Then Winston did a somewhat daring thing, for he raised his voice a trifle, in a fashion that seemed to invite the attention of the rest of the company.
Maud Barrington's face had grown very colorless, but she said nothing, and her aunt rose and raised the hammer of a gong.
He raisedhis hand in salutation to Colonel Barrington, who sat very grim in face in his chair at the head of the table.
Maud Barrington raised her head suddenly, and looked at him with a curious light in her eyes, but the elder lady made a little gesture of deprecation.
Then," and Sergeant Stimson raised his voice a trifle, "you will ride at once to the rise a league outside the settlement, and watch the Montana trail.
Then he raisedhis hand, and for a while his voice rose and fell monotonously, until Courthorne nodded.
His face was the color of a Blackfeet's, and she could see the darkness of his neck above the loose-fronted shirt, and a bare blackened arm that was raised to hold the tired beasts to their task.
Once more, as she had seen them when the furrows were bare at seed time, and there was apparently only ruin in store for those who raised the Eastern people's bread, lines of dusty teams came plodding down the rise.
A few voices were raised in protest, but when it became evident that one or two of the company were inclined to adopt more Draconic measures, Dane spoke quietly and forcibly, and was listened to.
Afterwards she glanced at her watch, raised it with a little gesture of impatience to make sure it had not stopped, and sat still, listening to the moaning of the wind, until the door opened and Miss Barrington came in.
Barrington returned Payne's greeting, and sat down with Dane close beside him, while, when the wounded man raised his head, the doctor spoke softly to the magistrate from the settlement a league or two away.
The doctor raised him a trifle, and moistened his lips with brandy as he gave him the pen.
You're the kind they give commissions to, now and then--and your folks in the old country never raised you for a police trooper.
With a sudden uncontrollable gesture, he raised his eyes to the heavens, where, amid the flying cloud wrack, one star still faintly shone.
Then unwillingly he raisedhis eyes to Gordon's face.
Then Doyle slowlyraised his eyes to Gordon's face, and his expression was that of mute adoration.
With no assumption of coquetry, she laid a detaining hand on his arm, and raised her brown eyes wistfully to his.
It went for Endicott, and by a fairly good margin, so good, indeed, that the Republican sympathizers in the crowd raised a little cheer.
At last he turned his head, and with a great effort raised his hand until it touched Vanulm's.
He had seen his brothers triumphant in the fresh honours of their knighthood, had heard the Infidel city proclaimed the property of Christ and of His Church, seen the Cross raised and the Crescent cast down.
Nella blushed a little and cast down her eyes, and as she raised them they met those of Alvarez, fixed on her with an expression of such passionate jealousy that her heart gave a frightened throb.
The shame lies not with me; and to my Master I kneel;" and he knelt, and for a moment raised his eyes to Heaven.
The number of voices raised in favour of the Moorish war concealed the fact of how many regarded it with disapproval.
She lay raised high on her pillows, and on the silken coverlet beside her were three swords, their jewelled scabbards catching here and there the light of the lamp.
Presently he raised himself, and sat a little apart, looking before him with a face that, with all its fair tinting and delicate outline, set into lines of remarkable force and firmness.
The Moor came and stood over him, his dark face convulsed with rage, a strange contrast, with his splendid dress and infuriated aspect, to his prisoner, whose clear calm eyes were raised to his without fear or falter.
The prince raised him in his arms, and looked round for help.
She had not dragged Jerrold down; she had raised him to his highest intensity of loving, she had brought him, out of the illusion of his life with Maisie, to reality and kept him there in an immaculate faithfulness.
Eliot had raised his head from his book and was looking at her.
His father was sitting up in his white, slender bed, raised on Eliot's arm.
When she first took on the Manor Farm it had stood only in the second class; in four years she had raised it to the first.
The mare bounded forward, Jerrold and Eliot raised their hats, shouted and were gone.
She raised her eyes and saw his fixed on her, heavy and wounded, and his face strained and drawn with pain.
Over it the frost had raised a crisp web of hair that covered its solid smoothness like a net.
The funds for this purpose were to be raised by a lottery managed by Cols.
Under this authority a regiment was raised in December, 1861, and commanded by Stand Watie, the leader of the anti-Ross party.
And he came forward, took my hand, and raised it to his lips.
I raised my eyes and lips, and he stooped and kissed me.
He alone raisedthis crowd above its usual level and gave it distinction.
