He placed one long, thin hand on the little table which stood near, and pouring out a glass of wine, drank it off.

I place confidence in him,

Even horses and dogs gaze wonderingly at the strange brightness of the ground, and smell the polished spaces and place their feet cautiously on them when they come to them for the first time, as if afraid of sinking.

Merchant Prince (placing his chair next to Slangy Daughter's, and leaning his elbow on her.)

In every business or intellectual enterprise to-day, there is an effort to place at the head of each organization the most powerful and resourceful man whose services can be obtained.

What reliance could they place on the evidence of Fanning?

This, I accomplished by placing upon it several large pieces of 'dressed' stone, which I had noticed in my tour along the East wall.

From that time on I was virtually a prisoner; yet so carefully was my surveillance accomplished that I could place my finger on nothing definite.

"Your mother is ill, too," he said, and placed his arms about me and held me close, "but with God's grace we will save her life.

The queen, though she hated Imogen, yet wished her to marry a son of her own by a former husband (she also having been twice married): for by this means she hoped upon the death of Cymbeline to place the crown of Britain upon the head of her son Cloten; for she knew that, if the king's sons were not found, the princess Imogen must be the king's heir.

They place a guard at every point, in haste to set him free, But where the brave commander who shall lead to victory?

She should then lay a cloth (generally made of coarse wrappering) over the carpet in front of the stove, and on this should place her housemaid's box, containing black-lead brushes, leathers, emery-paper, cloth, black lead, and all utensils necessary for cleaning a grate, with the cinder-pail on the other side.

For the purpose of seeking that relief to my feelings which change of place only could afford, I determined to make a sea voyage; and, as one of my father's vessels was about to sail for Canton, I accordingly embarked on board the well-known ship the Two Brothers, captain Thomas, and left Sandy-hook on the 5th day of June, 1822, having first placed my three children under the care of my brother William.

If you show dignity you will not be mocked; if you are indulgent you will win the multitude; if faithful, men will place their trust in you; if earnest, you will do something meritorious; and if kind, you will be enabled to avail yourself amply of men's services.

On our return to Rolla we heard a great deal of talk about the approaching fall races at St. Louis, and Wild Bill having brought a fast running horse from the mountains, determined to take him to that city and match him against some of the high-flyers there; and down to St. Louis we went with this running horse, placing our hopes very high on him.

The bearers entered with the stretcher, placed the body on it, and carried it away.

The same law which places various degrees of limitation upon the souls that have passed into the invisible can be so applied as to set them free.

All was silent, and as we crept along on tiptoe I felt the girl's grip upon my arm, a grip that told me that she placed her faith in me as her deliverer.

Late in the evening our wagon train arrived, and placing the wounded woman, Mrs. Weichel, in the ambulanceshe having been kindly attended to by the surgeons,and gathering up the prisonersthe squaws and papoosesand captured stock, we started at once for the South Platte River, eight miles distant, and there went into camp.

Much depends upon the teacher but to see fifty children sitting still while one child places the letters in their places on the board suggests a great deal of lost time.

His organization of the Church was aristocratic, placing the power in the hands of a few men of approved wisdom and piety.

"What do you make of it?" Crewe sat down, and placing the paper before him took a magnifying glass from his pocket.

She was placing a value on him, just as Jessie, three days before, had placed a value on him; and it disturbed Bull.

Then I saunter up to some man, place the instrument on a tablelike thattouch a lever.

Have ready a stewpan of boiling water, place the dish in it, and keep it boiling; stir occasionally, and when the soup is thick and ropy, it is done.