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More "Presently" Quotes from Famous Books
... Presently, Captain Bors received the two visitors. His once-jaunty uniform looked like a dustman's. He was much more grim than anybody his age should ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Talents, Incorporated • William Fitzgerald Jenkins
... presently, courtly and spare and distinguished in his thread-bare soutane, and they went in to the breakfast-room, a round chamber in the adjoining tower which had kitchens beneath. The walls were here so thick, that ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Man and the Moment • Elinor Glyn
... assured my Father I had wanted for nothing; and withal told him I was continually eating some Trash or other, and that I was almost eaten up with the Green-sickness, her Orders being never to cross me. But this magnified but little with my Father, who presently, in a kind of Pett, paying for my Board, took me home with him. I had not been long at home, but one Sunday at Church (I shall never forget it) I saw a young neighbouring Gentleman that pleased me hugely; I ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 - With Translations and Index for the Series • Joseph Addison and Richard Steele
... name appears, and first in order, amongst those who signed the pamphlet, The True Levellers Standard Advanced: or, The State of Community opened and presented to the Sons of Men, which bears date April 26th, 1649, and to which we shall presently refer, it does not appear in any of the later publications of the Diggers. Whether he died about this time or merely dropped out of the movement, we have not ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Digger Movement in the Days of the Commonwealth • Lewis H. Berens
... confidential. Dear Madam,—I have not wasted my time and my opportunities, as you will presently see. ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Heart and Science - A Story of the Present Time • Wilkie Collins
... with such a rush that they flew past the hour and he had to make them repeat the circuit more deliberately. He felt a quite disproportionate irritation at the trifling blunder. When he had corrected it he went back to his chair and threw himself down, leaning back his head against his hands. Presently his cigar went out, and he got up, hunted for the matches, lit it again and returned ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Reef • Edith Wharton
... hand has found means to thicken the water, by subtilising the air, and so well to distinguish those two sorts of fluid bodies? If water were somewhat more rarefied, it could no longer sustain those prodigious floating buildings, called ships. Bodies that have the least ponderosity would presently sink under water. Who is it that took care to frame so just a configuration of parts, and so exact a degree of motion, as to make water so fluid, so penetrating, so slippery, so incapable of any consistency: and yet so strong to bear, and so impetuous to ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Existence of God • Francois de Salignac de La Mothe- Fenelon
... music school on Michigan Avenue for Jane Atwood. Presently she appeared, and Marsh was conscious of a quickened beating of the heart as he watched the slender, graceful figure approach. He noted the becoming flush, which spread over her features as she recognized him, and he was certain that no woman ever ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Sheridan Road Mystery • Paul Thorne
... but the worst was past. The rest of the gully gave me good and safe climbing, and presently a very limp and weary figure lay on the cliff-top. It took me many minutes to get back my breath and to conquer the faintness which seized me as soon as the ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Prester John • John Buchan
... When, presently, the cobbler emerged from the elevator, below, he paused before leaving the hotel to mop his perspiring brow with a large, soiled handkerchief. The perfume of hyacinths seemed to have pursued him, bringing with it a memory of ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Fire-Tongue • Sax Rohmer
... in new black woolens, and wearing, as an incongruous added touch, the most brilliant of neckties, a necktie of the shade of a pomegranate blossom, he presently issued from Felsburg Brothers' and entered M. Biederman's shoe store, two doors below. Here Mr. Biederman fitted him with shoes, and in addition noted down a further order, which the purchaser did not give until after he had conferred earnestly with the members of ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Best Short Stories of 1917 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various
... for half an hour, during which the sleeping man slept on without movement, and the voices of the two men in the salle 'a manger rose and fell in conversation. Presently there was silence, broken only by an occasional remark. "They have lit their cigars," Fanny murmured; "they will take their coffee, and in a few minutes they will ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Blind Love • Wilkie Collins
... element without which life and tea-tables alike are wanting in interest. We are all, of course, watching them, and curious to know whether we are to have a romance or not. Here is one of them; others will show themselves presently. ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Over the Teacups • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
... the bachelor, "don't be uneasy, but go home in peace; get me ready something hot for breakfast, and while you are on the way say the prayer of Santa Apollonia, that is if you know it; for I will come presently ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Don Quixote • Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
... the Crucifix hanging over his bed, and, presently, seeing a glimmer of dawn through the shutters, knelt down and said ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Angelot - A Story of the First Empire • Eleanor Price
... so weak that I tried to be as quick as possible and to keep my ears shut. But presently a stranger came into the ward. Carre turned his head slightly, saw the visitor, and frowning, ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The New Book Of Martyrs • Georges Duhamel
... Street. He walked westwards along the promenade. "Why am I doing this?" he asked himself again and again. "Why don't I go home? I must be mad to be doing this." Still his legs carried him on, past lamp-post after lamp-post of the wind-driven promenade, now almost deserted. And presently the high lighted windows of the grandest hotels were to be seen, cut like square holes in the sky; and then the pier, which had flung a string of lanterns over the waves into the storm; and opposite the pier a ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Clayhanger • Arnold Bennett
... Sive; then turne a joyned stoole with the feet upwards, set the sive on the feet thereof, cover it with a faire linnen cloath, and set a chafin-dish of coales in the middest of the stoole underneath the five, and the heat thereof will run up to the sive, and dry your Candy presently; then box them up, and they will keep all the ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — A Book of Fruits and Flowers • Anonymous
... Canada did not, however, mean the cessation of fighting. There came, presently, the war between Great Britain and the American colonies, one of the most amazing exploits of which was the marvelous march of Arnold and Montgomery through the forests of Maine to the St. Lawrence, ending in the wonderful ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights • Kelly Miller
... eyes, his head thrown helplessly back, and then I remembered some brandy I had in my dressing-bag. He took the glass from me and raised it to his lips with a trembling hand. I stood watching him, debating within myself whether I should disobey him by calling for help or not; but presently, to my great relief, I saw the stimulant take effect, and life come slowly surging back in colour to his cheeks, in strength to his whole prostrate frame. He straightened himself a little, and turned upon me a ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Cecilia de Noel • Lanoe Falconer
... determined attention to his book discouraged his companion, but presently rapping the pages of Tristram Shandy with the back of ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Burglar and the Blizzard • Alice Duer Miller
... a good one; we were not making much progress toward finding any treasure, and the beach certainly looked like a good place for a swim. The three of us ran down the hill, pulling off our clothes as we ran. Mr. Daddles lingered for a while, but presently joined us, and ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Voyage of the Hoppergrass • Edmund Lester Pearson
... they cornered me in a sort of interview, and Alcott frankly developed the subject. I finally said, 'Mr. Alcott, I deny your inquisitorial right in this matter,' and so they let it drop. One day, however, I was walking along the road and Emerson joined me. Presently he said, 'Mr. Hecker, I suppose it was the art, the architecture, and so on in the Catholic Church which led you to her?' 'No,' said I; 'but it was what caused all that.' I was the first to break the Transcendental camp. Brownson came ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Life of Father Hecker • Walter Elliott
... means off my head about poor Dickie Calmady," she said presently,—"specially where Cousin Katherine is concerned. I couldn't go on caring about anybody, irrespective of their conduct, just because they were they. And yet I can't help seeing it must be tremendously ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The History of Sir Richard Calmady - A Romance • Lucas Malet
... fortune (the sharpenesse wherof I haue often felt) haue I bene vanquished with so great disquiet, as nowe. For I am so vexed with my passions, as being ouercome by them, I haue none other refuge, but to a most unhappie death that euer man can suffer, if presently I bee not holpen. Knowe ye therefore, that I deeme him onely to be happy that by Reason can rule his wyttes, not suffering hym selfe to be caried into vayne desires: in whiche pointe wee do differ from beastes, who being lead onely by naturall order, doe indifferently runne headlong, ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 • William Painter
... at this speech, and her air of disapproval amused Belle and Yvonne exceedingly. They began presently to talk of the classes in which they were considered brilliant pupils, and of their success in compositions. They said that sometimes very difficult subjects were given out. A week or two before, ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Jacqueline, v1 • Th. Bentzon (Mme. Blanc)
... miserable, he feels nothing. On the other side, if the wicked man be in the right, he is not happy; if he mistakes, he is infinitely miserable. Must it not be a most manifest wrong judgment that does not presently see to which side, in this case, the preference is to be given? I have forborne to mention anything of the certainty or probability of a future state, designing here to show the wrong judgment that any one must allow he makes, upon his own principles, laid how he pleases, who prefers the ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume I. - MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books I. and II. (of 4) • John Locke
... fancies? Like a man Carved out of alabaster and set up Within a woodland, he stood rooted there, Glimmering wanly under pendent boughs. Spell-bound he stood, in very woeful plight, Bewildered; and then presently with shock Of rapid pulses hammering at heart, As mad besiegers hammer at a gate, To life came back, and turned on heel to fly From that accursed spot and all that was, When once more the girl's laugh made rich the night, And melted, and the silence grieved ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Wyndham Towers • Thomas Bailey Aldrich
... her course, had {now} been cut by the ship, and both lands were at a great distance, when, towards night, the sea began to grow white with swelling waves, and the boisterous East wind to blow with greater violence. Presently the master cries, "At once, lower the top sails, and furl the whole of the sail to the yards!" He orders, {but} the adverse storm impedes the execution; and the roaring of the sea does not allow ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Metamorphoses of Ovid - Literally Translated into English Prose, with Copious Notes - and Explanations • Publius Ovidius Naso
... obtain new carriers, because Chibisa's men, never before having been hired, and not having yet learned to trust us, did not choose to go further. After resting a little, Mbame told us that a slave party on its way to Tette would presently pass through his village. "Shall we interfere?" we inquired of each other. We remembered that all our valuable private baggage was in Tette, which, if we freed the slaves, might, together with some Government property, be destroyed in retaliation; ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries • David Livingstone
... from the violence and meanness of those intolerable tyrants up into the asylum of his own hushed apartment at Versailles; there flinging himself down for a moment in the alcove, on the painted bedstead, then presently rising, with a smile on his lips and the fright and anger gone out of his eyes, and advancing to the great oaken bureau which displayed his faience and his guitar. He would glance, for encouragement, at the framed portrait of Bossuet which ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France • Edmund Gosse
