I heard some news by telegram before I came over,' said Harold, 'which is likely to cause a stir in the district.
What a stir he would have made in some places that I have known!
Throughout the Norman camp a stir of suppressed excitement and slightly apprehensive anticipation was apparent during the three days' training, in conjunction with the remainder of the 86th Brigade, for the big stunt.
A stir of apprehensive uncertainty spread through the ranks.
Rust looked at her unmoved, and did not stir to assist her.
Quoth the Prince, "Go back to my sire and tell him what hath betided me, for I will not stir hence till this matter be removed from me or I die in my regret.
Hardly had he spoken when his tool became as big as a column and he could neither sit nor stand nor move about nor even stir from his stead; and when he would have carnally known his wife, she fled before him from place to place.
What was there in it could so deeply offend, And stir so many hornets?
When he had finished he did not go out to her immediately.
Keep it covered closely, stir now and then, and be careful not to let it burn at the bottom.
Add it to the gums, and boil all together over a moderate fire, and stir into it two pounds of loaf sugar.
Stir the whole well together, and it will then be fit for use.
This is the recipe: Take boiled linseed oil and stir in it pulverized charcoal to the consistency of paint.
Melt the lard and spermaceti together, and when getting coldstir in the bismuth; to this can be added any kind of perfume, according to choice.
Stir it well while boiling, and then run into moulds.
I discovered many years ago that wood could be made to last longer than iron in the ground, but thought the process so simple and inexpensive that it was not worth while making any stir about it.
When melted, remove far from the fire, then stir the spirits turpentine, and let it cool.
Stir plaster of Paris into a thick solution of gum arabic, till it becomes a viscous paste.
These were remembrances to stir the hearts of the ancient Lances of Lynwood, and there was a cry among them of, "We will never turn our backs on it!
Over from Stron a shrewd thin wind came to make stir among the trees in the Duke's big garden, and the crows rasped their beaks on the beech-branches, for they knew that here was the day's forerunner.
A stir set up in his heart that he could not put down.
Often was Jean's foot at the door and her hand over her eyes to see if there was no stir at Stron or Kilachatrine, and but for good stuff, her heart failed five-score times a-day.
She sat propped up in a box-bed, on pillows, with her face to the open door, and the friendly airs of the country-side came in to stir her hair.
They are all gone but for an old song at the sheiling-fire, and life, love, and the Fell Sergeant still come and go in the place the warriors made such stir in!
Outside, taking the air, to get the stir of the strong waters out of his head, was the wright.
Just Jean, my darling, for a little turn, because of the stir in the town, and the smell of the barking nets.
For a moment the dull eyes kindled, the dull face brightened, as some deadened memory seemed to stirand waken into life; then the shadow fell heavy and hopeless again.
Dud Fielding did stir the old Nick in me for sure.
As he cantered along the equestrian byways of the Park, and felt, without noting, the stir of new life in nature, he grew light of heart and buoyant.
But for the lap of the water upon the coast, the stir of a fresh wind arising to whisper to the leaves of a clump of birches, Mother Earth around them was keeping silent vigil.
I shall try and stir them up if I have half a chance.
In such reverie and such consideration he lay immersed, oblivious of the present moment, and did not stir from his chair until the postman shook the frail walls with a violent double knock.
He knew he was infinitely sorry for poor Emily; but he could not stir himself into a paroxysm of grief, and, ashamed of his inability to express his feelings, he looked at Julia, who still wept.
Only the priests are against us because of that Hebrew witch whom you shelter, and of her tribe whom you befriend; but they have not had time to stir up the people nor will they attempt revolt.
Watching the statue of the god, presently I thought that it moved, and as I could see by the stir among them, so did the others.
Refuse, and I will stir up the people against you, and before ever the Prince returns, if he returns at all, they who believe you to be an evil sorceress shall mete out to you the fate of a sorceress.
She may show him that her name is gone from him; that because of him she is hated by her people, and rejected by her god, and thus stir his pity, which is Love's own sister.
He felt her presence in his inmost heart; he knew how cold she must be in the wintry air with nothing about her shoulders and the breeze strong enough to stir those rings of hair about her forehead.
You stir a step to git the law on him an' I'll tell what I know.
He knew too much to stir up loyal reactions in mother's conscience.
