The sun's still high. 'T is barely afternoon.

Why couldn't I leave well enough alone and enjoy an easy life in Paris, with a nicely furnished rez de chaussée off the Champs Elysées, where madam could drive up in her carriage after luncheon and break the Seventh Commandment comfortably three of four afternoons a week, and be home in time to dress for dinner!

I cannot affirm that there was even one moment of that curiously short afternoon when she became wholly and frankly a Peavey.

The Misses know very well that it galls their rivals to see them driving about so grandly half the afternoon up and down the streets, and to see the big local people lift their hats, as the banker, with whom, of course, the large farmer has intimate dealings.

This very jolly afternoon ended with a really hilarious game of Puss-in-the-corner.

Do you two always quarrel, or is this merely a little afternoon's diversion got up for my especial benefit? Barlow (with dignity).

The result was that in about two hours the line was taken, and practically that afternoon the battle of Santiago was ended, for those men never advanced beyond that point.

In my hotel in Paris my landlady had her mind fixed on that one chance, and regularly every afternoon when the aeroplanes were expected she would go to bed.

will I gladly do: 'Tis scarcely afternoon

They bandied charges and contradictions so vigorously this afternoon that the SPEAKER had to intervene to put an end to these "nonsensical bickerings.