But Queen's rowing had declined inlate years, and it had been some time since the shell held a victorious crew.
Wouldn't be surprised if he made the team even at this late date.
In ten or fifteen minutes Frank had accomplished his purpose, and was back, waiting at the bank behind Warren Hall, alongside the trunk of a big oak, protected from the cold of the late November night by a thick sweater and heavy cap.
You were only going to be a week late and here half the month is gone and half the football schedule's been played.
It may be too late even now, for Jimmy had his chance, and to most of those who saw the game the indications were that he is not to be trusted with the ball in a tight place.
To the clerk who was at the desk he said, as he surrendered his key: "How late do you keep open?
Squire Tisdale took the key, and Mrs. Preston led the way to her late husband's desk.
I calc'late he expected more just for a little job like that.
It was late next day when cowboys from Square M arrived, slowly driving before them the cattle that were to be doubled up with those which Bud, Nort and Dick considered specially their own.
They were rather late getting back to camp, for Dick's pony went lame, and the others accommodated their pace to his.
It was too late to secure horses and ride over Snake Mountain trail back to Flume Valley.
It may be too late to save him when this side passage fills up.
However, hundreds of announcements of the settlement, directed "To the debtors of the late firm of A.
This story, which was first disseminated as early as the late 1850s, was an entire fabrication.
This controversy was still in the courts as late as April of 1864, and its final outcome is not known.
Toward the end, in the late 1950s, employment in the factory dropped to only three persons--J.
David, for instance, saw it quite distinctly far away among the trees as we were going home from the pantomime, and Oliver Bailey saw it the night he stayed so late at the Temple, which is the name of his father's office.
She was disappointed not to see Peter Pan, and I may as well tell you now why he was so late that night.
Illustration: A fairy ring] Of late David has been thinking back hard about the fairy tongue, with his hands clutching his temples, and he has remembered a number of their phrases which I shall tell you some day if I don't forget.
He loves you with all his soul, but he has no fortune capable of supplying your needs, and he will be bound to leave you one day, when it will be too late and when the duke will refuse to do any more for you.
Send over to-morrow; it is too late to get change now.
That is what I asked myself in affright, as I stood in the vacant room, gazing at the clock, which pointed to midnight, and seemed to say to me that it was too late to hope for my mistress's return.
As late as 1627, but four years before his death, he writes an elegy of his lady's not coming to London, in which he complains that he has been starved for her short letters and has had to read last year's over again.
A late writer holds that years have falsified this prophecy.
Then all too late my death thou wilt repent, When murther's guilt thy conscience shall torment.
She couldn't very well stay here all night, and it's prettylate now.
He heard many good stories, humorous and blood-curdling, and it was very late before he finally got to bed.
The immediate consequence was that he was equally late to breakfast.
The wild roses on the hillside were blooming--late in this high altitude.
They journeyed along its summit until late in the afternoon, and then all at once found the city of Rapid lying below them at the mouth of a mighty cañon, like a toy village on fine velvet brown.
Tears actually started to this stern savage's eyes, and he looked back on his late projects and endeavors to immolate a whole race with a shudder.
Nevertheless, it was too late to retrace his steps, and he saw the necessity of going on.
Having got out into the Openings, it was not difficult for Peter to join his late companions without attracting observation from whence he came.
To this last purpose, therefore, his thoughts were mainly directed, during that interval which his late companion had employed in prayers for those under whose blows he was about to fall.
He had found one deserted lair, from which its late occupants could not have departed many hours when it came under his own notice.
It was too late to recede, and things must take their course, even at all the hazards of the case.
To him, escape seemed impossible; and he now regretted having abandoned the defences of his late residence.
He had been so unexpectedly successful in his late attempt at eloquence, that it was not easy to keep him off his feet, now that another good occasion to exhibit his powers offered.
As the savages knew that the beehunter was without a paddle, and that the wind blew fresh, the expectation of overtaking their late captive, in this manner, was by no means chimerical.
Fire had run over the whole region late that spring, and the grass was now as fresh, and sweet and short, as if the place were pastured.
It was now latein the day, and it was time to think of taking the meal that was to sustain them through the toil and fatigues of another arduous night.
That Pigeonswing had slain his late fellow- guest, le Bourdon had no doubt, and he sickened at the thought.
Whether you loiter along tree-shaded alleys, or stroll through rhododendron dells in the late Spring, when the landscape fairly quivers with color, there is an ineffable loveliness about Golden Gate Park.
As a specimen of Lincoln's method of reasoning I insert here the brief or notes of an argument used by him in a lawsuit as late as 1858.
Hitt, late Assistant Secretary of State, and the present Representative in Congress from the 6th District of Illinois.
He accepted the invitation of the New York committee, at the same time notifying them that his speech would deal entirely with political questions, and fixing a day late in February as the most convenient time.
Late in January Mr. Lincoln informed me that he was ready to begin the preparation of his inaugural address.
Late in the summer of 1861, as elsewhere mentioned in these chapters, I made my first and only visit to Washington while he was President.
Again, some days later, I had been absent on a reconnoissance, and returned late in the afternoon.
He did not return till very late at night and then slipped quietly in at a rear door.
We bothered "the court" about it till late on Saturday, the day of adjournment.
Lamon would have whiskey in his office for the drinking ones, and those who indulged in petty gambling would get by themselves and play till late in the night.
Douglas had the ingenuity to be supported in the late contest both as the best means to break down and to uphold the slave interest.
