Then they talked one with other of the cause of the slaughter of the maidens, and the wise said, "Women are not all alike, nor are the fingers of the hand alike.
The elder man was in rather a rare mood, more expansive and confidential than usual; and, when the coffee was brought in and they were left alone, he talked more freely of his personal plans and hopes than he had ever done before.
So he took her by the hand and guided her through the woods, and they talked much of the sadness of parting forever.
Other men talked to him of the future and of the things that he ought to do.
So the knight sang and talked very beautifully for about the space of three hours in front of the Tower.
Becky's fate was hanging in the balance, and his mother talked of okra!
I like to remember that Thomas Jefferson came riding through and stopped at the mill and talked to the miller.
That was the time when she had come down for Hallowe'en, and it was on Sunday evening that they had talked it over in the Bird Room at Huntersfield.
The Major sat in the sitting-room andtalked to Randy, and as he talked he held Madge's hat in his hand.
He was glad that she had not talked to Dalton as she had talked to him.
She talked to him as if he were a man and not a mechanical toy.
I shall have to perjure myself," he said to Major Prime later, as they talked it over in the Schoolhouse, "to go through the country telling mine own people to sell their horses and get cars.
He seemed to want to take you any way, the day he talked to me.
I am being very frank with you, Randy, because we have always talked things out.
Then he sat down on the station platform, andtalked to the agent.
It was on such nights that his comrades had talked to him in France.
They talked a great deal about Truxton after that.
I said that, and even talked to my wife about it the same way, and now we all see you was right.
She said you had thrown out some hint of it recently, and she and I talked it over.
Do you remember how Judge Manis talked to us the day he remitted our fine, dismissed the court, and talked to us in private?
You see, I never have talked much religion to you boys down home, and as far as I know none of you ever heard me pray out loud in public.
He asked about the fishing of one of the fishermen and apathetically listened while the man talked of rods, reels, lines, sinkers, and bait.
You know the Catholics have no church here--there are so few of them--but at her house my brother met Catholics who talked to him and gave him books to read.
You've talked too much to our men on your line of free thought, I am thinking.
But you talked differently before it happened," John insisted, his lip hanging and quivering.
He felt my pulse and looked at my tongue and eyes and talked sorter serious about my condition.
The old man talked at considerable length, but suddenly noticed that his wife, seated in the lamplight across the table, had not uttered a word, which struck him as being truly remarkable.
But Tilly seemed to understand John's way and not to care much whether he talked or was silent.
He talked free-like, as men do when they reach the very bottom of ill luck.
You might go and spend money, and get the thing talked about, and written of in local newspapers.
Anne Ross felt very certain that she had no gift for spending money and getting herself talked about--that it might be possible for her to do something more.
Happening to be at headquarters when the trouble was being talked about, he heard an officer suggest making use of the empty hogsheads at the sugar-house; how to get them to the trenches was the next question.
October 15: Nothing talked of except the recent order calling into service the detailed men.
Mind and heart she certainly had, and he talked with her not merely about kitchen and cellar; but she probably studied him more in his actions, than in his works.
Then he reminded the Council that outside of the Church no one can be saved, and as though he had not talked enough, he came back once more to ceremonies.
They talked politics and religion, the people up and down the street, the chances of Murphy, the tinsmith, getting on the force, and a great deal about the weather.
In addition to that, he had one idea, which was a sort of hobby, and about which he talked to them a lot.
It has been much talked of lately and widely endorsed by logical persons.
Among other things, he was addicted to the cocaine habit--he sniffed the powder from the back of his hand--and in due time he talked to her about it.
When they came to a room with gilded leather hangings, he talked to them about how the people had dressed their walls and ceilings ever since the beginning of time.
They cackled and chattered and wished him all kinds of good luck, and he, too, talked to them and thanked them for the wonderful journey which he had been privileged to make in their company.
The mother talked long with her son, and while she was speaking he stopped weeping.
They regarded Clement with very different eyes after hearing that he had talked with the King, and the little fiddler was afraid to show how proud he felt.
He talked so convincingly that she was persuaded to step into his boat.
As he picked out the grains and ate them, Bataki talkedto him.
One could easily see that the goose who talked with the gander was very old.
Now they became so excited that they all talked at once.
He had been summoned on a parochial errand to a remote forest settlement, where he had talked with a sick person until late in the evening.
These last few days she talked of how afraid she was lest there would be no one with her when she died.
Then he reflected that it was only an ignorant old peasant from Hälsingland that he talked with--and so resumed his friendly attitude.
I thought as much," said Bataki; "for when last we met, you talked confidently of there being nothing more contemptible than deceiving a friend who trusts one.
As they worked, they talked quite knowingly among themselves of how the little shrubs they were planting would bind the soil so that it could not get away, and of how new soil would form under the trees.
