Of late years the grand dame had seldom been seen by the kindly old farmer, Si Warner and his wife, for Mrs. Poindexter-Jones had preferred to live in her equally palatial home in San Francisco overlooking the Golden Gate.
She did not notice the golden glory of the day; she did not glance out as she was driven down the beautiful Live Oak Canyon road, nor did she observe when the wife of the lodgekeeper opened the wide iron gates and curtsied to her.
It led over a rugged upland where gnarled live oaks twisted their rough barked branches into fantastic shapes.
I am to live with the Warners just as I have been doing this past two months.
I don't believe I could live far away from the coast," she commented.
Its message was very sad, for it told that the girl-mother had died and the young wandering missionary, our father, feared that he had not long to live because of frequent heart attacks.
My folks had the overseein' of a lemon grove up Live Oak Canyon way.
I'm so glad you live on a farm, for I do also, when I'm at home in Dakota.
Then with a break in his voice, "I wouldn't want to live without you, dearest.
But if I had my way, all of our country property would be turned into money, then we could live abroad ever after.
Rather than thus to liveas Turkish thralls, What will we not adventure?
No, governor; I'll satisfy thee first; Thou shalt not live in doubt of any thing.
These are veterans, men of Mons, and their young pals of the public schools have something to live up to.
Between the two the main bulk of the soldiers live like animals of the woodlands, burrowing on the hillsides and among the roots of the trees.
It is a terrible place down yonder, a place which will live as long as military history is written, for it is the Ypres Salient.
So I am; and I think I should be very fond of an angel from heaven; but you see, when a fellow has to live on the earth, it is a trifle more convenient to be like the other earth worms.
It had been decided that he would study law in the city where his father had practised it, andlive at the old homestead, making daily trips to and from the larger city.
The young people argued vigorously upon every live question of the day, not excepting interesting theological points, but this was out of the regular line.
We cannot live entirely to ourselves, you know, we have friends; and we have neighbors who ask questions.
Most of them live in pokey rooms all by themselves or with only each other; no woman to speak to but a cross-grained hostess, and nothing homelike anywhere; while here it is almost as nice as being at home.
He was good to me always; a girl like me couldn't have had a better father; and I don't know how to live in this world without him.
I should think it would be much better for him to live where his business is.
So like his father--in the eyes of the grandmother, that there were moments when she could shut herself up alone with him and live her mother-joy over again.
I have moved about so much that I cannot imagine how it would be to live always, anywhere.
This earth on which we live is but a single sheaf of the great harvest; humanity is but a species in the vast garden where the flowers of heaven are cultivated.
You are on the side of darkness, while I--I live in the light, the true Light!
God, constrained to live eternally united to His creation is held down to His first position as workman.
Monsieur le Baron Seraphitus assured me that those details concerned only the angels wholive on earth in human form.
I do not doubt success, but live within my heart and I am sure of it.
With these words, which fell from the lips of another Hagar in the wilderness, burning the souls of the hearers as the live coal of the word inflamed Isaiah, this mysterious being paused as though to gather some remaining strength.
What being here below would not desire to render himself worthy of entrance into the sphere of those who live in secret by Love and Wisdom?
If we live once, hurried onward by the march of the Great-Whole, a knowledge of which has not been given to us, let us act as we please.
It shall be my business hereafter to live the life of an honest man, and to act as becomes the master of a family.
I livein the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species by which means I have made myself a speculative statesman, soldier, merchant, and artizan, without ever meddling with any practical part in life.
Garth expressed it) may have something to live upon after he dies.
The remaining ones, which he did not live to finish, were some years afterward added by his scholar Tomaso Gisioli, celebrated by the name of Masaccio from his careless way of living.
Those reduced to live on the alms of genius, are the first to deny its existence.
Of these, his favourites were Aniello Rossi, and Matteo Pacelli, who accompanied him to Spain, returned well pensioned, and continued to live in obscure ease.
Agnolo was doomed to live and brood over the perversion of his style, death prevented Raffaello from witnessing the gradual decay of his.
The hunting grounds are broad and long, the streams are deep and full of fish, the woods abound with game, there is room for the red men and pale-faces to live beside each other.
The missionary has tried to make them live in peace, but he can do nothing.
Miss Stubbs has done a very real and important service to the cause of missions in making the lives of these great men live for the inspiration of younger generations of to-day.
From one point of view it is no argument against the truth of Bahaism that Bahais fail to live up to its precepts and principles, for this can be said of all religions.
It is very noticeable with these Sangley people that they intermix with any other people who are here, in a very singular fashion; for at once they intermarry with the women of these nations, adopt their customs, and live like Indians.
