Short and stout, and with a very red face, he looked the part of a very busy man who thought well of his importance in the world of affairs, and who had by some chance been caught in an eddy from which he could not well extricate himself.
He had not lived in Central America long enough to know that in this little world of sudden revolution and many strange surprises, things are almost never done snappy.
Darkness had indeed fallen when he reached the outer worldof the jungle.
Do you know how much five thousand acres of the finest grapefruit in the world will bring in New York?
A nation that was once rich and in a way powerful, that had a civilization rivaling any to be found in the world five centuries ago, has dwindled to a handful of vagabonds of the jungle.
To add one ship after another, one plantation, one narrow-gauge railroad after another until the ships are a fleet, railroads a system and the plantations a little world all their own.
Then who cares what further riches the New World may still hold?
No true blade could have inspired greater skill than the boy displayed before an empty world and without a real adversary.
The World War was not the only one in which he had fought.
Time had been when Kennedy would have engaged this rich man of the world in sharp debate.
He had gone out into the world with an unanswered longing for some one whom he might think of as a kinsman.
And then perhaps," he thought more soberly still, "that may have been the box I saw on the rocky ledge just as the earthquake shook the world down upon my head.
The whole world had that unreal air it assumes at beautiful moments, as though it might vanish at a touch like an iridescent soap-bubble.
The emptiness and silence of a world from which I had driven everything but dreams suddenly overwhelmed me, and I shuddered as I drew the bolt.
Did not the world exist for the sake of these hard, crystalline thoughts, with which he played as with so many bone spilikins, delighting in his own skill?
But here one chats with the whole world in a day’s walk, for every man one meets is a class.
As the way is with so many country-bred people, the world for her was divided up into families rather than individuals.
Then I'll make it across the top of the world or bust up in the attempt," said Tim determinedly.
The cold, gray banks swallowed the little plane and Tim was flying in a world alone.
Someone who knows the air from A to Z, someone with nerves and brains and foresight, and there isn't a reason in the world why you shouldn't fill that editorial chair when the time comes.
A dozen reporters, an editor to handle every department, half a dozen telegraph wires that bring the news from every corner of the world and even an airplane to ferret out the stories in the clouds.
They had flown over the top of the world and definitely proved that the fabled Arctic continent was just that--a fable.
Ralph's features were set in equally bitter lines for he knew how much the proposed flight over the top of the world meant to the young explorer.
Some were that he was a super-flyer, a famous World war ace who had gone wrong; others had him leading a desperate band of aerial gunmen.
Suffice to say that it was classed as a "Jenny," a type of biplane used by the army in training it's flyers in the days of the World War.
Ralph wrote the story of their flight over the top of the world and failure to discover land while Tim wove his discovery of the Viking tomb into a powerful, dramatic tale that within a few hours was to fascinate the reading public of America.
The clipping told little more of importance, but to Tim it had provided a world of information.
He heard Ralph's triumphant shout as he tightened his grasp on the wire and felt the plane nose downward, but the world was dancing before his eyes.
Now Susan had heard her mother often, in the course of this day, wish that she had but money enough in the worldto pay John Simpson for going to serve in the militia instead of her husband.
All the worlddo not agree in opinion about characters: you will hear the same person admired in one company, and blamed in another; so that we must still come round to the same point, 'Judge for yourself.
It would be well for all the world if they could be convinced, like Arthur, that to live in friendship is better than to quarrel.
How can anyone in the world know so much about the matter as I, who have dined with Lady Diana Sweepstakes but yesterday, and heard all about it from beginning to end?
What else, in the 'versal world have you to do, but to go basking about in the yards and places with your tankard in your hand, from morning till night?
Why, all the world will be here; and (looking round at the jellies, etc.
This attorney began the world with nothing, but he contrived to scrape together a good deal of money, everybody knew how.
And one thing comforts my heart, even as I AM lying here, that not a soul in the wideworld I am leaving has to complain of me.
You will go through the world your own way, Mr. O'Ryan, and allow me to go through it my way.
