We must begin on a small scale, Hickey," he said wisely, "and keep working up to something really big.
I don't know just what action we ought to take, but I think we ought really to take some action.
The Gutter Pup was really a good sort and had adopted him in quite a decent way without taking an undue advantage.
What was the meaning of this tone, and what could he really know?
Well, I tell you, once for all, you will never see it; not even if I entirely accepted your Evangelists, and were reallypublicly or privately to embrace them.
You cannot really wish me to break my pledged word; and if I did you would lose the respect for me on which your love is grounded.
Do you really believe that his only desire is to add more and more kingdoms and peoples to his empire, which already is far too extended?
And if it is really thus, would it be considered as a mere poetical fancy if we chose this force as the emblem of the unity and the life of which, Faizi, you have just spoken?
Now he and his army have marched as though really for Kashmir.
However much one may have heard or read of Akbar's palace beforehand, one is overcome with astonishment on really seeing it.
Do you, whose opinion is of such great weight, believe that there can be people here so foolish and so criminal as to league themselves against so great and beneficent a prince as Akbar; can it really be?
Was Rezia really faithful to him, or did she only treat him as she did her husband, who, far more than he, deserved her love?
My fate," she said, "is decided; for I must confess that what I have heard is really true.
And led away by recollections of his native land, and by the interest shown by his new and really beautiful listener, our Siddha lost himself in descriptions of Hindustan's world-famed paradise.
But suppose it came to the worst, and one of my Thugs was really taken, what matters it?
It is, however, impossible to avoid being impressed with the really remarkable tone, not merely of equality, but of superiority, adopted by the South African Republic and its officials towards this country.
Doubtless there are some who are really patriotic; for instance, one of their leaders, Paul Kruger.
President Burgers was a man of striking presence and striking talents, especially as regards his oratory, which was really of a very high class, and would have commanded attention in our own House of Commons.
But really great minds rise superior to such difficulties, and so did the "committee," or some of them, or one of them.
The ingenuity exercised by their author or authors was really very remarkable, for it must be remembered that not one of the signatures was forged; they were all invented, and had, of course, to be written in a great variety of hands.
It is not to be supposed that Mr. Gladstone really cared anything about the Transvaal or its independence when he was denouncing the hideous outrage that had been perpetrated by the Conservative Government in annexing it.
It really reads as though the second document was consequent on the first.
As soon as the freebooters saw that the Imperial Government was really in earnest, of course there was no more trouble.
On the whole, the Transvaal had no reason to be dissatisfied with this new treaty, though really the whole affair is scarcely worth discussing.
I am dying to see if she is reallythe wonder you pretend she is.
She had not, it is true, dismissed Vane entirely from her thoughts, but she had arrived at the conclusion that as it was all over between them it really was of no consequence whether he had jilted her for Sally Salisbury.
She felt she was really not only on the ladder of success but was climbing upwards safely.
Half fashionable London flocked to Hampstead in the summer, ostensibly to drink the water of the medicinal spring, but really to gamble, to dance and to flirt outrageously.
If shereally loved Dorrimore there would have been no hesitation.
If the young man really belongs to the quality and what he writes about his father is true, then his father must be made to pay for the injury his son's done you.
I pray that your nightingale, Mr. Gay, be not really a guinea fowl.
She wasreally inclined to think she liked him better when he was sad than when he was joyful.
It did not occur to her that she was really and truly in love with Lancelot Vane.
I wonder if I really--really love him," she mused.
I could not recognize her face since I had neverreally seen it.
I cannot think of anything more galling to a really clever, high-spirited woman, as she is, than to know that there are circumstances connected with her family which would be a constant source of shame to her husband.
I really was afraid to read the paper on the way home.
There was nothing reallyfor Norah to do, so I told her she could go off and stay with her mother on board-wages.
The coffee was at times merely tepid; in short, it seemed as if she really ought to be discharged; but then there was invariably some reason for postponing the fatal hour.
She works so much and so quickly that she really makes me tired, and I'm constantly oppressed with the thought that she may get through with whatever she is doing before I can think of something else to occupy her time.
He learns a little of something every day from Harriet, who is really a very superior girl.
Instead of really going to bed, I waited my chance and slipped down the stairs into the dining-room, and got under the table.
She was reallyso very nice about it, I hadn't the heart to scold her.
Several times he went below to the cellar, ostensibly to inspect his coal supply, really to observe the demeanor of Margaret, the cook.
Whether custom staled the infinite variety of the cook's virtues, and age withered the efficiency of Mary, the waitress, or whether something wasreally and radically wrong with the girls, Thaddeus and Bessie could not make out.
