But it now stood erect, leaning chiefly on the same support, Marcus Furius, by which it had been first raised; nor did they suffer him to lay down the dictatorship until the end of the year.
But there upon the window-sill, leaning against the glass, still rested a folded parchment, affording the most positive evidence of her presence before the house.
The strangeness of the thing struck the boy at once, as he stood leaning against the rail.
And not until then did Frank Mansfield move from the place where the detective had left him, but remained leaning against the iron fence at the corner of Rector street and Broadway.
She sought to mitigate her sufferings--a veritable topoalgic obsession--by leaning her head on her shoulder, and the desire thus to procure alleviation gradually became irresistible and the movement unconscious.
As Girard sat there talking to Justin in courteous ease, his elbow on the arm of his chair, his chin leaning on the fingers of his hand, he had a distinction possessed by no one else in the room.
Leaning back over the folded top, he pointed at them magisterially with his whip.
But Sir Henry shook himself free of Ferrers, and they both faced Monsieur Mornay, who, somewhat languidly, but with a polite tolerance, stood leaningagainst the table watching this unlooked for development of the drama.
And all the while he kept munching at the sea-biscuit, and Monsieur Mornay stood leaning against the rail watching him.
Exhausted by the events of the night, leaning listlessly against the sill of the stern-port, was Mistress Clerke, her lids drooping with weariness as she struggled against tired nature to keep her lone vigil.
Leaning with his back against the gnarled trunk of a giant oak on the edge of the forest, his ears alert for the slightest sound, his hand upon his loaded magazine rifle, Geoffrey Engleheart stood on outpost duty.
They stood leaning upon a broken fence, talking in a half-whisper in French, so that the half-dozen privates might not understand what they said.
Dennis, as, leaning from the window, he grasped the extended branches of the tree which reached to within a few inches of the side of the house.
Grasping the weapon in his hand, the man instantly stood leaning forward prepared for the appearance of an enemy from the place from which the unexpected sound had come.
She closed her eyes, leaning her head on his shoulder.
Nothing, however, was found in it except a great stone slab, about five feet square, which was leaning against one of the walls, and was covered with inscriptions on both sides.
During this long service, the people stand, leaningon the supports of the few seats in the church, or on a kind of crutches, provided for the purpose.
Grizel seemed to know this, for she remained where she was, and first she nodded and smiled reassuringly to her mother, and then, leaning forward, took her hand and stroked it softly and began to talk.
At the Well they had not long to wait before Mr. McLean suddenly appeared out of the mist, and to their astonishment Miss Ailie was leaning on his arm.
It was with reluctance he did so, and he stood up leaning against the mantel when he had drawn her out a chair.
Glancing up he saw Harper leaningon a bureau and looking at him.
He slipped his arm through Tony's, and they started down a little path through the cane, while Tony endeavored to shake his grasp off, and finding that he could not do so limped along clumsily, leaning heavily upon him.
He, however, stopped suddenly when he reached the veranda, for Nettie Harding was leaning over the balustrade, and the banker's wife sitting in a cane chair behind her.
The latter, leaning over the balustrade, called out sharply, and in a moment or two three or four of the Sin Verguenza came up and lifted Tony.
Harding for some reason moved uneasily in his chair, but Appleby, leaning across the table, held out his hand.
Forward, a cluster of men were sitting about the windlass and leaning on the rail.
They were leaning on the rail together cigar in hand while the ship rolling her mastheads athwart the blue swung with an easy lurch over the long smooth heave of shining sea.
Tony did not know what he answered, but his voice broke, and he stood leaning silently on a chair back while the company filed out and left him with the lawyer.
Her mother was waiting on the terrace when they reached Northrop Hall, and when Palliser had gone into the house leaning on a man's shoulder she looked at the girl curiously.
All around the sides of the room men were leaning and looking on, some of them laughing and calling to various dancers.
Presently the saw ate through to the undercut, a deep notch on the leaning side, and the top swayed, moved slowly earthward.
She dipped below the sloping bank before he came up, and when he came noiselessly down to the grassy bank she stood leaning against a tree, gazing at the sluggish flow of Lone Moose.
He went past them, and leaning over the taffrail watched the banks of low-lying mangroves which grew on either side of the river.
Sibyl had entered the room, and was leaning against the window frame.
She was leaning over the rails of the little garden and looking down into the swiftly flowing river.
Then he drew his chair forward to where his big desk stood, and, leaning his elbows on it, passed his hands through his thick, short hair.
Against the back wall an altar is elevated on some steps, and there is an endless fascination in leaning against it and gazing down on those two august forms stretched out so still before you.
She was leaning forward as she talked, and toying with a silver-sheathed dagger which she took from a table loaded with costly trifles next her.
Over every public building and railroad station, and on all the public squares were transparencies in which the substantial form of Germania flourished extensively, leaning upon her shield, and gazing sentimentally into vacancy.
Kind" is the German for child, and "Kindchen" is a diminutive, and whenever he calls you that you can tell he has a leaning toward you.
Then she rose and passed it out to him, leaning out of the window, and their faces met.
Lucille had spoken in a rapid, sibilant whisper, leaning forward so as to bring her eyes directly before Mrs. Thayer's face, and the effect was electrical.
The next day he came sailing in, with a fine looking lady of middle age leaning contentedly on his arm.
He had been leaning against the sycamore: he stood up and stepped just in front of it to see better, shading his eyes (for his hat had gone long since) with his left hand, the point of his sword touched the ground.
Then Bevis sang, making a tune of his own, leaning back and watching the sails with the sheet handy to let go if a puff came, for were they not voyaging on unknown seas?
Outside these there was a second layer of longer sticks; all standing, or rather leaning against the first.
Let me see," said Bevis, leaning his arm on the table and stroking his hair with the end of the penholder.
Bevis took hold of the rail, which was on a level with the surface, and then leaning his chest forward upon the water, felt his legs and feet gradually lifted up, till he floated.
War is a bother," he said, putting his hands in his pockets, and leaning back in an attitude of weary despair at having to do something.
So they launched the raft, and Mark got in and floated down, and Bevis walked on the bank, giving him directions how to pilot the vessel, which as before was brought up by the willow leaning over the water.
Leaning against the tree he saw the punt, pushed out by the impetus from his spring, swing round and drift rapidly between the islands.
This is the best sail we've had," said Mark, putting his legs out as far as he could, leaning his back against the seat and his head against the mast.
He prided himself on steering within an inch; the boat glided between the sandy island and the rocky wall, so close to the wall that the sail leaning over the side nearly swept it.
Bevis took the spear, and going to the edge, and leaning over and feeling the bottom with it, he could find the hole, where the spear slipped and touched nothing, about two yards out.
Two dead bodies lay on the floor, and a wounded man sat in the corner, leaning against the wall, and slowly bleeding to death.
He paused, glanced around him, and continued in a low, agitated voice: "Yesterday I came upon him as he was sitting leaning against the barrack wall.
And when John Gale returned from Canada, and looked into her big blue eyes one day at church, small wonder that he immediately went off again to Paris, and an extended Continental sojourn, with a serious leaning to theology!
In all the novels, you know, attaches are always the confidants of Grand Duchesses, and know more state secrets than their chiefs; in real life, I believe they are something like a city clerk with a leaning to private theatricals.