In the same moment Anne and Paul exclaimed, "The thing we wish for the most in the world is a blanket for our grandmother.
I see more of the world under my tattered garb than, perhaps, I should ever see in a better dress.
He found all the world at supper, but no entreaties could prevail upon him to disclose his secret.
For that worldis still the old Indian world of his forefathers, and it is as far removed as the poles asunder from the Western world which claims his education.
It is merely the continuation and the complement of the education our children receive in their own homes from the moment of their birth, and it moves on the same lines as the world in which they live and move and have their being.
Western education has largely failed in India because the Indian, not unnaturally, fails to bring an education based upon conceptions entirely alien to the world in which he moves into any sort of practical relation with his own life.
Whilst attending college our student still continues to live amidst the same purely Indian surroundings, and his contact with the Western world is still limited to his text-books.
Will the "Servants of India" find the same permanent inspiration in the cult of an Indian Motherland, however highly spiritualized, that has no rewards to offer either in this world or in any other?
I see the lightning flashing from the point of thy bow, the world quaking at thy frowns, and creation trembling under thy tread.
They are at the same time the proudest and the closest aristocracy that the world has ever seen, for they form not merely an aristocracy of birth in the strictest sense of the term, but one of divine origin.
When a man grows old, has attempted much, and finds that the world cannot be made to move according to his will, he must needs grow weary of it at last.
Are not those monarchs most extolled by the world and by posterity, who can pardon, pity, despise an offence against their dignity?
Tell him that I know this, that I know him, that the world despises every trophy that a paltry spirit erects for itself by base and surreptitious arts.
Egmont, on the contrary, advances with a bold step, as if the world were all his own.
Tell him that he deceives neither the world nor me.
In this world the rogue has everywhere the advantage.
Oh, thou mightest let the whole world sit in judgment over thee.
To-day the world suddenly stands still, its course is arrested, and my pulse will beat but for a few minutes longer.
Go, that I may collect my thoughts, the world forget, and first of all thyself!
She thought passionately that destiny had no right to put her in such a terrible extremity, and that the whole world was to blame.
Herein was the root of Lilian's awful burning resentment against the whole world, and of her fierce and terrible determination by fair means or foul to make the world pay.
And as, regaining calm, she realized the horrors which might have happened to her, the resentment in her heart against destiny and against the whole world grew intense and filled her heart to the exclusion of every other feeling.
The world held nothing that he wanted and did not possess.
Only yesterday Miss Grig had thrown her out of Clifford Street with ten days' wages for a weapon to fight the whole world with.
Miss Grig had a purified and chastened air, as of one detached by suffering from the grossness and folly of the world, and existing henceforth in the world solely from a cold, passionate sense of duty.
He loved to avoid the great world when it was inconvenient, and to get a certain freedom outside of it; but once in the current, the manners of the Romans were his own.
Mr. Mason must have known her keen gratitude, for who understood better than he the feeling by which she was lifted away from the things of this world by the power of music.
When the grass is green above us And they who know us and who love us Are sleeping by our side, Will it avail us aught that men Tell the world with lip and pen That we have lived and died?
Of what this newworld was to her we find some hint, of course, in her letters; but no human lips, not even her own exuberant power of expression, could ever say how her existence was enriched and made beautiful through music.
The dignity and independence of Mrs. Child's character were so great that she knew her friends would find her wherever she might live, and her desire to help on the good work of the world led her to practice the most austere economies.
Nevertheless the great world of art was more to Celia Thaxter than to others; perhaps for the very reason that her mind was open and unjaded.
How small a portion of the world outside can understand the lives of writers, actors, and those whose professions compel them to depend directly upon the public!
The worldmoves on unconscious; but the world's children have been blessed by her coming, and they who know and understand should praise God reverently in her going.
After her long trial and her years of suffering she was to have "her day" in the world of beauty and love which lay about her.
A beautiful experiment it has been, and one for which the scientific world is bound to be thankful; giving, as it does, perhaps a faint idea only of what is yet to be effected.
