In feverish haste, I began to throw the pillows back over the quiet limbs, the accusing face.

There was no light on the lower floor, and after listening for any signs of life, I began to feel my way about the house, searching for the intruder.

He noted them all; the faces of the men, the gestures of the women; but he did not show any special interest till he came to that portion of the road where the long line of half-buried fences began to give way to a few scattered houses.

" She was a self-contained woman, this wife of a master mechanic in one of the great shops hard by; but her jaw fell at this, and she forgot to chide or resist her child when he began to pull her towards the open kitchen door.

As the last cluster fell from the coachman's trembling hand, the undertaker advanced with the lid, and, pausing a moment to be sure that all were satisfied, began to screw it on.

" The other yielded and began to cross the floor behind the impetuous Maggie.

He came out of the tent, peered for a few moments up at the sky, built up the fire, and began to prepare breakfast.

" "I haven't got it ready yet; for you woke the minute she began to cry.

When she gave it to him, he sat down with the baby on his knees, and, to his great delight, and the satisfaction of his mother as well, she stopped crying, and began to drink the milk-and-water.

But the moment the baby heard her mother's voice, she forsook the bottle, and began to scream, wanting to go to her.

The Austrian began to rise, but the Italian outpaced him and got right above him, and pressed him gradually down towards the ground.

After a walk of about seventeen miles, I reached Freeburn Inn about the middle of the afternoon, and as it began to rain and to threaten bad weather for walking, I concluded to stop there for the night, and found good quarters.

I soon began to feel quite at home by its side.

When I had made half of the seventeen miles between Wick and John O'Groat's, I began to look with the liveliest interest for the first glimpse of the Orkneys; but projecting and ragged headlands intercepted the prospect.

Thereupon the building began to sink into the ground, and did not cease descending until the camels and their driver were crushed to death.

* * * * At last, after some noise, the Head spake these two words: 'Time is.' Miles, hearing it to speak no more, thought his master would be angry if he waked him for that, and therefore he let them both sleep and began to mock the Head in this manner: 'Thou Brazen-faced Head, hath my master took all this pains about thee and now dost thou requite him with two words, "Time is"?' * * *

In 'The Last Shot', which appeared only a few months before the Great War began, drawing from my experience in many wars, I attempted to describe the character of a conflict between two great European land-powers, such as France and Germany.

Paris, which had been with heart standing still and breathing hard, began to breathe regularly again and the glow of life to run through her veins.

and the capitaine began reading the newspaper aloud to his men.

Their white teeth gleaming, their black eyes devilishly eager, they began climbing on to the car.

He had a son who had been living in a French family near Lille studying French and he had heard nothing of him since the war began.

For a while after the war began he, as leader of the war party, knew the joy of being more popular than the Kaiser.

He is a clever man, who began his career with the enormous capital of being emperor and made the most of his position to amaze the world with a more versatile and also a more inscrutable personality than most people realize.

After it had been published two days, I began to look eagerly into all the daily and weekly papers for critical notices of my magnum opus.

GEORGE literally overwhelms the place, breaks out everywhere; began at earliest moment with question of precedence.