But when I turned sharply there was no one there, and Maggie proved to be, as usual after nine o'clock, shut away upstairs.
The twin lights leaped forward--and proved to be the eyes of Miss Emily's cat, which had been sleeping on the stand!
Often enough when at great inconvenience opportunity has been found, the desire has passed away, and all the trouble has proved needless.
If they are provoked by his experiences at school, by the fear of punishment or by dismay at a task that has proved beyond his powers, he should be taken away from school for the time being.
The sturdy mountaineers, although numerically weak, proved themselves worthy of their ancient fame.
That the impression made by the former upon the latter was far from favorable is proved by the emperor's observation, "Now that I have seen him, I shall never be able to endure him!
This, however, proved as little effective as did the production of a large book, in which every citizen, desirous of transforming the electorate of Mayence into a republic, was requested to inscribe his name.
The warnings secretly given by the governmentproved unavailing, and he was, in consequence, unexpectedly deprived of his office in the November of 1837, arrested, and imprisoned in the fortress of Minden.
The rage of the galled universities rose to a still higher pitch on the discovery, made and incontestably proved by Luden, that Kotzebue sent secret bulletins, filled with invective and suspicion, to St. Petersburg.
Should he deny it, it can be proved by Mr. Hazlewood, I presume?
Her fingers itched to break the seal, but credulity proved stronger than curiosity; and she had the firmness to inclose it, in all its integrity, within two slips of parchment, which she sewed round it to prevent its being chafed.
The way provedlonger than he had anticipated, and the horizon began to grow gloomy just as he entered upon an extensive morass.
If they departed from the characters assigned, or if their memoryproved treacherous in the repetition, they incurred forfeits, which were either compounded for by swallowing an additional bumper or by paying a small sum towards the reckoning.
His coarse and savage features were still flushed, and his eye still reeled under the influence of the strong potation which had proved the immediate cause of his seizure.
On examining the corpse, it proved to be that of a profligate boor in the neighbourhood, a person notorious as a poacher and smuggler.
Loud and repeated bursts of laughter from different quarters of the house proved that her labours were acceptable, and not unrewarded by a generous public.
The venison proved in high order, the claret excellent, and the learned counsel, a professed amateur in the affairs of the table, did distinguished honour to both.
There being some likeness between the parties, Bargally persisted in his charge, and, though the respectability of the farmer's character was proved or admitted, his trial before the Circuit Court came on accordingly.
Which secret conviction, as I grew a beard and it grew grey, has been proved correct.
And this united and undisturbed life has proved favourable to the continuity of the poetic routine?
But that she could make him see, and be moved by, what she had seen is proved by this: "17th.
Now we all feel that something good must come after all this suffering and slaughter; the Briton has proved that he is possessed of true greatness; how can this greatness be turned to full account?
Mrs. Woolf has indeed proved a truth which undoubtedly exists but which few writers are capable of establishing, namely, that no character, properly ascertained and portrayed, can ever be uninteresting.
But if he has done nothing else, he has proved himself free of priggishness.
All efforts have so far, Miss Green tells us, proved unavailing, and no word can be heard of the lost volume.
The taste for her writing is decidedly an acquired one; and, as we have proved by experiment, it is possible to read some two hundred pages without acquiring it.
The preacher's deductions have proved true as regards bodies of miners in California, South Africa, New Zealand, and Australia.
It has proved to be the inspiring theme of many a local poet.
When the French were masters in Spain, they proved to be terrible agents of destruction; leaving marks of their devastation everywhere.
The gold-diggings of New South Wales have proved to be very rich in some sections; but unlike those of Queensland and Victoria, the precious metal is here found mostly in alluvial deposits.
Castlemaine, seventy-five miles north of the capital, has proved very profitable in its yield of gold.
This tree has the property of storing water in its hollow trunk,--a well-known fact, which has oftenproved a providential supply for thirsty travellers in a country so liable to severe drought.
One of the localities which has proved to be the most prolific in gold is Ballarat, now a charming and populous city, next to Melbourne in importance.
