He never struck a man but once in real earnest, and that was over in Keeseville, and on that occasion the people said the town clock had struck one.

Some people said she was like a Sargent, others called her a post-impressionist type; there was no end to the old and new masters of whom she seemed to remind people; and she certainly had the rather insidious charm of somehow recalling the past while suggesting something undiscovered in the future.

The people said the woods were full of game, but we didn't have time to go hunting.

"' 'John Gilbert Cooper[10] related, that soon after the publication of his Dictionary, Garrick being asked by Johnson what people said of it, told him, that among other animadversions, it was objected that he cited authorities which were beneath the dignity of such a work, and mentioned Richardson.

Full of faith and hope, Ernest doubted not that what the people said was true, and that now he was to behold the living likeness of those wondrous features on the mountain side.

People said to themselves, Who is this son of Hortense?

He was a widower, and, with an only daughter, occupied a floor, au quatrième, in one of the courts; people said he had been in business and grown rich, but that he had not the heart to spend his money, which year after year accumulated, and would make a splendid fortune for his daughter at his death.

Some people said that she didn't have much sense, but is that a fault in a woman?

"Hotchkiss must mean to retire," people said.

These people said that their country produced cinnamon, and two of our people were sent onshore to see whether this were true, who brought with them two green boughs which were said to be cinnamon, of which they had seen a large grove, but it turned out only to be the wild kind.

Then he disappeared, and people said he had gone to Spain.

In a country where predestination has so much power over the mind, the star of Siraj-ud-daula was, people said, predominant.

You have never been much scared by what people said, Governor.

But this year all prospered, and the people said that the Blessed Mother of God loved the young princess and would bless her, and hers also, and give her husband back his strength, even by a miracle if need should be.

People said at the time that it was the hot weatherhis own family had said so: he had never quite got over his attack of pneumonia, and the sudden rise of temperatureone of the fierce "heat-waves" that devastate New York in summerhad probably affected his brain: the doctors said such cases were not uncommon....

I set down often and often to knit, and get a-thinkin' over times back, and things people said and did years ago, and how bad I felt, till I feel jest so ag'in, and I get a-cryin' till it seems as though I should screech right out, and I can't sleep, nor I can't do nothing.

Some people said he was probably helping to finance the Bolsheviks.

People said that she belonged in her corner; that no one else could fit it, that she could not as well fit anywhere else.

I know some of the people said that was where they was sot free.

Now when he said this, all the men grasped their bows and arrows and followed him, and when they went up the hill, the buffalo just moved out of their path and kept on feeding; and just as they came to the lodge, Bull Turns Round came out, and all the people said, "Here is the one whom we thought the bears had killed."

It is easy to see that he is a foreigner, a republican, and a Protestant," people said.

The reproaches he heard every Gazette-day against the writer of it, inspired him with a fortitude of being remarkably negligent of what people said, which he did not deserve.

At least this was what the people said who, toward evening, had brought her back unconscious to the inn; for she herself could talk but little for the blood which flowed from her mouth.

Some people said that old Johann Heinrich never slept, for no matter what hour of the night one passed his lonely little house, a lamp was always burning.

People said he took the loss of his wife coolly; but the fact was that, in every quiet way, he had been doing all man could do to obtain what information concerning her there might possibly be to be had.