During this century the Greek artists in Egypt, as indeed elsewhere, adopted in their style an affectation of antiquity, which, unless seen through, would make us think their statues older than they really are.
She was really going to baptism as the voters go to the polls and vote in New York--"early and often.
Now, if the young lady will give the color of the velvet lining of the case, I really must believe.
Hence it is my belief, as he was seen uncovered, that this was the gate at which he really went out, and at all the rest the watchmen imagined they saw the wizard make his marvellous exit from Moscow.
In an enlightened age, a Christian people, in possession of the Bible, that gives no intimation of such things as witches, stripping and weighing a female in public, to ascertain if she really was heavier than a common Bible!
He was reallyin very good circumstances, but lived in this humble manner to enable him to assist very efficiently some poor relatives.
I really believe that there are individuals with such peculiar temperaments, or low state of the blood, that they cannot bear cold water.
Is it really "hidden from the wise and prudent, and given to babes?
Does it really suck all the disease into the thing by the process?
If the blessed Saviour should return to earth, and travel from town to city, as he did eighteen hundred years ago, healing the sick, I really think there would be a less number believing in him now than then.
No wonder our informant asks, "Did this really occur?
But when once danger really pressed, ill as he was, he marched across Germany, and followed fast upon the Elector's heels until he tripped and took him.
I caused the page to be tortured, and he was so stubborn in his evil creed that I could never gather anything from him, but that they really held their devil to be a god.
Hutten[29] from the castle of Ebernburg sent threatening and angry letters to the papal legates, who became really anxious lest a blow might be struck from that quarter.
The importance of the new measures lay really in the action of parliament.
But although Charles thus honored Bourbon he did not trust him, and was not really desirous of advancing a person of such great resource and consequence.
But in spite of the panic of the Protestants, some of whom fled over sea, little severity was really exercised.
But as the soldier uttered dreadful threats, Munzer, for it was really he, confessed who he was.
No doubt others before Copernicus had from time to time in some vague fashion surmised, with more or less plausibility, that the sun, and not the earth, was the centre about which the system really revolved.
His head and eyes ached, he said, whenever he looked at a book, though he really was anxious to learn for the sake of pleasing Jeanie.
But, remember, God hears every word you say, and knows everything you think, and the promise made to me is really made to God, and it will grieve Him if you break it.
The coals of fire which he heaped on their heads appeared really to have softened their hearts.
But as long as our press teems with writings drawn with a view of irritating persons here, we shall never be able to exercise the influence which we ought to have upon this question, and which we really possess.
It is not by allowing Spain to raise a legion here in the first instance, and afterwards by sending a few hundred marines, that any really important object can be accomplished.
Persons who really possess credit, can raise money at the present moment with every facility that is reasonable or proper.
It really appears as if they were all drunk, and thinking, and talking of any other subject but Spain.
It is evident that the magazines of this country must be kept up, and all that is really done by this apparent saving, is to throw the burden, to this extent, on future years.
Now, I really think that this affecting paragraph cannot have raised very pleasant reflections in the breasts of many noble lords who are in the habit of supporting her majesty's ministers.
If you glance at the history of Ireland during the last ten years, you will find that agitation really means something just short of rebellion; that, and no other, is the exact meaning of the word.
Were they really good, she asked herself, or were her eyes bewitched; and would Mr. Enderby laugh at them if he saw them?
He made it up out of his head, without really knowing anything about your people.
My dear," she said, "these are reallyvery pretty, and I am sure they have given you a great deal of pleasure.
Hetty had really taken her lessons to heart, and was going to be a wise and prudent girl after all.
I really must see her and thank her," she reflected; "and I will ask pardon of Mrs. Enderby afterwards for the liberty.
My dear," said the governess, "I have come to tell you that you really must apologize to Phyllis.
She was really pleased to give pleasure to Nell, whom she liked, and was not sorry that Phyllis would be obliged to receive something from her hands.
Oh, Scampie, dear, have you come, and do you really love me still?
She believed herself really very greatly beloved by her benefactress, and had begun to love her very much in return.
Do you really mean that this is the village child, Amy?
The girl is really a little genius," she said; "will you not allow me to make her acquaintance?
Day by day she improved on her first ideas, till she had stored up a collection of really beautiful sketches.
I hope you are doing yourself great injustice," she said; "I cannot believe you really mean what you say.
However, when Hetty heard that she had really got leave to go "for this once, because Edith and Grace had made such a point of it," there was no mistake about her gladness to join in the fun.