This proved me to be Conway Evans, living in Florence; but while the examination was going on, I wondered how long it would be before the question of my nationality would crop up.
Several young women had arrived on the scene, who proved excellent English scholars and most accomplished searchers.
The big man whose pockets had swallowed up our pass and tickets again appeared upon the scene, and proved to be the burgomaster of the town.
The concierge, of whom one usually expects servility, proved surly, the waiter calmly insolent.
The chauffeur's pass was produced, andproved satisfactory.
Proved by the Political Experience of the Ancients.
They appear also to have equal powers of endurance, as has been proved in many adventurous expeditions.
This principle has indeed been tried with hymenopterous insects; but when thus classed by their habits or instincts, the arrangement proved thoroughly artificial.
The poorest classes crowd into towns, and it has been proved by Dr.
Finally he might urge that the mutual fertility of all the races has not as yet been fully proved; and even if proved would not be an absolute proof of their specific identity.
It thus appears, if we may rely on embryology, which has always proved the safest guide in classification, that we have at last gained a clue to the source whence the Vertebrata have been derived.
All now joined in pressing Lord Evandale to relinquish his intention of leaving the Castle; but the argument of Major Bellenden proved the most effectual.
As the days passed, and no information could be obtained respecting Daisy Banks, and the efforts of the police to trace the two strangers proved utterly fruitless, John Maine was in a state of mind not to be envied.
This ceased in a very short time, and they instinctively knew that the burglar had returned to the study, where the clink of a glass warned them that the bait had proved sufficient attraction for the wolves.
He had at first championed Lady Wilmersley because he had believed her to be his protegee, but now that it had been proved that she was not, why was he still convinced that she had in some way been a victim of her husband's cruelty?
Even if his efforts proved futile, even if he ruined his life without saving hers, he felt he would never regret his decision.
But you proved to me last night that she could not be Lady Wilmersley," insisted Guy.
You tried everything, I grant you," she said at last, "except the one thing which would have proved efficacious.
A comprehending and sympathetic smile proved that the explanation was satisfactory.
Search for the pistol with which the crime was committed has so farproved fruitless.
The unknownproved to be even younger than he expected, and to possess beauty of the kind which admits of no discussion.
You tell me that it has been proved that she really left Geralton on the afternoon before the murder?
I am very sorry," I said to Grace, "to lose the monkey; though I do not think he would have proved a very amiable pet.
Oliver was much better in the morning, though he was still suffering from the effects of the sun-stroke, which might have proved fatal; and Mr Sedgwick will not allow him to leave the house, or in any way to exert himself.
We each of us, I should have said, carried pieces of ratan in our hands, which against such enemies proved useful weapons, as a well-aimed blow with a ratan at even a large snake will turn it aside.
The young man thought it polite to set up for an atheist, said Steele, though it could be proved on him that every night he said his prayers.
I had to do with a man who, for years, had proved his unremitting discretion.
However, by thus surrounding his daily life with the objects of his favorite studies, the colonel proved himself a man who possessed the courage of his opinions.
For the last two days the attention of the little town had been focussed on a personage just arrived, who proved to be the first Unknown of the present generation.
When he entered he provedto be a tall old man with a bilious skin and a sombre, stern expression, which he tried to soften by a specious manner and a show of gentle but icy obsequiousness.
The obscurity in which I kept you seemed to me the best security, against the schemes of greedy relations, and certain mysterious steps taken by them from time to time proved the wisdom of these precautions.
The result proved that she owed him the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand francs.
The following circumstance gave the first indication of the talents with which Hogarth afterwards proved himself to be so liberally endowed.
It proved to be an excellent place, where they could tie the horses to a fence.
And with her were the Sylvesters,--so they proved to be, for she had never seen them before.
Mr. Peterkin knew he had not forgotten his umbrella, because he had put the whole umbrella-stand into the wagon, and it had been brought up the hill, but it proved to hold only the family canes!
Her surprise was greater when some of them proved to be coffee-cups that matched the set!
