Austen laid down the paper, leaned back in his chair, and thrust his hands in his pockets, and with a little vertical pucker in his forehead, regarded his friend.
Austen walked up to his father and laid a hand on his shoulder.
These facts were laid before Mr. Tooting, who was directed by telephone to come to Leith as soon as he should arrive in Ripton from his latest excursion.
Sensations are common in the Pelican Hotel, but when Austen Vane walked in that evening between the Gaylords, father and son, many a hungry guest laid down his knife and fork and stared.
Under a spell of thought and feeling, seemingly laid by the magic of the night, neither spoke for a space.
The music of the bells ran faster and faster still, keeping time to a wilder music of the sunlit hills and sky; nor was it strange that her voice, when she spoke, did not break the spell, but laid upon him a deeper sense of magic.
She reached out with a womanly gesture, and laid her hand upon his.
Mr. Bascom laidhis watch on the clerk's desk and began to read the list of bills Mr. Crewe had introduced, and as this reading proceeded some of the light-minded showed a tendency to become slightly hysterical.
His packing finished, with one last glance at the room Austen went downstairs with his valises and laidthem on the doorstep.
Short beams were placed from pilaster to pilaster around the room, and additional series of beams were laid to span the angles formed by the lower series.
For their habitations they shaped stones into regular forms, sometimes ornamenting them with designs, and laid them in mud mortar, one on another.
The north side of the court was formed by the solid rocks of the cliff, but on the lower part a narrow masonry wall had been laid up about head high, projecting from the cliff a foot and less on the top.
When Bryan Ritterby was laid off from his job making furniture, he said he worried that at 55 no one would give him a second chance.
Jackie Bray is a single mom from North Carolina who was laid off from her job as a mechanic.
Talk to the single teacher raising two kids who was told by her principal in the last week of school that because of the Recovery Act, she wouldn't be laid off after all.
In the midst of Civil War, we laid railroad tracks from one coast to another that spurred commerce and industry.
Gideon laid aside a pair of gaiters, which he was making for the comfort of his wife.
The object of their curiosity and admiration arose meekly, as they stood before her, and allowed the hand of Katharine to be laid on her head.
The palmer laidit down, and leaned against the tree.
His sword was on the table--he grasped it--but instantly laid it down.
She laid aside her rosary, and sat like a statue of sorrowful thought, if statues can be stamped with such an expression.
Whilst living in thyself, thou commandest the worship of genius, wisdom, and valour, and all their trophies are laid at thy feet.
Two months have elapsed since the above interview and conversation took place, and the scene is now laid in Manchester.
On securing the door, he laid aside his priestly robes, drew the table back from the view of the window, nearer to the Welsh knight’s chair, and seated himself opposite.
He had passed by her and laid his hands upon the high and noble brow blessing her beauty and her sorrows.
And yet that profane prince proclaimed sports thereon, and appointed that his book should be laid on the pulpit, along with the book of life.
When I heard what had happened, I was laid up for months with brain fever.
Sir Hugh placed the dice-box on the table, laid his pistols beside it, and, taking a seat, motioned to Cousin Edward to do the same.
If I can lay my hand upon those four familiars I'll make them wish their hands had withered rather than that they had laid them upon an Englishman!
And, stepping into the bows of the canoe, he ostentatiously laid down his weapons and made the usual signs of amity.
Stukely, as he lightlylaid his fingers upon the pulseless wrist.
The foundation of The Mentor has been laid on things that are worth while, which gives them great permanent value.
When once in power he vigorously swept away the weaknesses and oppression of aristocratic rule, and laid a solid foundation for the future peace and prosperity of the empire.
In little more than two months 300 of them were buried, having laid the foundation of disease in the interior.
I laid them all out upon the snow in a bright sunshiny morning.
We took all of the clothes we had with us and put them on, laid down in the bomb bay and nearly froze to death on the way to Omaha.
We stopped at a farm house and the barn was full so Bruce and I laid down in the snow against the back of the barn out of the wind.
Don Juan and bore it secretly to his father's step and laid it down and fled away.
The scene of this story islaid in the Puritan settlement at Charlestown.
In the midst of them all, Will was surprised to feel of a sudden a sturdy gloved hand laid abruptly on his shoulder, and a powerful though musical feminine voice exclaiming volubly at his ear in very high German, “Ach mein Gott!
She laid her hand on his arm, as if to draw him to herself in some natural symbolism.
