The thermometer stood at 99 degrees and there wasn't a drop of spring or well water to be had, for we had cornered it.
While these reflections were presenting themselves to his mind, Signor Oponto stood by in silence, waiting for his answer.
Kit, as with folded arms he stood on the acrobat's shoulders.
Indeed, Kit stood as if fascinated before the mighty beast, and a thrill passed through his frame as he realized the terrible danger into which he had impulsively rushed.
He stood in the lobby, waiting for the sexton to appear, when a fine-looking man of middle age entered the church with a young girl of fourteen at his side.
These stood in your father's name, but there was a mortgage of two thousand dollars held by the Smyrna Savings Bank.
It was a plain looking cottage, containing but four rooms, which stood badly in need of paint.
It was a few brief seconds, but to the audience, who were spellbound, and scarcely dared to breathe, it seemed as many minutes that the boy and lion stood confronting each other without moving.
I might have been weak--it was weak, for I stood a chance of losing all, having merely his notes of hand to show for the money I lent.
He was walking in an undecided way, and never thought of noticing the little girl who stood staring at him.
In the act devised by the Vincenti brothers, he stood on the shoulders of the second, who in his turn stood on the shoulders of the first.
I tell you, when Nero stoodthere in the ring with his paw on my breast I gave myself up for lost.
He dropped his letters into the pocket of his jacket, and stood aside for her to pass into the house; but she, abruptly ceasing her windmill operations, looked at him with raised eyebrows and stood still.
Although there was a distinct intention of interrogation in the tone in which this last satisfactory statement was made, the young priest stood motionless and silent.
Upon the table were several books, and on the right-hand side of the plain inkstand stood a beautifully carved stone crucifix, while upon the left there was a small mirror no larger than a carte-de-visite.
She stopped, raised her hand to her hair as if recollecting something, and stood looking sideways out of the window.
As the vessels neared each other, however, he walked towards the rail, and stood there with a pleasant smile upon his face, as if ready to exchange a greeting with any kindred soul upon the Agnes and Mary.
Sidney was lighting the tall candles that stoodupon the dressing-table, and the combined illumination showed with remarkable distinctness the reflection of his face in the mirror.
She looked down at him as he stood with one hand resting on the splashboard, and he, looking up to her, smiled in return.
Against the dim light of the street-lamp beyond, his slight, straight figurestood out in bold relief.
His voice dropped almost to a whisper, and he stood there amidst the din and hubbub--dreaming.
The silent door instantly opened, and the supernaturally sharp boy stood on the threshold grimly awaiting his orders.
He stoodfor a moment, and suddenly tottered forward.
Once inside he closed the door without unnecessary sound and stood for some moments in the dark little entrance-hall, apparently listening.
He is a brave man," said the dripping leader of the attack, as he stoodupright and touched his damaged shoulder gently and tentatively.
Then he stood for some seconds motionless, with arms hanging straight, staring at the flame of the candle with weary, wondering eyes.
Across the little table, in the sudden flood of light, two men stood looking at each other curiously.
Ceph was as fond of his master as a kitten of the child that pets it; and there was no need to secure him, for he would have stood there all night.
Sandy and Orly Lyon stood in front of Pickford's house, and observed the approaching column of cavalry; but the most of their attention was given to Uncle Noah.
In a short time they reached the vicinity of the wagon, which stood in the field, with the six mules that drew it there fastened to the pole.
Because I didn't shoot you all," replied Deck, as he stood holding to the bow with one hand, and the revolver with the other.
I put a low estimate upon the fighting character of the enemy in front of Truman; but I have stood up before them, though I believe they are better armed now than when they attempted to capture Riverlawn and Lyndhall.
Knox, this man thinks he knows too much, and you may take him away," called the major to the sergeant, who stood at the door of the tent.
The high fence, or side of the shanty that had stood there, was on the solid ground, which had been filled in, and Deck was hardly more than a rod from it.
As the young cavalryman saw the lieutenant of the enemy directly in front of him, he drew his rein, as Ceph had been instructed; and the steed stood up on his hind-legs, Deck clinging with his wounded arm to his holsters.