... but 'the first floor,' I fancy, frowned at first, as though indeed Landladies' sisters had no right to die And taint the air for nervous lodger folk; Then smoothed his brow out into decency, And said, 'how sad!' and presently inquired The day of burial, ending with the hope His lunch would not be late like yesterday. The maiden-lady living near the roof Quoted Isaiah may be, or perhaps Job— How the Lord gives, and likewise takes away, And how exceeding ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — English Poems • Richard Le Gallienne
... why he looked at me so, and why he seemed to resent my return to hopefulness and courage. I might have followed this train of thought further with advantage, since I possessed a clue to his state of mind; but at that moment a summons at the door called him away to it, and he presently ushered in M. d'Agen, who, saluting me with punctilious politeness, had not said fifty words before he introduced the subject of his toe—no longer, however, in a hostile spirit, but as the happy medium which had led him to recognise the worth and sterling qualities—so ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — A Gentleman of France • Stanley Weyman
... dearer than those of the one or two solid and persistent shops that do the steady business of the place. Perhaps I see the new people going to church once or twice very respectably, as I set out for a Sunday walk, and if they are a young couple the husband usually wears a silk hat. Presently the stock in the window begins to deteriorate in quantity and quality, and then I know that credit is tightening. The proprietor no longer comes to the door, and his first bright confidence is gone. He regards one now through ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — New Worlds For Old - A Plain Account of Modern Socialism • Herbert George Wells
... Day. Presently Zene's countenance, and even the cast in his eyes, became a certainty instead of a wavering indistinctness, and he smiled with satisfaction while halting his vehicle at ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Old Caravan Days • Mary Hartwell Catherwood
... starve herself,—hide herself behind the tub, and stay there all night,—and then they would all be frightened, and Tom would be sorry. Thus Maggie thought in the pride of her heart, as she crept behind the tub; but presently she began to cry again at the idea that they didn't mind her being there. If she went down again to Tom now—would he forgive her? Perhaps her father would be there, and he would take her part. But then she wanted Tom to forgive her because he loved her, ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 • Charles H. Sylvester
... Innes retiring, there presently entered a distinguished-looking, elderly gentleman upon whose florid face rested an expression not unlike that ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Fire-Tongue • Sax Rohmer
... was black as ink and formless; the sand looked white as sun-bleached bone by contrast; the dark green wave of the orange-gardens appeared pale; a palm-tree in the distance stood up wan against the impending cloud. Presently a flash of lightning made them quicken step; big drops of water fell like bullets round them. Before they could reach the hotel the rain came down in sheets, beating up the sand like smoke, and they were drenched ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Valley of the Kings • Marmaduke Pickthall
... be here presently," she said. The lady stood upon the open space, and the moonlight fell unbroken upon her. Nothing could be more becoming; her figure looked more graceful and elegant than ever. "In the meantime I shall ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Room in the Dragon Volant • J. Sheridan Le Fanu
... the more they puzzle themselves, as a bird in a net, the more they are entangled and precipitated into this preposterous gulf: "Many are called, but few are chosen," Matt. xx. 16. and xxii. 14. with such like places of Scripture misinterpreted strike them with horror, they doubt presently whether they be of this number or no: God's eternal decree of predestination, absolute reprobation, and such fatal tables, they form to their own ruin, and impinge upon this rock of despair. How shall ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Anatomy of Melancholy • Democritus Junior
... although much relieved, Jeff fell back again to literature, interrupted only by the charging of the wind and the heavy volleys of rain. Presently he found himself wondering if a certain banging were really a shutter, and then, having settled in his mind that it WAS, he was startled by a shout. Another, and in the ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Jeff Briggs's Love Story • Bret Harte
... 'Come, I'll take the books and shawls. It's nearly five o'clock, and we shall hear Hop Yet blowing his lusty dinner-horn presently.' ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — A Summer in a Canyon: A California Story • Kate Douglas Wiggin
... seemed formed of similar translucent purple; and despite the excited state of my feelings and the stupendous nature of the words which I had just seen written by my own pencil, I was impressed with a sense of grandeur and of beauty which presently filled me with faith and hope. I assured myself that the spirit to whom permission had been given thus to transport me from my home was as kind as he was powerful. He had set me down in a beautiful ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 • Various
... the porter, Grace knew that the desperado, for the moment at least, was posing in the character of a law-abiding citizen, and was availing himself of his rights as such to ride in a Pullman-car. Being thus relieved of cause for immediate alarm, her breast presently began to swell with a fine indignation at the impudence of this abandoned person in thus thrusting himself into a place reserved, if not absolutely for aristocratic, certainly, ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — A Border Ruffian - 1891 • Thomas A. Janvier
... his oration the Shawanoe presented the war belt—nine feet of six-inch wide purple wampum spattered with vermilion—to Dragging Canoe, who held it extended between his two hands, in silence, and waited. Presently rose a headman whose wife had been a member of Sir William Johnson's household. He laid his hand on the belt and sang the war song. One by one, then, chiefs and warriors rose, laid hold of the great belt and chanted the war song. Only ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Pioneers of the Old Southwest - A Chronicle of the Dark and Bloody Ground • Constance Lindsay Skinner
... speechless and motionless with his sparkling black eyes fixed on her thin, pale hand. The mild effulgence of the lunar light shone full upon his face, bringing out every feature in perfect outline. Presently his whole frame shook as though it had received an electric shock. Mrs. Godfrey looked straight at him with her piercing black eyes from the moment he had stood before her. Her power over him seemed like that of a charmer. Her magic nature had completely overcome him. Never did a naval hero appear ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Young Lion of the Woods - A Story of Early Colonial Days • Thomas Barlow Smith
... were forbidden him, its duties seemed to accumulate daily. There was Mr. Cardross to be kept patient by the assurance that all was well, and that presently his daughter and his grandchild would be coming home. There was Alick Cardross, now a young clerk in the office of Menteith & Ross, to be looked after, and kept from agitating his sister by any questionings; and there was a tribe of young Menteiths always ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — A Noble Life • Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
... others might notice, Dodge passed on. He presently reached a door leading into the hallway. Here he remained briefly. Then, when he believed himself to be unobserved, he slipped out, took his ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Dick Prescott's Third Year at West Point - Standing Firm for Flag and Honor • H. Irving Hancock
... excellent heart moved him to give Christmas presents. He had put off this regenerating evil until the latest day, as was his custom, and now he was setting forth to do the whole thing at a blow, entirely planless among the guns and rocking-horses that would presently surround him. As he reached the highway he heard himself familiarly addressed from a distance, and, turning, saw four sons of the alkali jogging into town from the plain. One who had shouted to him galloped out from the ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Lin McLean • Owen Wister
... dismal drizzle set in that presently increased to a steady downpour, which drove Lermontoff to his cabin, and that room being unprovided with either window or electric light, the Prince struck a match to one of the candles newly placed on the washstand. He pushed the electric button summoning the ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — A Rock in the Baltic • Robert Barr
... birds screechin' so up there; I darna go up," added little Nancy. They were the hawks that she meant, which hovered whimpering and screaming about the highest cliffs. David called them little cowards, but began to descend, and, presently, seeking for berries and flowers as they descended, they regained the little winding, craggy road, and, while they were calling to each other, discovered a remarkable echo on the opposite hill side. On this, they shouted ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. • Various
... over, so that she had room enough to sit on the edge without danger of falling in and drowning. For a few minutes she could only sit still and be thankful and try to get her breath back again after the climb; but presently the beauty of the night began to cast its spell over her. That wonderful blue of the sky! It hadn't ever before impressed her that skies were blue at night. She would have said they were black or gray. As a matter of fact, she didn't remember to have ever ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — A Voice in the Wilderness • Grace Livingston Hill
... schoolboy's game, played with small round balls made of stone dust, catted marbles. I'll be one upon your taw presently; a ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue • Captain Grose et al.
... wagon, deep mired in the middle of the stream, and what did I see? Our army chests, floating away down the river. I cried out: "Oh! do save our chests!" "They're all right, we'll get them presently," said Jack. It seemed a long time to me, before the soldiers could get them to the bank, which they did, with the aid of stout ropes. All our worldly goods were in those chests, and I knew they were soaked wet and probably ruined; but, after all, what did it matter, in the face of the serious ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Vanished Arizona - Recollections of the Army Life by a New England Woman • Martha Summerhayes
... the canoe. It is useless being astonished at anything in Africa and there was obviously nothing to do but sit still while the crew raced along as fast as they could paddle. In a few minutes they pulled into the bank and there we waited for the kitchen which presently appeared with the cook reclining in the arms of one of the crew and moaning: "Je mart, je mort." After a rapid examination, however, I could find nothing at all the matter. At length we discover the ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — A Journal of a Tour in the Congo Free State • Marcus Dorman
... away quickly as they sat talking, and presently the children heard the distant sound of a bell. They recognized the sound. It was the bell ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Rico And Wiseli - Rico And Stineli, And How Wiseli Was Provided For • Johanna Spyri
... began, came crowds of chiffchaffs and willow-wrens, filling the furze with ceaseless flutterings. Presently a nightingale sang in a hawthorn bush only just on the other side of the road. One morning, on looking out of window, there was a hen pheasant in the furze almost underneath. Rabbits often came out into the spaces ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Nature Near London • Richard Jefferies
... against hers, which yielded themselves all too willingly. Presently he raised his head, and his eyes held hers. "Won't you come, Jess? There's nothing here for you. See, I can give you all you wish for: money, a fine home, as homes go hereabouts. My ranch is a dandy place, and," with a curious laugh, "stocked with some ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Twins of Suffering Creek • Ridgwell Cullum
... but by degrees became less so. When I had accomplished about three parts of the ascent I came to a place where the road, or path, divided into two. I took the one to the left, which seemingly led to the top of the mountain, and presently came to a cottage from which a dog rushed barking towards me; an old woman, however, coming to the door called him back. I said a few words to her in Welsh, whereupon in broken English she asked me to enter the cottage and take a glass of milk. I went in ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Wild Wales - Its People, Language and Scenery • George Borrow
... Then what was Martin's amazement to hear his own shout and this chorus of bird ha, ha, ha's, repeated by hundreds of voices all over the lake. At first he thought that the other birds were mocking the ibises; but presently he shouted again, and again his shouts were repeated by dozens of voices. This delighted him so much that he spent the whole day shouting ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — A Little Boy Lost • Hudson, W. H.
