The single gentleman received the remonstrance with great good-humour, and promised from that time forward, to spend his evenings at a coffee-house—a determination which afforded general and unmixed satisfaction.
By and by he proferred his request again, with great respectfulness.
We passed the glacier safely and began to mount the steeps beyond, with great alacrity.
The number of slain is reported, as usual, with great discrepancy.
He was seated on a low stool or cushion, somewhat after the Morisco or Turkish fashion, and his nobles and principal officers stood around him, with great ceremony, holding the stations suited to their rank.
This was done, with great ceremony, by the whole population in a body.
By means of these they went through their calculations with great rapidity, and the Spaniards who first visited the country bear testimony to their accuracy.
Old Miss Crawley laughed when Briggs, with great mystery, handed her over this candid and simple statement.
She made her preparations for departure with great equanimity; and accepted all the kind little Amelia's presents, after just the proper degree of hesitation and reluctance.
Quilp, with greatsuavity in his manner, but still more of quiet malice about his eyes and mouth.
In this he laid me gently down, and taking off his enormous hat, commenced farming me with great assiduity.
I went upstairs into a small apartment, where I found the master with about a dozen pupils standing in a row; I saw but one stool in the room, and to that, after having embraced me, he conducted me with great civility.
I am a keeping that young man from harming of you at the present moment, with great difficulty.
For this reason therefore they parted with great dissatisfaction, and the King Malcolm returned to Scotland.
During this year the Pope Paschalis sent the pall into this land to Ralph, Archbishop of Canterbury; and he received it with great worship at his archiepiscopal stall in Canterbury.
Then after Michaelmas came David, the king of the Scots, from Scotland to this land; and the King Henry received him with great worship; and he continued all that year in this land.
Then was the earl received at Winchester, and at London, with great worship; and all did him homage, and swore to keep the peace.
It was not until the two boys had scoured, with great rapidity, through a most intricate maze of narrow streets and courts, that they ventured to halt beneath a low and dark archway.
All this was very pleasant and improving to see; and Oliver beheld it with great admiration.
The beadle drew himself up with great pride, and said, 'I inwented it.
She takes this up with great warmth; but can she lead her son out of the business with the same splendour she is leading him into it?
King Harald never fled from battle, but often tried cunning ways to escape when he had to do with great superiority of forces.
The news is told, And the Norsemen bold Repeat it with great glee.
When Michaelmas came, the king had high mass sung with great splendour.
The end was that Sveinke returned home to his farm, and Sigurd Ulstreng came, with great difficulty, by land north to Throndhjem to King Magnus, and told the result of his errand.
The south-eastern frontier claimed by King Leopold extended to Lakes Tanganyika, Mweru and Bangweulu, but it was not until some years later that it was recognized and defined by the agreement of May 1894 with Great Britain.
In 1245 he went to Paris, received his doctorate and taught for some time, in accordance with the regulations, with great success.
The only drug which appears to have any beneficial influence on the course of the disease is potassium iodide, and this has occasionally been used with great benefit.
The French army now moved forward with great rapidity in their usual formation of columns.
Therese fetched another deep sigh and raising her eyes looked at me with great attention.
With great presence of mind I whispered into Doña Rita’s ear: “Perfect silence!
The taller of the two (he was in evening clothes under a light wide-open overcoat) with great presence of mind chucked her under the chin, giving me the view at the same time of a flash of white teeth in his dark, lean face.
He looked at me with great pity in his eyes, sighed deeply, and took the little tin from my hand.
While he thus looked, an old man got staggering to his feet, unwound his blanket, and laid it, with great gentleness, on a young girl who sat hard by propped against a rock.
Understand one thing,' he said, with great energy.
And I can assure you he has watched the experiment ever since with great satisfaction.
Oh, I've been to tea with the Doctor," says Tom, with great dignity.
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