We talked about it--we talked about it; you don't remember so well as I.
This last was partly, no doubt, because the question of tact might be felt as having come up at the end of a quarter of an hour during which he had liberallytalked and she had genially questioned.
Against what we've already so fully talked of--its having to be recognised between them that he doubts.
Their conversation too--for theytalked rapidly and incessantly among themselves--sounded the strangest Babel that ever was poured into civilised ears.
The speaker talked on unembarrassed, and presently delivered a shot which went home, and silence and attention resulted.
I believe I never saw him but once; but he was much talked of when I lived there.
They talked among themselves in subdued eager whispers, dropping in to the meal as they came off duty.
That ship you talked of is awfully plated up topside, but all her underpinnings are pretty weak.
He galloped about the castle, book and pencil in hand, making imaginary sketches of bastions and ravelins; he talked liberalism by the bushel, and raved against the Montpensior alliance.
We sat long, and talked much with him, and he was urgent in invitations to us to prolong our stay in the city.
She went, and, until Walter came, I talkedto Mr. Percivale as if nothing had happened.
And of all this we talked to Connie as we went; and every now and then she would clap her hands gently in the fulness of her delight, although she beheld the splendour only as with her ears, or from the kisses of the wind on her cheeks.
The matter was talked over for a quarter of an hour longer and then the detectives went off to make their report and to follow on the trail of Dan Baxter, if such a thing was possible.
They talked the matter over and began a systematic examination of their prison.
The matter was talked over for several days, and Tom begged that they might take a trip across the continent and back, using some of the money derived from the old treasure.
The matter was talked over until midnight, and then it was settled that Dick, Tom, and old Jerry should take the largest rowboat and some bandages and medicines and row over to the vicinity of the fire.
The matter was talked over, and seeing that they were willing to work, Captain Blossom became a little milder in his manner.
She was the first girl who had ever looked twice at him, the first one he had ever taken out or talked nonsense with or been ordered about by in the possessive fashion used by the modern young woman.
For his arms were full of a sobbing Kitty who clung to him while she wept and talked and exclaimed all in a breath.
She drew up to look at some pond lilies, and they talked about them for a moment, after which her direct eyes questioned him frankly.
Perhaps if I talked with Bromfield--" Whitford laughed shortly.
He stood in the heavy rain beside the car, a figure of supple grace even in his evening clothes, and talked in a low voice with Beatrice's father.
The longer Hawley talkedthe more astounded Matt became.
Clipperton was breathing hard and talkedin husky gasps.
Matt talked with Susie for a little while, but kept quiet about his expected meeting with Clipperton.
The major talkedwith great earnestness and laid a confiding hand on Matt's shoulder.
The real Sokrates, since he talked incessantly and with every one, must of course have known how to diversify his conversation and adapt it to each listener.
I do not mean that Sokrates always talked so; but that such was the marked peculiarity which distinguished his talking from that of others.
Of course the ten spurious dialogues must have been talked of by some persons, or must have got footing in some editions or libraries, as real works of Plato: otherwise there could have been no trial had or sentence passed upon them.
Here were matters upon which every one talked familiarly, and would have been ashamed to be thought incapable of delivering an opinion.
Lastly, Sokrates worked forcibly upon the minds of several friends, who were in the habit of attending him when hetalked in the market-place or the palaestra.
But it was otherwise when he talked with men of ease and indulgence without ambition, such as Aristippus.
Nothing is talkedof but armies, navies, battles, etc.
From morning to night no one thought or talked of anything but wheat, how it was coming down, how it was ripening in the stooks, and how it would thresh out.
She would never have dreamed of talking to her own sisters as she talked to Grace.
And before it came to an end Bertha realized that the poor old man who had talked so much about his losses was very ill.
The two mothers meanwhile talked calmly in the room below, where Macalister had lighted the fire, and where, in the cheerful blaze and glow, everything became more easy and tranquil and calm.
She had sung and laughed and talked his heart, so much as remained to him, away.
Tom, who was hot and indignant too, was more in sympathy with her than the others who talked about ghosts, which made her angry she could scarcely tell why.
He hadtalked looking straight ahead of him, striving to give his words judicial weight.
They talked about the hardships they had endured while apart and of some things they had enjoyed which were as bright spots, or oases, in the desert of their separation.
He spoke to Campbell and took him one side and talked with him.
On such days his patriotic feelings were wrought up and he talked much of wars, patriotism and so forth.
Mother concluded she would go and said she would get ready for the journey and we would go and see the old native places, and old friends and make the visit we had talked about so long.
There was but little talked about, at our house, except the cars, until the whole family had been to see them.
I saw that uncle was getting me in rather close quarters, but I talked away as fast as possible, walking around and looking at the cattle.
Still undismayed, the ambassadors, changing their tactics, talked indulgently of their willingness to purchase a peace.
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