A pole was cut, and a couple of feet of line, with a hook attached, was fastened a little way from the top, and the haft of the hook stuck into the end so that by a little force it might be removed, and Tom and his friend got upon the apron, and stooped over to see where the great trout lay.

Sooner or later the various religious organizations will have to meet, in some better way than any thus far formulated, this growing need.

Though that horrible inspection was from the eyes of some unseen being, it was in some mysterious way connected with my own thinking and reflections, so that the thought came ever more and more strongly upon me, that from myself I could never escape.

They have a genial but indifferent dignity, quite compatible with courtesy and friendly ways.

For, after a few paces, the already narrow way, resolved itself into a mere ledge, with, on the one side the solid, unyielding rock, towering up, in a great wall, to the unseen roof, and, on the other, that yawning chasm.

Can he be?' 'In a wayin one of his peculiar ways.'

She was a wealthy lady, and gave us to understand in a pleasant way, that she did not entertain travelers.

I did not let him suspect that I doubted his veracity, but I remarked that it was a rough way to treat friends.

But the fact was, he liked her stories better than her sugar-candy and liquorice; while above all things he delighted in watching the wonderful wheel go round and round so fast that he could not find out whether her foot was making it spin, or it was making her foot dance up and down in that curious way.

Hector had odd ways of looking at things, but I need not say more about that, for it will soon be plain enough.

It reminded me, in a queer, gigantic way, of the noise that a clock makes, when the catch is released, and it is allowed to run down.

Before evening the Laughing Lass, making slow way through the mists, had become separated by a league of waves from the cruiser.

" "Here's plenty of coal," said Mrs. Gilligan, who had been finding things out in her own practical and efficient way, "and here is plenty of wood and old newspapers to start it going.

One of their number, however, tramped the whole weary way, and brought back food to his starving leader and companions.

It is constantly asserted in a vague way that the Sierra was vastly wetter than now, and that the increasing drought will of itself extinguish Sequoia, leaving its ground to other trees supposed capable of nourishing in a drier climate.

Her voice softened and a warm light shone in her eye when she spoke: "I beg you to get up; we cold-blooded people up here don't understand that old-fashioned way."

On her homeward way a tropical storm struck the canoe and the people in it.

Having, therefore, formed my plans in this wise, I showed the most long-suffering patience in manifesting my keenest and most covetous yearnings, and I used my best efforts, but only in secret ways and when opportunities were afforded me, to light in this young man's soul the same flames wherewith my own soul glowed, and to make him as circumspect as myself withal.

She thought that she liked his voice and the flash of his white teeth when he smiled. 'Oh, I'm glad I'm at home,' she said, in a gentle way that put him at his ease, and yet at an immense distance.

He's got a pretty way o' sayin' so.

Kate had thought out her course in advance, and had decided that the direct way was the best.

Now, as you are on private land, you had better take the nearest way to the public road.

"Years ago, I saved a boy from the meshes of the law, in which his evil ways had involved him.

If it be lawful (as by the best authorities it plainly doth appear to be), in using rhetorical schemes, poetical strains, involutions of sense in allegories, fables, parables, and riddles, to discoast from the plain and simple way of speech, why may not facetiousness, issuing from the same principles, directed to the same ends, serving to like purposes, be likewise used blamelessly?

As I turned into the broad graveled way which led past the garden up to the house, I saw a tall and well-known figure standing before the door, and he came toward me with a smile as I threw myself from the saddle.