Are you going to fly off with the swallows, mother, to the sunny South?
Then, when she thought she was ready, she remembered she had not taken off the apron which was stained with the little crimson spot.
I am not made of sugar and salt," pleaded Ella, who had patiently gathered up her flowers, and was answering the call of their nurse to go with Baby Bob to take off his jacket and hat.
Now, grannie, as the little ones are cleared off at last, tell me about the cousin.
Nino had toddled off to inspect the boat, and by some means, how no one could quite tell, had slipped over the side of the steamer, and was engulfed in the seething waves below.
Dorothy now began to snatch at the buttons of her travelling ulster, and threw off the scarf round her neck.
They were off at last, and at the station several friends appeared, who came to wish them a safe journey.
Now, you owe it to your mother to be as merry and happy as a bird; and, after all, many little girls would jump for joy to be off to San Remo.
Presently another joined her, and the two twittered, and chirped, and wagged their restless forked tails, and turned their little heads from side to side, and then darted off in the warm sunshine.
They were offin good earnest the next morning--a bright and beautiful morning.
Ingleby gently lifted Irene and carried her back to her own room, Dorothy murmuring as she turned round on her pillow, "Away with the swallows, off to the sunny South.
Thus Jesus Christ, in humble wise, Appeared thus to human eyes; Then may we all both more and less Cast off the bands of wickedness.
De la Monnoye was denounced by the priests at Dijon, for his carols; but the translation, though it might have taken off the sting, probably lessened the humour also.
In 1702, Poor Robin makes complaints of the falling off of Christmas festivities.
He in his turn, attempting to dance, found it necessary to fall, and cling to the floor, until taken off to bed.
So, gentlemen, you see four actors will go round; Stand off a little while, more pastime shall be found.
A brother of one of the girls took her by the arm, endeavouring to bring her away; the limb, however, came off in his hand, like Dr.
Many of the popular ballads, in the latter part of the seventeenth century, refer to the same falling off in Christmas feasting, complaining of the degeneracy of the times.
Being in the Holy Land, he wished to bringoff privily a piece of the cross, and praying to that effect, his thigh opened miraculously, and received it.
With ay; Joy be to God almyght, And pece in yerth to man is dyte, Fore God was born on Chrismes nyght, Off his moder Marye.
The crescent moon added to its beauty for awhile, but disappeared long before I dropped off to sleep.
After a moment spent by them in consultation, I was ordered to countermarch my regiment to the bottom of the hill we had just ascended, and file off to the right of the road.
As the night darkens we discover a line of fires off to our left and rear, toward McDaniels' house.
Under the skillful and attentive hands of my hostler he soon shook off his shaggy coat of ugly brown, and put on one of velvety black.
The Fourth has passed off quietly in the little town of Buckhannon and in camp.
To-night we see their signal lightsoff to the right on the summit of Lookout mountain, and off to the left on the knobs of Mission ridge.
Away off to the east a cloud, black and heavy, is resting on a peak of the Cheat.
Lieutenant Bell says they can be traced all over the country, for they not only eat all the berries, but nibble the thorns off the bushes.
If in our advanced position supplies could not have been obtained from the North, the army might have subsisted off the country.
He also had much to say about saving many pieces of artillery; but it occurred to me that his presence on the field was of much more importance than a few pieces of trumpery artillery off the field.
He insisted that he would, and must be governed by some general principles, and so started off on his own hook, leaving us to pursue our own course.
The guard did not turn out promptly and he became angry; diving into the guard-tent to rout them up, he ran against a big fellow so violently that he was nearly thrown off his legs.
All of which showed, simply, that before the rebels abandoned the place the roads had become so bad that they could not carry off their baggage.
Fielding "left off writing for the stage" when he was under thirty; Tom Jones was published in 1749, when he was more than forty.
He is subsequently inquired after by a Gentlewoman in a Riding-Hood, whom he passes off as a Lady of Quality, but who, in reality, is bringing him a clean shirt.
To which observation he has given the following note: 'A celebrated mantua-maker in the Strand, famous for setting off the shapes of women.
