It will be time for me to take further steps if they do not profit by it as I think they will.
When Maxwell helped his comrade down before The Larches there were lights in the lower windows, though it was very late, and its owner stood upon the steps awaiting them.
A big gray-painted steamer lay rolling in the harbor of Santa Cruz, and Maxwell stood on the hotel steps impatiently glancing at his watch.
Professor Lancelot[17] suggests the following procedure as the initial steps in the building of permanent interests: 1.
The awakening of interest constitutes one of the firststeps in the development of a pupil's natural talents.
They passed under several arches, through dim passages and dark doorways, till at last running up a flight of stone steps they reached the apartments of the princess.
Then quoth Vikram to his son, ‘We have ended our wayfarings, now let us turn our steps homewards!
Birbal answered not a word, but with hurried stepshe turned towards his home.
Their blood has washed out their foul steps pollution.
A fatiguing stairway of nine hundred steps leads to the top, and there is also a slow-moving elevator.
Such are thesteps by which one may justly calculate that some or many barbarians degenerate from the normal goodness of their fellows.
The affair of Silva and Levi, if it prejudice the people against me on one side, gives me some consequence on the other, on account of the steps which the British Consul took against those merchants, or caused them to take.
At first, it is a simple walking round, face to back, the legs raised, and a little swinging, and the stepskeeping time to the iron castanets fastened on the hands of each.
None of the dancing was indecent, like the Moorish; the lower part of the body and legs now and then assumed steps and positions like the well known Spanish fandango with castanets.
Winding about from one ruinous room to another, and ascending various flights of tumbling-down steps and stairs, we got up at length to the eastern end, where there are two or three new apartments constructed in the modern style.
Steps where the women descend to fill their jugs with water.
They had gone down a flight of steps and first entered a small cabin which was evidently intended for a living room.
The trash had come from an overturned barrel, and it was this barrel rolling down the steps and off the porch that had caused the noise.
Dot stood at the foot of the steps holding a rather crushed doll out at arm's length, for all who would to view.
Scattered on the ground at the foot of the steps was a collection of odds and ends--"trash" Uncle Rufus called it.
After one swift glance at the grim face, and without a word either to Smithers or Rasaldu, Sigrid had got up and gone down the steps into the darkness where Tristram lay.
The three halted at the stepsof the verandah, and the Dakktar Sahib sat down on the first step without ceremony.
They went down the steps together, her hands linked over his arm, and followed the path of sunlight through the wilderness of wild-growing flowers and high luxuriant trees which Gaya perhaps deliberately had left untouched.
They had reached the verandah steps and she turned to him with a laugh.
But Tristram lingered, standing on the steps of the verandah, his face turned from the woman who looked down at him.
Both men had reached the verandah steps at the run, and now Compton had pulled up, meeting his wife's stare of reproof with a hurried apology.
She got up and went to the steps of the verandah, and stood there with her back turned to him.
The new arrival proved to be Wickie, escaped from the compound, who bounced up the verandah steps and advanced among the scattered tables practising the ingratiating squirm with which the Aberdeen masks his real impertinence.
But things had happened to him of which he had had no knowledge--twice he had retraced his steps and once fallen to his knees and groped his way through the dust in a blind circle.
She turned sharply, and the woman standing at the head of the steps immediately behind her returned her stare with a faint smile.
Nevertheless, she drew up a chair on the other side of the steps and sat down with her hands folded in her lap and kept watch over him as though he had been a criminal given over into her keeping.
Mrs. Smithers saw him to the verandah steps as a policeman sees a doubtful intruder off premises specially recommended to his care.
He ignored the threatening gesture, and went leisurely down the steps and along the drive.
But what was his amaze, his confusion, when, on reaching the mouth of the cave, he saw within a few steps of him Lucilla herself!
With faltering steps she quitted the chamber, and at the foot of the stairs the little Moor awaited her.
Saville had retired a few stepson Godolphin's arrival, and had watched with a sardonic yet indifferent smile the proof of his friend's weakness.