Her physician during her last illness says this of her: "In the late years of her life certain mental peculiarities were developed which finally culminated in a slight apoplexy, producing paralysis, of which she died.
The contracted position is found as late as the Vth Dynasty at Dashasha, south of the Eayyûm, but after that date it is no longer found.
Morgan as prehistoric are in reality of much later date, for example, Kahun, where the late flints of XIIth Dynasty date were found.
These compositions were furnished with Assyrian translations upon the tablets on which they were inscribed, and it was correctly argued by the late Sir Henry Rawlinson, the late M.
Much work of the same kind has been done here of late years by Messrs.
With the help of the pottery we can thus gain a more or less reliable conspectus of the development of the late "Neolithic" culture of Egypt.
Morgan, who was for several years director of the museum at Giza, and is now chief of the French archæological delegation in Persia, which has made of late years so many important discoveries.
These two great cylinders of baked clay were discovered by the late M.
It was only very late in the afternoon that I discovered the domicile to be tenanted by three adults and seven children, most of whom now cheerfully curl up on the floor.
Late in the evening, the day before yesterday, I was sitting by the bed where Dr.
Rather late this afternoon he returned, and I strolled over towards the cove when I saw the tiny schooner come in.
I must write to Harry that we shall be leaving before long and that it will be too late for him to come now,--as, indeed, it is.
In low swampy places we several times came across old wind-and rain-bleached antlers, shed in the late fall of the previous year.
Under the late Shah the princes of the blood were employed in the chief governments of the country, and exercised all the powers and responsibilities of office.
The late Shah was always liberal and conciliatory in the treatment of his Christian subjects throughout the country, and this is a matter which, at the present time, deserves special notice.
The Queen-mother at that time became the president of the State Council, and cleverly succeeded in conciliating adverse parties and strengthening the Government, till the position of the young Shah, the late Sovereign, was made secure.
The vineyards at Shiraz have been greatly extended of late years, and particular attention is now paid to the cultivation of the Kholar grape, as the best suited for wine.
For this simple acknowledgment all seemed rather to sympathise with the polite old gentleman; but it was now too late for a remedy, for we were near to the desired city of Dublin.
This puzzled him very much, as it was so late that, "if they were to try to give it that night, there would not be time for the ducks to be well cooked.
So at a late hour we parted, and early in the morning set out for our different destinations, bearing with us many warm attachments formed during our short stay in the beautiful town of Birmingham.
Thus the talk of that night had run to a late hour, and I took leave.
Jim that night regretted only one thing which he had neglected to do, and which it was now too late to accomplish--that was, to have measured the length of the cathedral and ascertained the number of steps required to walk around it.
He said it was solate that the hotels would be closed, and that the commercial inn, where he was going, was the only place open, and I should find there everything to make me comfortable, and a very nice sort of people.
The girls lingered late that night talking over Christmas plans.
But come, we must go back or we shall be latefor breakfast.
It was an afternoon late in June, and the two speakers were discussing some ice cream at "the Dutchwoman's" and waiting for the call to quarters before dress parade.
Human intelligence is certainly a product, and a late and highly organised product, of evolution; it ought apparently to be as much admired as the eyes of molluscs or the antennae of ants.
Some of these spies passed through the lines as late as eleven o'clock the night before the battle, and from them he learned that a general attack was to be made upon him the next day at six o'clock in the morning.
In the meantime, his men were resting, and he had food served them again as late as seven o'clock.
Midday meal he had none, and in the late afternoon he walked home and arranged their supper of bread, potatoes, or whatever else he considered he could afford to buy.
In conclusion I want to announce that pensions will be given to those who fought on either side in the late war without distinction or reservation.
In taking over the machine from the late boss, and in molding it into an almost personal following I found it not only loosely put together, but inefficient for my more ambitious purposes.
If our late masters had been more moderate in their greed we would have been content to struggle for yet another period, hoping that in time we might again have justice and equality before the law.
Failure to acquiesce in this, or any attempt to foster the policies of the late government, would be considered seditious, and would be punished by death.
Gloria and Philip did all that was possible for the Turners, but their helping hands came too late to do more than to give the mother a measure of peace during the last days of her life.
As a matter of fact, it was already too late for any one but me.
I had to go down to the kitchenlate last Friday night.
Do you suppose Maida would be latefor an appointment with me?
I had a charming view of the old garden, still gay with late fall flowers, and with roses which bloomed here, probably all winter long.
He'll be late for tea, but we'll wait for him, shall we?
Delia was in the kitchen makin' bread late last night," said Annie.
It's too late to talk of that now," he says, trying not to look at her.
And now, in the late afternoon, she sits down at the piano, more to pass the time than to amuse their guest.
The vast collection must possess great value and be of remarkable historical interest at this late date.
THE siege of Knoxville, Tennessee, was raisedlate in 1863.
Stories of the conflict were told as the soldiers revelled over the hot and hearty meal and not until the late hours did the tired comrades wrap themselves in their blankets and fall onto their beds of pine needles or hard board bunks.
The Duke of Hohenwald and two of his friends had finished a late supper, and were seated in the apartment adjoining it.
It would be too late then; while now, in my free state, I can continue my search without any sense of responsibility.
He recalled how impatient he had been when she was late at dinner, and how cross he was throughout one whole day when she had kept her room.
He became conscious, as he searched with growing impatience the faces of those passing and repassing before him, of how much the habit of going to Miss Morris for sympathy in his unlucky love-affair had grown of late upon him.