Some thought it had been built where the snow was troublesome in winter; others, that it was the side of a shanty which had stood there, and only the roof and ends had been removed.
It stood near the Spring Road, in a field of about ten acres of land, under cultivation, though the rank weeds among the useful plants indicated that it had been sorely neglected.
He had walked about here, and he concluded that some kind of a building had stood there; for he found a temporary workbench, which had doubtless been used by the bridge-builders.
The noble steeds stood as quietly as though they understood what had occurred, while Artie rolled up the sleeve of the jacket, and disclosed the wound.
When they had reached an elevation of about fifty feet, the summit was a plain, very nearly level, in the middle of which stood the mansion.
As long as England stood alone as a weaver of cotton and as a metal-worker on a large scale; as long as only Paris made artistic fancy articles, etc.
That faith was rooted very deep, and it stood for a long time in the way of Socialism; its traces are even seen amongst us, down to the present day.
The flame of the lamp met no responsive glow; save from the two intruders who stood awe stricken in this strange emptiness; it stood in the still blackness unflickering, like a solid.
Erected eleven hundred years ago, it stood on an eminence in a circular valley.
Planters’ wives and daughtersstood ankle-deep in mud, filling sacks and helping to lift them upon the shoulders of the men who were carrying them to the levee.
The city stood happy and unsuspecting on the very brink of an awful doom.
The officers stood by the rail and directed the movements of the men.
There stood the previous day the villages of Negery, and Negery Babawang.
Often in times past have nations stood aghast at the portentous signs observed in season of some great calamity.
Man has stood alone, grappling with his antagonist; and though he has cried incessantly, heaven has left him to his fate.
Beale pays a warm tribute to Father Davin, a Catholic priest, who stood at his post, laboring with superhuman energy, though constantly urged to take even a short rest.
On the next street back of Falls City Hall stood the St. John’s Episcopal Church.
He set out at once to render what aid he could; “for the villas stood extremely thick upon that lovely coast.
He was ashamed with reason to sing with the others, and stood there rather embarrassed.
Serene and indifferent to its surroundings it stood unregarded in this deserted place; but I, passing by, received a message from it.
Ladies stood in two or three rows; the misu was rolled up by those who were nearest it, Lady Dainagon, Lady Koshosho, and others.
On the thirteenth of the Tenth month [1055] I dreamed one night this dream: There in the garden of my house at the farthest ledge stood Amitabha Buddha!
Alighting from my horse I stoodthere for two hours.
A letter came on the morning of the next day: I stood before your closed door Never to be opened.
He entered a certain room in which fortunately there was no one, and this man, whose orders were formerly obeyed by the whole court, stood modestly in a corner, thinking over his situation.
The table was set, the servants were busy, a young aide-de-camp stood in the window, Sulkowski was lying on the sofa.
Splendidly dressed and lordly-looking, Sulkowski, the acknowledged favourite of the Prince, stood behind him, ready to carry out his orders.
At this, Faustina screamed piercingly, covering her face with her hands; the rest stood silent.
That evening she stood in her room before her mirror and admired her beautiful figure and features.
The postillions were already mounted; in the courtyard stood bareheaded burghers, at whom the King only glanced and whom he commanded to pay their taxes: a moment later everything was quiet in the castle and in Dresden.
The first stood gloomy and irritated, the second was embarrassed although he smiled, and the other was filled with admiration for each of his friend's words.
Frohlich went out to find his sledge, while the Count still stood undecided as to what to do.
On her other side Bruehl, wearing a blue and gold velvet dress, stood smiling sweetly at his mother-in-law.
The beautiful Frances, as if afraid at his appearance, stood silent.
He came toward her, circling the table that stoodbetween them.
She got slowly to her feet: it seemed to Luke minutes before she had stood up and begun her answer.
As if to climb above their noise, Luke stood on tiptoe.
He came over to Betty and stoodlooking down at her, his arms folded across his chest.