... apart from the multitude, and asked why He had spoken to the people in this manner, and what was the meaning of this particular parable. Our Lord's reply to the first part of the inquiry we shall consider presently; concerning the second, He asked "Know ye not the parable? and how then will ye know all parables?"[617] Thus did He indicate the simplicity of this the first of His parables, together with its typical and fundamental ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Jesus the Christ - A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy - Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern • James Edward Talmage
... itself a response to a stimulus. It is an inner response thrown into activity by some stimulus, such as the stimulus of being asked to give the opposites of a series of words that are presently to be shown or spoken. This inner response of getting ready for the task can be introspectively observed by a person who is new to this type of test. It may take the form of mentally running over examples of opposites—or whatever kind of responses are to be called for—or it may take the form of ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Psychology - A Study Of Mental Life • Robert S. Woodworth
... did not stop to hear him out, for all of a sudden he sprang up, poised himself a moment in the sunny air, and then darted into the water, from whence he presently emerged, bearing a little struggling fish in his great beak, and with the sparkling drops of water running off his back, and leaving his bright glossy blue feathers all dry, shining, and bright, as though he had only been for ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Featherland - How the Birds lived at Greenlawn • George Manville Fenn
... but which I certainly considered one of the most extraordinary specimens of the fruit I had ever seen. It kept twirling and dancing about among the rest in the most singular manner, and as it drew nearer I thought it bore a remarkable resemblance to the brown shaven skull of one of the savages. Presently it betrayed a pair of eyes, and soon I became aware that what I had supposed to have been one of the fruit was nothing else than the head of an islander, who had adopted this singular method of bringing his produce to market. The cocoanuts were all attached to one ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Typee - A Romance of the South Sea • Herman Melville
... Ligurians, Baleareans, and Greeks. At first they were insolent in their quarters in Carthage, and were prevailed upon to remove to Sicca, where they were to remain and expect their pay. There they grew presently corrupted with ease and pleasure, and fell into mutinies and disorder, and to making extravagant demands of pay and gratuities; and in a rage, with their arms in their hands, they marched 20,000 of them towards Carthage, encamping within fifteen miles of the ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Essays on Mankind and Political Arithmetic • Sir William Petty
... smoothly. It was Kathleen's query about the coffee that elicited the truth. Mary, with nervous gigglings, announced to her mistress that Ethel was ill and had sent a substitute. The coincidence that Josephine's nominee should turn out to be a friend of Ethel struck Mrs. Kent as strange, and presently she went down to ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Kathleen • Christopher Morley
... told her, and then went on with what I had been speaking about when she shivered. But as I talked it slowly dawned on me that we had been standing still some time, and presently I stopped speaking and glanced off, expecting to recognize something, only to see alkali plain on both sides. A little surprised, I looked down, to find no siding. Rising hastily, I looked out forward. ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Great K. & A. Robbery • Paul Liechester Ford
... kitchen, and the girl flew around, with enthusiasm, and snatched rag after rag from a tall something in the corner, and presently there stood the clay statue, life size—a graceful girlish creature, nude to the waist, and holding up a single garment with one hand the expression attempted being a modified scare—she was interrupted when ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... Hamburg. In this note I was told "that the information I had obtained respecting Hamburg and the north of Germany might be useful to the public interest, which must be the most gratifying reward of my labours." The reception which awaited me will presently be seen. The conclusion of the letter spoke in very flattering terms of the manner in which I had discharged my duties. I received it on the 8th of December, and next day I set out for Paris. When I arrived at Mayence I ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, Complete • Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
... pairing-time, single, and of each sex; but whether this state of celibacy is matter of choice or necessity, is not so easy discoverable. When the house-sparrows deprive my martins of their nests, as soon as I cause one to be shot, the other, be it cock or hen, presently procures a mate, and so ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1 • Gilbert White
... to the jungle and began to dig a large hole in the side of a hill. A jackal presently came by and stopped to ask why he was digging the hole. The Potter said that it was going to rain fire from heaven, and that every one who had not such a shelter would be burnt. At this the jackal became very frightened; ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Folklore of the Santal Parganas • Cecil Henry Bompas
... Barbadoes, we met an English frigate, or privateer, who first began to give us chase; but finding herself not to exceed us in force, presently got away: hereupon, we pursued her, firing several guns, eight-pounders, at her; but at length she escaped, and we returned to our course. Soon after, we came within sight of Martinico. We were bent to the coast of the isle of St. Peter, but were frustrated by a storm, which took us hereabouts. ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Pirates of Panama • A. O. (Alexandre Olivier) Exquemelin
... When Stephen presently came in, cheery as ever, and eager to hear how the examination had gone off, the elder boy felt an awkwardness in talking to him which he had never experienced before. As for Stephen, he put down the short, embarrassed answers he received to Wraysford's own uneasiness ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's - A School Story • Talbot Baines Reed
... and barred all the gates and doors of the castle, and returned to the banquet to complain of the breach of faith. General Alva told her that such was the custom of war, adding that such trifling disorders were not to be heeded. "That we shall presently see," said Catherine; "my poor subjects must have their own again, or, as God lives, prince's blood for oxen's blood!" The doors were opened, and armed men took the place of the waiters behind the chairs of the guests. Henry changed color; then, as the best way out of a bad scrape, laughed ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The True Citizen, How To Become One • W. F. Markwick, D. D. and W. A. Smith, A. B.
... not deny the soft impeachment. The general guessing, however, ranged very wide, and included all sorts and conditions of men, from the Rev. Dr. Miller, then rector of St. Martin's, to the bellman in the Market Hall. Considering that the Town Crier was started with a purpose, as I shall presently show, and that it exerted some influence in its own way upon the progress of the town, it is, I think, fitting that the story of its early beginnings should be told, and I am in a ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — A Tale of One City: The New Birmingham - Papers Reprinted from the "Midland Counties Herald" • Thomas Anderton
... months, he estimated at two thousand seven hundred pounds sterling the month, or a shilling a day for each man; and it would be a very unlucky month, he said, in which they did not make captures to three times that amount; for they would see nothing that would not be presently their own. "We might have peace, but not with God," said the pious old slave-trader; "but rather than serve Baal, let us die a thousand deaths. Let us have open war with these Jesuits, and every man will contribute, fight, ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley
... the Soldier who cheated the Devil, presently breaking silence—"methinks there be very few of the women folk who do their share of this story-telling. So far we have had but one, and that is Lady Cinderella. I see another one present, and I ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Twilight Land • Howard Pyle
... not go straight home. This was the old part of the town there were no real cottages and little gardens fragrant with flowers, but people were huddled in them. There would presently be ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Girls at Mount Morris • Amanda Minnie Douglas
... shirt-neck, and folded it back. Nanse, who was, all the time, standing behind, looking what I was after, asked me, "if I was going to shave without hot water?" when I said to her in a fierce and brave manner, (which was very cruel, considering the way she was in,) "I'll let you see that presently." The razor looked desperate sharp; and I never liked the sight of blood; but oh, I was in a terrible flurry and fermentation. A kind of cold trembling went through me; and I thought it best to tell Nanse what I was going to do, that she might be something prepared for it. "Fare ye well, my ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Life of Mansie Wauch - Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself • David Macbeth Moir
... latter rowing, and the former seated in the stern, with her head bowed to her knees, apparently in tears. Raoul was alone, sculling the light yawl with a single hand, and he exerted himself to meet these unexpected and, in the circumstances, unwelcome visitors, as far as possible from the rocks. Presently the two ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Wing-and-Wing - Le Feu-Follet • J. Fenimore Cooper
... gone, but about five in the evening of the third, we heard a whistling in the wood, which Alan answered; and presently the bouman came up the water-side, looking for us, right and left. He seemed less sulky than before, and indeed he was no doubt well pleased to have got to the end ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Kidnapped • Robert Louis Stevenson
... over to a cupboard and began rummaging, bringing out presently a ball of pink Dolly dye and a little bottle of deep-red crystals, while poor little Maud choked back her tears as best she could. Her short experience of life had brought prompt fulfilment of promises, ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Girls of St. Olave's • Mabel Mackintosh
... caravan, the whole or chief part of which had been overwhelmed by the storm. Here was a body partly out of the sand, there the head or leg of a dromedary or camel. Ruin and death seemed to have finished their work. But it was not quite so. For presently on reaching the summit of a wave of sand, we discerned a remnant mounted upon the beasts that had been saved, making in the same direction, and probably to the same point, as ourselves. We joined them, and ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Zenobia - or, The Fall of Palmyra • William Ware
... without; nor could they by any sense of theirs enter within my spirit. So I flung about at random limbs and voice, making the few signs I could, and such as I could, like, though in truth very little like, what I wished. And when I was not presently obeyed (my wishes being hurtful or unintelligible), then I was indignant with my elders for not submitting to me, with those owing me no service, for not serving me; and avenged myself on them by tears. Such have I learnt infants to ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Confessions of Saint Augustine • Saint Augustine
... puts into Potel's plate of honour! Most fortunate of geese, whose liver is fattened by a slow fire to figure presently here with the daintiest and noblest of viands! The pig who hunts the truffle would have his reward could he know that presently the fragrant vegetable would give flavour to his trotter! And is it not a good quarter of an hour's amusement every ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Cockaynes in Paris - 'Gone abroad' • Blanchard Jerrold
... Druce, "thanks." But he made no move to go. He watched the girl as she hammered the typewriter keys. Presently she ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Little Lost Sister • Virginia Brooks
... which we alluded in the beginning, the old pump was there, and crossing over from the Merchants Bank, we leaned against its handle, as one leans against the arm of an old friend, in a musing, idle mood. Presently we heard a gurgling sound and confused murmurs issuing from its lips—"like airy tongues that syllable men's names." Anon these murmurs shaped themselves into distinct articulations, and as we listened, wonderingly, the old ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage, and Other Tales • Francis A. Durivage
... sort of buzz or whisper going on in their midst. Kathleen O'Hara darted from one group to another, smiled at one set of girls, patted the shoulder of a favorite girl in another group, laughed one time, said an emphatic word to another, and presently disappeared, accompanied by ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Rebel of the School • Mrs. L. T. Meade
... most pleased over the Saxon order; my father also wore it." In between he asked questions about Captain Mueller's fate, about the Carpathians and the Dardanelles, and then threw in scraps about the Emden and the Ayesha. Presently another caravan was reported. "I must ride out to meet my men," he said, and we approached a big caravan. Thirty Bedouins, with the Turkish flag at the head of the column; then, all mixed up, sturdy German blond sailors in disguise, with fez or turban, all on camels, among them ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 - April-September, 1915 • Various
... of valor and patriotism—exclaimed, "They can't do it; they'll never reach the top!" His chief-of-staff, watching the struggle with equal earnestness, placed his hand on his commander's arm and said softly, "Time, time, General; give them time;" and presently the moist eyes of the brave leader saw his soldiers victorious upon the summit. They were American soldiers. So are we. They were fighting our American battle. So are we. They were climbing a precipice. ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II • Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage
... not afterward remember how he came to the theatre. Presently he found himself in a lower tier box, talking to a Mrs. Paige who, curiously, miraculously, resembled the girlish portraits of his mother—or he imagined so—until he noticed that her hair was yellow and her ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Ailsa Paige • Robert W. Chambers
