Every stage manager in New York, including himself, had been ready to bankrupt himself offering her what in those days were almost incredible contracts to prevent her from the suicidal folly on which she was bent.

" Phil bent and kissed her againnot passionately this time, but with a kind of reverent solemnity as if he were performing a rite.

Carlotta shook her head at him and went over to Tony, over whom she bent for an instant with unusual feeling in her lovely eyes.

And the doctor bent and kissed his wife before going in to telephone the message to be sent his nephew that night, a message bidding him and the little stranger welcome, whenever they cared to come to the House on the Hill.

Ted shook his head shamefacedly, and bent to examine a picture in a magazine which lay on the desk.

As they sat down he bent over to her.

He bent over her, his passionate eyes a caress.

Tony bent to dip her fingers in the cool water.

He bent over her, his lips close to hers.

" He bent over her, a flash of triumph in his eyes.

You would like to have a dying man's oath that there was nothing but a pack of lies to the whole thing, blackmail of the crudest, most unsupportable variety?" Alan bent over the man, shook his fist in the evil, withered old face.

He bent over to ask with the instinctive gentleness that was in all Holiday men.

Mr. Lanley was sitting, with his arms folded and his feet stretched out far before him, his head bent, but his eyes raised and fixed on the picture.

" She bent her head a trifle on one side in the way a puppy will when an unusual strain is being put upon its faculties.

A rejuvenated though unreformed Turkey, bent on self-preservation, could not be despised, and it was understood that if the revolutionary bands of the three Christian nations (Greece, Serbia, and Bulgaria) were to continue indefinitely to cut each others' throats in Macedonia the tables might conceivably be turned on them.

The Rumanian army had invaded northern Bulgaria, bent on maintaining the Balkan equilibrium and on securing compensation for having observed neutrality during the war of 1912-13, and famine reigned at Sofia.

She laid her folded hands upon them, bent her brow to the hands, then lifted brow and weeping eyes and whispered to Heaven for mercy.

The head bent low into the flowers.

Ah, sweet, a thousand thousand pardon!"the speaker bent to her hearer's ear"I saw you when you kiss' itand before.

He met men who formerly bent humbly to the earth before him, yet who scarcely greeted him now.

That pale, bent man, who greeted him with a sorrowful smilecould it possibly becould it be John Gotzkowsky, the celebrated banker, the honored and bright hero of the Exchange, the money-king before whom all Europe bowed down?

" Bertram bent over her hand and kissed it; but as he looked at her, his eye accidentally caught sight of the sparkling jewels which adorned her arms and neck, and aware for the first time of her unusually brilliant toilet, he asked in surprise the occasion for it.

And as if in a dream, in the feverish delirium of grief, he placed the wreath on his brow, then for a moment stood with his head bent in deep thought.

I could see how the low swamp's edge bent in and out, and how I could make a straighter course than the river.

A face bent over me.