He had scarcely reached his desk, and was just bending to smell of the two Abel Chatney roses that stood in a vase there, when the soft bell of his telephone tinkled.
A man-servant with those brief side-whiskers which, twenty years before, were used to proclaim the millionaire, stood splendidly against the crush about the doorway.
Betty stood at the window in the full light of the street-lamp.
But come--it shall never be said that youth and inexperience ever suffered from the unworthy ridicule and cold sarcasm of the base world, while Tom O'Flaherty stood by a spectator.
Tom's guests had not yet arrived, and he himself was busily engaged in roasting the turkey before a large fire, on which stood a capacious vessel of spiced wine, when the party appeared.
Mighty severe," briefly and half crustily replied the unknown, with a richness of brogue, that might have stood for a certificate of baptism in Cork or its vicinity.
Then she stood erect in the centre of the room, an expression of perplexity on her face.
They stood side by side in the darkness for a few minutes, and then a torrent of rain dashed down upon the roof like tons of solid matter, which threatened to crush the building like an egg-shell.
Down in the glare below a woman in a blue hood and dress stoodpraying aloud, in a clear, appealing voice, while all about her were grouped the other Salvationists and a few earnest-eyed spectators.
And that night Pole was so drunk that the marshal started to lock him up, but the gang stood to him.
Cynthia stood up, and with her arms around the frail, bowed old woman, she tenderly kissed her on the brow and led her to the door.
As she stood in the door-way of the chamber and glanced back, Mrs. Porter saw Cynthia throw herself face downward on the bed.
For a moment she stood still, crying to herself with an inward voice that had no sound: "Alive!
Floyd stood up suddenly, and, with his hands behind him, he began to walk back and forth across the room.
Her heartstood still, for she recognized her mother's voice.
For an instant Mrs. Porter stood staring at her daughter, and then, as if to escape her glance, she turned and went slowly into Cynthia's room.
Reaching Mayhew & Floyd's store, she went in and showed the butter to Joe Peters, who stood behind one of the counters.
She stood like a thing of stone, straining her ears for its repetition.
Poor little John Harvey out on that jam when she broke would have stood about as much chance as a beetle at a woodpecker prayer meeting.
At one side, and near the windows, stood a smaller table.
Before one of these cabins stood a sweating horse.
Then, as Oldham stood militant in the dusty road, a change came over him.
Their horses stood dozing, ears and head down-drooped, eyes half-closed, one hind leg tucked up.
Samuels had risen to his feet, and stood rigid, his clenched fist on the table.
With all his education and his subsequent wide experience and training, he stood in the position of a very awkward subordinate to this mountain boy.
About it stood utensils from which the men were rather dispiritedly helping themselves.
Affairs seemed to be in charge of a very competent countrywoman whose fuzzy horse and ramshackle buggy stood securely tethered below.
He leaped apparently from below a rounded rock, and now stoodin full view of its crown.
Four or five big freight wagons stood outside, and a score of powerful mules rolled and sunned themselves in the largest corral.
Welton climbed down from the stump; stood firmly for a moment, his sturdy legs apart; then moved forward down the trail.
Bob stood in the bed of a broad, flat wash flanked by low hills.
There she stood a moment, her silk flounces fluttering in the sunlight, and her neatly gloved hands playing with the clasp of her travelling satchel, as the servant took a scarlet shawl and some books from the carriage.
I stood in the oriel window that curved out from one end of the large parlor and looked toward the east; that is, it commanded a broad view from all points, save the direct west.
While Tom was packing a valice under the seat, Mr. Lawrence stood near drawing on his gloves.
He stood for a whole minute gazing on me as if I had been a picture.
I went round the corner andstood on the veranda, picking roses and humming 'Katy Darling;' only I chose all the low parts, and heard quite comfortable.
If the volume had produced this effect, how much greater was the disturbance when its author stoodby my side, with looks and voice more eloquent than his writings.
When the steamer was out in the deep waters, and the dark came on, a man stood by my trunk and asked why it was that I stayed out of my room.
