But whether through sun-blindness or shaken by anger, the Colonel was handling his shovel uncertainly, fumbling at the gravel, content with half a shovelful, and sometimes gauging the distance to the box so badly that some of the pay fell down again in the creek.

" The music was in full swing; it was chiefly brass; but now and then, in softer moments, one could hear a violin squeaking uncertainly.

"Might look in a directory" suggested the latter, uncertainly.

"If this is to be a peaceful entertainment you will not need to be armed, and it is absurd to suppose a lady will dance with a gentleman who is a walking arsenal." They looked into one another's faces uncertainly.

"I must go to my stateroom," she sighed uncertainly.

She passed a hand over still dazed eyes, looked uncertainly about, then with perceptible exertion of will power collected herself, stood away from the partition and picked up the carafe.

Where the woods were thickest Noel, with no trail to guide him, swung uncertainly to left and right, peering through the trees for some landmark on the distant hills.

She came forward quickly, though uncertainly; in the dim light she looked like a shadow.

"Where shall I begin?" he said uncertainly.

she asked, looking uncertainly at the artist, who, on hands and knees and with tongue protruding, was putting a green head on a red bird, too absorbed even to notice the onlookers.

The corners of her sensitive mouth twitched uncertainly.

As her father said nothing more, biting his nails and looking at her uncertainly, she added in the accent which fitted the words, "Why shouldn't I?" He took a turn about the room and glanced at his wife, who was hemming a napkin very rapidly, her hands trembling a little.

The mate looked at him angrily, but uncertainly.

A shadow came on her face; her eyes wandered uncertainly, as if her weak brain were confused,only for a moment.

32 Go, mortals, now; and vex yourselves in vain For wealth, which so uncertainly must come: When what was brought so far, and with such pain, Was only kept to lose it nearer home.

He arose and came uncertainly forward, apparently weak, able hardly to stand without leaning upon the desk in front of him; his face waxen and drawn, hollowed at the cheeks and temples, his long hands thin to transparency.

Then he was inside, swaying again uncertainly upon his feet.

" Arthur looked at her uncertainly.

Even by those who accepted and maintained them, they have often been touched uncertainly and formally, as if people thought that they were doing a duty, but would like much better to talk about other things which really attracted and filled their minds.

Then seemingly bent on overtaking them, the flames leaped over the edge, devouring the brush and grass to the water's edge, where, loath to admit defeat, the flames flickered uncertainly and then died away, leaving nothing but a pall of smoke to mark their course of destruction.

Ah, the man has now stopped his southward journey, and is veering about uncertainly!

He is having his own boat paddled about uncertainly.

"I do indeed love music," she said at last, uncertainly, "but, Master Hugo, not the kind of which my gossip, Helene, speaks.

Twice he had glanced uncertainly at his companion, opening his lips for speech; twice he had closed them silently and turned again to the uneven trail.

" Then she laughed uncertainly to see him lying there, too astonished to get up.