After luncheon, when they were smoking (all of us together, no one went into the smoking-room), he and Hatzfeldt began talking about the Empire and the beautiful fetes at Compiegne, where anybody of any distinction in any branch of art or literature was invited.

At break of day the drums and trumpets sounded to arms, and the Christian army issued from among the smoking ruins of their camp, in shining squadrons, with flaunting banners and bursts of martial melody, as though the preceding night had been a time of high festivity instead of terror.

" "I'll engage a nice upholstered seat in the smoking car.

Smoking tobacco was selling at $1.50 a pound and good plug cut and fancy tobacco was selling at $2.00 a pound.

This was George Lister's business, and he lounged in a corner of a smoking-compartment, and rather drowsily studied some calculations.

" She looked down curiously at the little wooden huts, half-buried in the snow; the smoking chimneys; the twinkling, curtainless windows.

What filled my mind was the sight of my enemy, very white and drawn in the face, holding a smoking pistol and staring at me.

Caroline, however, went away musing much upon these points; and she began to think Mr. Brandon more wonderful and beautiful every day, whereas he was remarkable for nothing except very black eyes, a sallow face, and a habit of smoking cigars in bed till noon.

He would not break the bruised reed, nor quench the smoking flax.

"I never thought I'd come to wearin' a quilted silk basque with tossels on it," Abe remarked one day on being urged to try on a handsome smoking-jacket.

He was sixty inches of nerves, wrinkles, and whiskers, with special adornments in the shape of a blue smoking cap, and a pair of spectacles with specially ground lenses of an enormous thickness.

ON THE EDGE OF THE STORM A Russian village kabak, with a smoking lamp, of which the chimney is broken.

He informed me that there was bagatelle at the club for those who liked it, and all sorts of games, and smoking concerts: that it was a question who was the best bagatelle player in the club; but that it probably lay between the squire and his head gardener, though Tom, the carter, was likely to run them close!

Next moment dry twigs rustled and a young man leaped on to the grass with a smoking gun in his hand.

He gets into a soiled, old, blue smoking-coat, and sits there reading the comic papers, huddled in a deep arm-chair, a whiskey-and-soda mixed ready by his side.

So, following ever the friar's lead, they came to a narrow doorway that gave upon a small guard-room lighted by a smoking torch socketed to the wall.

"Mind you put on a blue velvet smoking-suit, Mr. Dodd, dear.

They faded out as one picture on a stereopticon screen fades into anothereven as one read "Huns" for the thousandth time the Huns turned into kindly burghers smoking pipes and singing songs.

The soldiers who had been sent out to examine the country, returned at the end of eight days, and reported they had been all through the island, quite to the smoking mountain, and that the smoke we saw proceeded from a fire at its bottom, where there was a spring of liquid pitch which ran into the sea.

Is it anything I've said or done?" He sat down on the stone steps of a hut used for a storehouse and reached moodily for his smoking material.

He motioned me to follow him, and led me past the smoking altar to a row of painted white stones around the great wigwam.

Soon as the growling pack with eager joy Have lapped their smoking viands, morn or eve, From the full cistern lead the ductile streams, To wash thy court well-paved, nor spare thy pains, For much to health will cleanliness avail.

At one end we saw intermittently a broad ascending cañondeep red and blue-blackending in the cone of a smoking volcano.

At last two fellows came to say that the feast was ready spread, so Robin, leading his guests with either hand, brought them to where great smoking dishes that sent savory smells far and near stood along the white linen cloth spread on the grass.

The only living things upon it are the sea-gulls and other birds that circle in clouds around the smoking crater.