146 Metaphors for hers

" "Oh!" said Di; and her "Oh" was a most impressive monosyllable.

The other son and heir interested her nearly, for he was her half-brother.

ARABELLA hasn't any doubt about her being perfection.

Her short, serge frock and astrakhan coat and cap were just the things for the occasion; and she looked so attractive and chic, with her hands in her monster muff, he began to have that pain again of longing for her, so he said icily: "The sky is gray and horrid.

The question is whether to reveal to you now where it was that Josie Fifer reigned thus, queen of the cast-offs; or to take you back to the days that led up to her being therethe days when she was José Fyfer on the programme.

Declamation was evidently more the Muse's forte than argument, but her aside was an aside, and that of the jockey friend was not.

Poor Emmeline struggled to banish thought, that she might repay by cheerfulness the tenderness of her parents and cousins, but she was new to sorrow; her first was indeed a bitter trial, the more so because even from her mother it was as yet concealed.

I do not say that the bachelor felt no twinges when he saw among the guests the lovely Mrs. Sandford in her becoming white robes; in fact, he "thought seriously," as all such people do while there remains even the recollection of youthbut his habits were too fixed.

Caroline was Annie's friend, and that was enough for her; not even her being Mrs. Hamilton's daughter could make her an object of interest.

Perhaps she appeared more inspiring because of the contrast her presence afforded to the unpleasant episodes through which he had just passed; also, Carolina was dressed in her most becoming street gown, which she well realized, as she was enacting a carefully planned part with the unfortunate secretary.

Barbara said we had none of us a specialty; she knew better; only hers was a very womanly and old-fashioned, not to say kitcheny one; and would be quite at a discount when the grand co-operative kitchens should come into play; for who cares to put one's genius into the universal and indiscriminate mouth, or make potato-soufflés to be carried half a mile to the table?

Her eyes, fixed on the attorney's face, wavered and, had they followed their natural impulse, would have turned towards her brother, but her fearpossibly her lovewas her counsellor

Her "Praying Women of Bethlehem" is an excellent example of her art.

The threatened gale was by this time blowing in earnest, and the ship was commencing to roll fearfully; so, after securing all the boxes and bags as well as possible, and hanging up all the scattered garments, she made a hasty retreat to her couch, and lay there only half undressed, but utterly prostrate, and as unable to touch the tea and biscuits brought by the attentive stewardess as was her more delicate and suffering room-mate.

"Yesthat's the way Mrs. Peter Van Degen's flower was put in the other night; only hers was a camellia.

I am sure I blushed and stammered wofully as I asked for two bunches of flowers instead of my usual one, and I was confident, that, as she handed them to me without a word, but with such a look, Thérèse's brow was shaded by something more than the dark bands of her brown hair or the edge of her becoming cap, and that her lip quivered rather with a suppressed sigh than with her usual happy smile.

His crown was broken diagonally; hers slantindicularly; that was the only difference.

Mary, like all other Indians, was passionately fond of the water, and in spite of her crooked back was a strong and skillful paddler.

Still was the ground that she walked on her own; and the crops she rejoiced in, All of them still were hers, and hers was the proud-waving grain, too, Over the whole broad field in golden strength that was stirring.

The part about her being a vixen was laughed at by the few that heard it, but was soon left out as immaterial to the story, and incredible in itself, though afterwards it came to be remembered and its significance to be understood.

She was at once quaint and commonplace looking, the most noticeable thing about her being the fact that she wore a cap.

HERS WAS THE RELIGION OF THE GOSPEL; JESUS CHRIST HER FOUNDATION, THE AUTHOR AND FINISHER OF HER FAITH.

Jenny fought for their spring beauty, all the more because Lady Tyrrell was encouraging the wife to criticize the very things she had tried to sentimentalize over with the husband; but seeing that she was only doing harm, she proposed a brisk walk to Eleonora, who gladly assented, though her sister made a protest about damp, and her being a bad walker.

Only hers were this time the set, still features.

And when they came to man's and woman's estate, Cedric's regard for her was as a brother's; but hers for him, alas! was deep love.

146 Metaphors for  hers