This desperate wretch, previously aware of his danger, and determined never to expiate his crimes in the hands of justice, had posted one of his banditti, with a lighted match, over his powder-magazine, to blow up his vessel in the last extremity.

They were aware of the advance and retreat of Havelock, and that was all.

" He knew too much, in fact, and was only too well aware of it.

Lady Mary could not but be aware of her son's complete independence of her, but the realization of it no longer filled her with such dismay as formerly.

The great churchmen of the Middle Ages were plainly at war with their great oracle in this matter, without being fully aware of their real antagonism.

Mary Pratt had foreseen his true state, accustomed as she was to administer to the wants of the dying; but no one else appeared to be aware of it, not even the deacon.

" "I am well aware of that," rejoined Alfred.

Even Karl, who was well aware of his master's great ability and cleverness, was nevertheless uneasy, and Franz, who was less familiar with the baron's character, was in a state of the greatest alarm.

For example, when you fixated the letter O, it was only in the vaguest sort of fashion that you were aware of the contact of your clothing or the lurking ideas of other lessons.

She was aware of this because in one of the folio tomes in the library was a picture of the castle as it appeared in 1510, taken from some manuscript of that period preserved in the British Museum.

He was for ever aware of Anne's face turning on its white neck to look at him straight and full, her black-brown eyes shining and darkening and shining under the long black brushes of her eyebrows.

Before Harold Transome was aware of Esther's intention she was on her way to the witness-box.

It seems probable that he received some assistance from a gentleman whose son took him as companion, and from the clergy of Lichfield, to whom his father was known, and who were aware of the son's talents.

Still as he gazed, he was aware of another form, one sitting on the quay, unseen in shadow like himself, and seeing what he saw, and motionless as he.

And then, as though aware of her discourtesy, she turned toward him, a smile for the first time illumining the pallor of her face.

It would, he thought, be impossible but that his wife would be able to get out of the house and come to him if he could only make her aware of his presence.

The Germans are well aware of the entrance to the citadel and daily shell the spot.

" "I was not aware of it," said Jarvis.

You must indeed fail; that I am aware of, and that if you were to put forth all your power, you could not stand this blow, You must and will fail, and that this very day.

As it opened I became aware of a low muttering, and caught distinctly the half-whispered words, 'Better try the pick first, Fred.'

Before decent terms and conditions of work can be demanded, the worker must be in such a position financially that she can, if necessary, refuse the work in question, and if possible the employer must be aware of this fact.

I do not think I do; at least I am not aware of it; I was talking to Zéphine.

Even when I was hardly aware of it, it was there.

Though his myrmidons are fully aware of its existence, and can give a shrewd guess at its contents, only two of them have set foot within it.

Mon Dieu!and not to be aware of it!"