With trembling steps and palpitating heart, Godolphin sought the apartment in which he expected to find Lucilla.
He rose involuntarily; his own agitation was marked; he moved several steps towards Constance, and then checked the impulse, and muttered indistinctly to himself.
And Constance hung on the stepsof her lover--still let that name be his!
And on this object intent he bounded upstairs three steps at a time in quest of his ice-axe.
While in this vein he heard steps quickly ascending the stairs.
Thus characteristically did these two Britons greet each other, meeting unexpectedly on thesteps of one of the hotels at Zermatt.
The three foremost were on a small but steep slope of hard ice, nor could they move out of the steps which had been cut by the foremost guide's axe.
There was another consideration which militated against my taking any steps to free myself.
Now you wouldn't think that a dozen steps further of the line you're following would perform your own funerals?
Lewis and Lewis have at once taken legal steps to stop the edition (printed in Paris) at the Customs.
Leucippus opening the Letter, the whilst Timantus runs at him, and Urania steps before.
Why wouldst [not thou] have thy brains beat out for this, to follow thy Mothers steps so young?
There was an awning at the door and a red carpet laid down the steps and across the pavement; the house was brilliantly lighted, and evidently grand preparations had been going on.
A few years previously the stepsof their bath had fallen in.
On his way out the Rebbe steps aside into the kitchen, stoops, takes a hatchet from under a bed, puts it into his belt, and leaves the house.
One caught a corner of her apron in her mouth, the other moved a few steps backward, as in the synagogue at the end of the Kedushah.
Already I hear steps in the sand, I want to run away, but my limbs are disobedient, and I remain sitting.
He met scarcely anyone in the street, the men had all gone to pray, only here and there a woman's voice sounded cheerfully through the doors of the little shops and followed him to the steps of the house-of-study.
She sat down on the steps to wait, but only for a moment, for the carts soon appeared turning the corner.
At this moment a mighty crash resounded from the kitchen, down-stairs, and Aunt Phillis descended the steps with great precipitation.
Let us climb the long flight of stepsand enter the building.
Taking Hassan and Constantin with us, we went up the long flight of steps and down a corridor leading to the Vali's room.
We retraced our steps to the edge of the hill and dropped into the hidden valley, where the Tigris rushed along unheeded and unseen from above.
The men hail it with joyful cries, the soldiers dash ahead, the pack-animals prick their ears and quicken their steps to an amble.
Vincent Burgess, looking out, saw Vic Burleigh leaping up the broad steps from the level campus, a giant fellow, fully six feet tall.
Side by side they walked up the long avenue to the foot of the slope, together they climbed the broad flight of steps leading up to the imposing doorway of Sunrise with the big letter S carved in relief above it.
And the two passed down the stone steps to the shady level campus and on to the town beyond it.
The store-mark of the ready-made was on his clothing, and it was clear that he was less accustomed to cut stone steps than to springing prairie sod.
Lloyd Fenneben, his place at Sunrise would be the hardest to fill now; and withal, sometime in the near future, there was waiting for him the prettiest girl that ever climbed the steps from the lower campus to the Sunrise door.
Behind the Dean was his niece, who halted on the carsteps while her uncle went into the outstretched arms of Lagonda Ledge.
As he approached the Saxon House, he saw old Bond Saxon slipping out of the side gate and with uncertain steps skulk down the alley.
Ten steps from the Saxon House, he came plump into Bond Saxon, who staggered a little to avoid him.
Victor Burleigh sat on the top of the flight of steps leading from the lower campus, looking lazily out with dreamy eyes on all that the earth had to give on this sweet April afternoon.
A little less than an hour later, Malone sat on the steps of the landing ramp that led up to the open door of the big Air Force transport plane on the runway.
The only steps we could take, as a matter of fact.
He reached the stepsthat led up to the porch, and took them one at a time.
The terraces are approached by wide stepsthat are treated in a stately and impressive manner.
