It probably occurred to him that the island would supply a safe nook in which they could talk without fear of observation, as their presence on board the steamer would stamp them as excursionists.
Before she could reach it an elderly gentleman entered, bearing upon him all those distinguishing tokens that stamp a man as a retired major-general.
Perhaps that boy of yours is born with the stamp of victory upon him--who knows?
The man who had found the world a thing upon which he could stamp his hall-mark stood for a while without speaking; then his voice came keyed to a satirical coldness.
Because if you are, by the Eternal God, I think we are yet strong enough to stamp you out--to utterly obliterate you!
In the same session, February 24 to March 17, two resolutions were carried in both Houses, one declaring the right of Great Britain to tax the Colonies, the other repealing the Stamp Act.
Her youthful face showed already the unmistakable stamp which care and sorrow had imprinted on it, and she gazed shyly at the officer who had remained standing in the centre of the room, whence he eyed his visitor with undisguised displeasure.
An unreasoning terror, a fear of himself and a feeling of helplessness conquered the man, who at other times had never surrendered to untoward conditions, who had never hesitated to stamp down all obstacles in his path.
Hilda, unable to restrain an impatient stamp of the foot.
Badly printed and barbarously bound, this "Life of Juan Facundo Quiroga" is nevertheless replete with the evidence of genius, and bears the stamp of a generously-cultivated mind.
He threatens that he will cause this awful beast tostamp yet once again, and, if he does, the whole land of France will be ruined.
In his system, he is to declare who the notables of the nation shall be and stamp them with the seal of the State; it is not for the nation to present them to the head of the State stamped with the national seal.
Men of this stamp are rare at the beginning of the Consulate.
Timbre designates stamp duties imposed on the various kinds of legal documents.
Illustrated catalogues sent free on receipt of stamp by L.
On receipt of a postage-stamp we will send a copy of No.
Beautifully bound in English silk cloth, with gold stampon side, gilt top.
I was once told ov one landlady who kept a party ov four young fellows in her house, two months longer than they wanted to stay, bi putting a ten cent stamp into the hash every morning.
The landlady dealt out the hash, and managed to get the stamp every time.
I hurriedly stamp it out amidst the curses of the pilot, who says later that in my eagerness I picked it up and threw it over the side.
I beat my gloved hands together and try to restore the circulation, and stamp my feet on the floor.
No reason can be alleged for the forging or purposely false ascription of a fragment like this, and it bears the stamp of good faith in that it asks indulgence for opponents instead of censure.
There are turns of language which have the stamp of an original Greek idiom and could not have come in through translation.
In addition to those which have just been noticed in connection with Basilides, there is the very remarkable [Greek: to gennomenon], which alone would be almost enough to stamp the whole passage.
The sluggish life that stirs around you in the single street of the village has the same stamp of archaic strangeness transmitted from a vanished world.
To me he seems to have yielded to a vague presentiment and childish weakness, to which a man of hisstamp should never have given way, and to which I also was wrong to submit.
The dreadful stories, which had been told, ought no more to fix a general stigma upon the planters, than the story of Mrs. Brownrigg to stamp this polished metropolis with the general brand of murder.
We see unpleasant countenances even in Italy: but here all the faces are haggard, and bear the stampof the sickly climate.
A third stands by to place the uncoined pieces in a box, which are then brought under the stamp by a particular contrivance.
I admit he is the representative of the Moghul dynasty, but its record for the last hundred and fifty years is bad enough surely to stamp out sentiment of that sort.
What can a man of the stamp you say he is want with Delhi?
It had a Russian stamp upon it, and bore the postmark of Kiakhta, a small town south of Irkutsk, on the border of Mongolia.
Several of the letters bore the stamp of twenty-five centimes, and their envelopes were addressed to "Mademoiselle Halima Fathma, care of Hadj Hassan, Douera Algerie.
First America, and then the Republic of the Philippines tried tostamp out the custom.
It was a skull, finely executed of heavy sheet gold, and the workmanship bore the unmistakable stamp of Alta Yuan.
It did not seem anything new or strange to Jack that she should give a little stamp of her foot imperiously, and in all the willfulness of a spoiled child determine suddenly upon carrying out a whim in spite of any objections.
The presence of the stamp showed that he was a duly authorized person, and satisfied Jack that in employing a chance acquaintance he was not making any mistake.
I let you go as a babe, because you were pretty, and I feared your loveliness, deeming it the stamp of perversity.
At a few years' later date he took great pains to pare and polish himself down to the pattern of the rest of the world, but he never succeeded; an unique stamp marked him always.
Why, you ain't no more 'old on that saddle than a stamp with the gum licked off!