The baptisms are conferred by families, in order that the Christians may not live intermingled with infidels, but may daily augment their virtue in the uniformity of the Christian religion.
If you desire me for a slave, I will live with you in your village of Tibor, and will serve you as a slave if you will in turn let me teach you how you may obtain salvation.
He was successful in converting the priest, and for greater security, made him live in a village where Ours usually reside.
Very seldom, if ever, did any of these bands become friendly and live in the same neighborhood or village, and aid each other and combine against enemies.
Our brethren live in those villages well content at seeing that our Lord is continually gaining souls to Himself, and inclining to His holy law the hearts of those who but a few years ago were living without God and without law.
I have just visited the people of Ugyao, and to live among them, enjoying the mercies which God conters upon them, seems to me like Paradise.
You will want to live on Olympus, and you really ought, if you are going to wear gowns woven of my sunbeams like the one you had on yesterday.
The murmur of the water, mingled with the murmur of unseen live things, and the melody of night touched the girl's discordant thoughts to music.
A live thing darted across her foot, and she looked down to catch a glimpse of something like a slender green flame licking its way through the grass.
Do leave New York, and come and live with me near ancient Rome.
What if people could choose the type of world they wanted to live in?
All of a sudden Joe says out of a clear blue sky: "Harry, this is a hell of a world we live in, isn't it?
All you have to do is step into the Paradise booth, put on the cap, visualize the kind of world you want to live in so it shows on the screen, and off you go!
Whether some of my name did not livein Lincolnshire?
Mon Dieu I shall never forget it, if I live to be an hundred.
When she found me inexorable in refusing Evelina's attending her to Paris, she peremptorily insisted that she should at least live with her in London till Sir John Belmont's return.
However, I will not, my good Sir, deceive you into an opinion that they intend to live in a retired manner, as that cannot be fairly expected.
About 1500 men are employed in the mines, who labour only six hours at a time, and live in the upper world.
It may be asked how were these men able to live so long during their imprisonment!
It is no wonder that a premature age overtakes many of them, and that young men are seen trembling in every limb, though it is said that those who survive their forty-fifth year may live on until they are sixty or seventy.
Did this man really live on the Dover line at all?
I can understand that she might be difficult to live with--I daresay all genuine characters are--but she's very real.
Well then what did she want to hyke off to live among those Dutchmen for, when one of the best houses in England was open to her?
When you look at a hedge, you don't think of it as something to worry live animals out of.
Yes, I've got a live Markiss who works for me at ten quid a week, and a few extras.
We agreed that we would live together--'pool our issues,' as they say in America.
What I would really have liked," Thorpe confided to his sister now, "was to have had them both live with me.
We don't insist upon your coming to liveat Ovington Square at all.
I daresay I'd even do it myself if I had to live in the country, which thank God I don't!
Wrong-doing is a serious matter, and though released from the pains of hell and allowed back again to earth, the criminal must pay the penalty in the debased condition in which he is allowed to live once more amongst men.
It is astonishing that the people that live in the houses near by are not carried off by typhoid or other deadly fevers, but they are not.
But whilst this was the case, there was no real reformation in the hearts of a single one of those who had made society unsafe for men and women who wished to live a law-abiding life.
There are equally large numbers of young girls, who must have the monotonous life in which they are compelled tolive in their narrow homes changed from the unending routine that confronts them almost every day of their lives.
The Chinese are a strong race, and can live in comfort, and even luxury, on incomes that would mean starvation to American or Australian workmen.
The people were happy, and peace and plenty made the state a good one tolive in.
Illustration] You must know that in the Alps mountains, where they were, there are dogs, and very wonderful dogs they are, who live in the snowy mountains and are trained to go about to find lost travellers and to help them.
I would like to live here," whispered the Villain, "everybody seems to be so happy.
It's because they are fairy dolls and everybody knows that fairies liveon forever and forever!
I've been here over four seasons and I've never seen a human being, and even if they were here they couldn't live here because it's too cold.
But he clung to the mast just the same, for everybody loves to live no matter how miserable they may be, because they always hope that things will be better.
But Wahb had no thought of its beauty; he only knew that it was a good land to live in; that it had been his, but that now it was gone, for his strength was gone, and he was flying to seek a place where he could rest and be at peace.
Trade is confined mainly to an exchange of live stock for woven and other goods from Russia, China and Turkestan.
Except in the breeding season they live in water ranging in depth from about two to six fathoms, and creep about the bottom or bury themselves in the sand.
They have no fixed meals, and live mainly on mutton and goat and horse flesh, and instead of bread use the so-called balamyk, a mess of flour fried in dripping and diluted in water.
