174 examples of dewes in sentences

Camp chairs were placed for himself and Major Dewes and Captain Lynes.

Luffe took his seat in the middle, with Dewes upon his right and Lynes upon his left.

"Who is it?" asked Dewes.

Dewes could imagine Linforth falling forward with his head upon his hands, his eyes heavy with sleep, while from without the tent the patient Chiltis watched until he slept.

" "He could not read what was written," said Dewes.

"At last!" cried Dewes, springing to his feet.

Dewes stood up straight again.

"Can we countermine?" The young Engineer took the place of Major Dewes.

"Sixty?" "A hundred," replied Dewes promptly.

Dewes found the Political Officer propped up on pillows on his camp-bed.

"Sit here, close to me, Dewes," said Luffe in a whisper, "and listen, for I am very tired."

" Dewes realised surely enough that Luffe was in possession of his faculties, but he thought his anxiety exaggerated.

He will learn" and Major Dewes stopped short, baffled by the look of hopelessness upon the Political Officer's face.

I tell you, Dewes, it's sheer lunacy.

"What danger do you foresee?" asked Dewes.

But it was not until many years had passed that Dewes saw and understood the trouble which was then stirring in Luffe's mind.

It was Colonel Dewes, and her thoughts went back to the day when first, with reluctant steps, he had walked along that path, carrying with him a battered silver watch and chain and a little black leather letter-case.

Sybil Linforth was now thirty-eight years old, but the fourteen years had not set upon her the marks of their passage as they had upon Dewes.

"Please go on," said Dewes, turning towards her.

" "You see," Mrs. Linforth continued, as though Dewes had not interrupted, "it is not natural for a boy at his age to want to be alone, is it?

A smile of pride made her face very tender, and as she turned to Dewes he thought to himself that really her eyes were beautiful.

"Eton, isn't it?" said Dewes.

" "Had he no wife?" asked Dewes.

"What will you do, then?" asked Dewes.

" "Yes, I see," said Colonel Dewes.

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