He wanted the laurel and not the rose, and he kept on repeating Gautier's axiom, and battering and filing at his limp prose till he'd spread it out over Lord knows how many thousand sloppy pages.
Have you" she retorted, repeating her former phrase with an added keenness of intention.
I thought I heard other voices, and that of Brace repeating the words, "Avast there!
Andy was already reaching for the repeating rifle, which had been securely fastened in the frame of the monoplane.
Say, don't you suppose it would be all right for me to try a few shots at 'em with the fine Marlin repeating rifle we're carrying?
Here they rested and partook of a light lunch, having brought plenty of provisions along, together with a gun of the latest repeating type, with which Colonel Josiah had presented them.
Then the good man, who had no confidence in his memory, went home, repeating to himself the penance ordered.
The worship paid to the god consisted in repeating prayers before the stone, and laying beside it a portion of the food prepared by the people for their own use.
I merely noted the way to London from the coaching-map and hurried out, repeating the direction so that I should not forget.
That is inevitable, the result of the efflux of time, and the need for the recurrence of spiritual impulses lies in that fact, which is ever repeating itself.
We are continually repeatingon a higher plane that which we have done upon a lower.
Mr. Mortimer Loraine rose from his stuffed chair and followed me, repeating the question he had put to me.
Only--and this he kept repeating to himself--he must expect to be disillusionised.
No doubt his leave was extended; probably he was still in town, and repeating those afternoon calls in Bruton Street.
And when the Lady Budur ceased repeating her poetry, she wept till her eyes waxed sore and her cheeks changed form and hue, and in this condition she continued three years.
Now they resorted only to that mountain where the hermit was, and the reason of their fore- gathering with the holy man was their assiduity in repeating "Praised be Allah!
When he had ended repeating these verses, he laid his head on his pillow and closed his eyes and slept.
But in repeating this declaration, in answer to Mr Cobden, he added that the sacred duties of hospitality would be, as in all times, performed towards persons of all opinions.
The Queen cannot help repeating that the tone and bearing of Mr Southern are more those of a Portuguese Demagogue than of an English Representative.
Others would come and take their places beside us, repeating to the waiter the same chorus, "We are with this gentleman.
Gregory's words kept repeating themselves, "You are made of different clay from others.
Neither can they pass to us,'" he said, unconsciously repeating the words of Scripture.
He took the report to his uncle, who read it gravely, and dismissed him with a short lecture on the cruelty ofrepeating such stories to the intentional hurt of a fellow creature.
Meeting the same response from them, he talked the matter over with some of the members, who were more willing to listen than the others, and less conscientious about repeating their surmises.
The president went on repeating his former explanations of their financial difficulties.
I've wanted to tell you, but I was ashamed, because I never could boast of such things as some girls do; and they were so absurd I couldn't feel as if they were worth repeating even to you.
Repeat what I have said to your mother, but you will not gain anything by repeating it to Miss Bradbury.
From some it comes carelessly—a form of words they have fallen into the habit of repeating without much thought of what they mean.
Next should come a layer of mushrooms, then another of meat, and so on, repeatingthe order given above until all your materials are used up, or the mould is full.
So Nelia coaxed the little wife to shoot, first the 22-calibre repeating rifle and then the pistol.
Then they played cards till midnight, turned in for a little sleep, and turned out again in the black morning to go to their places with repeating shotguns and cripple-killer rifles in their hands.
Disbon looked up from cleaning his repeating shotgun.
All the while that he was eating and drinking, his thoughts kept repeating this strange sentence, "I am about to appear before the Viscount de Commarin.
The best and worthiest of men," he added, repeating quite appropriately a phrase already uttered by M.
During Tuesday evening," he stammered, repeating the phrase to gain time.
He keptrepeating this to himself; and yet he could not quiet his dreadful anxiety, which would not allow him a moment's rest.
He walked along, instinctivelyrepeating to himself: "I must do something.
Some received a pretty strong shock,--so strong that they willingly resigned the chance of repeating the experiment.
The frequent necessity of repeating the same story became intolerably irksome to him, and he resolved to commit it to writing.
A repeating musket will fire frequently after being once loaded; it consists of a long tube, in which touch-holes are bored at certain distances, according to the number of shots it is intended to discharge.
I saw also a kind of repeating musket with two locks, one behind the other.
After the anterior lock is fired, all the remaining shots incessantly follow, and cannot be withheld at will, as it is the case with the repeating gun bought by me in New York, already described.
In her eyes glowed the beauty of her race, and their long lashes drooped on her pale cheeks as her lips moved automatically, repeatingafter the interpreter the words of the oath.
The man was painting in his name on the blackboard--the man in the yellow-and-black sweater, and he heard the crowd spelling it out and repeating it.
Unconsciously he kept repeating Flynt's words: "The death of Lord Russell or your own.
McCartney only pressed his thumb to the round receptacle of the bell the more assiduously, repeating the process at varying intervals until the light again illumined the door.
He is described as constantlyrepeating the combat.
The Manava Grihya Sutra is closely connected with the Crauta, repeating many of the statements of the latter verbally.
That the second book is both later in date and secondary in character is indicated by its repeating stanzas from the first book as well as by its deviating much less from the text of the Rigveda.
As in his schooldays in Richmond and at the University, a number of the boys had withheld their intimacy from him on account of caste feeling, so now at West Point he found history repeating itself, but with a difference.
Nat's friends were lifting him up and wiping the blood from his face and dusting his clothing, while Edgar's own friends gathered around him as if to restrain him from repeating the attack.
