Then pressing the hands held out to him, he said good-bye to them all, and went back with a firm step to the group of officers.

Meanwhile the French Sixth Army was pressing on from the west, and from the 6th to the 9th there was fierce fighting in and round Vareddes.

Syrups or Preserved Fruits, by washing in lukewarm water with a dry cloth, and pressing the spot between two folds of clean linen.

Gratton was pressing tight to Gloria, seeking futilely to get behind her.

The woman, the pioneer mother, holding her baby to her breast, pressing on with her own mate, looking fearlessly ahead, daring what might come, not lagging behind the man, rather ready to lead the way should he falter.

The poor sleeper beneath could not hear it, it is true; his slumber, henceforth, was sound; the full tide of human population pressing fast beside the spot where he lay buried, should never wake him more: no human sorrow should rack his breast, no dream disturb his repose; yet cold, changed, and senseless as he was, the first sound of the falling clods jarred strange and harsh upon my ear, as if it must perforce awake him.

That an immense revenue is divided among the members of the other house, by known salaries and publick employments, is apparent; that large sums are privately scattered on pressing exigencies, that some late transactions of the ministry were not confirmed but at a high price, the present condition of the civil list, a civil list vastly superiour to all the known expenses of the crown, makes highly probable.

I hope none of these circumstances, my lords, can at present obstruct a candid and deliberate inquiry: with regard to the publick, I am not able to discover any pressing exigencies that demand a more compendious method of proceeding, than the established laws of the land, and the wisdom of our ancestors have prescribed.

Several circumstances show that Dr. Johnson had not so much of bigotry at the decline of life as had distinguished him before, on which account it is well known to all our common acquaintance, that I declined all their pressing solicitations to be introduced to him.' Priestley expresses himself ill, but his meaning can be made out.

Who could tell their pressing need in months to come?

" "And that is why you are pressing on with the programme of non-co-operation?""Yes.

If Ivor should be in real pressing danger, then certainly.

308. 'Wheel carriages they have none, but make a frame of timber, which is drawn by one horse, with the two points behind pressing on the ground.

Sir John Pringle, as Boswell says, escaped, but the controversy between Tory and Covenanter raged with great fury, and ended in Johnson's pressing upon the old judge the question, what good Cromwell, of whom he had said something derogatory, had ever done to his country; when, after being much tortured, Lord Auchinleck at last spoke out, 'God, Doctor!

But the dignified company were pressing the young secretary for his answer, and one of them anxiously repeated the keynote, "An examination which prejudiced the ancient right of Venice?" "Courtesy and wisdom would render any other opinion inadmissible," Marcantonio replied,"in Venice.

" "Well, then," he consented ungraciously, "what is it thou wouldst ask?" She laughed at his reluctance, pressing her hand with a firmer and yet more loving touch on his shoulder.

We were now getting so near our destination that, although provisions were getting low, we could afford to give the party a whole day's rest, while I was enabled roughly to plot out some more of my work and write up the journal, which, from having my time constantly taken up with more pressing duties, had fallen sadly into arrears.

" Sturm pondered this before pressing his point again.

"Are you any the less my wife," he said, speaking between his teeth, "because you have found out what manner of man I am?" She resisted him, swiftly, instinctively, her hands against his breast, pressing him back.

He looked down at her for a moment as if he would refuse; then very gently he laid his hand on her head, pressing back the heavy, clustering hair from her forehead to look into her soft eyes.

" They went within, Jeanie pressing close to Avery in tender solicitude.

" "Thank you," said Mrs. Delano, warmly pressing her hand.

In some of his epistles to Henry Reynold esquire, it appears that even then he could construe his Cato, and some other little collections of sentences, which made him very anxious to know, what sort of beings the poets were, and very pressing upon his tutor to make him, if possible, a poet.

Did anybody owe Quade money, anybody Quade was pressing for it?

He wears his little learning, unmade-up, puts it on before it was half finished, without pressing or smoothing.