She put her arm caressingly about my waist, and Mr. Lee stood holding my hand, petting me as if my words had been a matter of the greatest consequence.
I went down to the veranda again, and found the stranger talking to Cora, who stood with her back against one of the pillars, answering his questions with downcast eyes.
He shook his head, moved away from me abruptly, and stood for a moment looking out upon the ocean in gloomy silence.
After this she stood a moment gazing upon the landscape at her feet.
So I stood looking at it in the dreary wetness of my garments, knowing what it meant, and dreading it.
It stood under the curve of the precipitous banks, a mile or two up the river, and Mr. Lee had spoken of riding that way at breakfast.
Mr. Murdoch, the Chief Officer, ordered the crews to the boats; and with some confusion different parties of stewards and sailors disentangled themselves from the throng and stood in their positions by each of the sixteen boats.
Then Pen descended with the cartouche-boxes and belts, and handed one to Punch in exchange for a musket, and the two lads stood ready.
There was another creak or two, evidently from overhead, and as Punch stood there on the alert, his brows knit and teeth clenched, Pen softly stole his hand in the direction of his own musket and raised himself up on the bed ready to help.
For the sound of a voice came to him from inside the rough hut, making him hurry over the short distance that separated him from the door, where he stood for a moment or two listening, and he heard distinctly, "Not me!
Punch; and he stood fast, while the smuggler patted him on the shoulder and went off quickly, leaving the boys alone, with Punch muttering and fuming in his intense desire to speak.
He started back as if the bullet that had been fired from a musket had cut the leaves above his head and stood listening to the roll of echoes which followed the shot.
The old priest now came slowly in andstood watching the two lads, who hurriedly finished their meal.
For my part, I am answerable for the fate of these poor mariners, who have stoodby my side in battle, and been so often drenched to the skin, along with me, by the same tempestuous surges.
Near the king's throne (though I had no time to tell you so before) stood his daughter, Ariadne.
The comrades of Ulysses, however, had not quite lost the remembrance of having formerlystood erect.
His mother stood looking on, with a sad kind of a smile on her lips and in her eyes, to see the zealous and yet puny efforts of her little boy.
Finally, there stood the twenty-two comrades of Ulysses, looking pretty much the same as when they left the vessel.
This wonderful tree stoodin the center of an ancient wood.
Europa screamed with delight; and Phœnix, Cilix, and Cadmus stood gaping at the spectacle of their sister mounted on a white bull, not knowing whether to be frightened or to wish the same good luck for themselves.
For a while, the warriors stood flourishing their weapons, clashing their swords against their shields, and boiling over with the red-hot thirst for battle.
Quicksilver accordingly made the best of his way to the great gate, took a flying leap right over the three-headed mastiff, and stood at the door of the palace in an inconceivably short time.
After this, the two antagonists stood valiantly up to one another, and fought, sword to horn, for a long while.
At a considerable distance from the shore stood a marble palace, which appeared to be very spacious, and had a great deal of smoke curling out of one of its chimneys.
She had for the present, however, banished these unpleasant doubts from her mind, and the guilty author of her previous discomfort stood idly by her side, smoking his cigar, and watching the people as they passed along the road.
She might not in that uncertain light have recognized the woman whose form stood out from the darkness behind her, but an impulse moved Lettice which she could not resist.
When I saw her she was terribly excited about some trifle or other--treated Walcott like a dog, without the slightest consideration for his feelings or mine, stood over him with a knife, and ended with a fit of shrieking hysterics.
Then she stood beside him, laid her arm upon his neck, and faced Sydney with indignant eyes.
She felt that he trembled, she saw that his lips were pale, and that the dewstood on his forehead.
Alan turned sick at heart, and stood leaning on the end of the mantelpiece, gazing at her without a word.
It seemed to be close at hand--a cry like that of a little child; and she stood up and peered into the shadow behind her.
She was coming forward to meet him; and there, in the middle of the Green, shrouded in almost complete darkness, the two stood face to face.
