We took over all our own servants and found many others who were on the permanent staff of the ministry, footmen, huissiers, and odd men who attended to all the fires, opened and shut all the doors, windows, and shutters.

The buck, nothing loth, drew back to a proper distance, and shutting both eyes, came like a battering ram against the stone on the other side of which was the negro's head.

Her eye fell casually upon Pompey who was shutting the carriage gates.

Judge, dear Antonio, my Surprize and Grief; A-while I stood unmov'd, thoughtless, and silent, But soon Rage wak'd me to new Life again; But what I said and did, I leave to raging Lovers, Like disappointed me, to guess and judge; She heardand only answer'd me in Tears, Nor could I beg one tender Word from her, She sigh'd, and shut the Window too, and vanish'd. Ant.

The stranger was tossing restlessly in his bunk, opening and shutting his parched mouth in silent, piteous appeal for the water that must still be doled to him parsimoniously.

The modest abode to which I have alluded forms one of a circular range of pretty, moderate-sized, two-story houses, all built on nearly the same plan, and each provided with its little grass-plot, its flowers, its tufts of box trimmed into globes and other fantastic shapes, and its verdant hedges shutting the house in from the common drive and dividing it from its equally cozy neighbors.

" He flopped shut his book, snapping a rubber band about it and inserting it in an inner coat pocket.

As we rounded one of the points that shut out the view of this bay from the lake, we saw two deer feeding quietly upon the lily pads along the shore, some quarter of a mile from us.

And never has it been known that He has shut His ear to those who called upon Him, or forgotten one who is His.

Ha, ha, ha, you have your Answer, Seignior Friskinand may shut up your Shop and be gone.

The Shamán seemed to be shutting out the offensive light by wrapping himself up in something, head and all.

If we try to shut out for an hour the outer world, and descend into the soul-world of the life of man, we find ourselves in a new environment, and with an outlook over new forms and powers.

Dode put her hand to her hot breast, shut her dry lips.

he moaned, and closed his eyes, as though to shut out the sight.

When day came the Cyclop awoke, and kindling a fire, made his breakfast of two other of his unfortunate prisoners, then milked his goats as he was accustomed, and pushing aside the vast stone, and shutting it again when he had done, upon the prisoners, with as much ease as a man opens and shuts a quiver's lid, he let out his flock, and drove them before him with whistlings (as sharp as winds in storms) to the mountains.

The pain of my cramped and scorched limbs was horrible, but I had just enough sense left to shut my teeth and make no sound.

In the end I suppose they had rightsof a kind; a right by law, I supposethough I never knew the law and don't want toto shut the old man up, and make him damned miserable, and get the money for themselves.

"If," she said, "your name actually is George, thisthis is the most the most terrible punishment" She closed her eyes with her fingers as though to shut out some monstrous vision.

He cursed himself for a fool, shut the hand into a hard fist as steady as rock, and for an instant glared at it blackly.

She shut up the drawers, walked up and down the room, noticed with a shudder her own changed expression as she passed before the mirror, and strove in vain to give some order to her confused and tumultuous thoughts.

The houses were small and scattered, and across the flat commons, spite of the lofty tangle of weeds and bushes, and spite of the thickets of acacia, they needs must see the dismal old Poquelin mansion, tilted awry and shutting out the declining sun.

"'JAMES,' said his father, 'do not shut up hot water too tight, and take care when it is over the fire.' "'A lady was boiling coffee one day, and kept the cover on the coffee-pot too long.

Like a child playing a game, she half shut the hat-box and hugged it lovingly.

I therefore desire you to discharge the fellow at once, and in case you refuse to accede to this reasonable demand I shall shut off your power.

By the outward motion of the arms, they partially shut off the steam from the engine.