I hope to God it's nothin'," said the Trainer; and his voice was quite different from his usual rough tone.
It was a difficult task, and but a roughjob at best when finished, but the change in her appearance was marvelous; the metamorphosis, so successful, almost drowned the lingering regret.
But how's Alan goin' to turn the trick in a big field of rough ridin' b'ys?
When they came to the gate which gave entrance to Ringwood house Mike said to Carter, with rough sympathy in his voice: "Slip in ahead, Ned, and tell the Misses that the boss has had a bit av a spill.
How did he git in to cut th' bridle rein--t'rough a manure window no bigger'n your hat.
Mike set his teeth, and his nails were driven hard into his rough palms as he strained in sympathy with the girl's quietude.
Even so do those roughand harsh terms enlumine, and make more clearly to appear, the brightness of brave and glorious words.
Haynes produced a pencil, with which he drew, upon the back of an envelope, a rough but pretty accurate map of the surroundings.
The skeleton was intact, though the paper showed signs of its rough trip across the ground before it reached the lake.
Are you any the worse for the rough usage our ocean gave you?
But, urged to do so, he gave a rough estimate of the value of a particular stone, if after cutting it proved as good as it looked now.
A rough partition of woodwork, left plain and unvarnished, had been erected athwartship at the back of the saloon, which itself was a dull malodorous den, with a table surrounded by seven permanently fixed swivel chairs.
Left alone, Mrs. Verinder polished off the flowers in a very roughand ready fashion, thinking the while.
These guests were always of the same class, rough simple fellows, generally colonials, with whom Dyke had sailed the seas or plodded the earth at some time or other in the past.
That rough muscular hand grew light as a rose leaf while it swept back the hair and touched her face.
They therefore distributed their loads as best they could, and started back from the abandoned boat, slipping and stumbling over the rough ice and through the cutting wind.
Edging their way in, they found that the roof and walls were tight, the little window unbroken, and several rough articles of furniture lying about.
I allow they come here in summer, though, for the trees have been cut down, and there's a rough little shanty on the other side.
It now remained to get down the sudden pitch and rough slope on the farther side.
They shouted to her, as they hurried at neck-breaking speed down the rough ledges; but she did not hear or did not understand them, and then they lost sight of both her and the dogs behind some bushes.
Tug had hastily lopped off a young sapling and trimmed it into a long, rough club, which he now held in the fire, in hope that the green wood would get hardened, or perhaps even ablaze.
It would be rough to be caught suddenly without any handle to our boat-hook.
He could see a great field ofrough ice, apparently made up of broken pieces crushed and jammed together, stretching in that direction to the horizon.
When breakfast was ready, and they had all sat down at therough shelf-table which the fishermen had fastened at one side of the cabin, Aleck called "Attention!
It was a little rough on The Youngster sending him alone in the dark to get the stuff.
I could rough it, and enjoy doing so, but I was very sorry for the young men, who, I knew, would be much embarrassed by the sudden appearance of a lady for an indefinite time.
Then I fear that the accommodation is as rough as Chalmers's, and that solitude will be impossible.
The "living room" is about sixteen feet square, and has a rough stone chimney in which pine logs are always burning.
We had pulled up at the door of a rough Western hotel, with a partially open front, being a bar-room crowded with men drinking and smoking, and the space between it and the cars was a moving mass of loafers and passengers.
I took the Imitation of Christ, and strolled up the canyon among the withered, crackling leaves, in much dread of snakes, and lay down on a rough table which some passing emigrant had left, and soon fell asleep.
We stopped at a log house and got a rough dinner of beef and potatoes, and I was amused at the five men who shared it with us for apologizing to me for being without their coats, as if coats would not be an enormity on the Plains.
It was getting dusk as we had to struggle up the rough gulch we had so fatuously descended.
Its chief center is the rough mining town of Fairplay, but there are rumors of great mineral wealth in various quarters.
Never a rough or harsh word is heard within the house.
A man came out in the sapient and good-natured stage of intoxication, and, the door being opened, I was confronted by a rough bar and a smoking, blazing kerosene lamp without a chimney.
The driver thought he had understood the directions given, but he was stupid, and once we lost some miles by arriving at a river toorough and deep to be forded, and again we were brought up by an impassable canyon.
Come over to our place soon, or, better still, since that is a rough trip until you get hardened to the saddle, I'll send him over to call on you next Sunday.
But I found that it would be much too rough and hard for you, and so we will wait until we receive directions from Mr. Packard.
But the trail soon became too rough to permit four to ride abreast, and so Jean called: "Miss Starr, suppose you and I ride ahead and set the pace.