... if I could possibly have left them behind; but no, they were not there. The loss of them was rather serious, as I had broken my pince-nez the day after landing. I felt sure they would be found if only we searched long enough, and presently I came across one half of them. By this time about fourteen people, men as well as women, were looking for them. The gale was terrific, and when the gusts came the only thing to do was to crouch down. It was a comical sight, and I wish I could have photographed it. I was caught ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Three Years in Tristan da Cunha • K. M. Barrow
... far as possible from the fire-ship. It was a picturesque and interesting sight to observe the two boats describing a sort of circle on the broad ruddy stream, while the steamer rounding to, formed in a manner the base of the operation, and cut off the stag's retreat. Presently a shot fired without effect from Doughby's boat, drove the beast over towards the canoe. The long slender bark darted across the animal's track with the swiftness of an arrow, and as it did so, the Indian who was standing up dealt the stag a blow that caused it to reel and spin ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 • Various
... sundry hands descend quickly, and, as I thought, kindly, lest he should lose his hat, upon the crown of it, until it encased more of his head than could be deemed either fashionable or comfortable. Presently, however, he was again seen viciously elbowing and writhing his way back to me, which after immense exertions he performed, in the full receipt of numerous anathemas and jocular insults. As he neared me, I inquired what he had been doing; why he had left ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, Complete • Various
... and 2, representing the apparent dimension in that direction which is the width of the ellipse. The length of the ellipse will obviously be the full diameter of the cylinder B; hence from E as a centre we mark points 3 and 4, and of the remaining points we will speak presently. Suppose now the angle the top face of B is viewed from is denoted by the line L, and lines S', Z, parallel to L, will be the width for the ellipse whose length is marked by dots, equidistant on each side of centre line G' G', which equal in their widths one from the other the full ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught • Joshua Rose
... him then for anything that had the blood upon it: so he presently sent for his garter, wherewith his hand was first bound; and, as I called for a basin of water, as if I would wash my hands, I took a handful of powder of vitriol, which I had in my study, and presently dissolved it. As soon ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions - Vol. I • Charles Mackay
... violent or no, depends on what we have been accustomed to, and on how widely the new differs from the old, but in no case can we fuse and assimilate more than a very little new at a time without exhausting our tempering power—and hence presently our temper. ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Luck or Cunning? • Samuel Butler
... coming to look at you, I see You're one of those odd folks who don't agree With any body. You are not to pass On these high questions; plainly, you're an ass. I'd like to have you on the stand a minute! You'd think the deuce was in it! I'd shake the humdrums out of you, I guess! You'd presently confess You thought that No was Yes. It's just your sort—provided there's no hurry— We like to worry. In twenty minutes, Sir, you wouldn't know Your father from JIM CROW, Or your illiterate self from LINDLEY MURRAY! And now then, dunce, Please move your boots, at once! If ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Punchinello, Vol. 1, Issue 10 • Various
... flowers—flowers in rhythmic motion, that was all. Delicious frocks, swirling, floating, delicate shades of rose, mauve, periwinkle-blue, accents of black, graceful bodies, slender legs and ankles ... not all so slender, she amended presently, becoming more critical. There were lower extremities of the grand-piano type, and short, fat feet with a look of pincushions ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Juggernaut • Alice Campbell
... the note and tucked it into his breast pocket. The captain had been watching him with shrewd interest, and presently he intercepted: "Ah, now, I guessed right. Why, Bobbie Burke, you're even blushing like a schoolgirl ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Traffic in Souls - A Novel of Crime and Its Cure • Eustace Hale Ball
... decent man did go into politics, hoping to do some good, these same critics lamented loudly, and presently announced their belief that he, too, had become crooked. If it were said that he had been seen with a politician they disliked, or that he ate a meal in company with one, they were sure he had gone wrong. They ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Theodore Roosevelt • Edmund Lester Pearson
... proper sort of a person. Her conversation had no frills or fal-lals, and she wasn't afraid to say what she thought. Presently we began speaking the same language. We talked of the country, the wonderful weather and of Jerry, to whom it seemed she had ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Paradise Garden - The Satirical Narrative of a Great Experiment • George Gibbs
... went off, and presently Nat was supplied with all he cared to eat. The food was good, and he took his time, finishing off with a piece of lemon meringue pie, a dainty of which he was exceedingly fond, but which Mrs. Felton had seldom ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — From Farm to Fortune - or Nat Nason's Strange Experience • Horatio Alger Jr.
... that he swore rather loudly when he heard what Matilda had said, and I fancy that he lectured her when I had gone to Ayah, for she came to me presently and begged my pardon. Of course we were at once as friendly as before. Many another breach was there between us after that, hastily made and quickly healed. But the bride and Mrs. Minchin ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Six to Sixteen - A Story for Girls • Juliana Horatia Ewing
... evidently eager to get to work, and hence the conference presently broke up, Jerry heading in one direction, and Frank and his sister, with Bluff finding some plausible excuse for hanging ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Outdoor Chums - The First Tour of the Rod, Gun and Camera Club • Captain Quincy Allen
... January 8 a strong water sky could be seen, and soon afterwards the officer of the watch hailed from aloft the glad tidings of an open sea to the south. Presently the ship entered a belt where the ice lay in comparatively small pieces, and after pushing her way through this for over a mile, she reached the hard line where the ice abruptly ended, and to the south ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Voyages of Captain Scott - Retold from 'The Voyage of the "Discovery"' and 'Scott's - Last Expedition' • Charles Turley
... the summer of 1915 when Lord K. had summoned me to ask some question, he appeared to be in particularly low spirits, and presently he showed me a communication (a telegram, I think it was) from Sir J. French, intimating that one of the New Army divisions which had recently proceeded across the water had not borne itself altogether satisfactorily when ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918 • Charles Edward Callwell
... Ralph Ray, still travelling on foot, had approached the town of Preston. It was Sunday morning, but he perceived that smoke like a black cloud overhung the houses and crept far up the steeples and towers. Presently a tumultuous rabble came howling and hooting out of the town. At the head of them, and apparently pursued by them, was a man half clad, who turned about at every few yards, and, raising his arm, predicted woe and desolation to the ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Shadow of a Crime - A Cumbrian Romance • Hall Caine
... fainted," I explained presently, overlooking the fact that Garnesk probably knew more about my ridiculous seizure than I did myself. "I don't know when I did a thing like that before," I added, beginning to get ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Mystery of the Green Ray • William Le Queux
... girl, blushing, as she now slid through the crowd, and went timidly in; presently she ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Lucretia, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... to escape its terrible neighbour. Lying on its back, it fiercely wends its way round and round the glass circus. Presently the Scolia's attention awakens and is betrayed by a continued tapping with the tips of the antennae upon the table, which now represents the accustomed soil. The Wasp attacks the game, delivering her assault ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — More Hunting Wasps • J. Henri Fabre
... Sunday the people of an English village were coming out of church, a dark, gloomy day, when they saw the anchor of a ship hooked to one of the tombstones, the cable, tightly stretched, hanging down the air. Presently they saw a sailor sliding down the rope to unfix the anchor. When he had just loosened it the villagers seized hold of him; and, while in their hands, he quickly died, as though he had been drowned!" There is also a famous legend called "St. Brandon's Voyage." The worthy ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Destiny of the Soul - A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life • William Rounseville Alger
... containing the machinery and other apparatus for making sugar, which stood at the foot of the eminence, the power of steam, which had been toiling all the week, was now at rest. As the hour of sunset approached, a smoke was seen rising from its chimney, presently pufis of vapor issued from the engine, its motion began to be heard, and the negroes, men and women, were summoned to begin the work of the week. Some feed the fire under the boiler with coal; others were seen rushing to the mill with ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Letters of a Traveller - Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America • William Cullen Bryant
... inveterate, making the Flesh grow again, when almost Eaten away, and infallibly fastens loose Teeth to Admiration, even in Old People, who too often falsly think their Age to be the Occasion: In short, for delightful Perfuming, and quickly Curing an ill scented Breath, for presently making the blackest Teeth most excellently White, certainly fastening them when Loose, effectually preserving them from Rotting or Decaying, and assuredly Curing the Scurvy in the Gums, it has not its Equal in the ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 - With Translations and Index for the Series • Joseph Addison and Richard Steele
... could not tell, and indeed wiser men than he could not have told, but he presently found himself opening his heart to this new doctor, as he had never opened it to anybody in all his life,—how he had married Jenny, how they had gone to the new country, the birth of the boy and the girl, the ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866 • Various
... light. His rescuer plied him with weak vodka, chafed his hands, bathed his temples, would have summoned a doctor, but that Joseph soon began to revive, and in another twenty minutes seemed more or less himself again. Indeed, he presently unclosed his ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Genius • Margaret Horton Potter
... left about Newark, and were brought into country towns constantly on the Lord's day to be baited, such is the religion those here related would settle amongst us; and, if any went about to hinder or but speak against their damnable profanations, they were presently noted as Roundheads and Puritans, and sure to be plundered for it. But some of Colonel Cromwell's forces coming by accident into Uppingham town, in Rutland, on the Lord's day, found these bears playing there in the usual manner, and, in the ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The History of England from the Accession of James II. - Volume 1 (of 5) • Thomas Babington Macaulay
... out his triumph to Nate and Tim in a stentorian halloo, for they had already started homeward, and presently their voices died in the distance. Birt faced about and sat down on the ledge to rest, his feet dangling ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Down the Ravine • Charles Egbert Craddock (real name: Murfree, Mary Noailles)
... of his pedestrian journeys from London towards Chester, is reported to have taken shelter from a summer tempest under a large oak on the road side, at no great distance from Litchfield. Presently, a man, with a pregnant woman, wore driven by the like impulse to avail themselves of the same covert. The Dean, entering into conversation, found the parties were destined for Litchfield to be married. As the situation of the woman indicated no time should be lost, ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Irish Wit and Humor - Anecdote Biography of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell • Anonymous
... other way notorious or eminent. Mr. Greenwood justly says "the contemporary eulogies of the poet afford proof that there were some cultured critics of that day of sufficient taste and acumen to recognise, or partly recognise, his excellence . . . " {30a} (Here I omit some words, presently to be restored to the text.) From such critics the poet received such applause as has reached us. We also know that the plays were popular; but the audiences have not rushed to pen and ink to record their satisfaction. With them, as with all audiences, the ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Shakespeare, Bacon and the Great Unknown • Andrew Lang
... little meadow below the spring into the deep shadows of the canyon which led down a steep trail to the desert. Presently he checked his pace until he was walking the gallant dun. He wished to avoid as much noise as possible, and to save the horse for a final spurt down nine miles of desert to the Mallory ranch from the mouth of ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Coyote - A Western Story • James Roberts
... and, compared with those of men with real genius, most diminutive! Mine a great character! Mercy on me! I am a composition of Anthony Wood and Madame Danois,(423) and I know not what trumpery writers. This is the least I can say to refute your panegyric, which I shall burn presently; for I will not have such an encomiastic letter found in my possession, lest I should seem to have been pleased with it. I enjoin you, as a penance, not to contradict one tittle I have said here; for I am not begging more compliments, and shall take it seriously ill if you ever ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Letters of Horace Walpole, V4 • Horace Walpole
... camp, is writing some charm or incantation to bring mischief upon them. I once heard of a missionary who went to an Arab village to spend the night. The people were all Maronites, and grossly ignorant. He pitched his tent and sat down to rest. Presently a crowd of rough young men came in and began to insult him. They demanded bakhshish, and handled his bedding and cooking utensils in a very brutal manner, and asked him if he had any weapons. He bethought himself of one weapon and began to use it. ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Women of the Arabs • Henry Harris Jessup
