The day before they had been apparently finished; but that morning Miss Hosmer had, as she laughingly told us, "pulled it all to pieces again.

She laughingly declared that not only was she careful of it in the present, but meant to be so for the far-off future, for she intended to go that very day to a lawyer's office and to make a will.'

"You will surely never go without me, Alice?" "You will never stay behind, if I do go, Kate," said she, looking back at me laughingly.

In vain did Alice and I spend our eyesight in embroidering slippers for him; our Christmas gifts were received with a kiss or a stroke of the head, and then put into Aunt Molly's hands to be taken care of, while he still wore the rough moccasins, made far up among the Blackfoot Indians, which he laughingly declared were warmer, cooler, softer, and stronger than any slippers or boots that civilized shoemaker ever turned off his last.

I noticed that she looked quite steadily at Dr. John, and then raised a glass to examine his mother, and a minute or two afterwards laughingly whispered to her neighbour.

Your companion, while he helps you to pick the barbs out, calls the palm laughingly by another name, 'Suelta-mi-Ingles'; and tells you the old story of the Spanish soldier at San Josef.

The room whirled round, and then he saw her again, bareheaded now, with her starlike face, shaking back her golden curls laughingly.

When, seized with remorse, he would talk about working, she would link her supple arms through his and laughingly hold him prisoner, so that he should not make himself ill again with overwork.

He turned laughingly to Phebe as he spoke, and she looked at him with eyes full of implicit faith.

" "You embarrass me," said Denham, laughingly.

And then she said laughingly, turning to the boys, "Not that there are so very many of 'em, but they're all we've got, you know.

She laughingly professed to have had enough of the proprieties, and declared herself bored by the social rites she had hitherto so piously performed.

Her hostess laughingly pushed her back.

Miss Crilly laughingly shook Polly's shoulders.

" Polly shook her head laughingly.

She commented laughingly on the writers and addressees of the letters, and flirted with a passenger.

"Let Haamoura, my wife, say as to them," he returned laughingly.

The name has become a synonym for a bosom friend, a crony, but is generally used laughingly.

In the living-room the men laughingly drank toasts to his future, and from the high-columned portico Marian Devant waved him good-bye, as in his clean padded crate he was driven off, a bewildered youngster, to the station.

He wished to impress upon me that he was not vain, and gave various proofs to establish this; but I produced against him his boasts of swimming, his evident desire of being considered more un homme de societe than a poet, and other little examples, when he laughingly pleaded guilty, and promised to be more merciful towards his friends.

"The other one was a German prince," said Veronica, and then laughingly added, "I don't suppose you care to hear about him?" "Oh, come on, tell us about him," coaxed the Winnebagos.

His friends counselled him to claim half the sum, but he laughingly remarked that there had never been any but a verbal agreement on the matter; and since the result had been fortunate for his friend, she should enjoy it all.

Sahwah was tatting, Gladys and Migwan were embroidering, and Miss Kent, familiarly known as "Nyoda," the Guardian of the Winnebago group, was "mending her hole-proof hose," as she laughingly expressed it.

Half laughingly, half earnestly, he tried to kiss her: she struggled for some time strongly, but at the last moment yielded, with a slight return and the exchange of a subtle fire that thrilled him, and left him standing confused and astounded as she ran away.

"I assure you," I added, laughingly, "I would rather even marry Englehart than continue here.