The marriage was a very unhappy one, and the pair soon ceased to live together; but when it appeared probable that Hervey would succeed his brother as earl of Bristol, his wife took steps to obtain proof of her marriage.
Most of the white workmen employedlive at Kenilworth, laid out by the De Beers company as a "model village.
This is particularly the way with those that are fishers in fact as well as in name; but no inconsiderable number live almost entirely in forests, feeding on insects, while reptiles furnish the chief sustenance of others.
They livein scattered groups in East Georgia to the north and north-west of Mount Borbalo.
They live south of Lake Aral, and in the towns of Kungrad, Khodsheili and Kipchak form the prevailing element.
They are inhabited by a tribe of the same name, who still live in primitive communities under elective chiefs in political subordination to the British government.
Kena is also known for the excellence of the dates sold in its bazaars and for the large colony of dancing girls who live there.
The numbers of livestock of every kind are generally increased or sustained.
They live by commerce and manufactures, and are no soldiers.
Perhaps he had vowed that he would never live in a house again that had a woman in it.
I never knew anyone yet who really liked Mr. Buckle; even his own wife admits that he is a dreadfully hard man to live with.
It is lucky you were able to come to me, for I could not live alone at Ripple.
I was doing that sort of thing when you were in your cradle, and I have been doing it ever since, while I suppose that you hardly saw a cooky until since you came to live at Ripple.
Mr. Wrack Peveril is my grandfather, and I have come all the way from England to live with him.
If her grandfather failed to come back, she would have to do as best she could until her family came out from England to live with her, so it was just as well to get used to things.
Why should people pity her for coming to live with her grandfather?
The question in my mind is whether Mother and he will hit it off comfortably when they live together.
You see, my mother has told us so much about Grandfather, and what an upright man he was; hard and difficult to live with, but straight as a die.
It was a pity that she could not live at Ripple alone, then he would not be afraid to venture.
Morning, noon, and night Pam was searching for some trace of the old man whom she had come so far to live with, and yet had never seen; and where she went the dog went too.
My word, though, you must have wanted some pluck, to live the life you have done here all through the winter!
The fair Galena was never hard to live with when there was a festivity to the fore.
Disagreeable he was, and so hard to live with that her mother had been glad to run away from him; but he was bed-rock honest.
Give them a pure air like ours, and they could not live in it; give them carbon with other matters, and they live and rejoice.
He too wanted to hide from the son what could not be hidden, so faithfully and deeply had he learned to live in the father's feelings.
Better to drink oneself to death than live as a scoundrel!
Live where nobody knew what he done, where every chance sound would not frighten him with the vision of the bailiff.
If only a But were required to make wrong right, then I would rather live among the savages, then I would rather be the most miserable beast on God's earth than a human being.
Long live every good dog that is tied to a chain, and yet does not snap at everything around him!
It could not have been more restricted, and yet its impressions live on to the present day.
And if they keep him locked up for ten years, he shall find me, for I shall liveuntil then--that much I know!
I could not endure to live in a world where the people would refrain from spitting at me simply out of pity.
At that time the Law was still sound; then it did not live in dusty, moldy offices.
Spare him whose soul shrinks most fearsomely from thee, and let him live until the beautiful world becomes again gray and desolate!
The two old people will then live alone in the house with the green shutters.
In the glycerin industry the lyes obtained by saponifying the fats are first evaporated with "wet vacuum" and finally distilled with closed and live steam and a "dry vacuum.
It is also to be distinguished from a decree of separation, which permits or commands the parties to live apart, but does not completely and for all purposes sever the marriage tie.
Their folklore recognizes a good and evil deity; one of the two wives of the good deity created man, and the dead go to live with him in a great park filled with animals of enormous size.
In cases where the condenser is likely to become plugged there is a pipe by means of which live steam can be injected into the condenser.
When he was about fourteen, in the hope of changing the bent of his mind, his father sent him to live with his agent at Amsterdam, where he worked under a tutor for four or five years.
To live is to be united with God; evil is the nonexistent, that is, severance from God.
He made some joking reference to his income and asked her if she would be willing to live on a salary of--How much was the salary of the Chief Justice of Utah?
Why can't they leave us alone to live our religion and obey the commandments of God and build up Zion?
Smith continued to live with his five wives and to rear children by all of them.
And I feel that if I livemy religion and do nothing to offend the Holy Spirit I will be saved in the presence of my Father and His Son, Jesus Christ.
They had been driven by the contempt of the world to argue for its sanctity, to live up to their declarations, and to raise it in their esteem to what it professed to be, the celestial order that prevailed in the Heavens!
