The weazened reader rose in a nervous flutter, underwent his introduction to Rudolph with as much bashful agony as a school-girl, mumbled a few words in German, and instantly took refuge in his tattered Graphic.

Beside a little smoky flame Sate hovering, pinched with age and frost; Her shrivelled hands, with veins embossed, Upon her knees her weight sustains, While palsy shook her crazy brains: She mumbles forth her backward prayers, An untamed scold of fourscore years.

"Would yer like ter know how de fight is goin', Mars'?" "What matters it?" mumbled the old man.

" Old Simon pocketed the money, mumbling his thanks as he did so.

" Victor took up a docket of papers, and Sturm, mumbling an apology, gave himself up to jealous brooding till he forgot the broad hint he had received.

The only colored person (either black or brown) whom we saw drunk during a residence of nine weeks in Antigua, was a carpenter in St. John's, who as he reeled by, stared in our faces and mumbled out his sentence of condemnation against wine bibbers, "Gemmenyou sees I'se a little bit drunk, but 'pon honor I only took thth-ree bottles of winethat's all."

And as his own soul responded in a wild rejoicing, MacDonald, going over the summit and down into the hollow, mumbled in his beard: "God ha' mercy on me!

" "H'I doubt if they understant that much," mumbled the engineer between chattering teeth.

I mumbled a lot of jargon to them for some time, and I really believe they saw that I wanted to use their place for a billet.

"No respect for God or man," mumbled the judge, meaning that a creature capable of calling him Old Flapdoodle could be expected to ask if Matthew Arnold were worth knowing.

and when he looked foolish and mumbled some answer, I just said, "Because if you are afraid of falling, and it is to hold on, there is the outside rail of the coach for you; I hate being pawed."

The cowboys mumbled greetings which Carolyn June and Ophelia graciously acknowledged.

Sir Pertolepe's slow fire shall not roast me yet awhile, nor his dogs mumble the carcase, my Rogerkin!" "Aye," quoth Roger feebly, "but what of my lord, see how still he lieth!"

Dorothy paid no heed, but I rose and stepped into the hallway, where servants were guiding the patroon to bed, and a man hung to the bronze-cannon post, swaying and mumbling threatsColonel Claus, wig awry, stock unbuckled, and one shoe gone.

Forced upon his knees, the unhappy young officer mumbled out his confession, and then the executioner, passing a stout cord about his throat, strangled himstruggling and crying out piteously for mercy!

He may understand the end of the way of sensuality by looking at any old pleasure-seeker, "Gray, and gap-toothed, and lean as death," mumbling the dainties that he can no longer enjoy, and glowering with bleared eyes at the indulgences which now mock him even while they tempt him.

This cut the ground from under the feet of all rivals, and the Academy could meet twice a week as before and mumble its definitions with serene assurance.

He's got a pretty nice way with him, Rance has, and I guess if he came along now with his sorrel pacer and says to you, 'Come on, Miss Thornley,' you would get on that boot and stocking in two jiffies and be off with him like any young girl!" Miss Thornley mumbled a denial, and an angry light shone in her pale blue eyes.

" "Then, he'll know mor'n I do myself," mumbled the detective, with a crushed and discouraged air.

In the same way when a Brahman or a Buddhist has a slice of good luck, a happy issue in any affair, instead of mumbling a Te Deum, he goes to the market-place and buys birds and opens their cages at the city gate; a thing which may be frequently seen in Astrachan, where the adherents of every religion meet together: and so on in a hundred similar ways.

" "Cap'n Kinzer allers does know jes' de right t'ing to do," mumbled Dick in a half-smothered voice; and his mother let go of him, with "Law, suz!

"Looks like ready money, doesn't she?" mumbled Dicky in my ear.

" Instinctively, with a man's natural reticence, I began to mumble a half-articulate disclaimer; and then I stopped.

At such dinners Mrs. Thomas would sit for hours, mumbling dishes that disagreed with her; smiling at conversations carried on in villanous French, of which language she did not understand a word; and admiring the manners of addle-headed young men (who got tipsy at her evening parties), because they had been to Europe, and were therefore considered quite men of the world.

"I dunno," mumbled Dismal, falling into the manner of speaking that had been habitual with him from his childhood.