Up pretty early, and sent my boy to the carrier's with some wine for my father, for to make his feast among his Brampton friends this Christmas, and my muff to my mother, sent as from my wife.
He is feverish, and hath sent for Mr. Pierce to let him blood, but not being in the way he puts it off till night, but he stirs not abroad to-day.
Pen sent for me to his bedside to talk (indeed to reproach me with my not owning to Sir J.
As soon as the daroga recovered his strength and his wits, hesent to Count Philippe's house to inquire after the viscount's health.
He also told me where to gather further information, whom to ask; and he sent me to call on M.
My gruesome escort must have noticed it, for he sent Cesar back and I heard his hoofs trampling up a staircase while the man jumped into the boat, untied the rope that held it and seized the oars.
Remy had sent for the box-keeper to the Rue de Provence, close to the Opera, where she was engaged as a porteress.
When Christine Daae was carried off, sir, I sent word to my servant to bring me these pistols.
And he sentevery one away, except Raoul and the maid, who looked at Raoul with eyes of the most undisguised astonishment.
For a moment, he seemed to hesitate and looked at Raoul; then he turned his eyes upward, toward the second cellar, which sent down the faint glimmer of a lantern, through a cranny between two boards.
At breakfast--the early morning breakfast, which the count took in his study--Philippe sent for his brother.
A certain crook, called James Wilson and known among his pals as Gentleman Jim, bears a strong resemblance to the young bank-looter who was sent to Sing Sing.
Mr. Barrows died yesterday, and, when he knew beyond doubt that there was no hope for him, he sent for me to come to his bedside and bring with me a stenographer.
They must have plenty of confidence in their team,” said Bob Collins, “for they’ve certainly sent over a big bunch of rooters.
Once or twice there came a cracking, as of dead branches beneath a heavy foot, and at last the listening lad heard something that sent a shock through him.
He saved himself, but the knowledge that he sent an innocent man to Sing Sing may possibly have caused him some uneasy and regretful moments.
The crime was discovered, as such things always are, and Clarence Sage was arrested, tried, convicted and sent to Sing Sing for a term of years.
It might mean that I’d be sent up again for another, still greater, crime.
We’ll find there are no robbers in the bank now,” said the lawyer; “and all this uproar has sent them scampering long before this.
But before he could interfere Roy had sent the stone whistling and clipping through the branches of the tree, causing Jocko to utter a chattering scream of mingled dismay and defiance as he quickly mounted higher.
Through a window of the house he had tried to get a look at his mother, but had been sent scurrying away by Fred, who, discovering the prowler, came out and circled the buildings.
The suggestion that these securities had been overlookedsent Timmick and one of the directors back to the vault, but without avail.
Talked of having some of us sent to the reform school.
Perhaps you don’t know what it is to be sent to prison with the knowledge that you’re innocent and serving time for the crime of another man.
Every street is lined with lighted lanterns, and the spirits are sent back to the otherworld in straw boats lit with lanterns, and floated down the river.
Jock through the key-hole sent a cloud That reached across the house, While in below the door reek rushed Like water through a sluice.
He finds that the seeming Devil is in reality his guardian-angel who sent him this dream that he might learn the depths of wickedness lying unfathomed in his heart, waiting an opportunity to burst out.
A custom that is a reminder of the lighted boats sent down-stream in Japan to bear away the souls of the dead, is that which makes use of nut-shell boats.
Cuchulain could not make up his mind to go, but sent Laeg, his charioteer.
Besides, these princes possessed nothing but what the Netherlands gave them; no armies but those which the nation sent into the field; no riches but what the estates granted to them.
On this account hesent for him in his youth from Spain, and showed him in Brussels to his future subjects.
Two days afterwards he sent a message to the states that if he had been apprised earlier that these troops were a burden to them he would have immediately made preparation to remove them with himself to Spain.
My aunt Dorothy sent a glance at the letter while I was folding it evidently thinking my unwillingness to offer it a sign of bad news or fresh complications.
My aunt expressed her view mildly, that I was sent for to help cure the young lady of her delusion.
