The Duke of Burgundy had a singular fancy for constructing mechanical traps and surprises in his house and grounds, so that visitors were liable to encounter practical jokes at every turn.
I have just said from time to time the things I had to say, and it has been a series of surprises to me that people should pay so much attention to them, and remember them so long.
And here it was that they always brought their picnic feast, and today the basket reposed near by filled with surprises that Auntie Gibbs, the Baxter housekeeper loved to prepare for Bet and her friends.
I tell him all my secrets and all my happy surprises and even my troubles.
I see that surprises you, Mr. Cleek, as, to be perfectly frank with you, it surprises me.
Yes; and as full of fateful surprises for each other.
It does not appear to have made much headway as a fact, which rather surprises me in a country neighborhood.
But if Mr. Stevenson is responsible for Attwater, surely also he contributed the two splendid surprises of the story.
And madame had added, with a sigh: "It surprisesme much more than you.
What most surprises is the rapidity of the transformation.
In the north of California, a crab (Cryptolithoides typicus) covers itself in the same manner with a living cloak which hides it from view, and under cover of which it surprises those whom it attacks.
It surprises us during the night, and does not wait till its digestion is complete before it attacks us again.
The dancing would be of necessity more picturesque and less conventional than required by the average valse, and there must be fluctuations of tempo, sudden surprises and abrupt languors.
His flame-like spirit waxed and waned in the gusty surprises of a disappointed life.
He never relaxes his theme, and its fluctuating surprises are many.
In view of possibility of surprises in war and election, Wilson, for reasons already stated, refuses to attempt mediation until re-elected.
Except for the surprises that are usual over here, things are at present quite calm.
Political surprises in the United States are almost the rule.
He surprisesthe mother counting up the cicatrices.
This is that same Poet, too, who surprises elsewhere a queen in her swooning passion of grief, and bids her murmur to us her recovering confession.
What surprises me is, that in this remote spot, so distant from anything that can be called Law, so much tranquillity prevails under the circumstances.
It was indeed a night of surprises for the man who acted as host to these unexpected and none too welcome guests.
The patient's reception of his wonderful intelligence was an added astonishment to the many surprises of that day.
But the next day brought new surprises of which they hadn't yet dreamed.
I am sure there can't be any more surprises as nice as the ones we have had.
In company he is never at rest, and surprises one by his lively play of features and the entirely natural and unaffected expression of his thoughts.
The world has no idea of the surprises in all directions yet in store for it.
But now that surprises are in order, I suppose you know who lives here?
Your question, Miss Vincent, surprises me," she said.
Do surprises gravitate into groups, or are certain facts binary?
It surprises me that Sir Narayan should speak of General Dyer's massacre in the same breath as acts of non-co-operation.
It surprises me to find so many people shirking over the mention of non-co-operation.
So that Catherine was thinking at most of some misconduct of a Perth dyer with regard to her mother's best gray poplin, when one of the greatest surprises of her life burst upon her.
He drew away from the books at last with the uneasy feeling of one who surprises a confidence, and looked for Robert.
Nothing surprises me more," said Foster, as they walked along, "than to see such beautiful wells and fountains in streets so narrow that one actually has not enough room to step back and look at them properly.
But it's not that I wonder at, Peter; it's the putting of such splendid work in such dark narrow lanes that surprises me.
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