Then she found that the lights hurt her eyes, and she had them extinguished--all but one small silver lamp which stood on a centre-table, and gave a very subdued light.
When Sydney said this, he rose from the chair in which he had been sitting and stood on the hearth-rug before the grate, with his hands behind him and his handsome brows knitted in a very unmistakable frown.
She went out into the hall and stood for a moment hesitating.
Then she stood and gazed at the reflection of the fair locks, the large blue eyes, the graceful neck and shoulders.
Upon this stood stuffed specimens of owls, divers, and gulls, and over them bunches of wheat and barley ears, labelled with the date of the year that produced them.
A side gate in the platform railing was open, and outside this stood a dark vehicle, which they could not at first characterize.
On the mantelpiece of the drawing-room stood a letter addressed to her in his handwriting.
Behind him stood a woman about twice his size, with a large umbrella over her head.
Stephen reached the point of intersection, stood still and listened.
The sound was the stroke of a bell from the tower of East Endelstow Church, which stood in a dell not forty yards from Lord Luxellian's mansion, and within the park enclosure.
Then she suddenly withdrew herself and stood upright, vexed that she had submitted unresistingly even to his momentary pressure.
They stoodin the outer penthouse, but the man went in to the fire.
Mr. Headlam has always stood at the extreme right of the movement, and in party politics has never abated his loyalty to Liberalism.
Stood praising the fine weather; "The menfolks took the hint at once "To kiss them altogether.
Abrupt he spoke, and gave her arm a swing, But the same moment felt the wedding ring, And stood confus'd.
Huge paintings of Heroes and Peace Seem'd to smile at the sound of the fiddle, Proud to fill up each tall shining space Round the lanthorn[1] thatstood in the middle.
A little way apart on a mound of peat in the midst, stood a great hulk of a fellow, with a gown upon him, like a woman's smock, of white linen felled with purple at the edges.
And I confess my heart went out to him and all my sins stood black and threatening before me as I listened.
Jock Wabster took the hill baa-haain' like a calf as he ran, and even bauld Auld Anton stood by the door cheek wi' his sword point atween him an' the deil whummelt on his hearthstane!
We stood as though the place had been the Place of a Skull--the place wherein there is a garden, and in the garden a new tomb.
Gay Garland stood by with a raised look upon him, lifting his feet a little, as though going daintily over a bridge whose strength he was not sure of, and drawing all the while the wind upward through his nostrils.
Walter Gordon stood discontentedly enough at the side of the firegrate, touching the glowing embers with his French shoe, careless of how he burnt it.
Upon the Session Stone twelve men stood with heads bared to the fierce heat of the sun.
We stood so still on the knowe-top that, I think, we must have feared them a little.
Anton, and went after Walter Ker and John Young, who stood together as though they had gotten a dead stroke.
But Maisie Lennox, who was nearest to me, looked over to where her father stoodat the corner of his company.
I asked of a dark long-haired man who stood near us, what was the meaning of such a gathering.
After a long time I awoke, dreaming that Maisie Lennox stood by my bedside and took my hand, saying, "The kye are in the corn!
However, as we stood conferring a moment together, there was one came running hastily from the house to the stables, carrying a lantern.
The Lady Lochinvar stood a moment still by the fire, listening, her hand raised as if to command silence.
This was the costume of the woman, but the woman herself, as she stood in the doorway, the taper in her hand, who may describe her?
Lady Nora looked up quickly, scenting a compliment, and ready to meet it, but the cardinal's face was so grave and so sincere that her readiness forsook her and shestood silent.
He had almost reached the door when he stopped and spoke to a little man who stood behind the show-case in which are the enamels.
They stoodwhile the cardinal said grace, at the conclusion of which, all, except the earl, crossed themselves.
The girl stood it bravely for six hours, then she began to droop.
When they arrived they found the Tara dressed in flags, from truck to deck; Lady Nora stood on the platform of the boarding-stairs, and the crew were mustered amidships.
On a cloudless January night, late arrived in Rome, we stood in the Coliseum, a party of friends from England.
