My dear Lady Clarehaven," he repeated, with the least trace of emphasis upon the conventional epithet.
In fact, I asked the governor if he could trace anything about your branch in the family history.
Certainly he seemed to have been very frank, and I looked at him again to trace (if possible) that virtue in his face.
Now the last trace of hardness went from the weathered countenance, the drooping mustache lifted to show toothy gaps, and even the marble of that eye softened.
But what unpracticed hand could trace such a splendid countenance?
The party soon after separated, not to meet again for several nights; for the news of Lucas's death would of course be the signal for a general search through the country, and the most active measures to trace the murderer.
My object in this little story being to trace the career of one humble man through the trials and temptations incident to his lot in life, I must not dwell upon the wider theme of national disturbance.
Benjamin Sulte was one of the first to discover that the Mascoutins had been in Nebraska, though he does not attempt to trace this part of Radisson's journey definitely.
Once the smoke of a camp-fire rose through the bordering forest; but no sooner had Mackenzie's interpreters approached than the savages fired volley after volley of arrows and swiftly decamped, leaving no trace of a trail.
Sometimes they avoided leaving any trace of themselves by walking in the stream, dragging their boats along the edge of the rapids.
Two years later all this shore was ravaged by the sons of Harold; and in the Domesday record, made eighteen years afterwards, we still can trace their handiwork in the lessened values of villages they had plundered.
It is like a great wren's nest, a ball of moss, thick and closely felted, and marvellously laced round and round with long pliant larch twigs, and with only the least trace of an entrance at the side.
Or, this may have been an accidental disposition of the drapery, since no trace of her momentary alarm remained in her countenance or demeanor.
Charts on a larger scale, but of a later date, are available, and enable us to trace the physical features of the coast, but their nomenclature is not always that of the original discoverers.
Genealogists trace back his pedigree to a valiant soldier, Alvaro Annes da Gama, who resided at Olivenca in 1280, and greatly distinguished himself in the wars with the Moors.
It is noteworthy that not a trace of the original names survives in the local nomenclature of to-day, though the exact position of most of the stations has been made out from other indications.
Wunsiedel was a typical German hill village; the ancestry, as far back as we can trace it, was typically German, as untouched as Wunsiedel itself, by any breath of cosmopolitan life.
He certainly did not indulge in it merely to please the multitude, for in many of his pieces there is not the slightest trace of this sort to be found; and in what virgin purity are many of his female parts worked out!
Eagerness to learn Fritz showed in pathetic fulness, but the most diligent search has revealed no trace in these years of that creative imagination with which he was so richly dowered.
I'll have the truth from her; if I have to call in the police to trace her.
With notrace of anxiety, he turned to witness the consummation of his labours.
Yet, as he turned toward Frederik, there was no trace in his tone of anything but pleasant banter.
Patrols had guarded every road that the fugitives might take either to Lustadt, Blentz, or the border; but no king had been found and no traceof his abductors.
You may never sit upon your throne until the last trace of this sinister mental disorder is eradicated, so take your medicine voluntarily, or otherwise Joseph will be compelled to administer it by force.
Its coat was long and white, and there was not the slightest trace of influence of the short, gray-haired doe in whose body it had grown.
Most of them can not trace back their pedigrees, but that does not alter the fact.
This lessened death-rate extends in a lessened degree to the year following that, but is not by the present method easy to trace further.
So that the one Church is only a fantastic imagination which has not the least trace of reality about it.
When no trace could be discovered of the articles, high or low, he took up the opinion that we had been visited by tramps, and sent off for old Jones the constable.
When pirates had brought a ship under cover of the natural harbour to these tunnels, they took all the merchandise ashore and then broke up the vessel, so as to leave no trace of the incident.
Among the remains of this period is found the first trace of money, rude little bronze fragments without shape.
It frequently recurs in the ancient Egyptian writings, where it is interpreted life; doubtless, could we trace the hieroglyph to its source, it would likewise prove to be derived from the four winds.
Still further back in history than the foregoing are we able to trace this singular figure.
Searching back for the origin of life, men stopped at the earliest point to which they could trace it, and exalted the reproductive organs into symbols of the Creator.
You're very good to interest yourself so much in my work,' he said, with no trace of shyness or awkwardness in his manner.
Minna did wish that there was just a little more trace in his letters of his being sorry to be so very, very far away from her.
He nevertheless concealed all traceof the ill-humor that he himself could not define or explain, and ended by uttering a commonplace phrase in praise of the duke, but which really meant nothing.
And with his greedy glance he continued to trace the curves of that exquisite torso, the back that he had pressed, all the being moulded by voluptuousness, that had been his.
It was of the utmost importance to trace her, but what could be done?
The police failed totrace me, for the gipsies had been cunning enough to stay some weeks in England after my capture to throw my relatives off the scent, keeping a strict watch upon me.
They had searched every room, nook and cranny for some trace of Mizzi, some clew as to where she might have flown.
All traceof boredom gone, his eyes aglow with eagerness, he gesticulated for silence.
But in spite of the most careful search he could not see any trace of the handkerchief.
There is probably no evil, from a murder to an epidemic, which Truyn would not have liked to trace directly or indirectly to the sinister influence of Conte Capriani.
There was no trace in the wife of the docile devotion of the betrothed.
Not a trace was perceptible of the irritability which Georges had observed on the previous day.
Nowhere is there a trace of romantic exuberance, everything tells of sober, practical thrift.
A whirling cloud of dust was soon the only traceleft of the bustle of the arrival.
There is not the slightest trace of resemblance between the handsome aquiline face of the elder, stylishly-dressed woman, and the rounder and more sensitive face of her quietly-attired companion.
Not much, though we have been able to trace him rather farther than you did.
His dress was in the best Oxford style; and in his easy, confident carriage there remained no trace of the overgrown schoolboy.
Written laws were modified and controlled by customs of which no trace can be discovered, until after the lapse of centuries, although those usages must have been in constant vigor during the long interval of silence.
