I have already asked and obtained two young hands to supply the loss of the feverites; and with the other prospect before me, you may believe I cannot decently ask leave of absence for myself.

They laid him decently at full length, crossing his soil-begrimed hands over his breast, tying the handkerchief down over his face.

We are sophs, and we want you to answer us decently.

At the same time a decently clothed man, with as decent a wife, and child, were bargaining for the same indulgence.

Dr. Franklin (Memoirs, ed. 1833, iii. 157) wrote to Dr. Price in 1784:'It is said that scarce anybody but yourself and Dr. Priestley possesses the art of knowing how to differ decently.'

She donned a gown and bonnet of black in testimony of her bereavement, but there was no unnecessary flaunt of crape in her decently symbolic garb.

I long to come under your care, but for some days cannot decently get away.'

It is a moderately fair instrument, and is decently played, but it is not good enough for the place, and it is quite time to sell it to some other chapel, and get a better.

The good fathers, and all of note, are taken down into the valleys, where there is earth and are decently buried; while the poor and the stranger are housed in this vault, which is a better cover than many of them knew while living.

For the making of this little book, I have not been able to include all the men who ever wrote one note after or above another; nor to read all the books ever published in all the world's languages: and yet, that I have been decently thorough will appear, I think, in the list of books at the back.

If I make him all right if I even get him out of the world decently, I get the Scoutbush interest on my sidethough I believe I have it already.

Twas her last Thought, How decently to fall.

While preparing my palette a monk, decently habited for a monk, who seemed to have come to the Vatican for the purpose of viewing the pictures, after a little time approached me and, with a very polite bow, offered me a pinch of snuff, which, of course, I took, bowing in return, when he instantly asked me alms.

And only my positive conviction that there was something after all worth discovering, and that it most certainly was not this, prevented my suggesting that we terminate our visit forthwith, or as soon as we decently could.

They all wore sober dresses, in keeping with the simplicity of the house, and but for the vacuity of their faces the group might have been that of a Professor's family in an English or American University town, decently costumed for an Arabian Nights' pageant in the college grounds.

It is vanity's deserts to come across these unnecessary memorials of a decently buried boyhood; there is always something stultifying about them, and I longed to confiscate this one of me.

In the days of good Queen Bess, however, hospitality was proverbially free, and any decently set up Englishman was tolerably sure of a welcome at any of the country houses which were then, as now, scattered at long intervals over this wild, uncultivated district.

He had thought it decently buried by this time, having heard no more about it.

no house was ever built large enough for two families to live in decently and comfortably.

The first of August was observed by the people so decently and devoutly, and with such manifestations of subdued, yet grateful feeling, that they appeared more like a select class of Christians celebrating some holy day of their church, than a race but recently converted from idolatry, and who were just emerging from the pollutions and degradation of slavery.

Nor will they search in vain for Gissing's incorrigible mannerisms, his haunting insistence upon the note of 'Dort wo du nicht bist ist das Glück,' his tricks of the brush in portraiture, his characteristic epithets, the dusking twilight, the decently ignoble penury, the not ignoble ambition, the not wholly base riot of the senses in early manhood.

His salary at Longmeadows just sufficed to keep him decently clad and to support him during the holidays.

And then the judge summoned the factory owner to the Court of Arbitration, and this is what he said to the man: "It is impossible for these girls to live decently or healthfully on the wages you are now paying.

Others argued, and finally the Doctor said that the body had not been dissected, and if they would allow him, and appoint a committee to go with him, he would produce the body, and they could decently bury it again and there it might remain forever.

There was every reason why I should behave decently about it!