Why, these are beautiful," cried she; "and they are really done by a girl of fourteen who never learned to draw!
Already charters confirmed to London its own laws and privileges, and only three or four years after Henry's death its limited freedom was exchanged for a really municipal life under a mayor elected by the citizens themselves.
Why would not the kettle-holder FEEL so hot as the kettle, when it really is of the same temperature?
Though the water (in which we wash) is really warmer than the air of our bed-room; yet because it is a better conductor, it feels colder.
Why do fishes always seem to be nearer the surface of a river than they really are?
If, therefore, a river seems only 4 feet deep, it is really 6 feet deep.
Because the rays of light from the fish are refracted as they emerge from the eye: and (as a bent stick is not so far from end to end as a straight one) so the fishes appear nearer our eye than they really are.
Why does a river always appear more shallow than it really is?
Yes; everything in the room is really of the same temperature; but some feel colder than others because they are better conductors.
All that Franklin has written about himself is so full of a serene philosophic spirit, and his biographers have echoed it so faithfully, that, in spite of his frankness, things are made to appear a little easier than they really were.
Can it be a crime (in the nature of things, I mean) to add to the King's subjects, in a new country that reallyneeds people?
They all rushed out to see Austin, and Franklin addressed to him one sad question which they all wanted answered, whether Philadelphia really was taken.
Fancy any other American or Englishman writing to Madame Brillon the letter which was really a little essay afterwards known as the "Ephemera," and very popular in France.
This explanation was given in a letter to his brother Peter, and is really a little essay on geology, which was then not known by that or any other name, but consisted merely of a few scattered observations.
Whether the religion thus acquired was really lasting he has not told us.
It was really a committee on foreign relations, and had been formed for the purpose of corresponding with the friends of the revolted colonies in Europe and securing from them advice and assistance.
If he really was the inventor of this plan, it is strange that he allowed his rival Bradford to use it in the Mercury before it was adopted by the Gazette.
But it was really a benevolent enterprise, intended to propagate useful knowledge, to encourage agriculture, trade, and the mechanic arts, and to multiply the conveniences and pleasures of life.
But any one who will examine the original or any good replicas of it in oil will, I am convinced, see Franklin as he really was.
I was the David, and Bathsheba was a woman, looking really magnificent in her eastern robes, who was sitting on the terrace facing me.
Fleury considered for a minute, and then he said he really didn't quite see, but that after all he thought nobody had troubled their heads about the Prefecture of Police.
But the first event that really is exceedingly clear in my recollection is a family dinner given by Louis XVIII.
His movements were rigorously concealed from us, and I never learnt what they really were even in later days.
Two were Greeks and there was onereally beautiful Moorish woman, called Ayescha.
It was not otherwise than picturesque in the moonlight, and under that tropical vegetation; and it really was an attack by savages too, most of them negroes, and the rest mulattoes.
When I arrived, this was already on the wane, and it really was tiresome not to be allowed to talk about anything but sugar and emancipation by the Creoles.
The thing that strikes one most on arriving in the United States, and in New York in particular, as I have already said, is the extraordinary bustle that reigns everywhere, and which really stuns one at first.
The amount of difficult navigation we met with going through the straits was really extraordinary.
Hang it all, doctor, you reallymight have kept that to yourself," we all cried in a breath!
The thing that happened--how little the simple statement would mean to papa, for instance, and how much it really does mean!
He has a mind as comprehensive in its scope as the last seventy-five pages of an unabridged dictionary, and his talent for sizing people up and telling you all about them is really remarkable.
And he 's really a perfectly harmless, rather quiet sort of person who plays well on the piano.
I could n't go out, and the doctor made me stay in bed longer than was really necessary, as the bottom of the furnace fell to pieces one morning and it was impossible to heat the house for several days.
Of course, it might be a good deal of a bore if he took a fancy to me; but as he won't, it's really a great comfort.
I think he really likes Berri immensely, but is shrewd enough to know that he never can get at him by being serious.
I really felt that the Faculty was treating us rather shabbily and that we were n't, somehow, getting our money's worth.
By the way, I reallymust speak to mamma about her recent letters to me.
I really did n't need more than six new ones, I suppose, but the man said they were cheaper by the dozen.
Our correspondent seems to doubt that the communications to which he refers werereally printed from contemporary MSS.
You supply all their wants, without considering what is wasted, and what is really wanted.
And do you really think that it is in your power to vex Mrs. Adair with this trifling nonsense?
