With another prayer, this time uttered shiveringly, for the soul of the pedlar, she nerved herself to get into bed again, and lay there till morning with her child against her heart; gazing with staring, sleepless eyes at the door which divided her from that awful room; keeping surely the most terrible vigil that ever woman kept.

The Boy stared a moment at what he mentally called "the nerve of the fella," laughed, and took hold, swallowing Nicholas's intimation that he, after all, was far more considerate of the dogs than the person merely sentimental, who had been willing to share his dinner with them.

" Now hereupon Beltane rose and stood upon his feet, staring wide-eyed at this grim-faced stranger who, with milk-bowl at lip, paused to smile his wry smile.

The great difficulty was the steering; but it was rip-roaring fun, the Boy said, and very soon there were natives running down to the river, to stare open-mouthed at the astounding apparition, to point and shout something unintelligible that sounded like "Muchtaravik!" "Why, it's the Pymeuts!

"The note I sent the Misses Rushford," said Vernon, quietly, "was written on a leaf from the notebook, which I tore out just as I did that one you have in your hand," and he sat down and stared out the window, across the gray dunes and the gray sea to the gray horizon.

Austin stared at him an instant.

Dumbly he turned and looked into the white, staring face of the superintendent.

LeVere stared down over the poop rail, behind him the motionless figure of the wheelsman, his hands gripping the spokes, while across the open deck the speeding mutineers leaped to their several posts, with bare cutlasses shining in the sun.

She knew how to stare a man out of countenance with big purple eyes that were like violets with the dew on them, and keep her paltry pink-and-white baby face all pensive

George Talboys sat before it without uttering a word, only staring blankly.

But the butcher continued to stare down the street.

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Of course, she did not laugh, but smiled gratefully instead, and she could not help staring a little at the retriever of her lost property.

I sat staring a minute, and my first numb thought was somehow this: that the Countess Clodagh had prayed me 'Be first'for her.

" Then did the archer stare upon my Beltane in amaze with eyes full wide and mouth agape, nor spake he for awhile, then: "Black Ivothou!"

The former is described as a tall, staring brick house, almost destitute of trees; the latter as a perfect bower of roses, peeping out like a bird's-nest from amidst the foliage in which it was embosomed.

[Lat.], If it ain't broke don't fix it [Bert Lance]; stare decisis [Lat.], let the decision stand; 682.

It stared everybody in the face.

"] "Wots the matter, Henery?" ses Bill, staring at 'im with 'is mouth open.

And presently, as we came more nigh, I lookt oft to Mine Own; and I saw that she did be staring that way, and to be in wonder; but yet to say naught to me.

Just stared down over the rail a bit, an' then cum back, rubbin' his hands.

Elizabeth had been staring down the road ever since the last words had passed her lips.

By this time the poor mother was in a canoe as close to the fall as she could with safety approach, and the little bark danced like a cockle-shell on the turmoil of waters as she stood with uplifted paddle and staring eyeballs awaiting the rising of the child.

He stood up and stared all round to see if anything was coming, but he could see nothing and hear nothing.

"So," cried the old gentleman, having made good his footing on the ground, as he stopped short and stared John in the face, "you have made out to come twenty miles to meet an old cynic, have you, sir?