He laidbefore her, like a man of the world as he was, a simple proposal for an arrangement between them—in much the same spirit as he might have laid before Franz Lindner an agreement for a partnership.
But Linnet herself sat on the ground all aghast, with her husband’s head laid heavy in her lap, trying to staunch his wound helplessly, and wringing her hands now and again in a blind agony of terror.
If a good-looking man, with a very fine figure and a very black moustache, laid the untold gold of Monte Carlo at her feet, could Linnet resist?
He wouldn’t speak before her to Florian because he couldn’t bear she should even suspect how bad an opinion the man had had of her, and what plot he had laid for her.
Philippina, unheeding him, poked the envelope through the bars of the grate with the aid of the tongs, but laid the note itself on the table by her side, a little uneasily.
The Vision laid down her knife and fork and stared at him, speechless.
He’s as deep as a well, and as false as a fox, and he’d laid all his plans very cunningly beforehand.
He laid one palm on the ground and rested on it as he looked at her.
This was so strange a page of life thus laidopen before him.
With the close of the day business is mostly laid aside, dancing-girls appear in the cafés, and rude musical instruments are brought forth, each nationality amusing itself after its own fashion.
The streets are of good width, laid out with an eye to regularity, besides which there are sixteen public squares.
The old streets are narrow, crooked, and in some places ascended by steps, on an angle of forty-five degrees; but the modern part of the city is well laid out.
The grounds surrounding the structure are laid out in pleasant gardens, where fountains, flowers, and a few inferior marble statues serve for external finish.
It is here that Virgil laid many of his poetic scenes.
It is a remarkable place laidout in terraces, containing many monuments, and having in its centre a large circular chapel with Doric columns, the vestibule walls also containing tombs, bearing an inscription on the face of each.
It will be found laid down on most English maps as Cat Island, and is now the home of two or three thousand colored people, the descendants of imported Africans.
Like the old streets of Boston, those of Sydney were the growth of chance, and were not originally laid out, like those of Melbourne and Adelaide.
The streets are wide, well laid out, and regularly paved, the northern section of the city being intersected by canals, enabling the merchants to float their goods to the doors of their warehouses.
In the olden days, when this city was first laid out after the fashion of the times, it was crowded with fortified lines, and perched upon elevations to aid in resisting the attack of an invading enemy.
It so embodied Lockhart's pathetic description of him when he tried to write, and laid down his pen and cried, that it associated itself in my mind with broken powers and mental weakness from that hour.
A seaman rough, to shipwreck bred, Stood out from all the rest, And gently laid the lonely head Upon his honest breast.
But at Broadstairs next year, please God, when it is all over, I shall be very glad to have laidup such a store of recollections and improvement.
I strongly objected to opening the door lest they should get into the room and tear at us; but Edward opened his, and laid about him until he dispersed them.
They have had so little to do with the game through all these years of Parliamentary Reform, that they have sullenly laid down their cards, and taken to looking on.
Not to mention my being laid hold of by all manner of people.
I laid down the rule before we came, that we would know nobody here, and we do know nobody here.
He is travelling with Lord and Lady Somers, and Lord Somers being laid up with an attack of malaria fever, Layard had a day to spare.
The stage was a little wider than your table here, and its surface was composed of loose boards laid on the school forms.
So I don't write, particularly as you laid your injunctions on me concerning Ruth.
I have seen none of that greediness and indecorousness on which travellers have laid so much emphasis.
However, they must submit to the toil and the jeers they had laid up for themselves, by their behaviour.
He hurried to the neighbourhood, laid hold of a boat, and actually rowed through the Spanish fleet.
To Carlyle Sir George Grey might have gone, and laid at his feet South Australia and New Zealand.
The secret was that Sir George laid hold of the kernel of a subject, and worked outwards--an expositor, not a controversialist.
When the first tidings of the trouble in India reached me, I laid it down that all previous orders and directions from England were cancelled.
There is no virtue,' he laid down, 'in honest duty, such as we claim from every public servant.
You were,' helaid down the conditions, 'at issue with a heavy roll of the sea, even in glorious weather.
Up blew this storm, three nights later, when the explorers laid hands upon the solitary cormorant of Dorre.
Here are two nice new ones, and some new-laid eggs.
The supper was laid in the old-fashioned kitchen, and cheerful it looked; for though it was July a bit of fire was burning on the hearth.