The conventions of society seemed then like sand, foolishly raised to imprison the resistless tide of ocean.
When the turns of the staircase brought him opposite and below me, he stopped and raised his hat, and we exchanged a smile.
I raised myself carefully on one elbow and looked at him.
All carried cans, or satchels, or baskets; here and there a man swung lightly on his shoulder a huge bag of tools, which I could scarcely have raised from the ground.
There, visible, though she seemed to shrink from sight, and evenraised her hand in deprecation, stood the Countess herself.
When he turned again to her she had raised her veil and risen to her feet, and stood facing him with shining eyes.
Some of the men swayed, and seemed inclined to cheer; others raised their hands, but thought better of it.
He looked about the room, making no sound, but keeping a hand raised to seize his weapons on the least alarm.
Vlaye, whose horse had been brought to him, got to his saddle, rode a few paces nearer the drawbridge, and raised his hat.
He heard their returning footsteps and their raised voices in the upper passage.
Bonne had not looked at him as she passed, nor so much as raised her eyes.
More puzzled, he raised himself higher, and then a streak of light which the low, lumpy mass of one of the truckle-beds had hidden, broke on him.
And straightway that notion which is never out of a prisoner's mind and which the least departure from routine fosters raised its head.
Though she raised her eyebrows contemptuously, a faint tinge of colour crept into her face.
Being spurred it sidled once more against hers, and though she raised herself, her head rubbed the rider's leg.
The troopers, if their officer had not raised his hand to check them, would have cheered.
With her face turned from him she lifted the gauzy veil with one hand and with the other--it trembled violently--she raised the wine to her lips.
His foot was raised to the stirrup when he bethought him of this thing.
I rushed forrard, andraised her to my arms: spiling thereby a new weskit and a pair of crimson smalcloes.
Bernadotte has raised the flame of liberty, which seems fortunately to blaze all around.
The dipping needle was raised about two feet; and by its greater inclination at the top of the hill, shows the principal attraction to have been not far from thence.
Madame de Stael had raised anew the question which had been raised in the seventeenth century and answered in the negative by Voltaire: is there progress in aesthetic literature?
For instance, Aeschylus represents men as originally living at hazard in sunless caves, and raised from that condition by Prometheus, who taught them the arts of life.
A more eloquent and persuasive voice was raised in the following year from the ranks of reaction.
But the form in which the critical questions were raised forced the debate to touch upon a problem of greater moment.
Condorcet had foreseen an objection which might be raised as fatal to the realisation of his future state.
He took two steps out into the street, raised his head, and fancied that he caught sight of Mademoiselle Augustine Guillaume in hasty retreat.
Her blue eyes would sometimes be raised as if to pierce the depths of that gloomy staircase and those damp store-rooms.
A few rare flowers raised their perfumed heads from costly Sevres vases.
Dick raised his father's head tenderly, imploring him to speak--to tell him what should be done; but the injured man remained silent as if death had interposed to give him relief.
Certain circumstances raised the cost to him above the average, and he was away more than a year and a half, whereas the journey would be done within the year ordinarily.
Yet another reason which raised the cost of road-travel as against river-travel lay in the latter affording far fewer chances to robbers, which also told on the direct expense by eliminating payments to escorts.
For an instant Joam raised his head; his eyes sought the window, but with a vacant look, as though he were unconscious, and the next instant his head again sank into his hands.
Suddenly Benito raised a shout, and they saw him rush toward a tree; they all ran as well.
At his word of command fifty poles from each side of the raft were raised in the air, and struck the water with an automatic movement very curious to behold.
These hangings were made of valuable bark, that of the "tuturis," which is raised up in large folds like the brocades and damasks and softest and richest materials of our modern looms.
There his zeal had raised him high in the offices of the governor-general, into which he had been admitted when still very young.
The next day the jangada coasted along by vast beaches formed by undulating high domes, which served as the barriers of immense pasture grounds, in which the whole of the cattle in Europe could be raised and fed.
Princess cried, and caught up the sword she had tossed aside to rescue the Book--then gasped in wondering fear, as the old Count raisedhis hand and shook his head.
He took her hand and gravely raisedit to his lips.
The two men mechanically raised their hands in salute, and she acknowledged it with formal motion and a merry laugh.
For, when Mr. Catspaw raised his first shout, Viola had reached the upper loft, from whence he leaped down stairs, and out of the house.
But Karvay raised his powerful voice in honour of the young couple, whose St. Vilmosh friends had by this time arrived at the threshold of Etelka's room.