... phantastical fool and one out of his wits? But nothing is more common with them than such changes; the same person one while impersonating a woman, and another while a man; now a youngster, and by and by a grim seignior; now a king, and presently a peasant; now a god, and in a trice again an ordinary fellow. But to discover this were to spoil all, it being the only thing that entertains the eyes of the spectators. And what is all this life but a kind of comedy, wherein men walk up and down ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Praise of Folly • Desiderius Erasmus
... of the flour produced epidemics of dysentery and poisoning, especially among children and old people, while numerous deaths among infants were attributed by the doctors to want of milk in their mothers' breasts. Presently bread, the staple food of the Greeks, disappeared, and all classes took {174} to carob-beans and herbs.[5] On 23 February a lady of the highest Athenian society wrote to a friend in London: "If we ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Greece and the Allies 1914-1922 • G. F. Abbott
... Bergenheim were to see him sweating and panting like this in this bleak wind, he would give me a sound blowing-up. Upon my word, it is becoming comical! There are no more young girls! I shall see her appear presently as spruce and conceited as if she had been playing the finest trick in the world. It will do for once; but if we sojourn in these quarters some time yet, she must be educated and taught to say, 'If you please' and 'Thanks.' Ah! ha! she has no idea what sort of man she is dealing with! ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet
... made a sharp, passionate gesture that broke his cigar against the arm of his chair, and he cursed low and deep. Presently he addressed Lane again. "Whatever comes of any disclosures I make—whatever you do—you'll not give ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Day of the Beast • Zane Grey
... loud rapping on the door; she bent down to attach the unfinished thread properly, but before she had completed this delicate operation, the door was opened, and two men entered. Seeing that they were strangers she sent them a startled glance, which presently changed into one of defiance. The fire was low, and the two men stood but dimly defined in the dusky light; but their city attire showed at once that they were not Tyrolese. And Mother Uberta, having heard many awful tales of what ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Ilka on the Hill-Top and Other Stories • Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
... And presently there appeared a white-bearded sacristan in a three-cornered hat of blue and gold and a gold-embroidered coat. For all his brave apparel he was a small, mild-mannered person, with kindly brown eyes and a way of smiling sadly as if he ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Through the Wall • Cleveland Moffett
... They stood listening, and presently heard the sound of oars used with great caution. A boat was crossing the river now and coming towards them. Captain Cable went forward and took a coil of rope. He clambered laboriously to the rail and stood there, watching the shadowy shape of the boat, which was now within ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Vultures • Henry Seton Merriman
... garrison were accorded their lives and a tax was imposed on the city to indemnify the duke for his needless trouble, and Guelders was added de facto to the list of Burgundian ducal titles. In the various state papers presently issued by the new ruler, the mention of the circumstance of his accession to the sovereignty was simple and straightforward, as in a certain document appointing Olivier de la Marche to be treasurer. The patent bears the date of August 18th ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Charles the Bold - Last Duke Of Burgundy, 1433-1477 • Ruth Putnam
... in the room drew the two young men a little aside, and for a minute I heard nothing but indistinct phrases, in which "removal of deposites," "panic," "General Jackson," and "revolution," were the only words I could fairly understand. Presently, however, the young men dropped back into their former position, and the ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Autobiography of a Pocket-Hankerchief • James Fenimore Cooper
... dismay, the steamboat, instead of keeping in the middle of the river, presently turned toward the east shore, as if she were bent upon running down the Whitewing. Tom was now really alarmed; and as he saw that the sail was doing very little good, he hurriedly told Jim to take down the mast and get out the oars as quick as possible. Jim rapidly obeyed the order, dropping ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Harper's Young People, July 20, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various
... running presently, And he was pale as pale could be, 'Fly! my Lord Bishop, fly,' quoth he, 'Ten thousand rats are coming this way— The ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Children's Garland from the Best Poets • Various
... signal, "Return to the anchorage off Vera Cruz." This was popularly regarded as a fiasco, but doubtless the Commodore was entirely right, as Alvarado might be taken at any time, and subsequently was taken in a manner which has been a joke in the navy ever since. Of this something will presently be said. Tampico, a town of 7,000 inhabitants, 210 miles north of Vera Cruz, was next proceeded against. The bar at the mouth of the Tampico River is considered the most dangerous on the coast, and the larger vessels did ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Naval History of the United States - Volume 2 (of 2) • Willis J. Abbot
... of a log broke off and fell hissing into the hearth. The fox terrier rose reluctantly to his feet, shook himself and stood looking at the smoking fragment in an aggrieved manner. Satisfied that no personal harm was intended to him, however, he presently curled himself up once more. Again the apartment seemed to become the embodiment of repose. The clock, after a hoarse wheezing warning, struck seven. The dog opened one eye and looked up at it. A ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Kingdom of the Blind • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... away. The owner of the mouth-organ is temporarily deflated. Here is an opportunity for individual enterprise. It is soon seized. A husky soloist breaks into one of the deathless ditties of the new Scottish Laureate; his comrades take up the air with ready response; and presently we are all swinging along to the strains of "I Love a Lassie,"—"Roaming in the Gloaming" and "It's Just Like Being at ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The First Hundred Thousand • Ian Hay
... the dinner-conversation dwelt upon what was supposed to be interesting to me, and a part of my profession. It was laggingly done; for presently the talk fell into an easier flow,—a wonder about Mrs. This, and speculation concerning Mr. That. Mr. Blank had gone to Europe with half his family, and some of them knew why he had taken the four elder children, and others wondered why he had left the rest behind. I was talked into a sort ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Atlantic Monthly, Volume 6, No. 38, December, 1860 • Various
... nature with plants fertilised by the aid of insects. Therefore, some of the flowers which were crossed may have failed to be thus fertilised, and afterwards have been self-fertilised. But this and some other sources of error will presently be discussed. In some few cases of spontaneously self-fertile species, the flowers were allowed to fertilise themselves under the net; and in still fewer cases uncovered plants were allowed to be freely crossed by the insects which incessantly visited them. There ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Effects of Cross & Self-Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom • Charles Darwin
... the human beings so near at hand, sauntered an enormous Polar bear. It seated itself presently on its haunches, and swayed itself gently to and fro, with its head on one side, as if admiring the Arctic scenery. There was not much more than a space of five hundred yards between the parties, but owing to the great promontory which formed an effectual screen between them, and the fact that the ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Red Rooney - The Last of the Crew • R.M. Ballantyne
... little stream was brawling down the valley, catching the moonlight on its wavelets. On the one slope dark, thick woods, above which rose the ancient walls and gates of the city, on the other, the swelling slopes of Olivet. Presently the Lord emerged out of the shadow, engaged in earnest converse with the apostles; crossed the bridge, but, instead of pursuing the path as it wound upward toward Bethany and Bethphage, they all turned into a large enclosure, well-known as the garden of the oil-press, and which we ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Love to the Uttermost - Expositions of John XIII.-XXI. • F. B. Meyer
... only momentary. A recurring sense of chill and physical oppression dispersed it. Presently he rose heavily, glanced at his open diary, reread the last page with a sigh, and closed it. Then, as it was nearly midnight, he retreated upstairs to his bare and icy bedroom, where half-an-hour's attempt to meditate completed the numbness of body and mind, in which state ultimately ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Case of Richard Meynell • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... head as to the whereabouts of his brother. It seemed that he was with Mr Higgs. If he would wait, said the door-keeper, his name should be sent up. Fenn waited, while the door-keeper made polite conversation by describing his symptoms to him in a hoarse growl. Presently the minion who had been despatched to the upper regions with Fenn's message returned. Would he go upstairs, third door on the left. Fenn followed the instructions, and found himself in a small room, a third ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Head of Kay's • P. G. Wodehouse
... and then again seeming to be phantom things playing hide-and-seek among the stars; sometimes like wicked spirits of the night, bent on mischief; sometimes like tongues of flame from some great fire in some great world beyond the earth, making one almost afraid that the heavens will break out presently in a roaring blaze, and rain a shower of living coals ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Cast Away in the Cold - An Old Man's Story of a Young Man's Adventures, as Related by Captain John Hardy, Mariner • Isaac I. Hayes
... what I said just now. I said it to satisfy your mind that I had no enmity of feeling towards the lady, on my side. I admired her, I felt for her—I had no cause to reproach myself. This is very important, as you will presently see. On her side, I have reason to be assured that the circumstances had been truly explained to her, and that she understood I was in no way to blame. Now, knowing all these necessary things as you do, explain to me, if you can, why, when I rose and met that woman's ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Haunted Hotel - A Mystery of Modern Venice • Wilkie Collins
... mead in his apartment, there were many domestics in that family who would gladly hear the news he had brought from the Holy Land, and particularly that which concerned the Knight of Ivanhoe. Wamba presently appeared to urge the same request, observing that a cup after midnight was worth three after curfew. Without disputing a maxim urged by such grave authority, the Palmer thanked them for their courtesy, but observed that he had included in his religious vow, an obligation ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Ivanhoe - A Romance • Walter Scott
... walls of an old stone house Spanish troops were gathered. Several shots were fired by the gunboat Manning, and presently no troops were visible. It had been decided to land near here, but the depth of water was ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Boys of '98 • James Otis
... contrary a confederate might be lingering about waiting for a signal. Surely enough, General Gastang was loitering in the hall smoking a cigarette. But he seemed to be powerless now, for he made no sign, and with a sigh of relief Beatrice saw Adeline emerge presently from the office minus the cases which ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Slave of Silence • Fred M. White
... white, however. They are of a uniform dirty brown hue. But the colors have lost their gripe. When the rags shall have been submitted to the grinding and washing in pure water, as we shall see them presently, they are easily whitened. The lime bath is the purgatory of ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Scientific American Supplement, No. 363, December 16, 1882 • Various
... shall presently," said he, quite rationally. "I felt quite swimmy just now, but I am my own man again now. Let me see, what was I talking about? Oh ah, of course, about the wife. She joins the ship at Falmouth. Now I want to ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Last Galley Impressions and Tales - Impressions and Tales • Arthur Conan Doyle
... Jenny came in. Robinson cleaned the poor knives harder still and did not speak; his cue was to find out what was passing in the girl's mind. But she washed her cup and saucer and plates in silence. Presently the bell rang. ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — It Is Never Too Late to Mend • Charles Reade
... feet and the paper became manifest, so she caught sight of it and took it up and opened it, and having read it understood its significance. Hereat she rejoiced and congratulated herself and her cheeks flushed rosy-red, and presently she went hastily in the direction of the entrance, whilst her women still looked down from the terrace upon the doorway and saw Yusuf a-foot before it. They cried out to their lady, "Verily there standeth below a youth lovely in his youthfulness, with his face gladdening ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Supplemental Nights, Volume 5 • Richard F. Burton
... "We will see presently," said the young man coldly, looking at his aunt with imperturbable calmness. "For the present I do not intend to ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Dona Perfecta • B. Perez Galdos
... this book, Crass, Harlow, Philpot and Easton were talking together on the other side of the street, and presently Crass caught sight of him. They had been discussing the Secretary's letter re the halfpenny rate, and as Owen was one of the members of the Trades Council, Crass suggested that they should go across ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists • Robert Tressell
... visitors were already negotiating the muddy thoroughfare between the dilapidated dwellings. Presently these gave place to roughly knocked together structures for two ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Sturdy Oak - A Composite Novel of American Politics by Fourteen American Authors • Samuel Merwin, et al.
