"'Girl Reading a Book,'" she said disdainfully, as she began to brush her hair vigorously.

Yesterday I was a thing of laughter and frolic; to-day I am grave, and brush away tears.

As I brushed my hand, nervously, over his coat, I noticed that he was dripping; and concluded that he must have tried to follow me, and fallen into the water; from which he would not find it very difficult to climb.

Crewe stepped forward quickly, secured the stick, glanced quickly at the monogram engraved on it, and held it out to Holymead, who was brushing the dust off his clothes with vexatious remarks about the clumsiness and impudence of street boys.

Where a valet is not kept, a portion of his duties falls to the footman's share,brushing the clothes among others.

" "You shall have some netting to put over your bed," said Mrs. Wood; "but suppose, Laura, you had no hands to brush away the flies.

I brushed out my eyes to find the ship smack on her beam ends, and the wind howling by from the sea.

" She twined her arms more tightly about his neck until the sunny curls brushed his cheek.

A person should brush his teeth every day for reasons.

And then, when she had extinguished the gas, and the oriental sleeve of her silk nightgown delicately brushed Hilda's face, as she got into bed, she remarked: "Strange that Edwin Clayhanger should call just to-night!" Hilda's cheek warmed.

Seated in their libraries, in the midst of their ponderous octavos, their Roman and black-letter volumes, they reject with disdain the commentators, the opinions of the jurists of the present century; and brushing away the cobwebs and dust from the covers of their treasured relics of bygone ages, they clasp them in a loving embrace close to their hearts, exclaiming, 'These are my jewels.'

DICKENS, as soon as he saw me, stopped writing, wiped his pen, ran his fingers through his hair, took out his watch and wound it up, brushed his coat and put it on (not forgetting to place a rose in the button-hole), and then, waving his hands very gracefully (he wore high-priced studs and a pair of elaborately built sleeve-buttons), addressed me as follows: Mr. DICKENS (with tender embrace) SARSFIELD!!!!

He brushed away the snow, touching the thing with a mittened hand and a creepy feeling at his spine.

There I found Tonnison standing within a small excavation that he had made among the débris: he was brushing the dirt from something that looked like a book, much crumpled and dilapidated; and opening his mouth, every second or two, to bellow my name.

One hand brushed his hat which had fallen from his head.

So, throwing it from him, he brushed the crumbs from his jerkin.

She brushed the dew from the heavy blossoms as she swept on, then the drenching branches swayed and closed behind her; she found a door ajar, and hastily entered the first room which appeared.

" With careless confidence, brushing the long brown lock from his fair brow, came Solon Denney to his feet.

"So yew been jealous of yer ole man?" Angeline, astonished and indignant, withdrew her hand sharply, demanding to know if he had lost his senses; but the blinded old gentleman slipped his arm around her and, bending, brushed his lips against her cheek.

Reclining with great ease of attitude upon an uncushioned settee, the Ritualistic organist is aroused from dreamy slumber by the turning-over of the pipe in his mouth, and majestically motions for the venerable woman of the house to come and brush the ashes from his clothes.

His lips shifted from their course and went lower, just brushing her fingers.

I brush one shoulder among the bushes as I pass: I feel the solid yet easy pressure of the sod.

And we learn, above all, to brush the things together without loss of time and to play a new hand with the same old hope.

The others have big strips of cotton laid over their backs and tied under them, and the men brush their legs with tansy tea, or water with a little carbolic acid in it.

Then the Burgomaster stammered, And scarce knew what to speak, And hastily he brushed aside A drop, like a tear, from his cheek.