For many days the boats plunged on and on over the subterranean river, till their very life became a burden and a weariness to them, that they would gladly have laid down for ever.
A mass of stratified drift overlies a hummocky deposit of coarse till, but large boulders occurring here and there on top of the stratified drift show that the ice-laid and water-laid materials were not completely sorted.
The row of kames at the north end of Umpog Swamp, several knolls of drift in Bethel, and the kame-like deposits and esker north of Grassy Plain were laid down successively as the ice retreated down the valley.
The streams issuing from this part of the ice front would have laid down the eskers and kame gravels north of Danbury and the thick mantle of drift over which Still River flows through the city.
The more usual arrangement is boulder clay overlain by modified drift, the first being laid down by the ice itself, the second being deposited by streams from the melting glacier in its retreat.
That part of the drainage coming down the valley opposite Beaver Brook met the drainage from Still River ice lobe in the valley north of Shelter Rock, and as a result heavy deposits of stratified drift were laid down.
Probably it is here that their numbers protect them, the trout being unable to penetrate their close ranks until the eggs are laid and concealed in the gravel and death begins to be busy among the salmon.
If two well-marked specimens are laidside by side the difference is most marked, though difficult to describe exactly.
But Lord Barminster's eyes were quick to perceive him; and, striding forward, he laid his hand on his son's shoulder.
Jasper Vermont glanced at it, and laid it down again with an evil smile on his face.
Adrien rose from time to time, and waited on her with a delicacy and tenderness with which few of his friends would have credited him; till, with a sigh of content, she laid down the knife and fork.
He laid her down and felt for some signs of life; to his intense gratitude, she still breathed; and with a silent prayer of thankfulness, he turned to look for assistance.
He held out his hand as he spoke, and, without a word, the girl rose wearily and laid her own cold one in his.
While he stood gazing on it a light footstep sounded behind him, and a slender hand waslaid on his shoulder.
A week before even one white speckled egg had been laid in the oven-bird's nest, there was a golden half eagle in a happy little girl's palm.
Usually from five to eight white eggs are laid about six feet from the entrance on a bundle of grass, or perhaps on a heap of ejected fish bones and refuse.
When the vapour blew away, his glossy bluish black and white feathers, laid on in big patches, were almost as conspicuous as his red head, throat and upper breast.
Twigs, leaves, vine tendrils, and bits of bark form its walls, and the speckled, greenish blue eggs within are usually laid upon a lining of fine black rootlets.
I must admit, however, that the coating thus laid on does not appear to be so permanent as one deposited by simple immersion from the cyanide solution, even though it is thicker.
On taking down the card it will be found that the threads have been caught by the pins; but the card now being laid black side upwards, the former easily slip off the points.
The centre (approximately) of the diamond-cut circle of the glass was laidon this anvil so as to rest evenly upon it, and the upper surface (i.
The experiments of the author referred to were apparently left unfinished, and altogether too much stress must not belaid on the results obtained, one of which was that mica conducts electrolytically to some extent at high temperatures.
The arrow is preferably allowed to strike a wooden target placed, say, 30 feet away from the bow, and a width of black glazed calico is laid under the line of fire to catch the thread or arrow if it falls short.
Before using it have it thoroughly washed with soap and water, then rinsed in clean water, dried and laid away in a box or other place where it can be kept clean.
When thoroughly washed they are taken out and laid on a bundle of cheese cloth and several pieces of the same used to dry them.
The tool, while slightly warm, is laid upon the lens surface, previously slightly smeared with dilute glycerine, until the pitch takes the figure of the glass.
The arrow is laid on the stock of a crossbow in the proper position for firing.
So they took the little fir from its place, and carried it in joyous procession to the edge of the glade, and laid it on the sledge.
The picketed horse fell to browsing and Miles sighed restfully as he laid his head on his saddle and fell instantly to sleep with the light of the moon on his damp, fair hair.
He laid down on his side of the bed, but he never closed an eye again in sleep as long as that boy was with us.
The lodge-keeper and Faxon bent over him, and somehow, between them, lifted him into the kitchen and laid him on a sofa by the stove.
Mr. Grisben leaned forward and laid a firm hand on the young man's arm "Look here: my nephew Jim Grisben is out there ranching on a big scale.
Got three little chunks o' grandchildren out there, and I' never laid eyes on one of 'em.