... begun; I burned much; I found that, after all, the lyrical instinct had slept—not died; I ventured (in brief) 'A Book of Verses.' It was received with so much interest that I took heart once more, and wrote the numbers presently reprinted from 'The National Observer' in the collection first (1892) called 'The Song of the Sword' and afterwards (1893), 'London voluntaries.' If I have said nothing since, it is that I have nothing to say which is not, as yet, too ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Poems by William Ernest Henley • William Ernest Henley
... cannot Miscarry; for the good Feathers are always Negatives, when any precipitant Motion is felt, and immediately suppress it by their number; and these Negative Feathers are indeed the Travellers safety; the other are always upon the flutter, and upon every occasion hey for the Moon, up in the Clouds presently; but these Negative Feathers are never for going up, but when there is occasion for it; and from hence these fluttering fermented Feathers were called by the Antients High-flying Feathers, and the blustering things seem'd proud ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Consolidator • Daniel Defoe
... him presently,"—and the Prince raised himself stiffly and slowly out of his throne-like chair, "Personally I have considered Felix above any sort of priestly trickery; but after all, if he has an ambition for the Papacy, I do not see why he should not play ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Master-Christian • Marie Corelli
... almost to tragedy. But there is another kind of unlucky person—and about him I can write from experience, because it is my special brand of misfortune. He is the unlucky person who is unlucky in little things. After all, not many of us back horses, and presently fewer of us than ever will be able to do more in the gambling line than play Beg-o'-my-Neighbour with somebody's old aunt for a thr'penny-bit stake. Let me give a few instances of this ill-luck, in the hope that my plaint will strike a responsive chord in the hearts ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Over the Fireside with Silent Friends • Richard King
... curls he presently came to wear a crown of sharp pine-leaves, remembrance of another fair nymph whose destruction ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — A Book of Myths • Jean Lang
... at all mind to go without my tea, but this is a great trial, that I have nothing to set before these sisters; and she gave them therefore to understand, that their staying to tea would not be convenient at that time. The sisters, however, I suppose, not understanding the hint, remained, and presently brought out of a basket tea, sugar, butter and bread, and thus there was all that was requisite for the tea, and the remainder of the provisions was left with her. She told me, that at that time she was not accustomed to trials of faith, as ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — A Narrative of Some of the Lord's Dealings with George Mueller - Written by Himself, First Part • George Mueller
... can the Church reform itself without a head? So they elected a pope who was to lead reform. Yet a day had hardly passed before they found themselves in a traitor's power, who reaffirmed all the acts of the iniquitous John XXIII., who had just been deposed for his crimes, and presently endowed ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Luther and the Reformation: - The Life-Springs of Our Liberties • Joseph A. Seiss
... long, thin caches in the centres of the fields. The effect of passing for hundreds of miles between these precisely aligned cairns is strange; one cannot get away from the feeling that the rocky mounds are there for some barbaric tribal reason, and that presently one will see a war dance or a sacrifice taking place about one ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Westward with the Prince of Wales • W. Douglas Newton
... lives of these three quiet workers in the wilderness, and mused a little sadly upon what seemed but gilded pleasure-seeking emptiness to which she would presently go back. ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Rhodesian • Gertrude Page
... Taylor, who had laterly arrived from Florida and was presently returning with a regiment of recruits for the Seminole War, was at Mrs. Kinzie's party. He was then a man of middle age with iron gray hair and close cropped side whiskers. A splendid figure he was ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — A Man for the Ages - A Story of the Builders of Democracy • Irving Bacheller
... meeting a gentleman and lady, to whom Gillian was introduced, and who walked on with her aunt conversing. They had been often in India, and made so light of the journey that Gillian was much cheered. Moreover, she presently came in sight of Val and Fergus supremely happy over a castle on the beach, and evidently indoctrinating the two little Varleys with some of the dramatic ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Beechcroft at Rockstone • Charlotte M. Yonge
... to Calvin that they had given up surplices, crosses, and other things, "not as impure and papistical," but as indifferent, and for the sake of peace. This was after they had driven Knox from the place, as they presently did; in the beginning it was distinctly their duty to give up the Litany and responses, while the truce lasted, that is, till the end of April. In the afternoon of the Sunday Knox preached, denouncing the ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — John Knox and the Reformation • Andrew Lang
... have known better; you would have gone into the nursery to play with that lovely baby; but there were times, I am sorry to say, when Flaxie really enjoyed being unhappy. So now she stood still, rolling her little trouble over and over, as boys roll a snowball, making it larger and larger, till presently it was as big as ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Twin Cousins • Sophie May
... almost as excited now as the girls themselves, and presently they were all running in a string through the pretty garden towards the cottage with the news, Veevee bringing up the rear ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Crusoes of the Frozen North • Gordon Stables
... out all the proofs and the development, we can read those presently in your book. You need only just give us the main ideas ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Malady of the Century • Max Nordau
... my cab, and from across the street watched William's incomprehensible behaviour. He had stopped at a dingy row of workmen's houses, and knocked at the darkened window of one of them. Presently a light showed. So far as I could see, some one pulled up the blind and for ten minutes talked to William. I was uncertain whether they talked, for the window was not opened, and I felt that, had William spoken through the glass loud enough to be heard inside, I must have heard ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Stories By English Authors: London • Various
... mountains, he saw the old man in his crumpled brown jeans suit, mounted on his white mare, jogging down the red clay road, his head bowed before the slanting lines of rain, on his way to his cheerless fireside. He turned off presently, for the road to the levels of the Cove was not the shorter cut that Absalom travelled to the mountains. But all the way the young man fancied that he saw from time to time, as the bridle-path curved in the intricacies of the laurel, the bowed old figure among the ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — His "Day In Court" - 1895 • Charles Egbert Craddock (AKA Mary Noailles Murfree)
... other side, crossed the valley and toiled up another mountain three or four thousand miles high, apparently, and looked over again. No lake yet. We sat down tired and perspiring, and hired a couple of Chinamen to curse those people who had beguiled us. Thus refreshed, we presently resumed the march with renewed vigor and determination. We plodded on, two or three hours longer, and at last the Lake burst upon us—a noble sheet of blue water lifted six thousand three hundred feet above ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Lake of the Sky • George Wharton James
... breathe with some freedom. Possibly, at this period the deck was drifting rapidly before the wind, and drawing him after it, as he floated upon his back. Of course, as long as he could have retained this position, it would have been nearly impossible that he should be drowned. Presently a surge threw him directly athwart the deck, and this post he endeavored to maintain, screaming at intervals for help. Just before he was discovered by Mr. Henderson, he had been obliged to relax his hold through exhaustion, and, falling ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 3 (of 5) of the Raven Edition • Edgar Allan Poe
... talk again of him presently. I must now rejoice with you over the recovery and safety of ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Imaginary Conversations and Poems - A Selection • Walter Savage Landor
... and the canoe was allowed to drift with the current, which runs very strong on these shores. a small turtle was seen, and the sucking fish was put into the water. At first it swam lazily about, apparently recovering the strength which it had lost by removal from its native element; but presently it swam slowly in the direction of the turtle till out of sight; in a very short time the line was rapidly carried out, there was a jerk, and the turtle was fast. The line was handled gently for two or three minutes, the steersman causing the canoe to follow the course of the turtle with ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Overland Expedition of The Messrs. Jardine • Frank Jardine and Alexander Jardine
... old lady's sorrowing face brightened presently. She bustled about the room busily, getting out chairs and setting straight things ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Three Young Knights • Annie Hamilton Donnell
... upon second thoughts, I took it away; and wrapping all this in a piece of canvass, I began to think of making another raft; but while I was preparing this, I found the sky over-cast, and the wind began to rise, and in a quarter of an hour it blew a fresh gale from the shore. It presently occurred to me, that it was in vain to pretend to make a raft with the wind off shore; and that it was my business to be gone before the tide of flood began, or otherwise I might not be able to reach the shore ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe Of York, Mariner, Vol. 1 • Daniel Defoe
... the "Catalogues of Women". This work was divided into four (Suidas says five) books, the last one (or two) of which was known as the "Eoiae" and may have been again a distinct poem: the curious title will be explained presently. The "Catalogues" proper were a series of genealogies which traced the Hellenic race (or its more important peoples and families) from a common ancestor. The reason why women are so prominent is obvious: since most families and tribes claimed ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica • Homer and Hesiod
... had no idea how painfully his words affected her who sat by his side, and looked up so imploringly in his face, as if begging him to stop. There was an embarrassing silence, which Julia presently broke, by saying, "While Dr. Lacey was here, he and Fanny got up a flirtation; but nothing serious will result from ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Tempest and Sunshine • Mary J. Holmes
... expecting some answer; but presently he turned his back upon the pool and walked slowly away; the down lay on one side of him, looking solemn and dark over the trees which grew very plentifully; Paul thought that he would like to walk upon the down; so he went up a little leafy lane that seemed to lead to it. Suddenly, ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Paul the Minstrel and Other Stories - Reprinted from The Hill of Trouble and The Isles of Sunset • Arthur Christopher Benson
... pavement lay bodies of men and women slain in some midnight outrage. From behind the lattices of the windows they caught sight of the eyes of hundreds peeping at them, but none gave them a good-morrow, or said one single word. The silence of death seemed to brood upon the empty thoroughfares. Presently it was broken by a single wailing voice that reached their ears from so far away that they could not catch its meaning. Nearer and nearer it came, till at length in the dark and narrow street they caught ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Pearl-Maiden • H. Rider Haggard
... the matter; and in the morning, when the moon was gone, saw clearly himself where the path of prudence lay. Still he lacked courage to make it clear to Miss Urquhart, even while he saw her laying out, with enthusiasm, that road of her own which his terrified imagination pictured her marching along presently, bearing the baby aloft in her arms, and dragging him on a dog-chain behind her. It was not until mid-day that he suddenly became a brave man—about five minutes after ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Sisters • Ada Cambridge
... difficult, until at length we were going up hand over hand, taking advantage of crevices and knobs which an inexperienced eye would have regarded as incapable of affording a grip for the fingers or a support for the toes. Presently we arrived at the foot of a stupendous precipice, which was absolutely insurmountable by any ordinary method of ascent. Parts of it overhung, and everywhere the face of the rock was too free from irregularities to afford any ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Moon Metal • Garrett P. Serviss