Strip off the thin Disguise of Wisdom from Self-Conceit, of Plenty from Avarice, and of Glory from Ambition.
The circumstances about the attempts of Henry Fielding to carry off the young lady, handed down in the ancient Tucker family, were doubted by the late head of his family, Dr.
By concentrating all in one act He would generate and set off a dynamic power on Calvary that would shake and then shape a world.
The effort to get the heathen world simply to clean up; to open the windows and let in some fresh air, and use plain soap and water to scrub off the actual dirt makes one think of the typical small boy's dislike of being washed up.
But many ask, how can we be watching when it's been two thousand years since He told us to watch, and the event seems as far off as ever?
You've let her drift off toward the Welsh coast, toward the shallows.
There should be a fixed time every day, or times, for goingoff alone to pray.
But there's another man who stands higher up in the scale, and to whom hats should go farther off and more quickly.
The debt controls his spendings until it is paid off in full.
When we are not gripped by the great purpose planned for us we swing off into smaller, meaner purposes.
Before Bridges could be seen by the occupant of the cab for which he was making, he was dazed by a blow on the side of the head, just beneath the ear, and knocked off his feet by a sound thump on the same spot.
You see, I've been offfor six weeks on account of illness, and now I'm going over to Baltimore to my father's funeral.
The tune broke off with a jangling discord, and the player turned to face me, smiling pleasantly.
In the evening of a cold, dull day they were trudging along on the railroad ties, keeping on the west-bound track so they could face approaching trains and get off the track in time to avoid being run down.
As he usually appeared in a sack coat when off the stage, the length of his legs was divertingly emphasized.
Well, all I got to say is, let him keep his hands off my boy Tobe, or he'll find out the kind of a tough customer I am.
He made the breaking off the more painful by going nightly to see her dance that fatal melody.
She went offwith the tenor, and Billy went off with the cab and made himself drunker than he had ever been in his life.
He lifted up the body of that brave girl, he kissed the cold lips, and he took off his coat and wrapped it carefully about the head, so that the face would be protected from the earth.
My motive was to comfort you with the probability that he has changed his mind about shuffling off his mortal coil.
He sat down upon a little knob of earth, tookoff his hat, drew a red handkerchief from the inside thereof, and slowly wiped his perspiring brow.
The surgeon merely places his doubled fist in the axilla, with the other hand grasps the humerus and lifts the boy off the ground, and the head of the bone slips readily back into place.
When the patient takes a bath the water runs off the affected localities as if they had been greased--another sign of evil omen.
If you cut off the foot of a green frog and bind it upon the foot of a gouty patient for three days, he will be cured, provided you place the right foot of the frog upon the right foot of the patient, and vice versa.
Retief watched the bearers coming and going, bringing trays laden with drinks, carrying off empties.
He started off along the sea wall toward the sound of the surf.
And if we did, trying to give an alarm would only set the assassinations off early.
At a prod from a knife point, Retief moved off down the walk, two of the escort behind him and Magnan, another going ahead to scout the way.
We'll stop here," he said, "long enough to strip the gadgets off these uniforms.
The Ambassador nodded and moved off along the corridor.
Magnan's voice trailed off as he took in the scene around the table.
He pulled off the man's belt and strapped his hands together.
One can well understand how, as the empire disintegrated, the provincials were glad to throw off this hated compulsory tax for the support of the state inn.
Von Senckenberg's three sons were consequently called the "three hares," which nickname they could not shake off for a long while.
Night coming on, they broke the bolts of the Town-Gates, and went off by violence!
Then a substitute follows him, and in the succeeding innings not a third of the base hits made off the first pitcher are recorded against the substitute, and yet not a record to show this is to be had off the data the scoring rules admit of.
In July they fell off badly, and on the 20th of that month they had been driven out of the first division.
One result of the rowdy ball playing indulged in by a minority of each club team in the League was a decided falling off in the attendance of the best class of patrons of the professional clubs.
