The young lady stood for a moment irresolute, and then left it where it was, and walked on up to the house.

" "True," he said, and sat for a moment thinking.

Of course Bull did not for a moment dream that Pete meant what he said.

"O, release me for a moment till I am disentangled from my horse," exclaimed Barzú; but Rustem heeding him not, now pressed him down beneath him, and was preparing to give him the finishing blow by cutting off his head, when the mother seeing the fatal moment approach, shrieked, and cried out, "Forbear, Rustem!

Let me for a moment pause to render a tribute of justice to the memory of that devoted woman.

He determined to leave the moment luncheon was over.

Thus when you hear one man say to another, "Ah, mon Dieu, on est bien malheureux dans ce moment ici;" or, "Nous sommes dans une position tres critiqueJe voudrois bien voir la fin de tout cela;" ["God knows, we are very miserable at presentwe are in a very critical situationI should like to see an end of all this.

Then she, hesitating a moment betwixt prudence and her warmer feelings, suddenly yields to the impulse of her heart (her head also being turned maybe with success and delight), and flinging her arms about his neck gives him a hearty kiss, and then bursts away with a light laugh.

It is curious how, in spite of domestication and training, Nature in her great moments returns to the primitive and instinctive!

There followed a few moments silence, as though the other were listening for sound within.

Men rushed hither and thither; but in a moment order was restored out of the seeming confusion.

Held over the wire, down which Joe would in a moment slide, was a row of fiery circles!

She takes it out every instant to look at the moment-hand.

In a few moments dinner was finished and Mrs. Grayson rose and read the tent assignments.

He knows not the details of her home life, the husband is merely a dark cloud that fills one side of the picture, sometimes obliterating the sunlight; a shadowy shape that in certain moments solidifies and assumes the likeness of a rock-sculptured, imminent monster; but the shadow and the shape and the threat are magnetic, and in a sense of danger the fascination is sealed....

We stood for a moment face to face.

She does not for a moment conceal from her correspondents her sense of the dangers which surround her.

He stood for a moment motionless in amazement, and filled with horrorand then retired from the world, shut himself up in the convent of La Trappe, where he passed the remainder of his days in the most cruel and disconsolate devotion.

He stood a moment listening, and then gently pressed open the shutter.

Smarting under a slight he had received at parting from a school-companion, who had excused himself from a farewell meeting on the plea that he had to go shopping, he at one moment talks of his desolation, and says that, "leaving England without regret," he has thought of entering the Turkish service; in the next, especially in the stanzas to Hodgson, he runs off into a strain of boisterous buffoonery.

Ah! little think they, while they dance along How many feel this very moment death, And all the sad variety of pain: How many sink in the devouring flood, Or more devouring flame!

Infinite passion and infinite loss were here pictured, in a medium which combined all that was spiritual and all that was sensual in a harmony of beauty that was in the same moment delirium and peace.

These, arriving in succession, and with infinite rapidity, had been deposited at randomas the convenience of the moment dictatedsofas in the cellar, hampers of ale in the drawing-room, and fiddles and fish-sauce in the library.

His power of healing is beyond belief; a few grains of dust fallen from his feet, when sprinkled on the head of the sick, are more efficacious than any medicine; and water in which his feet have been washed has cured in a moment diseases, and driven out evil spirits which have resisted for a long time all the efforts of physicians and exorcists.

Excuse my rude approach just now: the Devil had for a moment dominion over me.