... a livelier relaxation to think of young Crossjay's shame-faced confession presently, that he had been a laggard in bed while she swept the dews. She laughed at him, and immediately Crossjay popped out on her from behind a tree, causing her to clap hand to heart and stand fast. A conspirator is not of the stuff to bear surprises. He feared ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... after a little while arrived upon the crest of an elevated ridge. Here he halted to observe the flight of the birds. Presently he noticed a covey of partridges flying in a westerly direction, and shortly after, another covey going the same way. Both appeared to alight near a gigantic tree that grew in the plain about five hundred ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Bush Boys - History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and his Family • Captain Mayne Reid
... sacrificed. "I must do everything," she had said, "without letting papa see what I do—at least till it's done!" but she scarce knew how she proposed, even for the next few days, to blind or beguile this participant in her life. What had in fact promptly enough happened, she presently recognised, was that if her stepmother had beautifully taken possession of her, and if she had virtually been rather snatched again thereby from her husband's side, so, on the other hand, this ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Golden Bowl • Henry James
... Percy, presently; "they got civil to us, so we got civil to them, and we're all in the shop together. And we're all backing up old Rollitt, ain't we, you chaps, and we're going down in a lump for the clubs; and we all shelled out for this do; so it's all ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Cock-House at Fellsgarth • Talbot Baines Reed
... have the honor to attract your eyes?" she said presently to the young chief, who ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Chouans • Honore de Balzac
... she disappeared, walked on in deep reflection, hardly knowing what course to take. Presently his brow cleared. He turned and went rapidly back to the great office building where Wickersham had his offices on the first floor. He asked for Mr. Wickersham. A clerk came forward. Mr. Wickersham was not in town. No, he did not know ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Gordon Keith • Thomas Nelson Page
... the head of a small detachment of cavalry, along the level road on the coast. After halting for a short time in that loyal city, he traversed the mountain range on the southeast, and soon entered the fruitful valley of Xauxa. There he was presently joined by reinforcements from the north, as well as from the principal places on the coast; and, not long after his arrival, received a message from Centeno, informing him that he held the passes by which Gonzalo Pizarro was preparing to ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The History Of The Conquest Of Peru • William H. Prescott
... Mr. Simpson," he remarked presently, "but your face seems elusively familiar to me. I seem to know it, yet I cannot place it. ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — No. 13 Washington Square • Leroy Scott
... sacrifice half a dozen women of good reputation to me presently. Come, where are you familiar? And see that they are women ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Love for Love • William Congreve
... Albion's England, pub. in 1586 in 13 books of fourteen-syllabled verse, and republished with 3 additional books in 1606. The title is thus explained in the dedication, "This our whole island anciently called Britain, but more anciently Albion, presently containing two kingdoms, England and Scotland, is cause ... that to distinguish the former, whose only occurrants I abridge from our history, I entitle this my book Albion's England." For about 20 years it was one of the most popular poems of its size—it contains about 10,000 lines—ever written, ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature • John W. Cousin
... reader has overheard these dialogues as often as I. He wants to know what was odd about this particular letter-board before which I was standing. At first glance I saw nothing odd about it. But presently I distinguished a handwriting that was vaguely familiar. It was mine. I stared, I wondered. There is always a slight shock in seeing an envelop of one's own after it has gone through the post. It looks ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — A. V. Laider • Max Beerbohm
... child to see that he came to no harm, and presently returned to report that Alfred had been met by a servant and gone away chanting a new verse of his poem, in which peacocks, donkeys, and "the flowers of ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 5, March, 1878 • Various
... up; and on the way home to Scotland Stevenson had stopped for a while at Fontainebleau, and then in Paris; whence, finding himself unpleasantly affected by the climate, he presently ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 23 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson
... never known Jules to be untruthful, Elise was bewildered at this statement, but presently ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Patty in Paris • Carolyn Wells
... Wherever streets meet the square there is a house in the centre of them, and thus the heart of Thrums is a box, in which the stranger finds himself suddenly, wondering at first how he is to get out, and presently ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Little Minister • J.M. Barrie
... for thee," said Jeanne, in a voice of great tenderness. "I shall presently take to the wearing of black; it better suits my years. Thou canst be young; it is enough. I am an ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Between Whiles • Helen Hunt Jackson
... waved his hand to him, as much as to say—presently, presently, but not now. The truth is, the loud tones of his voice had caused Alice to open her eyes, and instead of trading the dreaded being before her, there stood the symbol of benevolence and moral power, with his mild, but ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector - The Works of William Carleton, Volume One • William Carleton
... world." What creates civilization can alone preserve and advance it. The great question, after all, in the present discussion, is not which system will teach the most classics, mathematics, etc. (although I shall consider the question in this light presently), but which system will best protect, develop, and establish those higher principles of action, which are vastly more important to a country itself—apart from other and immortal considerations—than any amount of intellectual attainments in certain branches of secular knowledge. Colleges ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Story of My Life - Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada • Egerton Ryerson
... I see," said Mrs. Breynton, presently, with one of her pleasantest smiles, and as Mrs. Breynton's smiles were always pleasant, this was saying a great deal. "And the Sunday things on, too—in honor of our coming? How pleasant it all seems! and how glad I am ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Gypsy's Cousin Joy • Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
... so, for when he was last below the steward was 'fixing the tables'—in other words, laying the cloth. When we have been writing, and I beg him (do you remember anything of my love of order, at this distance of time?) to collect our papers, he answers that he'll 'fix 'em presently.' So when a man's dressing he's 'fixing' himself, and when you put yourself under a doctor he 'fixes' you in no time. T'other night, before we came on board here, when I had ordered a bottle of mulled claret and waited some time for it, it was put on table with an apology from the landlord (a ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete • John Forster
... two sons, one of whom is industrious and dutiful, the other wayward and rebellious. The wayward son finally casts off all pretense of filial obedience, goes into a far country, and wastes his substance in riotous living. Here we have one of the saddest of all problems in human relationship, for presently the disgraced son comes home a beggar. The elder brother who represents the average social view, has no doubt whatever as to what should be done. He is offended that the disgraced son should come home ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Empire of Love • W. J. Dawson
... 19, vol. xxxix. pt. ii. p. 835.] It is here that good administration in an army seeks to reduce the number of those who are withdrawn from the fighting ranks, and to make the "aggregate present" agree as closely as possible with the "present for duty." I shall presently note the result of ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Military Reminiscences of the Civil War V2 • Jacob Dolson Cox
... at home among this mixed assemblage, and nodded familiarly to right and left in recognition of numerous friends and acquaintances. Presently a buxom-looking German girl, whose rosy cheeks and rotund figure gave evidence that her life in this place had been of short duration, advanced towards them, and, seating herself beside Bucholz, bade him good evening, in a tone ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Bucholz and the Detectives • Allan Pinkerton
... prosecuting our voyage. In passing between the shoal which comes from the N.W. point of the bay and the island of Bahuto, we stuck fast upon the shoal, and were much troubled, believing ourselves in a net or cul-de-sac; but we had no hurt or danger, and presently got into the right channel and rowed along shore, against the wind at N.W. till day. The 12th we rowed along shore, and came an hour after sunrise into a haven called Xarmeelquiman or Skarm-al-Kiman, meaning ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume VI - Early English Voyages Of Discovery To America • Robert Kerr
... saw at last, on the top of the cliff, a castle, with many towers, and on the highest tower of the castle there was a great white banner floating, with a red chevron on it, and three golden stars on the chevron; presently I saw too on one of the towers, growing in a cranny of the worn stones, a great bunch of golden and blood-red wall-flowers, and I watched the wall-flowers and banner for long; when suddenly I heard a trumpet blow from the castle, and saw a rush of armed men on ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The World of Romance - being Contributions to The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine, 1856 • William Morris
... be made to take any notice of what was passing around her. But now she awoke, clear and collected; and, glancing round the room, with a sort of pensive animation, met and answered the inquiring and solicitous look of her son with an affectionate smile. Presently her wandering eye rested on some objects of the landscape, glimpses of which she had caught through one of the small patched windows of the room, ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Rangers - [Subtitle: The Tory's Daughter] • D. P. Thompson
... talk business," Jake remarked presently. "I've been getting after the telegraph department since we came home and one of the construction bosses was in town to-day. He allowed you made good the night they sent the Government messages through, and if we wanted the contract ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Partners of the Out-Trail • Harold Bindloss
... swelling in the heel, from which issues matter possessing properties of a very peculiar kind, which seems capable of generating a disease in the Human Body (after it has undergone the modification which I shall presently speak of), which bears so strong a resemblance to the Small Pox, that I think it highly probable it may be the source ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae • Edward Jenner
... answer her. He had no strength to argue more. There was a long, strained silence. Presently the mother asked— ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Dreamers of the Ghetto • I. Zangwill
... which I can't understand," she said presently, "is that if Jim Galloway is the 'big man' that you say he is he should do as much talking as he must have done; that he should have told his plans to such a man as the Indian who told ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Bells of San Juan • Jackson Gregory
... Mine was not an ambitious nature—or it may have been that stimulus was lacking—and all I wrote I wrote for the mere joy of writing, whilst my studies, of which I shall have occasion to speak presently, were not of a nature calculated to swell my coffers ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Green Eyes of Bast • Sax Rohmer
... existing objects, are either not true at all or only proximately so. Whether it be possible to bridge over the gulf between existing things and the abstract conception of them, as Spinoza attempts to do, we shall presently see. It is a royal road to certainty if it be a practicable one; but we cannot say that we ever met any one who could say honestly Spinoza's reasonings had convinced him; and power of demonstration, like all other powers, can be judged only ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Short Studies on Great Subjects • James Anthony Froude
... on his way, laughing at the fright of old Jed Thumper. Presently he reached the springs from which came the water that made the very beginning of the Laughing Brook. He expected to find them dry, for way down on the Green Meadows the Smiling Pool was nearly dry, and ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Adventures of Paddy the Beaver • Thornton W. Burgess
... had never seen a physician in that house before, and it seemed surprising that Egerton should even take a medical opinion upon a slight attack. While waiting in the ante-room there was a knock at the street door, and presently a gentleman, exceedingly well-dressed, was shown in, and honored Randal with an easy and half familiar bow. Randal remembered to have met this personage at dinner, and at the house of a young nobleman of high fashion, ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 • Various