The Belgians have long been, and still are, our principal competitors in supplying those parts of the world which do not rank gun manufacturing among their staple trade.
The scientific world is deeply indebted to General Jacob, of the Scinde Horse, for the zeal and energy he has displayed in carrying out his principle of projectiles.
Gun-cotton has been before the world for some years, but, except as a curiosity, it has attracted little public attention; neither has it gained any reputation as a projectile force.
The Whitworth rifle, which was introduced to the world with a clarion flourish from the Times, has not made any very rapid progress toward perfection.
The prices he obtained were enormous certainly; but all men should be paid well, who can prove they possess extra brains and ability: he remunerated his workmen on this scale, and he unquestionably had the best set the worldever saw.
Our manufacture of inferior gunnery has certainly reached a depth of inferiority which never any other manufacture in the world reached, and I hope never will.
What in the world are we to do with this Italian and his balloons?
Why, not to be able to resist the torrent in which I was plunged, launched into the worldyoung and inexperienced.
You write enchantingly, my charming friend; but why take so much trouble to prove a position which all the world knows, that to make a quick progress in love matters, it is better to speak than write?
I think it time to inform you, Viscount, the world begin to talk of you.
He himself agrees he has done many wrong things, and, perhaps, the world has imputed many more to him.
I am very sorry for it now, and I would give any thing in the world for a moment, to tell him only once how much I love him.
Is it real, or does he mean to deceive the world to the last?
If I fulfilled any duties, they rendered me more worthy of you; if I cultivated any science, it was in hopes to be more pleasing to you, whenever the distractions of the world drew me from you.
If you wish to know the course of this correspondence, you must accustom yourself to decypher my minutes; for I would not for the world take the trouble of copying them.
It is with his divine assistance, I hope soon to convince you, that religion only can give even in this world that solid and durable happiness, which is vainly sought in the blindness of human passions.
Valmont was not engaged about Madame de Merteuil; and I have all the reason in the world to think, Danceny was as far from thinking of her: so that I think it is demonstrable, that she could not be either the cause or object of the quarrel.
Cecilia, I assure you the world is not so pleasing as we used to think it.
Lashed into action by the high-handed measures of Lord Curzon, the lethargy of the people died away, they tried for the first time to stand upon their own legs and boldly face the world without fear of death.
On the other hand if you import fine cloth from Manchester, the whole world will cry shame upon you.
What was her position in the hierarchy ofworld powers?
Survey the history of the world from the beginning of all times.
Both the reports astounded the world with first-hand knowledge of the unparalleled atrocities of the Punjab.
But as you know, He came into the worldto save sinners.
As though it were the most obvious thing in the world to do, as though no one would dream of doing anything else, the villagers, collectively and singly, laid the burden of initiative upon his clerically garbed shoulders.
All the gladness, all the joy in life, all that the world could hold seemed for an instant his.
There seemed to be a world of irony in the fact that he who sought escape himself should plan another's rather than his own!
With a sort of old-world grace, the elder woman bowed.
He looked at Henri Mentone, and suddenly it seemed as though a world of sympathy and pity were in his face.
Out in that world where he was set apart, out in that world of inhuman isolation, this was the loneliness that was greatest of all.
Monsieur Dupont was no fool, and it was perfectly true that the man had not the slightest chance in the world of getting away--alone.
There is only one person in the world to whom I owe affection.
This happy preferment in time opened the whole official world to one not only singularly qualified for that kind of life, but who possessed the peculiar gifts that were then commencing to be much in demand in those circles.
The princesses of the world would be great fools if they refused such a man, but I know of no authentic instance of such denial.
The world will talk of the disparity of our years; but Lord Roehampton says that he is really the younger of the two, and I think he is right.
She received the world with the same constancy and splendour, as if she were the wife of a minister.
Turning from the high road, a walk of half a mile brought them to a little world of villas; varying in style and size, but all pretty, and each in its garden.
But to the world in general, the mighty million, to the professional classes, to all men of business whatever, the end of the season is the beginning of carnival.
