He had accordingly to be content with the resolve to keep a wary eye on Henshaw's movements.

He was not afraid of being dull, or of boring her, but he was afraid of wakening against him the wary watchfulness of that side of her nature which he called Margaret Donne, as distinguished from Cordova, of the 'English-girl' side, of the potential old maid that is dormant in every young northern woman until the day she marries, and wakes to torment her like a biblical devil if she does not.

Your experience should have made you more wary.

But wonder should always be watched with a wary eye; for he is apt to bring in his train a hanger-on called worship, who can do nothing but mischief here.

When prices are falling the roles are reversed, and we are likely to see the sellers tumbling over one another in a frantic eagerness to sell, the buyers wary and aloof.

And if others, especially the philosophers by fire, who pretend to it, had been so wary in their observations, and sincere in their reports as those who call themselves philosophers ought to have been, our acquaintance with the bodies here about us, and our insight into their powers and operations had been yet much greater.

Possibly inquisitive and observing men may, by strength of judgment, penetrate further, and, on probabilities taken from wary observation, and hints well laid together, often guess right at what experience has not yet discovered to them.

We must be wary about calling in the Deus e machina of a volcano.

He now saw in his front the same active and wary adversary, prepared to bar the direct road to Richmond.

therefore, though most wary of it, is not querulous nor punctilious.

But he was wary, and subtle, and flexible.

His stern and wary policy was justified by its success, for by it he had recovered from the severe blow at Ohod, but it threatened to become his master and set its perpetual seal upon his life.

The young squire listened to the resounding hoof-beats as they grew more and more faint, and wondered as he fell asleep that one held to be so wary, so wise, so incredulous, should ride forth at midnight to meet a ghost in mail and plate.

Besides they are freed in this from many other infirmities, solitariness makes them more apt to contemplate, suspicion wary, which is a necessary humour in these times, [4074]Nam pol que maxime cavet, is saepe cautor captus est, "he that takes most heed, is often circumvented, and overtaken."

The head mullah, a wary grizzled old veteran, gives the orders.

"Be silent and wary, for there are sharp eyes on you....

I keep a wary eye on them and shift my seat at their approach.

The conversation then began, but Vittoria Colonna had to use the tact for which she was celebrated before she could engage the wary old man on a serious treatment of his own art.

Six times his gossamery thread The wary spider threw; [Illustration: BRUCE BEHELD A SPIDER] In vain that filmy line was sped, For powerless or untrue Each aim appeared, and back recoiled The patient insect, six times foiled, And yet unconquered still; And soon the Bruce, with eager eye, Saw him prepare once more to try His courage, strength, and skill.

By the wary independence and aloofness of his dim forest life he preserves his intercourse with his native gods and is admitted from time to time to a rare and peculiar society with nature.

Not a moment was to be lost in imitating the example of the wary freebooters.

So Gugemar, like a wary captain, sat himself down before the town, till all the folk of that place were deemed by friend and sergeant to be weak with hunger.

Eliduc was not only a brave and wary captain; he was also a courteous gentleman, right goodly to behold.

But the pirates were too wary to be misled, in this fashion.

Crews of these desperadoes, therefore, the runagates of every country and every clime, might be seen swaggering in open day about the streets, elbowing its quiet inhabitants, trafficking their rich outlandish plunder at half or quarter price to the wary merchant; and then squandering their prize-money in taverns, drinking, gambling, singing, carousing and astounding the neighborhood with midnight brawl and revelry.

Aaron King, weary with the work of the past days, enduredwishing it was over.

The man on horseback, the automobile, some accident that might have befallen the girl in her distraught state of mindhe could find no place in the weary treadmill of conjecture to rest.

Again and again he aroused himself from the weary stupor that numbed his senses, and replenished the fire, or forced himself to pace to and fro upon the ledge.

GEORGE II, Augustus, not an, i. 209; barbarity, his, i. 147; challenged by Elwall, ii. 164, 251; clemency, his, i. 146; English weary of him, i. 363; fast day of Jan. 30, observed the, ii. 152, n. 1; George I's will, destroys, ii. 342; quarrels with Frederick the Great about it, iv.

IDLENESS, active sports not idleness, i. 48; hidden from oneself, i. 331, n. 1; miseries of it, i. 331; upon principle, iv. 9; why we are weary when idle, ii. 98.

It used to make me think of Mary Howitt's very pleasant poetry: "'Yes, in the poor man's garden grow Far more than herbs and flowers; Kind thoughts, contentment, peace of mind, And joy for weary hours.'

Isn't that a gain?" "Too weary to do anything else, I suppose.

But he was weary with a long day's labours, and somehow his eyes could summon no vision of the faces he was to see.

Though he had left the old life completely behind him, and had settled into the new with all the conviction and purpose he could summon, he was subject, especially when physically weary, as to-night, to a heaviness of heart which would not be mastered.

Hard eyes grew soft, weary faces brightened, despairing mouths set with new resolve, and when the hour ended there seemed a clearer atmosphere, a different spirit, in the crowded room, than that which earlier had pervaded it.

It was at Rome, in the year 102 B.C., that he learned how the Kymrians, weary of Spain, had recrossed the Pyrenees, rejoined their old comrades, and had at last resolved, in concert, to invade Italy; the Kymrians from the north, by way of Helvetia and Noricum, the Teutons and Ambrons from the south, by way of the maritime Alps.

In spite of this appearance of success and durability, absolute power failed to perform its task; and, weary of his burden and disgusted with the imperfection of his work, Diocletian abdicated A.D. 303.

Several of the Flemish towns which belonged to the Duke of Burgundy were weary of his wars and his violence, and showed an inclination to pass over to the sway of the King of France.

at his accession, that, when weary of living in apprehension and retirement he came, in 1463, and presented himself to the king, who was on his way to Bordeaux, "Ask you justice or mercy?" demanded Louis.

why weary we the Gods with playnts, As if some evill were to her betight?

After the bright, gay nights had come weary, vexing days.

CHAPTER XX THE SAMARITAN SKIPPER I clung to that heaven-sent bit of wreckage, exhausted and weary, until the light began to break in the east.

I wandered up and down and about Dundee till I was leg-weary, and it was nearly six o'clock of the afternoon.

"'Tis a cold greeting, Katherine, after these long, weary days of separation.

The effect of all this on an ardent and sensitive temperament can scarcely be conceived; and it is not to be wondered at that the once gay and luxurious Lorenzo Sforza, when emerging from this tremendous discipline, was so wholly lost in the worn and weary Padre Francesco that it seemed as if in fact he had died and another had stepped into his place.

He was weary of the childish quarrels and bickerings of the monks, of their puerility, of their selfishness and self-indulgence, of their hopeless vulgarity of mind, and utterly discouraged with their inextricable labyrinths of deception.

But the first time that the clear, sweet tones of Agnes rang ill his ears at the confessional, and her words, so full of unconscious poetry and repressed genius, came like a strain of sweet music through the grate, he felt at his heart a thrill to which it had long been a stranger, and which seemed to lift the weary, aching load from off his soul, as if some invisible angel had borne it up on his wings.

Both were, weary with the march; both wore the glory of many scalps.

I like to think thus, when I see a person ill, or in sorrow, or weighed down with weary griefs.

At last I grew very weary, and remember having lain down, and having thought that the stars were raining down upon me, so near did they seem,and one after one, constellation mingled with constellation, until I fancied a storm of stars was circling over my head.