Dan stroked the drooping head of the faithful little animal which had raced down the rough mountain road as he had never raced before.
Under cover of his argument he was saying all the irritating things he could think of, while Harding's harsher voice broke through his shrill-toned talk with rough contradictions.
He had his elbows on the top rail of the gate, and looked downward at the muddy way, rough with the hoof marks of cattle.
His clasping hand on the rough oak-bark shifted slightly, to allow him to lean a little further and gain a wider range, though he was careful to keep in the shelter of his tree and the hawthorn hedge.
Probably it was his own initial that the rustic had hacked, standing where he stood, but she recognised the possibility that the rough carving might be the utterance of the great secret of joy and pain, and the touch was almost a caress.
We see that it is blue or green or brown; we may touch it and note that it is rough or smooth, hard or soft, warm or cold.
But whence comes the majesty of this rude peasant, the dignity august of this rough and toil-burdened laborer, his power to move us?
As he approached the window nearest the door he saw that the cabin had been divided into two rooms by a rough partition of boughs and sailcloth.
Some twenty souls in all there were, fifteen of them rough and villainous appearing seamen.
It was as though she knew that her baby was frail and delicate and feared lest the rough hands of her fellows might injure the little thing.
If I thought I should have help from Him from whom all help comes, I would make no pause, but would go at once, let the way be as rough as it might.
He had told her few details of his life before they met, but he had said that it had been hard sometimes, that he had travelled among rough people, and picked up some of their rough ways.
Without their shouts and rough jokes and laughter the place would have been gloomy as a grave.
In the distance were hills and mountains, and the train ran through stretches of red desert sprinkled with rough grass, or cleft with river-beds, where golden sands played over by winds were ruffled into little waves.
The rough crowd in the street had fallen back to the sidewalks, a savage mutter going up at the same time.
Even his own rough followers turned to eye him in disgust.
They left the grounds at once, but formed near by, on a side street near where they learned that Barnes and his rough mob lay in ambush.
Play their own kind of kindergarten game as long as we can hold the score without rough work.
They still used whatever rough tricks they thought they could sneak in under the eyes of the game's officials, and some of these made the Gridley boys ache.
In a rough and cruel age the saints taught people to be kind to children and to poor dumb beasts and birds.
Near the river the castle looks very fine, its irregular pile of buildings rising in a series of rough levels, adorned by turrets, towers, and pinnacles, until the whole is topped and dominated by the mighty Round Tower built by Edward III.
I think he looked on Ukridge as an amiable lunatic, and was content to rough it a little in order to enjoy the privilege of observing his movements.
After all, a hen can rough it for one night, and if I did a stroke more work I should collapse.
But they are quite for distant effect; on near approach they look rough and granitic, and are not a very pleasing or popular class of pictures.
Will the readers of Maga accept, illustratively, of a rough translation?
A rough sort of night," said I, nodding to him, as I knocked the water out of my cap.
And such a roughnight as we're going to have of it, too, sir!
As a rough generalisation, it would be fair to say that in one or two instances, at least, landownership is the chief basis, and in several other cases an important contributory cause of monopoly.
The kite is but a rough one, for Ben has made it himself, out of a silk-handkerchief stretched over two cross-sticks.
Some rough attempt had been made to close the gap with barbed wire, but it was possible to step over the drooping strands with little or no difficulty.
The surface wasrough almost like blotting paper and in some places the ink absorbed by the porous surface had run.
He went forth to see what the world produced; and he found bad weather, rough seas, evils dispositions, and harsh masters.
We forgot that it was a long way and a rough road to Nyborg.
Yet clouds will intervene, And all my prospect flies; Like Noah's dove, I flit between Rough seas and stormy skies.
And, though the fields look rough with hoary dew All will be gay when noontide wakes anew The buttercups, the little children's dower --Far brighter than this gaudy melon flower!
Your life, my friend, is safe In these rough woods as in your general's town.
Mankind shall have its wide possession here; And these rough assets of a virgin world Stand for its coming, and await its hand.
We left him then--he looked too ill to be worried any more--and went back to my cabin, taking his rough drawing with us.
He drew the rough plan which I show you opposite, and which I have lettered, so that you can understand more easily where we had to go and what we had to do.
Half a mile inland, and only connected to the modern town by a roughcauseway through the paddy fields, is the ancient town of Tinghai.
The men had all seen Hoffman's rough sketch, and all thoroughly understood what was to be done.
We went scrambling over rough ground, and stumbling over what seemed like heaps of broken crockery, and then we came to a ditch.