Unfolding a copy of the city edition, which had been laid on his desk damp from the press-room, Seeley scanned the front page with scowling uneasiness, as if fearing to find some blunder of his own handiwork.
She laid out Adoniram's Sunday suit and his clean clothes on the bed in the little bedroom.
The very woman whom I had wagered to wed had betrayed me into the hands of the very man with whom I laid my wager.
Two of the musketeers bore him into the inn and laid him on the floor of the very room in which, an hour or so ago, he had driven a bargain with Roxalanne.
His fellow judges laid their heads together, and with smiles and nods, winks and leers, they discussed and admired the miraculous subtlety and acumen of this Solomon.
In that he had laid no wager," she answered, rising suddenly.
Then her head drooped again and was laid against my breast; a sigh escaped her, and she began to weep softly.
I was saying that I marvel at your temerity, and more particularly at your having laid information against Monsieur de Lavedan, and having come here to arrest him, knowing, as you must know, that I am interested in the Vicomte.
Rebels were not addicted to an excess of niceness in their methods, and it was more likely that I should rise no more from the luxurious bed on which his hospitality had laid me.
With what money he had left he laid in a stock of wood and food for a couple of days.
Like a monstrous scythe, the fusillade had swept along at breast-high, and laid two thirds of the human field, another volley bending and breaking the remainder.
Taking the physician's hand, the kinglaid it on his heart.
The Duke of Choiseul told me that he laid before him two plans about Corsica--one to set her free, the other to subdue her.
On alighting, Santerre laid his hand on his shoulder and led him to the same spot at the bar, by the same chair, where he had taken the oath to the Constitution.
Any woman who cannot catch a husband by the rules laid down in this book does not deserve one, and it costs only 25 cents for all this valuable advice and information.
Gilbert also made a movement and laidhis hand on the speaker's shoulder.
He was a large-built man, and fought desperately with the butchers, who tore him from the arms of the commissioner who tried to save him; though he had no weapon but his naked fists, he laid out two or three of the ruffians.
The child had no need of air, nothing but sleep; so he was laid abed, and Catherine walked out with Pitou.
That of the queen, for whom their lives were laid down, was yet to be fulfilled.
That was why all the dolls happened to be laid helter-skelter upon one of the high shelves.
She laid her ears back and scratched Raggedy Ann with her claws.
Then they laid me on a table and marked all around my outside edges with a pencil on clean white cloth, and then the girls re-stuffed me and dressed me.
De Vries began, in 1632, a colony on the banks of the Delaware, but it was quicklylaid waste by the savages, who had been needlessly provoked by the insolence of the commander left in charge of the colony.
It was while he was absent on his expedition against the Swedes, leaving New Amsterdam unprotected, that the river Indians, watchful of their opportunity, invaded and laid waste the surrounding country.
In Groton and Marlborough every house was laid in ashes, as were all in lower Rhode Island up to Warwick, and in Warwick all but one.
Roberval and Cartier disagreed and returned to France, leaving the real foundation of Quebec to be laid by Champlain, much later.
In autumn bushels upon bushels of nuts were laid by, to serve, along with dried berries and grapes, salted fish and venison, as food for the winter.
Not waiting to be attacked, the Indians laid waste the settlements, even threatening Fort Amsterdam itself.
They were repulsed here, but crossing to the shore of New Jersey they laid waste the settlements there.
Plantation life was universal, there being no town worthy the name till Baltimore, which, laid out in 1739, grew very slowly.
A road was laid out between the upper Potomac and the present Pittsburgh, settlements were begun along it, and efforts made to conciliate the savages.
MacBride half a minute later laid his "ha-ha," like a heavy stone, upon the gaiety.
It went by the name of Sims's Cross Roads, because here two roads intersected each other; and because, from the time that the first had been laid out, Archibald Sims had resided there.
And then they laid their burdens down, And one and all they skipped the town.
In fact, the red rascals had a dread of me, and had laid a good many traps to get my scalp, but I wasn't to be catched napping.
My face was deep in the pillow, but I made sounds as of a hen who has laidan egg.
The outraged citizen calmly laid down his knife and fork, and looked at his frill, the officer, and the pig, one after another.
Did I not ruin my nerves, and seriously injure my temper, by the overpowering pressure I laid upon them to keep them quiet when you were by?
He laid her out on the bum rock, they set off a lot of red fire for some unknown reason, and the curtain dropped at 12:25.
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