She sent me three hundred pounds; she must have supposed the occasion pressing.
And to-day is like an eagle we have sent an arrow to shoot and know not if he will come down.
I sent him a reproachful answer; I never cared for him more warmly than when I saw the letter shoot the slope of the postoffice mouth.
I have sent to our stables for two little pretty Hungarian horses for you two to ride,' she said.
They nodded and answered 'Princess,' which seemed perfectly good English, and sent our conjectures as to the state of their mother's health astray.
However, our worthy host, Jack Hearty, was sent out once more in the snow to gather laurel for the brow of the new poet laureate, in spite of our artist's modest protestations.
The animal had been sent to await him at the arch-priest's palace by the fairies.
I lunged out a tremendous kick, which ought to have sent several of its teeth down its throat; at any rate, it sent him backward about a foot.
Their son had been sent to the university two or three years before, where he had studied hard, but without having made up his mind to follow any particular profession.
A leech was sent for, the best that the mountains could produce, and after feeling my pulse and looking at my tongue, shook his head gravely.
The doctor was accordingly sent for, and arriving shortly, was at once shown into the Baron's room.
It is certain," said she to herself, "that they have sent spies after us.
Cox was finally nominated on Woodrow Wilson's record and sent out to the great and solemn referendum.
But this would not satisfy the Republicans; and on March 20 the rejected treaty was finally sent back to the White House.
Along with this a message was sent to the British Government protesting against British restriction of neutral commerce.
General Funston with a division of regulars was sent to relieve the naval landing parties; and war seemed inevitable.
Notice thereof shall be sent to all other members of the League.
She tried to make him promise never to go back, but he has only promised never to go while she lives, and she seems to think it would be fatal, and to charge all his disregard of religious matters upon herself for having sent him out.
She wrote to her father, and I sentthree lines to inform him that, under the circumstances, I fulfilled my promise to her mother by taking her home.
No, I am not displeased with you, but Miss Clara has sent me some money.
I would not believe Mrs. Mansell at first; but I saw the boy, and he said you had sent him yourself.
Miss Blamire Oliver had sent orders to his mother to sleep in London, and proceed the next morning by a train which would arrive at about two o'clock.
The mines are off our hands, and the transfer will be completed as soon as Oliver has senthis signature; and there's quite enough saved to make them very comfortable.
We could never have found our way through the accounts without him; and the old Cornish man, whom we sent for from the mines, gave testimony to him such as will do Mr. Holdsworth's heart good.
I sent a note to my cousin Fitzjocelyn last night,' said Isabel, with such calmness, that the old gentleman fairly stood with his mouth open, looking at her aghast.
He explained the legal status of the affair, and passed quickly on to the exciting events of the night on which he had been bound and sent upon his ride into the forest, to meet some fate, he knew not what.
I was tied up and sent away to be killed or to be turned out to die by a man named Colonel Gideon Ward.
An assassin sent after a man would not be wasting his ammunition on deer in close time.
I was senthere to build this bit of a railroad quietly and unobtrusively.
But each of the messengers that Ward sent down to the outer world bore unmistakable sign that this ruler of the wilderness was in full possession of his autocracy.
The cook came out and advanced to meet the new arrivals, having been attracted from his kettles and pans by the view-halloo theysent down from the hilltop.
When Colonel Ward sent a crew of men into the woods he marked the back of each one in this fashion, as if the employees were freight parcels.
Jerrard sent an enthusiastic letter right back by the tote-road driver.
You have simply incurred the penalty of beingsent to state prison.
If that young feller hain't got a horse there that'll beat anything that even Colonel Gid Ward himself ever sent across Spinnaker Lake!
Therefore, whenever he sent a messenger to town or a man down the line with a tote-team for goods, he scrawled on his back with a piece of chalk the peculiar hieroglyph of crosses and circles that made up the Gideon Ward "log-mark.
He reached for Parker's collar, but Parker ducked under his arm, and as he came up struck out with a force that sent the astonished giant reeling backward.
I don't care for the name Penny Whistles; I sent a sheaf to Henley when I sent 'em.
