For any teacher to cry in her class was unheard of.
A group of peasants, with which Rose Millar had been taking a great deal of pains, had been summarily condemned and dismissed by the master.
It was so nice and like a gentleman of him not to propose immediately to buy Rose's picture when she talked rashly of her anxiety that it should find a purchaser.
A little clue might have been supplied to account for the eccentricity of the Pembertons, and to lessen the shock of their conduct to the Millars, if the latter had been made acquainted with one circumstance.
But I ought not to presume on my acquaintance with Miss Millar," he began again immediately, with an infusion of cautious reserve and something like vexation creeping into his tone; "it is purely professional.
No wonder poor Annie's bright face took frequently a worn and harassed look in those early days of hospital work.
Tray meandered down the street, followed hurriedly by his mistress and Dora.
Poor May did not work herself into a brain fever, but she did in other respects exactly as Miss Lascelles--a woman who understood the position--had clearly foreseen.
He was slightly the elder of the three, and he took his degree with a fair amount of honour; while, sad to say, for the credit of Redcross, neither Cyril nor Ned made their last pass.
The scarcity of money in the hands of the people makes the loss of a coin, of the value of that which is mentioned in the parable (about sixteen cents), a sad event.
The sadfact is that the Bible has suffered violence from literalists among its friends, as from its enemies.
The sad fact is that the Oriental has always considered his personal enemies to be the enemies of God also, and as such their end was destruction.
He had so much; there were men who envied him--and yet how sad and barren was his life.
Yes, and that'll be a sad thing, sad for the whole town.
Sure, it'll be a sad day when they get it, and they will if poor M.
There was room enough for them all and he was sad and lonely, but he had made a firm stand against having them with him in his home.
And it was those other sorrows that had made him say those few words in such a sad, sad tone; the memory of which made this old blind man bend his head while the tears sprang into his sightless eyes.
They have transgressed my laws and deserve death, but through the supplications of the people of Imerina their lives are spared.
Though he stood in such a position as to be effectually screened from the view of those within, a gleam of reflected light fell upon his figure, showing him to be a tall, handsome man in the prime of life.
Ebony's first action was to let go, thereby bringing himself to the ground with an awful thud, which would have told severely on any one less akin to india-rubber.
It had been seriously bent in the recent encounter.
The winter stars shone gloriously, and the night was still.
She slipped away into the kitchen and reappeared with toast and boiled eggs.
Come up for lunch and I'll show you some real creations.
Why don't you tell the truth if you talk about it at all?
Tom was always that kind of a fellow--if the drums beat hard enough he would put on his war paint and go out and win the fight.
Thou broughtest out fountains, and waters out of the hard rocks: thou driedst up mighty waters.
And, between ourselves, it is that which induces me to doubt sometimes the truth of my opinions.
Miss Pole kept calling upon us for some expression of regret, by asking if it was not sad that he was gone, and saying - "To think of that pleasant day last June, when he seemed so well!
He took hold of my mother's arm as she came with wild, sad pace through one door, and quickly towards another.
Then she arranged us all round the table, taking care to place me opposite to her; and last of all, she inquired of me if the sad report was true, as she feared it was, that Miss Matty had lost all her fortune?
It was a joke spoken in rather a sad tone, and I doubt if either of us smiled; but I could not see Miss Matty's face by the flickering fire-light.
My father used to sit looking at her: far more sad than she was.
He did not think my father would have believed him; and yet if he had not, it would have been a sad thing for Peter.
There was a little sad expression that shadowed her face as she recognised me; but immediately afterwards she tried to give me her usual smile.
I never knew what sad work the reading of old-letters was before that evening, though I could hardly tell why.
We sat in silence, pondering on the full meaning of those sad, sad words.
This is one of the many deep sayings, sad and wise, quietly dropped by our author in a series of disquisitions, that show, among other things, how well he understands its scope.
We might all be laughing and talking together, yet if I went up to my room and sat alone, I could at once write in a most sad and melancholy strain.
After this sad event Miss Rosa Carey says her real vocation in life seemed to spring up, and she and her remaining home sister went to Croydon to superintend their widowed brother's household.
It deals with a sad subject handled in a powerful but most delicate manner, and is quite a new departure from her former works.
The first door on the left leads into the author's study.
His long, silvered hair strayed down over the collar of his coat; and the soft languor of his light blue eye imparted a sad impression to his countenance, which, when he was young, must have been eminently handsome.
Thus farre goeth Henrie Knighton, whose report giueth no small light to the matter vnder hand.
