He turned the handle as he spoke, and walked out into a gloomy little hall paved with cold, bare flagstones, which caused their footsteps to waken mournful echoes in the empty house.

Denis Dussoubs continued: "He spoke for some twenty minutes," an eye-witness has told me.

dragons should be interesting, especially in such a very quiet, shady nook as this,quite an idyllic place for story-telling, it's a positive shame to disturb you," and his sharp, white teeth gleamed beneath his moustache, as he spoke, and he tapped his riding-boot lightly with his hunting-crop as he fronted Bellew, who had risen, and stood bare-armed, leaning upon his pitch-fork.

"Before you examine Zeally, sir, let me save you what trouble I can." He spoke faintly, but with deliberation.

You won't expire for me, then?" "No!" "Then live for me, delight of my existence!" said Mr. Ralph Ashley, with a languishing glance, and clasping his hands romantically as he spoke; "live for one, whose heart is wrapped in thee!" Miss Fanny's sense of the ludicrous was strong, and this pathetic appeal caused her to burst into laughter.

He could not restrain the tears which coursed down his bronzed cheeks as he spoke of the destitution and suffering in the snow-bound camps; of the young unmarried men who had been so light-hearted on the plains and brave when first they faced the snows.

He spoke with her as usual, made some slight alteration in his prescriptions, and left the room with a kind, cheerful look.

" He raised his head as he spoke and found himself face to face with the new packer in the ribbon department.

Eliza didn't understand, and she understood still less when he spoke of a beehive hut, such as the ancient hermits of Ireland lived in.

He spoke doggedly: "It has never deceived me.

He spoke Of giving us, your maidens, to his knights In carnal wedlock: but I fear him not: For God's own word is pledged to keep me pure I am a maid.

" He spoke excitedly.

When he spoke of the plains of father Abraham, and of the smoke and thunder of the battle, Pardon, it stirred up such stomachy feelings in my bosom, that I verily believe I could have had the heart to throw aside the thimble, and go forth myself, to seek glory in battling in the cause of the King.

He shrugged his shoulders as he spoke, and an expression of disgust came upon his bearded face.

For this reason, as soon as he appeared, and before he spoke to her parents, he took great care to talk with him.

" When he spoke he was thinking of St. Luc, as he had last seen him in the vale of Onondaga, defeated in the appeal to the fifty sachems, but gallant, well bred, showing nothing of chagrin, and sure to be a formidable foe on the field of battle.

"He endured with manly virtue so cruel a sentence," says Commynes, "and everything, even to death, more than any man I ever saw die; he spoke as coolly as if he had never been ill."

He spoke....

He could make folk listen, even though he spoke by letter.

He spoke in the gruff, defiant manner peculiar to children of the city.

No, he spoke no word aloud, he did not even close his eyes.

He spoke sternly, but not unkindly, when he asked if Keith had been doing anything he ought not to do.

Now when he spoke of his wife his whole body changed.

His voice was soft, and he spoke perfect English, save for a very slight accent that was rather charming; this gave his words a certain naïvete.

Surely if in Him I did live and move and have my being, as some old heathen taught your Saul of Tarsus, I should in one mode or another be aware of Him!" While he spoke, Mr. Drake and Dorothy had come into the room.