Apple pudding is a very convenient dish to have when the dinner-hour is rather uncertain, as it does not spoil by being boiled an extra hour; care, however, must be taken to keep it well covered with the water all the time, and not to allow it to stop boiling.

A long-silent chord of memory began to give forth a vague, uncertain murmur.

However, as I sat there, staring about at this scene, and uncertain as to what my next move should be, there was a stir within the upper berth on my own level, and a moment later, an uplifted face appeared suddenly in the yellow flare of light.

Rose, however, still rather uncertain on her legs, caught hold of the scales in her impatient efforts to climb upon the bed, and almost toppled everything over.

All sorts of vague plans then rose within him, uncertain reveries of such vast scope, such singularity, that he had as yet spoken of them to nobody, not even his wife.

You, Roman soldiers, fellow-mates in arms, The blindfold mistress of uncertain chance Hath turn'd these traitorous climbers from the top, And seated Sylla in the chiefest place The place beseeming Sylla and his mind.

She had on her walls two charming oval portraits of ancestresses, possiblyfor she was uncertain as to their identitytwo of the handsome sisters whom Lamb extols.

At length retracing the uncertain footpath scaling the precipitous embankment, I seek the level lands where grow the wild prairie flowers.

How he achieved his victory is uncertain; one thing, however, is certainit must have been a startling surprise to Dreadnought to find himself in a race at all, and still more astonishing to find himself in front.

The prisoners, there could be no doubt, were open to the gravest suspicion, but how far each was concerned with the actual murder was uncertain, and possibly could never be proved.

Can Truth be uncertain?

As though you wanted to screamto cry outagainst an uncertain sensation that gripped you.

He is a Jew of uncertain Central European origin, Pole or Czech, a natural born British subject, a shining light of a local anti-German society, an 'indispensable' in his job and exempted from military service.

"I feel strangely disturbed, uncertain which way to move.

in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please'not, of course, that I attribute any such foibles to Miss Westcote, but for the sake of the conclusion.

"The voice was shaky and, I dare say, uncertain in its upper notes; but it fetched M. Benest right-about-face again.

The fact is undoubted; but the means which they employed are uncertain.

Anxious for the present, and uncertain for the future, he listened to the suggestions of England, and resolved to secure and extend by foreign force the rights of which he risked the loss from domestic faction.

"We know," he says, "what the Zealand soil ishow uncertain, changing, and mutable; nevertheless, a construction is placed upon it, one hundred and twenty yards long, sixteen yards wide at the entrance, and more than seven and a half yards deep below high water.

While the project was as yet rather uncertain, Frank seemed to feel that his cousin could never be wholly satisfied that he had done his duty by his father until he had spent some time down on the Isthmus trying to get some traces of the lost aeronaut.

Whether after his liberation[a] any secret compromise took place is uncertain.

Position of Rome Their Uncertain Plans for War The Roman state was in a plight, such as may occur even in firmly- established and sagacious aristocracies.

Glory is such an uncertain thing, and, if you look at it closely, of so little value.

Even in the case of evils which are sure to happen, the time at which they will happen is uncertain.

So, if we are not to lose all comfort in life through the fear of evils, some of which are uncertain in themselves, and others, in the time at which they will occur, we should look upon the one kind as never likely to happen, and the other as not likely to happen very soon.