Cecil tore open the envelope and read the few words it contained with a lengthening visage; then he let his hand fall, and stared blankly across at his wife.
He opens the envelope and finds a blue official-looking enclosure, which he reads with a gradually lengthening countenance.
At the same time we must always keep in mind that the effect of lengthening the hours would be to cause an immediate demand for an increase of pay.
From the peace of Ryswick the lengthening shadow of the Spanish succession falls upon the scene, and occupies the last years alike of William, of Leopold, and of Lewis.
There is also a lengthening of the morning and evening duration of twilight, and magnificent sunrises and sunsets are frequent.
The almost magical springing into life and bloom of the vegetation over the northern portion of the continent with the lengthening of the hours of sunshine each summer is thus explained.
But the hours of sunlight each day undergo marked variations, lengthening from December 21st to June 21st, and shortening as the sun makes its southward migration.
To cut a lengthening story short, She never saved it.
There was a rude awakening in the fierce wind, which had increased with the lengthening shadows.
The shadows of the team wagon were already lengthening grotesquely over the flat, cultivated fields, which for some time had taken the place of the plains of wild oats in the branch road into which they had turned.
These longings usually came to her most strongly in the long spring evenings, in whose lengthening light she used to rejoice at Ashleigh, as enabling her to prolong her pleasant country rambles.
The month which they had planned in June was lengthening into six weeks.
Lengthening the day at both ends, "rising before the sun and going to bed after midnight," working while others slept, gave time for these extra tasks.
The rest of that February went by with lengthening eyes that died on the dusky riot of blackbirds in the rhododendrons.
The knowledge that Spring could not linger always was the only consoling certainty she now possessed, and from the window-seat she greeted with a passionate welcome each dusky azure minute that on these lengthening eves was robbed from night.
Such repetition leads to passivelengthening of such parts as are already formed but are not meristically repeated: such are the notochord, the vertebrate intestine, the canal of the spinal cord, and possibly the lateral line nerve.
This was done for the express purpose of lengthening the line indispensable for the besiegers to make their wall a good blockade.
Carrington devised a mathematical formula by which the rate or "law" of this lengthening was conveniently expressed; but it was a purely empirical one.
The necessity of having recourse to a lengthening day is then less pressing than it seemed some time ago; and the effect, if perceptible in the moon's motion, should, M.
Delaunay explains lunar acceleration by a lengthening of the day through tidal friction.
Stratonoff's[458] repetition of it with ampler materials gave a full assurance that faculæ rotate like spots in periods lengthening as latitude augments.
All, however, agree in lengtheningprogressively from the equator towards the poles.
This will go on (other circumstances remaining unchanged) until the lengthening day overtakes the more tardily lengthening month, when each will be of about 1,400 hours.
In other words, they must bring about an almost infinitely slow lengthening of the day.
Even so, the end might have caught him, but for the lengthening lunge which Surry made in mid-air.
In thus lengthening the slide, it is best to add, at first, more to the forward part of the slide than to the back part, i.
It would be uselesslylengthening this description were I to dwell more on the details of construction of these machines.
The vibration being, of course, isochronous, any change of pressure merely produces a shortening or lengthening of the stroke.
She shivered for some unknown reason, and a sharp consciousness of evil suddenly grew out of the lengthening hours.
To dissipate thelengthening shadows in the corners, she lighted the lamp.
The Allied artillery is even now lengthening its fuses, and we are on the point of giving the Germans a surprise.
Contalmaison had already been taken with great slaughter before they reached the firing-line, and the shadows werelengthening as they came to a captured trench and prepared to make themselves snug for the night.
Another shell burst farther away behind the dug-out, and Dennis wondered whether the French gunners were lengthening their fuses preparatory to the counter-attack.
As one who sees the lengthening shadows falling over the darkening field, may I say one word to my junior brethren, with all whose struggles and doubts and difficulties I, for one, do most tenderly sympathise?
