"You'd better keep the flowers in that," Johnnie told him lifelessly.

"Hit's the Company," returned Mrs. Bence lifelessly.

It came back empty, and fell lifelessly at his side.

I'm Ralph Burnham; I'm Mrs. Burnham's son!" Bachelor Billy's hands dropped lifelessly to his knees, his mouth and eyes came wide open with unfeigned astonishment, and, for the moment, he was speechless.

First: Let your hands swing loosely from the wrist, and swing them lifelessly to and fro.

" Meg turned sharply away, her hands dropping lifelessly; she moved toward the door.

The branches of a cherry-tree, close under her sight, dropped lifelessly; a homesick bird gave a little, still, mournful chirp in the dark.

" "Then you'd better go," she said lifelessly, "because I can't see what else there is for me to do.

What I felt was that the organism was suspended in a sort of enchantment, lifelessly alive, unconsciously expectant of the magic touch which would break the spell, and I wondered how long I must wait before I began to live.

Lady Agnes, dishevelled, her dress half stripped from her person, was seated upon a great boulder, staring hopelessly, lifelessly at the crowd of men in the roadway.

They were not among houses; but through the windows, under a broad moonlight, he saw a black moor stretching lifelessly from right to left, with rotting trees, pointing fantastic branches in the air, standing here and there in groups, as if they held up their arms and twigs like fingers, in horrible glee at the Judge's coming.

If you think we would better sell at once" "I'd let 'em go till fall," said Billy lifelessly, snapping the splinter back into place and reaching absently for his tobacco and papers.

XII OF GOING TO CHURCH I had been to church one summer Sunday morninga very simple affair it was, with nothing sung but a couple of hymns; but the Vicar read beautifully, neither emphatically nor lifelessly, with a little thrill in his voice at times that I liked to hear.