He is also socially made too much of, being one of the very few men available for golf and afternoon teas, suppers, picnics, tennis, charity-bazaars.

He found him on the sea-shore among his seals, basking in the afternoon sun.

On reaching the hotel he heard with satisfaction that Henshaw had gone off by the late afternoon train and had suggested the unlikelihood of his returning.

Cousin Agatha is about her housekeeping, and I have read the afternoon paper all through,even the list of undelivered letters and the woman's page,and I just want to see the Gilbert Stuart picture," she concluded,exercising, one is afraid, a certain economy in regard to the truth.

The afternoon light came soft through the trellis, and you could not have looked for a fairer picture of settled ease.

It is an ideal day for cricket, with a fresh breeze blowing, just sufficient to temper the hot afternoon sunshine and cause a flutter of cricket-shirts and boundary flags.

The afternoon service was proceeding.

It was great to see all the tents go up as if raised by machinery, and after all were erected, and the rings were graded, and the animals in the menagerie tent all fed and watered, and the performers in the dressing-room ready for the afternoon performance, pa was the proudest man ever was.

When he took his afternoon nap and lay upon his back on the sofa in the sitting-room, we made paper pin-wheels to see whether his breath would stir them.

Now and again at intervals I accompanied him on his afternoon walks.

They had started in the first dusk of the coming day; it was now the yellow time of the slant afternoon sunlight; between these two points there had been a body of steady plodding.

Sometimes Louise would make her rounds alone, but often Arthur would join her for an afternoon drive to Huntingdon, and it greatly amused him to listen to his girl-wife's adroit manner of "pumping the natives.

" She returned to the dressing-room, taking a volume of Dick from the book-case as she passed it; and sitting in a warm corner, half concealed by somebody's shawl and somebody's cloak, she read, or thought she read, until the bell for the short afternoon session sounded.

He had just, by way of a finishing touch, expended nearly half a penny bottle of red ink in a somewhat exaggerated reproduction of the fiery hue of Noaks's nose, when the bell rang for afternoon school, and the bombardment had to be postponed until the following day.

"How wonderful, how unique!" exclaimed an Italian friend to whom I related the experiences of that afternoon hour in the "children's room" in the library of that small city.

Not a voice was silent, and unconsciously hand clasped hand, and the soft afternoon air reverberated with the swelling cadence: "We are not divided, All one body we.

The note from Dora reached Dick the following day, in the afternoon mail.

We started the afternoon march in this fog very unpleasantly, but later it gradually lifted, and to-night it is very fine and warm.

The afternoon meeting, long established in the Institute world as the "Life Work Service," was in the hands of a few leaders who knew both its power and peril.

The village boys, who remembered the search with shuddering horror, avoided the river, and even Hugh found means to persuade Mildred to give up the pleasant road on its bank and take the hill district for their afternoon rides.

From end to end, and overflowing half way around both north and south stands, the blue of Yates fluttered in the little afternoon breeze till that portion of the field looked like a bank of violets.

So the city moved on, as yet blissfully unconscious of the sensation which would be sprung with the first afternoon editions, and over which reporters and artists and photographers were even now, no doubt, labouring.

In the afternoon shadow of a large tepee, with red-painted smoke lapels, sat a warrior father with crossed shins.

They lunched together in the car, which was on a siding before the offices, ready to join the early afternoon express.

I will pay an afternoon visit to you when you please.