I saw them sent for by some people and enter an inn, in a pretty good hurry: what it was for I do not know.
Being sent to the South is not much good unless you take your soul with you, you see; and my soul is rarely with me here.
Glad you sent on all the coin; was half afraid I might come to a stick in the mountains, donkey and all, which would have been the devil.
He has sent me (for my opinion) the most truculent advertisement I ever saw, in which the white hairs of Gladstone are dragged round Troy behind my chariot wheels.
I forget if you asked me any questions, and I sent your letter up to the city to one who will like to read it.
I have failed to get together a preliminary copy of the Child's Verses for you, in spite of doughty efforts; but yesterday I sent you the first sheet of the definitive edition, and shall continue to send the others as they come.
The landlord's daughter, Miss Stewart, was present in oil colour; so I wrote her a declaration in verse, and sent it by the handmaid.
No wonder, then, that Sir Redvers Duller has sent Lord Methuen as soon as he could be ready to the relief of Kimberley.
It was well understood also that the difficulty lay in the probability that if a small force were sent it would be exposed to defeat, while if a large one were sent its despatch would precipitate the war.
But they seem to have sent considerable bodies, in each case several thousand men, against both Mafeking and Kimberley.
After the ten thousand not another man was sent until October 20th.
Happily, a statesman wassent to Cape Town, probably because the Cabinet hardly realised how big a man he was.
Further reinforcements were senttowards him from the squadron after the action, so that his force is still about sixteen thousand.
No telegram as yet gives its distribution, but it is plain that Clery's and Warren's divisions moved out, together with the cavalry brigade and whatever mounted infantry had not been sent south.
Lord Roberts had brought up the bulk of his force, and parried with ease the attacks of two or three parties of Boers who came up in succession to Cronje's assistance; some of them having been sent for the purpose from Northern Natal.
But why has the paramount power in South Africa sent a fine general and splendid troops to face heavy odds and to run the risk of finding themselves over-tasked by superior numbers?
On Saturday morning Sir George White sent a small force of cavalry and artillery to reconnoitre along the line of the interrupted railway.
The Government thensent ten thousand men, making the sixteen thousand of Sir George White.
They clucked collective tongues in disapproval when they were finished and sent her on her way to a brief chat with the M.
The culture thus sent out in a dry form, and no larger than a yeast cake, may thus be made to furnish bacteria sufficient to inoculate not less than an acre of land.
The cultures are then allowed to dry, and when in that condition they can be safely sent to any part of the country without losing their efficacy.
When the ball has been sent out of the circle without passing between the feet of a player, the players turn outward, and the odd man tries to send it back inside, according to the same rules.
A ball sent under the net counts one for the opposing side.
When all have discovered the object, another row is sent out of the room, and the pupil who found the object first, proceeds to hide it.
A ball sent out of bounds in returning a service scores one point for the opposing team.
I am distressed that "Maisie" hasn't yet reached you, and will immediately write to London to see how my publishers have envisage the address I sent them.
Then for the beautiful strange things you sent me and which make for ever in my sky-parlour a sort of dim rumble as of the Pacific surf.
She sent to the boy all his father's letters from California and elsewhere--the consequence of which, for me, was a wonderful participation and interest.
I have sent for the article and will write you when I've read it.
Apropos of which, ask Osgood to show you also the sheets of another thing I lately sent him--"A New England Winter.
I sent you the other day a fourth part, a portion of which, I suppose, you will allot to the fifth.
If all this while I've not sent you The Awkward Age it has been because I thought it not fair to make any such appeal to your attention while you were preoccupied and worried.
I gave him some time since the message you sent him, and he bade me to thank you very kindly and to say that he had the most agreeable memory of your two books.
I daresay that you will, for that matter, already havesent me one.
I shall feel that I must go again (to the ship), as I don't very well see how things are to be sent there.
Mrs. Greville sent me Swinburne's complicated dirge upon her poor simple mother, and I thought it wanting in all the qualities that one liked in Mrs T.
Two sausages that were sent in yesterday for the nurse.