The width of the border will correspond with the space required for the steps that descend from the upper terrace.
In planningsteps make the treads wide, the risers low.
The arrangement of steps is a matter that may call forth a man's utmost ingenuity.
The grandest specimen of all is the Trinita di Monte steps in Rome (see Notes on Gardens in The British Architect, by John Belcher and Mervyn Macartney).
Sometimes they crawled up the steps on their knees, and bowing their heads to the ground, kissed the threshold.
From personification to deification the steps would be but few; and the process of disintegration would at once furnish the materials for a vast fabric of mythology.
Moses traced thesteps of the animals, and discovered a plentiful vein of water.
All these tricks and turns of the show were upon him with a spring as he descended the Casino steps and paused on the pavement at its doors.
He had halted opposite the Trenors' corner, and Selden perforce stayed his steps also.
Selden ran eagerly up the steps and pulled the bell; and even in his state of self-absorption it came as a sharp surprise to him that the door should open so promptly.
There was a movement behind her, a scattering of steps and voices: it was evident that the party about the tea-table was breaking up.
Lily turned to obey; but as she did so, Mrs. Dorset, who had paused on her way out, moved a few steps back toward the table.
BOOK TWO Chapter 1 It came vividly to Selden on the Casino steps that Monte Carlo had, more than any other place he knew, the gift of accommodating itself to each man's humour.
It was with that object that, a year earlier, he had fixed his affections on Miss Bart; but in the interval he had mounted nearer to the goal, while she had lost the power to abbreviate the remaining steps of the way.
The sound of steps in the hall, and of the butler's voice preceding them, poured fresh energy into her veins.
In her confusion she stumbled against a man who was hurrying down the last steps of the elevated station.
A few steps brought them to the ladies' door of the hotel he had named, and a moment later he was seated opposite to her, and the waiter had placed the tea-tray between them.
They grew to sudden acuteness as she caught sight of George Dorset descending thesteps of the Hotel de Paris and making for her across the square.
The high school was approached by a wide flight of steps and on these Helen posed her scenes.
So the girls leaned back comfortably against the pillars at the sides of the steps and Mrs. Emerson sat in an arm chair at the top of the flight and Mr. Emerson sat in the car at the foot of the steps and Roger began his work.
I'll lead you two by two to the kitchen door and then you'll go down the flight of steps and straight ahead for anywhere from ten to twenty steps.
The girls took charge of the patriotic tableaux that were to be given on the steps of the high school, with the onlookers gathered on the green where the Christmas tree and the Maypole had stood.
He steps slowly and deliberately, almost always with his head inclined forward and his hands clasped behind his back.
A few minutes after, I recognized hissteps rapidly returning.
We entered by ascending a flight of steps above the basement and passing through a long hall to the rear, where the President lay extended on a bed, breathing heavily.
Lincoln's own account of this proclamation, and of the steps that led to it, is given as reported by Mr. F.
I left the ranks and ascended the stone steps to the gate of the balcony, which was locked, General Thomas saying, 'Wait a moment, I will get the key.
Meeting Lincoln some time after, on the steps of the State House, the kind lawyer asked him how he was getting along.
Then he would straighten himself up, fold his arms across his breast, and take a few steps forward or back.
There were no elevators in those days, and I soon learned to distinguish his step on the stairs, and am sure he frequently came up two, if not three, steps at a stride.
A square platform had been built out from the steps to the eastern portico, with benches for distinguished spectators on three sides.
I was figuring that if I hung round here a week or so and played my hand all right, I'd maybe get her to do a few steps for me in the parlor.
Just as they come to know each other, Fate steps in and renders them both penniless by wrecking the great firm in which their fortunes are invested.
Not at once did he turn his steps in the direction of the Gallito home, but continued to tramp up and down the road, and presently, as the cool, fresh air restored his spirit, he was able to think clearly again.
Pearl threw back her head and laughed, then she took a few dancing steps up and down the road.