Rightly or wrongly, these men are asking, whether the actual and literal words of Scripture really involve the medieval theory of an endless Tartarus.
Evil that is really essential to good should not be considered evil.
My friends, do you really believe in that kingdom, and in that King?
I really know not whether this be not the most persuasive of all His modes of calling to us; certainly it is the most authoritative of all.
That if some of those truths seem to contradict those which He has revealed already, they do not really contradict them?
Was evil really unavoidable in a proper moral system?
The life, habits, and characteristics of the ostriches are really interesting.
On the face of it, it would look as though you had done wrong; but you were placed in a position where you could learn what Dashington really was.
A broken pane in the window, however, enabled him to listen for sounds which would let him know whether or not there was really any one in the hut.
I did lift the bag of sparks, and it really seems as though I went to all that trouble for Jurgens and his pals.
Mrs. Penrose is really very far from well, and Sue seems to be entirely absorbed.
I thought we were all going to be friends together, and love one another, and-- But you don't really know Mary yet.
To begin with, there were the figures that made the story; but these were so clear and simple that they really said less, when once one knew the story by heart, than some other features.
They are very real things, and poor Clarice was really suffering more than Sue had any idea of.
I wish I walked in my sleep reallyand truly, like that funny book Mr. Hart has about Sylvester Sound.
But don't worry, Sue; we are nearly there, and it really cannot hurt her to walk one short mile, you know.
That one in the pale blue silk tights--could he really be human, and go about on other days clad like other men?
Suppose something were really going to happen now, while Clarice was asleep!
If he didn't reallymean to," she began ungraciously; but Mary cut her short with what the boys called her full-stop manner.
She ought really to be a princess," thought humble-minded Mary; and in her glow of admiration she did not see the troubled look in Sue's bright eyes.
You really do look ill; just as if something had shaken you up very badly.
In view of what is taking place in Europe and of Doctor Lamson's telegram, I really don't think we ought to lose an hour in getting across the Atlantic as quickly as possible.
Do you reallymean to say that that is actually feasible?
Nothing occurred to give the count and Sophie or Adelaide and the innocent Madame de Bourbon any idea that they were really prisoners until they retired for the night.
In fact, after all, the whole thing really belongs to you, for if you hadn't discovered the body, it might have drifted around till it went down to feed the fishes.
No one knew better than he did how worthless this alliance really was to France, and that night he reproached himself bitterly for letting slip the chance of making France independent of her blood-sucking ally.
Will you promise me that if matters come to an extremity, as they certainly will do in a few hours, you really will shoot Ma'm'selle Chrysie and this absurd Englishman who has preferred an American hoyden to the most beautiful woman in Europe?
The point really is to catch these people and take them there with us; so that we can be quite certain they're not going to do any more harm.
I have no objection, Sam, to your endeavouring to ascertain how Mrs. Bardell herself seems disposed towards me, and whether it is really probable that this vile and groundless action is to be carried to extremity.
An Invitation to the Country Many authors entertain not only a foolish, but a really dishonest objection to acknowledge the sources from whence they derive much valuable information.
If you are really innocent of what is laid to your charge, you are more unfortunate than I had believed any man could possibly be.
The pretty housemaid had stood the candle on the floor; as it gave a very dim light, Sam was obliged to go down on his knees before he could see whether it really was his own hat or not.
His besetting sin gained so fast upon him, however, that it was found impossible to employ him in the situations in which he really was useful to the theatre.
There is every reason to believe that the events he detailed, though distorted in the description by his diseased imagination, really happened.
Why, I asked myself, if he was really afraid that the murderer should be discovered, was he helping the reporter to find him?
The marks of the neat boots found by Frederic Larsan appear to bereally the footprints of Mademoiselle Stangerson's fiance.
Monsieur de Marquet read it and uttered a half angry exclamation: "This is really too much!
I was going to be alone with the man in the room writing and was really thankful to have the weapon.
As to the mark of the hand on the wall, that had evidently been made during the first phase--when the murderer was really there.
My readers are sufficiently acquainted with the mysteries surrounding the Glandier case to enable me to go on to the really dramatic denouement of this ever-memorable day.
Let me find out whether he is really a creature of flesh and blood!
When they did he would exclaim: "He is really great!
In crossing the park, he said to me: "Frederic isreally very clever and has not belied his reputation.
Though he might very well have aspired to the highest judicial positions, he had never really worked for anything but to win a success at the romantic Porte-Saint-Martin, or at the sombre Odeon.
One phase in which Mademoiselle Stangerson had really been attacked--the other phase in which those who heard her cries thought she was being attacked.