We have left the Pharisee for Abraham, and have stood beside him to look and listen.
Your dying Saviour has met your creditor in full for you, and in Him you have entire discharge in that eternal court where the terrible plea once stood against you.
But here also we rest in the fact that behind both Moses and Paul, in their free and mighty personalities, stood their one Lord, building His Scripture slowly into its manifold oneness through them both.
He stood amidst circumstances most significant and suggestive in matters of Christian truth.
It seemed rather that the black serviceman, after the first flush of victory over segregation, was beginning to perceive from the vantage of his improved position that other and perhaps more subtle barriersstood in his way.
Reconvened in January 1946 to consider the comments on its original report, the Gillem Board deliberated for two more weeks, heard additional witnesses, and stood firm in its conclusions and recommendations.
Yet after less than two years as an independent service the Air Force in late 1948 stood on the threshold of integration.
The NAACP stood firm, however, and demanded at its annual convention in 1941 an immediate end to segregation.
Assignment of Negroes to Europe had been stopped, but the number of black regulars waiting for overseas assignment stood at 5,000, a figure expected to double by the end of the summer.
A small group of institutions built and operated by local authorities stood on land leased from the services.
The same ethics stoodforth in the conclusion of the committee's final report, raising that practical summary of events to the status of an eloquent state paper.
Here the matter would probably havestood until after the election but for Thomas E.
If other facilities stood nearby, the change would be allowed only after he had coordinated with the naval district commander.
Black enlisted strength of all the overseas commands stood at 8.
At one extreme stood the Allied commander in Italy, General Mark W.
He looked for a few moments at the towers of the castle, which stood out blackly against the dark background of the sky.
The Carmelite went first and conducted the Baronne de la Logerie along a damp, dark corridor, in which were a dozen doors; she opened one of these doors and stood aside to allow the lady to enter.
Petit-Pierre released herself from his grasp and stood at his feet, but so feebly that she seemed scarcely stronger than her companion.
His sons stopped at the given signal; but they stood up, and looking over the top of the hedge they watched their father's proceedings.
He found the latter in the courtyard, and beside him stood a peasant, covered with mud and sweat.
The youth stood looking after them, silent and motionless, until they had disappeared round a curve of the road.
Jean Oullier walked away, partly to reconnoitre the situation, and partly to obtain provisions, of which they stood greatly in need.
Baron Michel was so perplexed in mind, and his heart above all was so agitated, that his legs failed him, and he stood stock-still till the girls came up to him.
Michel dismounted and the pair entered a little thicket of osiers, in the middle of which stood a willow, to which Michel tied his horse.
Monsieur Michel, as Courtin called him, unprepared for the explanation he so much dreaded, and which was now forced upon him suddenly, stood silent and confused, unable to reply.
While the soldiers continued their exploration the lieutenant stood leaning against the outer wall of the house, looking suspiciously at a little pent-house he resolved to search carefully.
At the noise the column made she turned her head, and then, as if impelled by curiosity, she rose and stood beside the road to see it pass.
This was, apparently, the person of whose reproaches the young man stood so much in awe.
Not a fracture of one of its elastic limbs; but that ancient stone chimney rumbled fearfully, and stood apart in moody isolation.
The fringe of oaks and madronos were wonderfully fresh, as theystood half in sunlight and half in shadow, still dripping, here and there, with the moisture which had been condensed during the night.
A moment after, a tall figure glided out, as from a hole in the wall, and stood by the horse.
Our own air is quite as exciting, but after stirring one up, it leaves him to take the consequences, whereas that faithful Swiss air stood by and helped out the enterprise.
The inn stood midway of the village street that for hundreds of yards followed the curve of the lake shore with its two lines of high stone houses.
He lived in a certain Villa Garibaldi, which had belonged to an Italian refugee, now long repatriated, and which stood at the foot of the nearest mountain.
At one end of it stood a tower springing out of an almost fabulous past; then you came to the first of three plashing fountains, where cattle were always drinking, and bareheaded girls washing vegetables for the pot.
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