It darkened between the firs and they began to stir a little, as if a wind were coming up, and he turned back home, again growing uneasy about her, shut up there with her tormentor and walled about by the dark.
It was not, he felt, any of the other things that had happened to them: only there was always breeze enough, even on the stillest day, to stir her hair.
Draw close the curtains, stir the coals into an indignant crackling blaze, and fashion, in the rising smoke, the mountain vista.
Its companion was a horse of the most gloomy nature, that no amount of chastisement could stir from a despondent and pensive frame of mind.
There had been a good deal of stir and bustle on the very last evening, and many visitors had been to the Valhalla, for somehow word had gone out that Professor Peterkin, the great Swedish traveller, was off to find the North Pole!
Now, it would cover any one with infamy, who would stir them up to vindicate their rights by the massacre of their masters.
It has often been alleged, that our writings appeal to the worst passions of the slaves, and that they are placed in their hands with a view to stir them to revolt.
If the plants have been long established, dig in amongst their roots a little well decomposed manure, and stir and hoe them frequently during the summer.
Divest them of all decayed leaves, and stir up the earth on the surface of the pots; those that are intended to be planted in the garden may be set to one side, while those that are to be kept in pots must be more strictly attended to.
Clean the pots, and stir up the surface of the soil.
The sashes or boards should be taken entirely off every mild day, and in fine nights leave them exposed to the dew; stir up the earth amongst them, breaking it fine, making all neat.
Stir it well two or three times every day for a week, then give each tree one good watering with the compound.
Examine all the pots, stir up the surface of the earth, and take it out to the roots, supplying its place with fresh soil.
The more careful stir the soil, and some manure it, but the latter practice is seldom adopted.
When boiling, stir it well with a stick, continuing to do so until it is reduced as above.
Pick off all decayed leaves, and tie up any straggling shoots; stir up the earth on the top of the pots, breaking it fine where it is hardened by the frequent waterings.
Then the Mohican said in my ear: "Unless we can stir him to move and expose himself, we must lose him.
And, as I settled down in my ambush beside the Mohican, I asked him again whether there was any possible way to provoke the Erie so that he might stir and expose some portion of his limbs or body.
Somehow, now, with the prospect of all these officers besetting her with their civilities and polite assiduities, nothing of the old and silly jealousy seemed to stir within me.
Why do I, who adore you so, let you vex me and stir me to say what I do not mean at all.
Not a scythe has swung in those hay fields; the gardens that lie in the sun are but tangles of weeds; no sheep stir on the hills, no cattle stand in these deep meadows, no wagons pass, no wayfarers.
For the last few days I had not been to Croghan's house to pay my respects, the heat leaving me disinclined to stir from the shade of the river trees.
For if shestir thither--if she venture within the Great Shadow--the ghouls of Amochol will know it.
For the ghosts of the night and the demons that stir must be fed.
Then, across the dimness, another blot moved to join him; and I felt my hair stir as chilling certainty shocked from me my lingering hope that I had been mistaken.
But though she was finally so sure of her right to set free her gift, she felt within her no stir and flutter of a thing mad to fly and now released to do it.
It was a look of unborn things stirring beneath the surface, stirring and quivering as flowers must stir and tremble beneath the ground before they break their way through to the sun.
And so the two stood and looked at her, and yet she did not stir nor grow aware of their presence.
I held him back with both arms, and implored the men with whom I had been speaking not to listen to him, not to do murder, not to let him stir from off that sand.
Just before serving, take each sardine carefully and place in the Curry sauce you made; do not stir it; set on slow fire for five minutes.
Stir it, and drain again, and set by the fire or on hot oven for a few minutes, and you will find each grain separate.
When serving, mix a dessertspoon of flour in two tablespoons of cream in a tea cup, then add this into the moley and stir well; let simmer for two or three minutes.
And as for getting up, the doctor says if you stir out of bed within a week goodness knows what will happen.
His men were becoming restless from inaction; and the example of the troublesome Independents had already begun to stir up discontent among them, which threatened, if not checked in season, to end in downright insubordination.
In your front and in your rear, and on either hand, we will scour the woods, and beat the bushes, to stir up the lurking foe, that your gallant men fall not into his murderous ambuscade.
