Bransby put down the jade toy held till now idly, and took up a magnifying glass.
Such was—in brief—the home and the home folk of Deep Dale, the millionaire shipbuilder’s toy estate a mile or two from Oxshott.
Stephen’s earliest recollection was of their mother; Hugh’s earliest was of Stephen, mending a broken toy for him, and comforting him with a silver threepence.
Slowly, reluctantly even, her eyes left his face, and moved mechanically until they halted and rested on a green-and-pink toy blinking in the sunset.
A toy so delicate lasted only a short time in our hands," continues the story of the Wright brothers, "but its memory was abiding.
Picking his way amid the powerful machinery and the maze of switchboards, the scientist finally stopped in front of a little device that seemed like a toy amid the gigantic machines of the power-house.
I used to play with toy engines, but they wouldn't give anywhere near one horsepower, much less 110.
The idea was just the same as that of the toy that started the Wright brothers to thinking.
Boys in playing with toy helicopters to-day can run them with rubber bands, but Da Vinci had to turn his screw by human power.
This toy consisted of a globe pivoted on two supports, one of which was a communicating pipe leading into a heated cauldron of water beneath.
Yet when the famous orator made his speech the Grecian experiment was a toy of Kings, and the steam engine had just developed from this toy into a mighty engine in the hands of Watt.
Meeting Carey a fortnight later, Anthony inquired after the new home, and Carey replied with apparent lack of enthusiasm that the house had been leased for a term of three years, with refusal of the purchase at the expiration of the time.
The manufacturers ought to be prosecuted for making a toy that will come apart like that.
You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.
Prêcher sept ans pour un carême = To do a great deal for little good.
She turns up the whites of her eyes; She pretends to be ill; She looks like a dying duck in a thunderstorm.
As a toy to caress, to fondle, she was enchanting.
Besides, I consider it my duty, towards Ticknor and towards Boston, and America at large, to take you into custody and bring you home; for I know you will never come except upon compulsion.
We had previously supped on a tough old nightmare named buffalo.
The onlyToy that did not appear to be affected was the great gray Elephant lately arrived.
I will never marry a Toy who gives way to his temper over nothing.
Indeed, from being the proudest Toy in the shop she became the meekest and gentlest--kind and thoughtful to all.
Let but a foolhardy toy dare insult us, and--" here he gave the word of command, and instantly a dozen and one swords sprang from their scabbards.
From this you will easily understand that she was a Toy who gained more admiration than love.
This was the leaving of a little toy lamb under the large leather divan in the front room, where Lester was wont to lie and smoke.
The toy shops and candy stores were radiant with fine displays of everything that a self-respecting Santa Claus should have about him.
And Jennie, stricken to the heart, would take Vesta to the toy shop, and load her down with a new assortment of playthings.
Nothing more was said about the incident of the toy lamb.
Along the streets ran a toy tram, pulled by a single horse, which was driven by a man who moved his arms just as if they were real, and who puffed genuine clouds of smoke from his tobacco-pipe.
Timber Town lay like a toy city at the bottom of a basin.
In circumstances like this a little boy has the right, when he arrives at the toy shop, to choose for himself the thing he wants to buy.
If you say he must take you to a toy shop, that settles it.
You could have kissed the jolly red paint of him, and the pretty toy bank was a thing to hug tight under your arm.
The results pleased them and they are to be used as wall-papers to sell in our town, but Sybil wants to have a toy shop, and she is going to make a painted circle for it like the one I showed.
For this ought to be strong enough to bear unskilled handling and vigorous movements, for a broken toy ought to be a tragedy.
Even in very primitive times the child probably experimented upon the revolving qualities of his mother's spindle till she found it more convenient to let him have one for himself, and it became a toy or top.
A Toy Train was your very own; it took you wherever you wanted, to Fairyland, or Russia, or anywhere, at whatever pace you chose.
Igazabb a szőke; Érik a vadalma, Hamisabb a barna.
