We were, of course, supposed to employ these late hours in preparingour work for the morrow.
The hot heads of Germany, France, and England were more than meditating - they were threatening, and preparing for, a European revolution.
There was still a chance; he might be one of the passengers who had got ashore before my coming down, and I was preparing to rush back to the city to ransack the hotels.
Having watched the process of preparing the beverage, I am unable to speak as to its flavour.
She had been preparing pastry and getting ready puddings for days and days.
While Jimmy ispreparing supper, a man approaches our camp from the open plain.
While our party were invoking Almighty aid and preparing for the worst that might come, the Modoc medicine-man was invoking the spirits of departed warriors for aid.
While we are preparing breakfast a couple of soldiers come about the fire.
Davis is preparing a statement of the crimes committed by the captives, and, also, his verdict, which he proposes to read to these unfortunate subjugated warriors before he tests the strength of the dangling ropes with live-weight.
When you was at Fairchild's ranch you sent me word that no more preparation for war would be made by you, and that I must not go on preparing for war until this thing was settled.
In the hospital a veteran of the Second Iowa Cavalry is sitting beside the wounded man, and preparing him for the shock that his nerves will feel.
When Markham saw the men preparing to forsake the vessel, he became more furious than ever, and seizing the mate by the collar, he swore he would have him put in irons.
In preparing salsify for table the darkish outside skin requires to be lightly scraped off, and then it should be steeped for a while in cold water so as to remove any slight bitterness it may possess.
Wire and hair sieves are invaluable for preparing soups and many other dishes; sieves with a wooden rim will be found the most durable; they cost 2s.
Now, there are so many appetising ways of preparing vegetables for table, and at no additional expense, that it is lamentable to find people offering no protest against this feeble exhibition of culinary skill.
On the coffee plantations the drying of the bean is considered a most important matter when preparing them for export.
In preparing a French salad, too, the stalks or coarse ribs are removed from the middle part of each leaf, and the larger leaves also are carefully divided into halves.
Like two vessels of war that are preparing for an encounter, they seemed desirous of first ascertaining their respective rates of speed, in order that they might know how to graduate their exertions, previously to the great effort.
Rest was indispensable, and she set about preparing a bed, with the readiness and coolness of one to whom the wilderness presented no unnecessary terrors.
These flies were used in preparing an emulsion which, after filtering, was injected into the peritoneal cavity of a monkey.
Since the spiders would not bite, I carefully ground up the fresh animals in physiological salt solution, preparing an extract which must have contained, in solution, all of the poisonous substance of their bodies.
They are preparing to impeach the President, remove him from office and appoint a dictator in his stead.
The Governor was preparingthe most daring and sensational movement of his never-to-be-forgotten administration.
It was in this way that the workers, step by step, met the organization of capital; the two forces, each representing a conflicting principle, were thus preparing for a series of great industrial battles.
This time it was the laboring masses preparing for the most vigorous and comprehensive attack that they had ever made upon capitalism's intrenchments.
We are all preparing to leave the Mediterranean, a measure which I cannot approve.
Behind the inconspicuous sheath of the calyx we see the plant preparing itself for a new creation of an entirely different order.
He was thus faced with the momentous task of preparing his spirit to think an idea from which the plant world in its entire variety could be derived.
Accordingly I left the Hochschule for a course in mathematics and physics at a university, though without abandoning my original idea of preparing for a career in the field of electrical engineering.
Remember this when preparing your syllabub or trifle, and set aside a few spoonfuls before seasoning it.
THIS enters so largely into the composition of many of our most elegant desserts, that the mode of preparing it deserves more than a passing mention.
Grate the peel from three of the oranges, and reserve for use inpreparing the liqueur.
For a receipt for preparing these, please see “Common Sense in the Household, No.
This is a new and attractive manner of preparingchickens for the table.
If veal be the only meat used in preparing this dish, a layer of minced ham will improve the flavor.
It has so far simplified and lightened the task of preparing “Breakfast, Luncheon and Tea” for my public, that I cannot withhold this recommendation of it to others.
In the old days he had felt the same pain when he had overworked himself in preparing for his examinations at the Polytechnic School.
With his face excited and eager, he was preparing his question, when, through the door which led to Madame Desvarennes's office, a confused murmur of voices was heard.
During the next two weeks we were busy preparing for Christmas, ranging the woods for the reddest holly, and pulling the gleaming ivy-bunches from the trees.
She heard the laughter of those preparing the charade.
Because I am helping them--or preparing to," said Mr Braine, cheerfully.
I don't like to leave you so busy, uncle, and seem to neglect preparing the specimens.
One day in the month of May she was preparing for a large reception which was being held in honour of young Booth-Clibborn, grandson of General Booth of the Salvation Army.
The discourse of the town is only whether a warr with Holland or no, and we are preparing for it all we can, which is but little.
Lay long talking with my wife, then up and to my chamber preparing papers against my father comes to lie here for discourse about country business.
They are preparing many ships, and raising 6,000 men, and have no doubt of conquering by sea.
So to the office all the afternoon preparing a new book for my contracts, and this afternoon come home the office globes done to my great content.
In preparing for civil war Sir Edward Carson gave that spur of encouragement to Germany that it just needed to rush it into a world war.
Physical force may appear a hopeless policy but it was at least worth preparing for, and it may be also it would be worth the trial.
He who often cogitates upon the death of others, little knows what sad Fate he may bepreparing for himself.
I only broke a long silence because I observed her husband preparing to speak and knew that he would contribute nothing worth hearing.
The smile grew fixed and then faded when she saw who bore Beresford company; with unfeigned admiration I saw her collecting herself and preparing an offensive.
He was evidently preparing one of his usual attacks, and, though I had welcomed the momentary diversion, neither George nor I wanted a political argument at such a time.
He was not seriously injured, despite the drubbing from Grayle's stick, and, as soon as he could breathe again, I saw him preparing to meet a fresh attack.
Their motives were different, but I was vividly reminded of the Cockney Huish preparing to advance, vitriol jar in hand, against the unerring rifle of Attwater.
She was morbidly curious to find out from Lady Loring how much unavoidable pain she would have to feel; the doctor was questioned again and again until he warned her that she was preparing the gravest consequences for her child and herself.
I mixed myself a drink and was preparingto light a cigar when I found that I was without matches.
Chatelet has given me a correct idea of the state of affairs, count on me, my dear Lucien," said the prefect, preparing to hurry after his wife.
The method of preparing new units to take their place in the field is, however, much the same all the world over, and by now only too familiar to millions of the citizens of the British Empire.
In face of the attack these retired, some on the trenches in the Apex, and some on the Battalion Headquarters, where Colonel Shaw and the support company were preparing to put up a vigorous resistance.
Sims, who performed at the Front the difficult and onerous task of preparing the weekly communique to the Canadian Press and of organising the collection of the various diaries and other data with great success, and of Lieut.
Prevented by the dense smoke that choked up the trench, from ascertaining the extent of execution produced by their discharge, the American artillerymen, who had again loaded, were once more on the alert and preparing to repeat it.
A moment after and he was in the ditch, followed by some twenty or thirty of the leading men of the column, and advancing towards the bastion, then preparing to vomit forth its fire upon the devoted axemen.
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