Or do we easily interrupt our prayer on any trifling pretext, and on the first opportunity?

That these mutations may not interrupt the measure, one harp must always be kept in advance, in the same manner as a good reader advances the eye, not upon the word which he pronounces, but upon that which follows.

A young man who was standing near and listening, desired her not to interrupt the lady, for he could see she was learned, and 'thou art ignorant,' he added, with more truth than politeness.

No one will interrupt us.

Mrs. Maxa found it necessary at this point to interrupt her friend.

During the last preparations, Velna and Eveena were closeted together in the chamber of the former; nor did I care to interrupt a parting the most painful, save one, of those that had this day to be undergone.

" "And I," I said, "by virtue of the Camptâ's sign and signet attached to this," and Eveena held forth the paper, while my weapon covered the Regent, "forbid you to interrupt or delay my voyage for a moment.

Their idea was to wait until he got well on his sermon and then begin to interrupt him and ask questions, and finally to get a blanket and toss him up a few times for luck, and then chase him out and have the circus bulldog, that chews the clown's pants, catch the minister's coat tail and just scare him plum to death.

I burst the back of my coat dodging the missile, which did not, however, interrupt the rapid utterance of my dreadful communication.

"MY DARLING LINNET: "Now I am settled down for a long letter to you, up here in the master's chamber, where no one will dare interrupt me.

It need not be declared in this assembly, that this cannot always be done without employing men who abuse the confidence reposed in them, a practice on which I shall not at this time trouble the house with my opinion, nor interrupt the present debate, by any attempt to justify or condemn it.

The depth of the tone in which this word was uttered, caused a silence, that the secretary did not interrupt, until he had thrown a glance backwards at the judges.

He had told Lancelot to pray oncehe dared not interrupt him now.

Stafford did not like to interrupt them, and withdrew to the other end of the terrace, with a cigarette, to wait till they joined him.

She related the most trivial details, seeming irrelevances, but the visitor did not interrupt her.

"Perhaps because I am an artist, and it seemed inartistic to interveneto interrupt the action at an inopportune momentto stultify what promised to be an unusually involved complication.

This look was not an unnecessary one; for Mrs. T., with all her anxiety to give information, did not get on very fast, and made many mistakes in names, &c., which her worse-half tried to rectify, with the result that she turned on him with "Frank, I wish you wouldn't interrupt; you are quite wrong, you know!"

But I saw everyone here having a meeting and I didn't want to interrupt.

The gentleman will excuse me if I interrupt him.

" I would interrupt the reader at this point to suggest that it might be well to peruse the enclosures, which will be found in the succeeding pages, in order to have a better understanding of the comments which follow.

'Ah, if the next half-hour were over!' "'Give me a sign when it is settled,' said I. "'For what reason?' "'Because until then no messenger shall interrupt you.

"Pray, Sir," says I, "not to interrupt you, have you any business with me?" "Only, Sir," replies he, "to order the girl to bring me a better light: for this is but a dim one.

" Kennedy was speaking rapidly and was careful not to pause long enough to give Prescott an opportunity to interrupt him.

You understand me, Joseph?and, mark me,right or wrong!" "Not wrong," said Frowenfeld, "at least not in defence of wrong; I could not do that; but, I assure you, in this matter I have done" "No worse than any one else would have done under the circumstances, my dear boy!Nay, nay, do not interrupt me; I understand you, I understand you.

It was in vain that the apothecary repeatedly tried to interrupt this speech.