Even the large family chest, which had proved too heavy for them to travel with had come down from the attic, and stood against the front door.
One of them was to make all the chairs in the house of the same height, for Mrs. Peterkin had nearly broken her spine by sitting down in a chair that she had supposed was her own rocking-chair, and it had proved to be two inches lower.
Solomon John had brought in his supply of candles; but they proved to be very "stringy" and very few of them.
A certain Jacob Brafmann, having proved a failure in all he undertook, tried at the last the business of Christianity, and succeeded therein.
They became, as it were, infirmaries of the bureaucracy, where, at the expense of the Jews, it could stow away anyone who had proved a failure or was no longer useful.
He demolished the prevalent Leibnitzo-Wolffian system in it, and proved that even the Kantian theory, though irrefutable from a dogmatic point of view, is exposed to severe attacks from the skeptic's point of view.
In a conference of Jews and Gentiles convoked by Governor-General Kaufman (1871), Barit proved the falsity and forgery of Brafmann's documents.
These dreamy youths, however, heartbroken and disgusted with a civilization which had failed to redeem its promises, proved but poor material for laying the foundations for a future nation.
The bait proved tempting, and, as a consequence, some prominent Maskilim, too weak to resist the allurements, precipitated themselves into the Greek Catholic fold.
Ivan Vassilyevich, too, had many and important relations with Jews, and his favorable attitude towards them is amply proved by the fact that his family physician was the Jew Leo (1490).
Thus all the schemes and machinations of the Russian Government respecting the Jews proved ineffectual.
That in spite of all accusations to the contrary they remained loyal to Poland, is amply proved by the history of that unfortunate country.
The chicken dinner proved to be a wonderful affair.
He proved thoroughly to his own satisfaction the standardized Teutonic thesis that America is basely commercial, material, and totally lacking in ideals.
In each case, the chemical purity of the materials provedto have been destroyed.
She proved to be the Castor and Pollux privateer of sixteen guns.
I am sure that they would have proved as good as their word, but daylight came, and no enemy appeared.
At length Era gave birth to a child, a little boy, which proved a great addition to their happiness, and drew still closer the bonds of their affection.
My father, after a considerable amount of labour, proved his identity with the son of Mr Clement Leslie, who perished with his wife at sea, and established his claims to the property.
But no thought of ever losing the precious nuggets and pearls that had cost him so much hard work came into the mind of Reginald Grahame, until an event took place which proved that gold may tempt even those we trust the most.
So he was often at the Queen's palace, and a very delightful conversationalist she proved herself to be.
There is only now to add, that Jessy Flowerdew's subsequent conduct as Countess of Wistonbury proved her in every respect worthy of the high place to which she had been elevated.
And it would seem that my tears pled for me, and proved to the poor afflicted woman and her daughter, by far the most efficient part of my apology.
It was evident, immediately, that the same course of "obstruction" which had proved fatal to the two previous Bills was to be pursued against the third attempt.
If the King had refused to dissolve a Parliament that had proved itself unable to carry Reform, I do think, Maude, London would have been in flames, and the whole country in rebellion, before another day broke.
On the twenty-sixth of June, King George died; and this death proved to be the first of a series of great events.
A company was formed to introduce his engine, but it proved too wasteful of fuel, and the company went into voluntary liquidation.
This might have proved an important position to occupy, but as it was, no enemy appeared.
A few minutes before three o'clock in the morning the explosion took place, and proved completely successful.
Like them, he had been formerly tributary to Cabool, and had shaken off the yoke, and, possessing a very strong country between Afghanistan and Sinde, he became as useful as he had at all times proved himself a faithful ally to the Sindeans.
It was within seventy yards of the bastion that provedso fatal to the other party, and from which they kept up a pretty good fire upon us whenever we exposed ourselves.
You can, therefore, imagine what a great relief your bill proved to me, as I shall always have it to fall back upon.
The enemy took this move of ours as a defeat, and concluded that we had marched on to Cabool, despairing of taking their fort: the event proved how wofully they were mistaken!
