"I'm out," said the surgeon briefly, and stood with mouth agape.

" Now here Giles the Archer turned and stared upon Beltane with jaws agape, and fain he would have questioned further, but Beltane's gloomy brow forbade; yet oft he looked askance at that golden head, and oft he sighed and shook his own, what time they marched out of the golden glare of morning into the dense green depths of the forest.

In this regard, faithful to the traditions of the republic, which his family had really changed from a democracy to a ploutarchy, he had the good taste to scorn the vulgar pomp of kings,"the horses led, and grooms besmeared with gold,"all the theatrical paraphernalia and plebeian tinsel "which dazzle the crowd and set them all agape"; but his expenditures were those of an intellectual and accomplished oligarch.

All this time the Corn Engrosser had been staring at Robin, his mouth agape with wonder.

Her fingers were clawing her cheeks, her eyes widely dilate with horror and fright, her mouth was agape, and from it issued, as by some mechanical impulse, shriek upon hollow shriekcries wholly flat and meaningless, having no character of any sort, mere automatic reflexes of hysteria.

" "I hope we shall be able to see the prince from our seats!" said Isabel, whose eyes were more widely open than usual, and her mouth half agape with excitement.

I follow and gaze at him, so to speak, with my mouth agape and a fatuous smile over a countenance which I once flattered myself was intelligent.

What" He paused, his mouth agape, words unsaid.

" Peter stood in the sunshine, looking at the estoppel clause, his lips agape.

The crowd of bystanders would listen all agape.

curious, inquisitive, burning with curiosity, overcurious; inquiring &c 461; prying, snoopy, nosy, peering; prurient; inquisitorial, inquisitory^; curious as a cat; agape &c (expectant) 507.

it is our inertness that is in fault, our carelessness of excellence, our willing ignorance of the treasures that lie in our national heritage, while we are agape after what is foreign, though it may be only a vile imitation of what is native.

The maid stared at him with mouth agape.

His face was haggard and white as death; his mouth agape as if from exertion, and the lips bloodless; his eyes were widely distended as if from frightclothing disarranged, collar unfastened and dangling.

Barring the ledge not more than fifteen feet from him, his great jaws agape, his head moving slowly from side to side as he regarded his trapped enemy, stood Thor, the King of the Mountains!

The pale eyes of Jansen stared, fascinated; the vast mouth fell agape.

a sail! With throats unslaked, with black lips baked, Agape they heard me call: [Sidenote: A flash of joy;]

The Starmen's last view of the scene was the pirate leader's shocked face, mouth agape, pulling his laser pistol up to fire.

Whereupon the henchman, mouth agape, would rush back to the session like a racehorse.

The men were standing in a long and awe-stricken line, their eyes wide, their mouths agape.

The result was that Robert Macklin, his mouth agape and his eyes dull, stood wobbling slowly from side to side.

That is what babies are agape for from the beginning.

First at Emett, than at me he sprang, mouth agape, eyes wild, claws spread.

"And who are you?" cried one, agape, Shuddering in the gloaming light.

Some of them were agape with surprise and amazement; others were agonized with sympathy for the poor minister; and others still were full of mirth, and would have laughed outright if they had not been in a religious meeting.