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If, in his search for Hooper, he found Beaumaroy, it would be man to man, and, now again, Beaumaroy had no objection.

After his search and his discovery in the Tower, Beaumaroy came out into the passage where the prisoner lay, and proceeded to unfasten his bonds.

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"At night, under the glare of search-lights, the undulating mass of wounded made efforts to extricate themselves.

Angus," Mr. Batters went on; "and the only way to keep out of it is to give him to me, and then when they come out here with a search-warrant they won't find nothin'.

Arriving at Milt's, he left the voter sitting in the buggy, while he went in search of the one who could control John's erring judgment.

It was a safe and quiet spot, and was possessed of several convenient eye-holes through which he could watch with interest the search which immediately began.

He went into the house in search of something to eat.

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Now the enigmatic eyes of Monk were boring into him, seeking to search his soul, with a question in their stare which he could not read and, quite likely, would have declined to answer if he could.

Lanyard hastened to join her, but before he could cross the sidewalk a motor-car poked its nose round the corner of the Boulevard Haussmann, a short block away, and bore swiftly their way, seeming to search the street suspiciously with its blank, lidless eyes of glare.

Seeing that it was Solon Denney's head, I was seized with a mood of jestI would hide it and make Solon search.

He was in no hurry, believing he would have the house to himself for several hours; so he tumbled Captain Wegg's souvenirs of foreign lands in a heap on the floor beside him, thrusting his hand into every corner of the cupboard in order that the search might be thorough.

"Yes; in a search for my own stock," he said.

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The fifth morning of their search dawned blue and clear and windy.

Why didn't I think of it at the very first!" They did not stop for breakfast, but were into their coats and ready for the day's search in a twinkling.

Then the Tree Girl begged for a story, and Ivra told a World Story about the rivers,how they go in search of their mother, the ocean, day and night, around mountains and through mountains, and across whole continents, and never stop until they find her,and of the myriad presents they carry to her,of the things they see and the things they do, as they flow searching.

So after breakfast with the Tree Man and his pretty, shy daughter, he ran out in search of Ivra.

Eric stood by the window, thoroughly weary of his search and loneliness, and watched her.

It was made of a dark frieze, almost black, on which a red stain would have shown very little; but after a very careful search Griggs was convinced that the blood which had stained his hand had not touched the cloth.

Can you make potato dumplings, and are you in search of a husband?' 'It is the other way,' said Schreiermeyer, 'for the husbands are always after her.

Now the Teutonic tribes were in their turn going through the same process of flux and reflux; and impelled probably at this time by some invasion of other tribes, or possibly, as Strabo says, by some great inundation of the sea, these invading nations, for they were not armies but whole nations, came roaming southwards in search of a new home.

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There are certain to be several 'the's' in the piece; so you look for instances in which the same two letters come before E, or, in this case, before V.

Next week we may look for it.

" It was nearly time to begin to look for it.

Venture to look for some seldom-touched water-hole, and so long as the trails run with your general direction make sure you are right, but if they begin to cross yours at never so slight an angle, to converge toward a point left or right of your objective, no matter what the maps say, or your memory, trust them; they know.

But if you had neglected me much longer I should have come to look for you regardless of consequences.

" Dr. Véron who publishes in his "Mémoires" the Morny-Maupas despatch, adds: "M. du Maupas sent to look for Victor Hugo at the house of his brother-in-law, M. Victor Foucher, Councillor to the Court of Cassation.

Because I must go and look for Mrs. Allendale.

So I got him to go look for baby first, because I could wait; and lo!

I told Miss Lamb in whispers that 'e wasn't there, but I'd 'ave another look for him by and by.

In Texas, Senator Wigfall did not fear to say, in supporting Mr. Breckenridge: "If any other candidate is elected, look for stormy weather.

Well, Samsón Sílych, you must look for a man who knows what conscience is. BOLSHÓV.

Annie demurred, for she did not want to go to look for turkeys, nor did she want to give Mr Croft any opportunities; but the old lady insisted, and carried her off.

After having arranged the fire so that it could safely be left burning, he took a last look around the room, and went out into the moonlight, locking the door behind him, and hanging the key on a nail in the wall, where his wife would be likely to look for it.

"Enraged by this repulse, he exclaimed to the groom: 'Tell the Pope that if henceforth he wants me, he must look for me elsewhere.'

My sentence, however, having been for fourteen years, I could not, in the ordinary case, look for this indulgence till the expiration of six years, such being the colonial regulations.

If they are antagonistic, they will both probably look for help against each other in their relations with Europe, and thus enable the European Powers to retain their possessions in Asia.

Not that I ever mean to look for gratitude again.

We must observe nevertheless, before we conclude, that however ill and tragical the example of the bees may look for human imitation, we are not to suppose that the fact is anything like so melancholy to themselves.

" Mrs. Lee now ventured forward to look for a moment at the still writhing snake, and Tom then dragged it out of the house; but before throwing it away, he cut off the rattle, which was very curious.

" "So they are like feathers?" said Malcolm, to whom this was a new idea, "I'll look for 'em the next time it snows; yet"

We had scarcely escaped when some of us again become delirious: an officer of the army wanted to throw himself into the sea, to go and look for his pocket book; which he would have done had he not been prevented; others were seized in a manner equally striking.

No, he had a good excuse for not being a gentleman and a sportsman and he did not purpose to look for any reasons for doing differently.

Let us go to the door, and look for her.

"Do not look for mercy here, but pray to God; we are all brought here to die.

But he ought to look for a wife in consequence of that crime, and not falsely allege another.

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