned it over in his mind, and had at last told himself what the answer should be.
It was thus that John Gordon had thought of it as he had turned Mr Whittlestaff's letter over in his mind.
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