He was alike capable of sacrificing all his feelings to worldly considerations or of forfeiting the world for a visionary caprice.
The world is all before you, and I mistake if you do not rise.
The Father's Son, God everblest, In the world became a guest; He leads us from this vale of tears, And makes us in his kingdom heirs.
And were the world ten times as wide, With gold and jewels beautified, It would be far too small to be A little cradle, Lord, for thee.
Th' angelic choir rejoice, and raise Their voice to God in songs of praise; To humble shepherds is proclaimed The Shepherd who the world hath framed.
Lord God, thy praise we sing; Lord God, our thanks we bring; Father in eternity, All the world worships thee.
He it was, emphatically, who stood based on the spiritual world of man, and only by the footing and power he had obtained there, could work such changes on the material world.
For God's dear Word they shed their blood, And from the world departed Like bold and pious sons of God; Faithful and lion-hearted, They won the crown of martyrs.
Thus came Death upon us all, Bound the captive worldin thrall, Held us 'neath his dread dominion.
They thanked their God that by his aid They now had been denuded Of Satan's mock and masquerade, Whereby he had deluded The world with false pretences.
He whom the world could not inwrap Yonder lies in Mary's lap; He is become an infant small, Who by his might upholdeth all.
O Lord, thou by thy heavenly light Dost gather and in faith unite Through all the world a holy nation To sing to thee with exultation, Hallelujah!
The world is, alas, not so mindful and diligent to train and teach our poor youth, but that we ought to be forward in promoting the same.
Thine over all shall be the praise And thanks of every nation, And all the worldwith joy shall raise The voice of exultation.
These students lead a life almost monastic; for as the monks had nothing in the world to do but when they had said their prayers at stated hours to employ themselves in instructive studies, no more have these.
An attachment of this nature is generally the characteristic of a benevolent mind; and a long acquaintance with the world cannot always extinguish it.
In a new worldthey wake, as from the dead; Yet doubt the trance dissolv'd, the vision fled!
But the world and its occupations give a mechanical impulse to the passions, which is not very favourable to the indulgence of this feeling.
That world a prison-house, full of sights of woe, Where groans burst forth, and tears in torrents flow!
Slowly to land the sacred cross we bore, Signifying to the Infernal Powers (all' infierno todo) the will of the Most High, that they should renounce a world over which they had tyrannised for so many ages.
One fair asylum from theworld he knew, One chosen seat, that charms with various view!
Chief of the ZEMI, whom the Isles obey'd, By Ocean sever'd from a world of shade.
Far from the busy world she flies, To taste that peace the world denies.
I've seen something of the world and can take care of number one, anywheres.
Where in the world did you catch those whopping trout?
Such at least was the name we had for them; and we boys thought that if "Doad" had known how to do nothing else in the world but fry pies, she would still be a shining success in life.
Ignorance and small malice robbed the world of an apple that might have given delight and benefit to millions of people for centuries to come.
What in the world possessed you to grab that biggest sheep first?
It was my fixed belief and hope in those youthful years that, if anywhere in the next world there were a deep, dark, super-heated compartment far below all others, it would be reserved expressly for Van Tassel and his Anthelminthic.
The whole world changed from deepest, darkest blue to rose color in one minute; and I said, provisionally, to myself that even if he did not sell so that we could start for a month, I could perhaps endure it.
The value to theworld of such a choice apple may be enormous.
And then she was not even pretty, and she had got into the twenties--not a mere girl, with all the world before her.
All the world is curious about him--both those whose lives he may influence, and those to whom he can contribute nothing but the interest, perhaps of a new drama, perhaps only of a new face.
It seemed to John the new world in which all life begins again; but to Edith it was only a confusing, bewildering, alarming sort of fairy land, which all her instincts taught her it was right to flee from.
I believe, for my part, that the most luxurious condition in this world is when you know you can be well off at any moment, and yet are half starving.
Rintoul felt that if it happened only one other evening, all the world would say that there was something going on, and possibly some society paper would inform its anxious readers that "a marriage is arranged.