Their task was rendered still more difficult by the fact that the Germans often fired on the burning buildings to drive off the men who were trying to save them.
A shell-splinter took off the head of the bishop's statue, but the other group is intact.
This statue was decapitated by a shell which struck the doorway in 1918, also taking off the head of the first statue on the left-hand portion of the doorway.
Buttresses, finished off with pinnacles, serve as points of support for two superimposed flying-buttresses.
Since the moment when he carried off the Cossack who had been sent to capture him, and met Kocsenikoff, he had occupied six forts, entirely annihilated a regiment, and created another, with which he now besieged the capital of the province.
To-morrow your head will be cut offand your documents confiscated.
These were masculine women, accustomed to sword-handling, and to cutting off heads, women for whom men can feel but horror, and of whom it is difficult to form an idea.
But it was so shut off from view by various corridors as to be only visible from the seraglio.
The farmer watched Duranczy as he lay prostrate--watched and watched until he himself dozed off into an involuntary slumber.
And when those mellow notes are still, It hops from off its choral perch, O'er path and sward, with busy bill, All grateful gifts to peck and search.
Like a rosebud in the morning Dashing off its jewell'd dews, Ere unfolding all its fragrance It is gathered by the muse!
IV Here's where the lads of the village cricket: I was a lad not wide from here: Couldn't I whip off the bail from the wicket?
XVII I'll bring the linendraper and his wife Some day to see you; taking off my hat.
Nearer came Joan, and Bessy hung With face averted, near enough To hear, and sob unheard; the young And careless ones had scampered off Meantime, and sought the loftiest place To beacon the approaching chase.
V I held the village lily cheap, And the dream around her idle: Lo, quietly as I lay to sleep, The bells led me off to a bridal.
One can readily see the advantage of the long neck in browsing off the vegetation on the bottom of shallow lakes, while the animal was submerged, or in rearing the head aloft to scan the surrounding shores for the approach of an enemy.
These little beasts, however, are indirect rather than direct agents in the destruction of bones by gnawing off the outer layers, and thus permitting the more ready entrance of air and water.
But all we can safely say is that long ages ago the last one perished off the face of the earth.
Brother Bigler started off in the direction which had fallen to him, with a piece of paper in his hand, on which sentences in native, such as he would be likely to need, were written, with their meaning in English.
To keep off the flies, a boy or a girl stands waving a kahili, which is made by fastening feathers to a long, slender stick.
A story was told me by Brother Napela of a trick which he and some other natives played off on some white men at a feast which they partook of at a place called Waikapu on the island of Maui.
When this occurred the bystanders would have to scamper off as fast as they could, or be severely burned.
When a native gathers the "kalo," he carries it to his home, where he cuts off the tops.
The business had begun to fall off when I went there.
When we had the edition struck off and bound, they were sent to the Elders upon the islands.
The electric light that I am now looking at and which might be turned off at any moment, is eternal, for its vibrations are travelling off through space and always will be.
But as soon as I decided that I could abandon these and need no longer fear that any patient might find out what was being done to him, I had the sense of a weight taken off my shoulders.
The process of tracing chains, of looking offand away from the patient's present pain, sorrow or poverty for its causes and relations, tends to make us look over the head of the present fact.
I do not think it is an exaggeration to say that nine tenths of all persons have had tuberculosis, usually in a harmless form, because the soil has been stony and so has killedoff the bacteria.
I want to deal a little further with some examples of what nature does in the way of warding off disease.
The appendix is a hollow tube the size of one's little finger, and hangs offfrom one part of the large bowel.
Tissue is being destroyed, broken down, going off in the form of heat, energy, and life.
That figure of speech helps us also to express another fact about fatigue, which is important to recognize in ourselves and in our patients, because otherwise we get thrown off the track: delayed fatigue.
The patient usually means that he has had it off and on throughout an indefinite period.
But the unstable person breaks offat that point and tries something else.
The fact that those vibrations are going off through the ether is ever the same.
We eat our heads off like stabled horses with too much oats, if we do not get a chance to give away some of what has come to us.