At length he raised his weary head, and stared vacantly at the Lady Rety.
Mr. Skinner, rising with some difficulty, and walking up to and shaking his clerk, who at length raised his head with a "Holloa!
At this juncture the miserable man raised the bottle to his lips and drank, until, overcome with the combined effects of the liquor and the smoke, he fell down by the side of Ratz Andor.
With a violent effort he raised himself on his arm, and exclaimed: "Men of Tissaret, listen to me!
A law was passed compelling twenty cessions to produce, equip, and maintain in the field one soldier; and the men who were thus raised were called hussars, from hus, which means twenty.
Without consulting the parliament, theyraised the taxes, and decreed a larger levy of recruits.
Two of the men raised the attorney and laid him on the bed.
She raised that boy to be an own brother to Santa Claus, as far as good-will to men goes.
He said 'The best comes after the harvest, when the wheat goes to make up blood and muscle and brain; when it's raised to a higher order of life in man.
All day the Cross-Roads store raised its bristling eyebrows of little flags, till the celebration came to a close.
It was in September I lost my first and third husbands, two of the best that ever had tombstones raised to their memory, if I do say it as oughtn't.
It seems like my mother ain't been so homesick, ever since father's raised rye flour for her.
One could go to the cigar factory and chat with the old German who raised canaries for sale, and look at his stuffed birds.
I waited until all was quiet and the old people were asleep, thenraised my window, climbed out, and went softly through the yard.
There a horse fell; the throng thickened around it; harsh voices were raised in imprecation; then the movement recommenced, and nothing was heard but the tramping of feet and the crunching of wheels.
But Wang Shih cleared a space with his whip; then, springing to the saddle again, he raised his voice in a shout that dominated and silenced the clamour of the mob.
Facing round, he raised his fist to fell an enemy; but a small form cannoned against him, and a boy's voice uttered a gasping yell.
The rail that had been lifted was an inside rail; rounding a curve the weight of a train going at speed is always thrown on the outer rail, which is raised above the level of the other.
Wang Shih raised no objection; he merely stipulated that Jack should accept the full responsibility for his action.
The first alarm being now passed, the villagers raised a hubbub.
Rain began to fall, and Schwab raised his head from the trench.
He and his men had to hold on with both hands as they rounded another sharp curve; the wheels on the inside seemed to be raised from the track, the train keeping the rails only by the grip of the outside wheels.
Snow lay upon the ground, frozen so hard that the passage of cavalry across it raised clouds of white dust.
He raised himself on his elbow to listen; he had never seen or heard mice in the house.
He would have waited patiently at Harbin until his army had been raised to overwhelming strength; then he would have taken the offensive and driven the Japanese into the sea.
They repeated this operation until a small platform was raised some two feet above the floor; then, bidding Jack remain in safety, Mr. Brown mounted to test the result.
This shrub is now not uncommon in our greenhouses, having been raised in plenty from seeds brought from Port Jackson.
Few stations of any magnitude are without their `cultivation paddocks,' where grain and vegetables are raised .
The leather-jacket is a cake of mere flour and water, raised with tartaric acid and carbonate of soda instead of yeast, and baked in the frying-pan; and is equal to any muffin you can buy in the London shops.
The skin is scaleless, and like satin, embossed all over in little raised freckles, and with symmetrical dark lines, resembling the veining of a leaf.
Cattle eat it close down, and therefore it is in danger of extermination, but it is readily raised from seed.
The volleys of abuse and `yabber yabber' they would then utter would have raised the envy of the greatest `Mrs. Moriarty' in the Billingsgate fishmarket.
The English in the bush adopt it: the first syllable is prolonged; the second is raised to a higher key, and is sharp and abrupt.
This is the farmer, weary and worn, who raised the son, who mans the gun, that killed the Hun, who lay in the trench that Fritz built.
He raised himself to see the bear struggle up to a sitting position, and gnashing his teeth, and flinging blood and foam from his mouth, begin to drag himself toward him.
The younger generations when they heard how Thomas Finch had dared the master, raised him at once to the rank of hero, but the heads of families received the news doubtfully, and wondered what the rising generation was coming to.
He raised the candle high in his hand as he spoke, and altogether looked so desperate that Jessie stood in terror lest he should make good his threat.
Back of that tree, he had raised a little Gothic chapel.
I felt my box raised very high in the air, and then borne forward with prodigious speed.