It is all very well to laugh," he said, with the most solemn air of offended dignity, "but anybody who knew the world would tell you the same thing.
Scarcely anything in this world concerns one's very self alone and nobody else.
Sir James said to himself, who knew nothing about India or anything serious, yet had seen a vast deal, and had very just notions, and spoke like a man of the world when you came to talk to him!
Sandy stood imperturbable, with all the calm of a man accustomed to stand most of his time looking on at the vague and quiet doings of the world about him.
He had more knowledge of the world than his father had.
Here was the most hideous thing in the world existing in their sight, her sister at once the victim and the chief actor in it, and all that could be given her in her eager attempt to set things right was a kiss!
Nature seem'd buried in her own Ruins; and the vegetable World to be Supporters only to her Monument.
And where's the Wonder, as the World is compell'd to own, that Heroick Actions and Largeness of Soul ever did discover and amply distinguish the genuine Branches of that illustrious Family.
But lest it should be imputed to my Want of Merit, I have wrote these Memoirs, and leave the World to judge of my Deserts.
But after the World became a little acquainted with that notable History; the Man that was seen in that once celebrated Drapery, was pointed at as a Don Quixot, and found himself the Jest of High and Low.
And I am apt to think, those who would palm upon the World like vicious Relations of Nuns and Nunneries, do it on much like Grounds.
If I am hang'd, it shall be for ridding the World of an arrant Rascal.
Personal griefs are of no public interest, but here is as sad a public loss as has befallen us, if the world can measure truly, in our generation.
Tis our mutual Interest; 'tis for the Interest of the World we should agree.
Tis a plain Proof that the World is all alike, and that even our Gang can no more trust one another than other People.
And under his leadership at this moment may we not go back to our work in the world with renewed courage and faith, "We few, we happy few, we band of brothers.
And every whispering sound in the scented worldthrough which he was passing found an echo of music in his dreaming soul.
They cared not the least bit in the world who was shot up, or who did the shooting, so long as they were not personally concerned beyond the rôle of spectators.
The sooner I leave this world for other realms the sooner I shall be able to pursue those others who have injured me and passed on to--a fresh habitation.
He longed to take her in his arms and comfort her, and protect her from every shadow the whole wide world held for her.
There were still traces in them of the groping mind, searching on, amidst the chaos of a world unseen.
His face was calm with something of the peace of the world through which he was riding, something of the peace which comes to those who have abandoned forever the strife of the busy life beyond.
At any moment they might obscure that ruddy light and pour out their dismal measure of discomfort, turning the world from a smiling day-dream to a nightmare of drab regret.
Partially-severed limbs hung drooping, their weeping foliage appealing to the stricken world about them for a sympathy which none could give.
You see, next to the woman I loved he was everything in the world to me.
It--it is the only thing in the world that is stronger than disaster.
You got twenty more years of the world than me, so your eyes look around you different.
He was the best man in the world an'--an' my big friend.
His narrative marks quaintly the immense difference that has come over the world since the mid-fifteenth century in which he wrote.
From its mountain fastnesses and those of its neighbour Asturias, went forth those indomitable Christians who saved Europe and the world from the domination of Islam.
You are in a quaint, strange world as soon as you have stepped ashore and are clear of the Customs and free to roam.
There are those in the cycling world who, even in risky and unknown neighbourhoods, neglect precautions and scoff at danger.
They will go to see the land and its people, and to wander through the old-world streets and squares and market-places, which have charms unrivalled in any region within such easy reach of England.
No sensible person will admire seeing among religious the activity of flesh and blood and the passion of ambition, which they cannot leave behind in the world when they take refuge in the asylum of the cloister.
Thence comes the fine earthenware which is, with reason, so celebrated throughout the world as choice and inimitable, because the material and clay of which it is made are found in no other place.
If you were to judge the value of the tree, two and a half feet in diameter, big enough to make a world of pecans, you would have to remember that just because we didn't have something to pollinate we didn't have any pecans.
I have got quite a lot of them here to show you and the biggest filberts in the world and they are all seedlings.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "world" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
