She was nodding to Nellie, but he was looking intently at Mabel, who was sitting near the window.
Ready it is, sir," answered Hornigold, tightening his grasp on the spokes and nodding his head to his superior.
Further down the table, the huge Dutchman, Velsers, was nodding stupidly over his rum.
Before Egerton could answer, the Baron had glided to the door, and, nodding pleasantly, vanished with that nod.
Sometimes we crashed through bracken; anon where the blackberries grew rankest we found a lonely little cemetery, the wooden rails all awry, and the pitiful stumpy headstones nodding drunkenly at the soft green mulleins.
I stepped into a pool of old dried blood rimmed with the nodding cornflowers; the blood changed to ink even as I trod; and ink and blood were washed away in a spurt of boiling sulphurous water spat out from the lee of a bank of flowers.
In our Northern woods he shall find the floors carpeted with the delicate linnaea, its twin rose-colored nodding flowers filling the air with fragrance.
And Mr. Sherman, nodding his head vigorously, went away southward through the grove, toward Market Street.
He seemed to know everybody in the room, for he was kept busy nodding right and left at the tables until he came to theirs.
Behind the wall, again, were the dense masses of the trees, and at the end of a path between nodding foxgloves and Canterbury bells, in a curved recess, a stone seat.
Time and time we met people plodding along, some of them nodding uncertainly, others abruptly taking the far side of the pike, and every encounter drove the poison deeper into his soul.
Apparently unaware that he was the centre of interest, Mr. Crewe, carrying a neat little bag full of papers, took his seat beside the Honourable Jacob Botcher, nodding to that erstwhile friend as a man of the world should.
Presently a substantial-looking gentleman came briskly in from the street, nodding affably to the colored porters and bell-boys, who greeted him by name.
I made a sufficiently indecorous figure as I ran towards the water-side, barely nodding to my acquaintances on the way.
Through the cool and fragrant woods, past the mill-pond stained blue and white by the sky, and scented clover fields and wayside flowers nodding in the morning air--Cynthia saw these things in the memory of another journey to Brampton.
The big lawyer listened to this somewhat fervent defence of his order with an amused smile, nodding his head slightly from side to side.
Nodding at Simmons, the watchman, he hurried up the iron-shod stairs, gained the outer once, and instantly perceived that her chair beside the window was empty!
Young Mr. Worthington was, indeed, descending the steps and walking across the lawn toward them, nodding and smiling to acquaintances as he passed.
The whole long day they led the poor child in all her finery, with the green plume nodding on her head, from house to house dancing merrily to cheer people after the dulness and privations of the fast.
They went back, Gus to throw himself on old Dan's couch and sleep like a dead man and Bill to take up the receiver phones, nodding over the table, to be sure, but remaining generally awake.
Madam surveyed him, over and over again, from the golden spurs on his bright black riding-boots to the nodding plume on his high pointed hat, and thought she had never seen a more likely-looking fellow.
Yes, I've noticed," said Mrs Ellis, nodding her head as she prepared the supper.
That's right," said the boy, nodding his head as he swallowed the second mouthful.
The pictures were overshadowed withnodding wreaths of pressed ferns and bright bitter-sweet berries, with glossy holly leaves; the statuettes had backgrounds of ivy which threw out their whiteness.
In front of this hat, nodding with every motion of her head, was a blue and gold humming bird.
Yaas, sah,' answered the fellow, nodding with an Eastern swiftness of gesture.
Grandmother, nodding approvingly, "then you'll know what to do.
We would die for her," Leo affirmed, slowly nodding his head.
Look at the Fotherington Princess," Forrest said, nodding at the mare that warmed his eye.
Mr. Crockett made a long speech, to which Dick listened with alert and becoming attention, nodding his head whenever he was directly addressed or appealed to.
Some were grinding the yellow grain in hand-mills, others were walking to and fro at the loom, and others sat plying distaff and spindle, nodding their heads like poplars waving in the wind.
And nodding boughs of trees drooped, heavy with delicious fruit, over his head; but when he put forth his hand to pluck the fruit, a furious gust of wind swept it away far beyond his reach.
When I had extinguished the last of them, I turned to find my innocent old suspect snivelling on the threshold, and nodding her gay plume more emphatically than ever.
In the daytime Delavoye took him for long walks, and I would sit up with him at night until he started nodding in his chair.
Be that as it may, there was something beneath their feathers that quickened like the heart of a journeying gypsy when, with nodding heads and teetering tails, they started again for the north.
For of course he was a grown-up sandpiper now, with a mate of his own, nodding her wise little head the livelong day, and teetering for joy all over the rocks where the red columbine grew.
Pick up that revolver, Dick," said Matt, nodding toward the weapon.
You and Carl had better move, Dick," said Matt, nodding toward Jurgens and the pole.