... his face, letting his forehead rest upon it, and laid his finger on the trigger. He was perfectly calm, there was neither passion nor despair in his face, but the thoughtful look of a man who is considering. Presently he laid down the gun, and reaching into the cupboard, drew out a pint bottle of raw white alcohol. Lifting it to his lips, he drank greedily. He washed his face in the tin basin and combed his rough hair and shaggy blond beard. Then he stood in uncertainty before the suit ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays • Willa Cather
... varied and extensive, elicited not a half dozen important facts. I would charge no one with discourtesy in this particular, and mention the circumstance only because it will serve to emphasize what I shall presently say anent the scarcity ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — History and Comprehensive Description of Loudoun County, Virginia • James W. Head
... they were the very magnets that thus drew me. I'll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy. I drew my bench near him, and made some friendly signs and hints, doing my best to talk with him meanwhile. At first he little noticed these advances; but presently, upon my referring to his last night's hospitalities, he made out to ask me whether we were again to be bedfellows. I told him yes; whereat I thought he looked pleased, ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Moby Dick; or The Whale • Herman Melville
... Well, those giant gum-trees absorb all the moisture and keep the grass very poor, so the squatters kill them by ring-barking—that is, they have a ring described round the trunk of each tree by cutting off a couple of feet of bark. Presently the leaves fall off; then the rest of the bark follows, and eventually the tree becomes nothing but a strange lofty monument ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — A Dictionary of Austral English • Edward Morris
... to be presently given of the meaning of "satisfaction" and "discomfort," there seems every reason to accept these ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Analysis of Mind • Bertrand Russell
... recovered his usual pleasant sense of security. Susy was there, fresh and gay, a rose in her breast and the sun in her hair: her head was bowed over Bradshaw, but she waved a fond hand across the breakfast things, and presently looked up to say: "Yes, I believe we can ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Glimpses of the Moon • Edith Wharton
... doctrine of continuity between unicellular and multicellular organisms be true. In other words, it is a distinction which the theory of evolution itself must necessarily pre-suppose, and therefore it is no objection to the theory that its pre-supposition is realized. Moreover, as we shall see better presently, there is no difficulty in understanding why this distinction should have arisen, so soon as it became necessary (or desirable) that individual cells, when composing a "colony," should conform to the economic principle of the division of labour—a principle, indeed, which is already foreshadowed ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) • George John Romanes
... gun, they would not come near. Thinking to deceive their sentinel, watching from a tree, he took a companion to the shelter, who remained for a time and then left, but still no rooks came near. The farmer then took two companions, and presently sent them both away. The arithmetic was too much for the rooks, and the scheme succeeded. He concluded that their powers of enumeration were limited to counting "two," and that ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Grain and Chaff from an English Manor • Arthur H. Savory
... rushed to her, and was embraced. 'You 're not astonished to see me? Adder drove me down, and stopped his coach at the inn, and rowed me the half-mile up. We will lunch, if you propose; but presently. My dear, I have to tell you things. ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... leader. Tommy did not flag in zeal; rather, as the time went on and he soared out of the criminal courts into big civil cases involving property, he grew up to the level of his admirers' praises. "Tommy," wrote Mr. Lossing, presently, "is beginning to take himself seriously. He has been told so often that he is a young lion of reform, that he begins to study the role in dead earnest. I don't talk this way to Harry, who believes in him and is ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Stories of a Western Town • Octave Thanet
... and bitters at his Club over the way. He had forgotten a shower of black-balls (attributable to the conjurations of old Ate) on a certain past day. Without word of refusal, Victor entered a wine-merchant's office, where he was unknown, and stating his wish for bitters and dry sherry, presently received the glass, drank, nodded to the administering clerk, named the person whom he had obliged and refreshed, and passed out, remarking to Fenellan: 'Colney on Clubs! he's right; they're the mediaeval in modern times, our Baron's castles, minus the Baron; dead against public life ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... the bullet that would presently whine toward him. And then he heard the report of the man's rifle, saw that the smoke streak had been directed downward, as though the man on the summit of the rock were ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — 'Drag' Harlan • Charles Alden Seltzer
... time he drove it deep, taking life at every thrust. Four more red monsters threw themselves upon the prostrate man, but not sufficiently versed in armor to seek out its joints, their fierce short spear thrusts did no damage. Presently four more corpses lay still and Stevens, with his, to them incredible, earthly strength, was once more upon his feet in spite of their utmost efforts to pinion his mighty limbs, and was again swinging his devastating weapon. ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Spacehounds of IPC • Edward Elmer Smith
... sweet Daughter, I thee pray. Go hasten presently; And tell unto the Master-Cook, These Words which ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Wit and Mirth: or Pills to Purge Melancholy, Vol. 5 of 6 • Various
... society, which is to professional merit, what the ocean is to the earth;—the great fund from whence it must ever be refreshed, and without whose abundance, conveyed through innumerable channels, every thing must presently become dry, and all productions ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Life, Studies, And Works Of Benjamin West, Esq. • John Galt
... abreast of them. Where were they going? And like lightning the thought flashed upon her that they were not making for the town, that this stranger was not an officer, but a brigand, that she was being carried off to some distant hiding-place, and that presently the rest of the band would be upon her. In the agony of distress which this sudden apprehension raised, there broke from her the cry, "Stop, for God's sake. What is it you are doing? Can you not see——" She could say no more, for ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Captain Mansana and Mother's Hands • Bjoernstjerne Bjoernson
... not on the platform; something had delayed her, and he could see the road winding under trees, and presently he saw her white summer dress and her parasol aslant. There was no prettier, no more agreeable woman than Ellen in Ireland, and he thought it a great pity to have to worry her and himself with explanations about politics and about religion. ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Untilled Field • George Moore
... reflect over a correction and to admire the castigator. And fall in love he did; not hurriedly but step by step, not blindly but with critical discrimination; not in the fashion of Romeo, but before he was done, with all Romeo's ardour and more than Romeo's faith. The high favour to which he presently rose in the esteem of Alfred Austin and his wife, might well give him ambitious notions; but the poverty of the present and the obscurity of the future were there to give him pause; and when his aspirations began to settle round Miss Austin, he tasted, perhaps for the only time in his life, ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin • Robert Louis Stevenson
... that crackled with heat! The colonel, wrathfully perspiring in the glow of that impenitent stick, frowned at it like an inquisitor. Presently Mrs. Bogardus looked up, and her expression softened as she saw the energetic ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Desert and The Sown • Mary Hallock Foote
... steps. Then, by the tightening of his hand, Valensolle knew he was making an effort. Presently a stone was raised, and through the opening a trembling gleam of twilight met the eyes of the young men, and a fragrant aromatic odor came to comfort their sense of smell after the mephitic ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Companions of Jehu • Alexandre Dumas, pere
... the pollen trickle to the ground through the drain. To plug the hole would imply a change of occupation of which the insect is incapable for the moment. It is the honey's turn and not the mortar's. The rule upon this point is invariable. A moment comes, presently, when the harvesting is interrupted and the masoning resumed. The edifice must be raised a storey higher. Will the Bee, once more a builder, mixing fresh cement, now attend to the leakage at the bottom? No more than before. What occupies her at present is the new floor, ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Mason-bees • J. Henri Fabre
... he took a seat on the other side of the fireplace, and chatted with her as though she were a grown-up person. It was most regrettable; the poor woman had been waiting a week; however, he would go down presently to see the doctor, who might perhaps give him an answer. Meanwhile he did ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — A Love Episode • Emile Zola
... vindictiveness actuating him; and so he remained silent for the present. He would have gone so far as to suggest that her ladyship should be invited to remain in court against the possibility of further evidence being presently required from her but that he perceived there was no necessity to do so. Her deadly anxiety concerning the prisoner must in itself be sufficient to determine her to remain, as indeed it proved. Accompanied and half supported by Miss Armytage, who was almost as pale as herself, ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Snare • Rafael Sabatini
... crossed the great spaces of the park behind the castle there came horsemen galloping out from among the trees and vainly seeking to keep pace with their giant strides. And presently ahead of them were houses, and men with guns running out of the houses. At the sight of that, though he sought to go on and was even disposed to fight and push through, she made him ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth • H.G. Wells
... throughout the Openings. Far and near the Indians exulted at their success. The wood was dry, and it was of a very inflammable nature. The wind blew, and in half an hour Castle Meal was in a bright blaze. Hive now began to howl, a sign that he knew his peril. Still, no human being appeared. Presently the flaming roof fell in and the savages listened intently to hear the screeches of their victims. The howls of the dog increased, and he was soon seen, with his hair burned from his skin, leaping on the unroofed wall, and thence into the area within the palisades. A bullet ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Oak Openings • James Fenimore Cooper
... not to be deceived by a new appearance of quietude, had somehow made his way to the little copse, and was examining the hill with his glasses. The Adjutant, who had followed him, presently rose to ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — "Contemptible" • "Casualty"
... with which no permanent or favourable alliance was probable or desirable, except in so far as it might be a balance against the power of France. Portugal commanded a wider range of colonial trade, both in the East Indies and in Brazil, and it presently appeared, when definite proposals were laid before the King and his Ministers by the Portuguese Ambassador, that she was prepared to pay highly for the privilege of an English alliance. A dowry of 500,000 was promised with the Portuguese Princess— no ineffective bait ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon V2 • Henry Craik
... a spade. The whole town gathered round the spot—a sullen crowd, the women only breaking the silence with their sobs, and the children clinging to their gowns. The suspected resurrectionist understood what was wanted of him, and, flinging off his jacket, began to reopen the grave. Presently the spade struck upon wood, and by and by part of the coffin came in view. That was nothing, for the resurrectionists had a way of breaking the coffin at one end and drawing out the body with tongs. The digger ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Auld Licht Idyls • J.M. Barrie
... again, and leaned his brow on his hand. The women, although sympathetic, were puzzled by some of his remarks, and therefore sat in silence for a little, but presently the volatile ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Erling the Bold • R.M. Ballantyne
... stood authoritatively beside the bed, while her mother, with a mustard plaster at the back of her neck, obediently sipped hot milk from a teacup. Mrs. Carr had surrendered to the conquering spirit of her daughter, but her surrender, which was unwilling and weakly defiant, gave out presently a ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Life and Gabriella - The Story of a Woman's Courage • Ellen Glasgow
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