Suddenly a laugh rang out upon the keen air,so full of a clear joyousness that people involuntarily straightened their drooping shoulders, as if inspired with a new sense of vigor and smiled in sympathy.

While he was straightening the things, Father Wills appeared at the flap, smoking saucepan in hand.

He spent some time in the lavatory, washing, arranging his hair, straightening his tie, after which he made his way into the elaborate dining-car and found a comfortable corner seat.

It also appears that the surgical meansboots, bandages, &c.adopted to straighten the limb, only aggravated the evil.

He asked me to straighten the matter out.

However, they roused from their despondent attitudes when they heard a familiar whistle in the distance, and began automatically to straighten their hats.

After a little he suddenly straightens his hind legs and bends down over the worm, like a man saying, "Ah, and what have we got here now?

"We'll have to straighten out that ticket tangle after the show," mused Joe.

"Button your blouse, straighten your hair and come along.

He threw it out with his utmost force, staggered as though to follow it; then, leaping back, straightened his tall body with a jerk, flung out one arm in a gesture of surprise, no sooner rigid than drooping; and even while he seemed inflated for another of his speeches, turned half-round and dove into the garden and the night.

He straightened his slim little form with an assumption of dignity.

"But I don't pretend to do much now," she continued, straightening her trim figure.

" Esther sat up and straightened her collar.

When a man so spat, he stopped laughing abruptly, straightened his face, and stared emptily at the rusty stove until further inquisition developed some other preposterous escapade in Bob's jail career.

The account of the finding of the remains having been given in full, the police-surgeon was called and sworn; the jurymen straightened their backs with an air of expectancy, and I turned over a page of my note-book.

Usually there was no time between Morning Sing and tent inspection to do more than give the place a swift tidying up; to sweep the floor and straighten up the beds and set the table in order.

He straightened the lace about his wrists, and his features lost their strained attention.

"] "Who?" said the latter, sharply, as he straightened his aching back.

Continuing the drive from Thiepval, which had also been occupied, the British consolidated their positions and straightened their line a short distance from Bapaume, their objective point at this time.

She found it next to impossible to straighten out the muddle, and she came at length reluctantly to the conclusion that it was beyond her powers.

It was so maternal that he expected at any moment she might brush his hair, straighten his necktie, and beg him not to sit up too late, but his instinct told him it was the only tone he was ever likely to hear from her, and so he said reluctantly, "Very well; I confess that I really rely on your judgment, and I will decline the invitation.

He slowly straightened his arms and the iron gave an audible creak.

He was still standing, straightening the tangled manes of the black horses, and wondering what could be done in the situation in which he found himself, when suddenly the scene changed, and

She picked up a vase and laid it down; straightened a picture.

He gathered himself together and with gigantic exertion began to straighten his bent muscles.