I mean the one I sent to the office of the Matrimonial News.
I was only going to telephone and have the daily papers sent up.
In other places, the shore was of a more gentle description, indented with small bays, where the land sloped smoothly down, or sent into the sea promontories covered with wood.
I paid her the kiss you sent her with all my heart, and she rapped my fingers for my reward with all hers.
Since he and Julia left Mervyn Hall, Dudley was sent for there.
Terriers, including the whole generation of Pepper and Mustard, were also in attendance, having been sent forward under the care of a shepherd.
Hazlewood hadsent for a surgeon, and proposed that she should be lifted in the meantime to the nearest cottage.
Waters sent her, and made me a waistcoat and two stocks of it.
Colonel Craw sent me a letter to this effect, which I treated as it deserved.
But papa was stern for once, and vowed that I had been served quite right, declared that I should not be removed from school, and sent old Swishtail a brace of pheasants for what he called his kindness to me.
I lived in daily fear the first year: but afterwards grew accustomed to my situation, as all great men will do, and wore my red coat as naturally as if I had been sent into the world only for the purpose of being a letter-carrier.
It's the old stuff, you know, Ma'am, that that Waters sent to my father fifteen years ago.
These were more than adequate for by and by the office sent down word, "Tell Billy Clark for heaven's sake to quit sending us money: He is too far ahead of us.
There the northeast wind, swept the ice for a half-mile, collected these tiny snow nodules and sent them whirling along the smooth black surface to bank them in miniature drifts against the southern shore.
The robins that greeted the dawn on Burial Hill sang here at midday, blackbirds chorused, and song sparrows sent forth their tinkling songs from the shrubby growths.
For their brothers, masts on a thousand keels, Had sent a greeting free, And the answering song swelled clear and strong When the wind came in from the sea.
The pinky-red top twigs hold their foliage still but they have sent some of their own flush up into these leaves and they hang there like pasture poinsettias, waiting to be part of the red of Christmas decorations.
Here on the upland she pulled herself together, and reaching out into a gallant stride, started on the long descent towards Troy at a pace that sent the night air whizzing by Gunner Sobey's ears.
The Government, it was understood, had chosen and sent them down to us on the strength of their sense of humour--so different from any to be found in the Duchy.
He then appears to have indulged in some violent abuse of Jehan Shah, and again sent an order to secure his presence.
The wives and children of some of them were sent for so that their feelings might be worked upon to renounce their creed and live, but this had no effect in shaking their resolution.
It was further ordered that Jehan Shah should be arrested and sent as a prisoner to Tehran.
The fish are largely netted, and same are sent to Tehran packed in ice, while a good business is done in salting what cannot be sold fresh.
They said they didn't care to have any sent that way and as we didn't have much to spare we didn't send any.
At Vicksburg, General Grant was quietly smoking a cigar when he wrote a dispatch to be sent to Cairo to be telegraphed to the General-in-Chief at Washington: "The enemy surrendered this morning.
Our bean soup and coffee and such other food as might be handy wassent out before daylight in the morning and after dark at night.
Most of the boys were getting pretty short of money, and if we sentany letters home we had to have them franked as soldiers' letters.
We halted here and our regiment was sent out on picket duty for the night.
The same dispatch was sentto General Banks at Port Hudson.
She senther slaves out where we were with pails of cool water.
We had been told that no soldiers' letters could be sent North and I put off writing in the hope that I could record the fall of Port Hudson, that Rebel stronghold.
But we were about two hundred miles from New Orleans, the nearest point from which money could be sent with safety.
When our brigade got together and formed in line of battle, we were again ordered to the front, where the Rebels sent shells into our ranks from their gunboat Diana.
Last night I was detailed to go on picket being sent out to an outpost about a mile from the reserve.
Toward night we had a man badly wounded and he was sent to the hospital.
General Gardner sent a flag of truce to General Banks to know if the report that Vicksburg had surrendered was true and received in reply a copy of General Grant's dispatch.
The sound of the nearness sent a flood Of terror of death through the fox's blood.
