I had caught them up after replacing the cushions on Adelaide's body.

They were like the finest steel chisels, the enamel never wearing away and the softer ivory replacing itself year by year as it was consumed.

Having swept the bedroom with equal care, dusted the tables and chairs, chimney-ornaments, and put away all articles of dress left from yesterday, and cleaned and put away any articles of jewellery, her next care is to see, before her mistress goes out, what requires replacing in her department, and furnish her with a list of them, that she may use her discretion about ordering them.

Mailah rose more gently, and replacing her infant in the pouch, slung it over her shoulder, and followed her friend, softly whispering in her ear, ‘The white stranger is your Lincoya.'

" With his tongue in his cheek he scurried away, just in time to avoid the proprietor of the store, who now came bustling out to learn what all the racket might mean, and found our four boys busily replacing his pyramid of empty boxes.

While the boys worked at replacing the fallen boxes, they kept up a running fire of observations regarding this new calamity that threatened their peace; for when Andy Lasher and the ugly crowd with which he trained took a notion to make themselves disagreeable they could do it "to the queen's taste," as Jerry said.

" "I thank thee for the fact, Hosea," said the other, partially removing his mask, but as instantly replacing it.

RIDICULE REPLACING REPRESSION Had His Excellency the Viceroy not made it impossible by his defiant attitude on the Punjab and the Khilafat, I would have tendered him hearty congratulations for substituting ridicule for repression in order to kill a movement distasteful to him.

But they grow fat and enjoy themselves under his tyranny, so they would never consent to leaving him unguarded, as happened to Nero, for instance, or to replacing him with any one of the caliber of Aurelius, if such a man could be found.

The sergeant was in the act of replacing the sheet, with the air of a showman who has just given an exhibition, when there came a sharp rapping on the mortuary door.

Theophil kissed the page, and, replacing the book, took up another, and his heart leapt to find it was a little diary.

So far from regarding Thought as a self-centred, self-enclosed activity, Pragmatism insists upon replacing it in its context among the other functions of life, and in measuring its value by its effect upon them.

I should have returned before this, but unhappily the chain by which we descended gave way a few days ago near the top, in hoisting out the first series of my observations, and as yet there has been no opportunity of replacing it.

And if I were not his mother I should fall in love with him myself!" Catherine looked down on me as she returned from replacing Bob's photograph on the mantelpiece.

" Phil shook his head as he finished replacing Tony's trim brown oxfords.

I hope he succeeded in replacing it better than a servant-girl is said to have done, under similar circumstances, whoas the old story goeshaving applied to the captain of the vessel, received the following doubtful recommendation at the hand of that functionary: "This is to certify that Kate Flannagan had a good character when she embarked at New York, but she lost it on board the steamer coming up.

A shoe-black once finding him profoundly absorbed in a reverie, contrived to steal the silver buckles from his shoes, replacing them with iron ones.

Then smoothly replacing the folds, and laying it in a large chest, she sighed as she said, "Indeed, I shall never marry him.

In 1888 King Milan gave Serbia a very much more liberal constitution, by which the ministers were for the first time made really responsible to the skup[)s]tina or national assembly, replacing that of 1869, and the following year, worried by his political and domestic failures, discredited and unpopular both at home and abroad, he resigned in favour of his son Alexander, then aged thirteen.

They help on that sapping and undermining of the ancient, sturdy simplicity, the solid oak of country character, replacing it with veneer.

I am in command of the squad on your hill, replacing an officer who is not yet out of the hospital.

Before the Aspirant left he introduced into the house the senior lieutenant, whom he had been replacing in the command on my hill, a man a little over thirtya business man in private life and altogether charming, very cultivated, a book-lover and an art connoisseur.

Briskly, he consulted a heavy gold repeater, replacing it with the quick movement of one to whom seconds are valuable.

The next day, and the next, the same fall and rise in the book market took place, but on the fourth day the father was too deeply engrossed in work to assist in the replacing of the books: when, lo!

"Yes," he said, replacing the volume, "he must be an outside broker.