They have a queer fashion, when hooked, of leaping out of the water, for the purpose of getting clear, and it is seldom that a novicein the gentle art can keep them from succeeding.
She was an entire novice in all domestic matters; an utter stranger in the place to which she removed.
The novice in riding should never be allowed to touch rein or whip until she has acquired a good seat, and a correct balance.
The novice in riding must not be dismayed nor discouraged by all the instructions in regard to defending one's self against restive and vicious horses, as she may ride for years, or even for a life-time, and never be in any serious danger.
Lessons in position should always be taken by the novice in horseback riding.
The charming novice felt herself sprinkled, but after ascertaining that nothing more could be done she withdrew in some vexation.
The kind of society may be imagined when I say that I found myself a perfect novice amongst them.
The rite is usually simple, the novice having to drink sherbet from the same cup as his preceptor and make him a present of Rs.
In a most miserable plight he went to Leipzic and Berlin, energetically exerting himself to get his opera, "The Novice of Palermo" accepted.
To have written "The Novice of Palermo" at twenty-three, and to have been received so cordially was to her unambitious heart the zenith of success.
Scorpions are exceedingly common in Palestine, and to a novice are a constant source of terror until he learns to be accustomed to them.
Psha, man," continued his Cousin, "you are a novice indeed to suppose any thing of the kind.
By this means the novice is induced to assent, or perhaps assert his prior claim.
The Franc-Taupin merely answered that this was the first time the novice attended an execution of heretics.
Two monks helped the Franc-Taupin carry the young noviceinto a neighboring house.
Was it not in mere obedience to my father that I entered as a novice the Order of the Augustinian monks?
The merest novice may enjoy the sight of the gay colours, and he cannot help feeling a thrill of excitement when the thud, thud of the hoofs sounds near him as the exquisite slender animals fly past.
Here is another pitfall into which the eager novice stumbles; and once more on grounds of expediency I ask the novice to consider his position.
He praised the paces of the horse he was riding, and criticised that of his guide in a way which showed that experienced person that he was no novice in the noble science of horse-flesh.
That worthy, wily and unscrupulous, found means to ingratiate himself with the stranger, apparently flush of money, and no novice in mining.
And now that I am out of danger, brother, I may tell you what a novice you are in love, to tempt a young sister into the wide world, and not to show her the difference betwixt that and her cloister.
And are you such a novice in love, to believe a wife's message to her husband?
Many a novice will have good ideas, perhaps, for atmosphere, but through lack of experience will not be able to get those ideas over on the stage.
Here she occupied her leisure in writing a second novel, The Novice of St. Dominic, in six volumes.
Even at this time, I am inclined to believe I thought right; she certainly had wit enough to perceive that a novice like me had occasion, not only for encouragement but instruction.
The Novice must be attentive to trifles: For in frivolous occurrences a man is indolent, and makes no effort to act a part, so that his real character is then acting alone.
The merest novice in Church History knows that the errors of the Gnostics, of the Cerinthians, and others, long preceded this event, and that thousands lost their lives in those metaphysical disputes.
Still, it is not for me, a raw green novice, a sub-novice as you might say, to set myself up against an expert like you.
And the priest rideth a gray and the novice a black," mused Humphrey, "which is a wonderful thing, and not to be accounted for except by chance.
They are like to be as little priest and his novice as they be esquire and young lady.
I had speech later with the bailiff, and he did say that the priest was a Saxon serving-man, and the novice was the young lord, Josceline De Aldithely, escaping to his father.
Give me thy company, if it please thee, but serve the priest and his novice elsewhere.
I will e'en bid priest and novice pack to make room for these newcomers, from whom I may win something, and to save room for others who may come.
But Humphrey, half turning in his saddle and gazing back, saw a priest and his novice stopped.
As we did come upon this road I did see a priest with hisnovice pass by.
To a novice an old treetop or log is best, but to me the front of a tree is preferable, with an open space in front that the gobbler may come into to be shot.
This is generally the kind of gobbler the novice in calling bags as his first, a two-year-old with a five-inch beard.
A novice might think it an easy matter to find turkeys after seeing their tracks along the banks of streams or roads, or in the open field, where they lingered the day before.
To a novice there is no special rule by which one can at all times be governed in calling old gobblers.
This invitation set him thinking, for he had never seen Venice, never frequented good company, and yet he did not wish to appear a novice in anything.
Thinking me a novice of the most innocent species, she very likely determined to make sport of me.
She felt very sorry, believe me, to have to deal with a novice like you.
I was delighted with Nanette, but I was yet too much of a novice to apply her remarks to myself.
It is evident that if such a master of the art of flying as an eagle must thus acquire initial velocity before flight is possible, a human novice must do considerably more.
Even at ordinary speed in a touring-car, as most of us can testify, the wind blows a gale, veritably forcing tears from the eyes of the novice and blowing them back over his ears.
