The little pucker at the corners of his mouth bespoke his relish of a jest, and the high nose and well-placed eyes his courage and spirit.

With any other woman than Athenais Reneaux he would have hesitated to deal so bold an offensive stroke; but his confidence in her quickness of apprehension and her unshakable self-possession was both implicit and well-placed.

Surely it would seem that his faith in his star had been well-placed: was it not nowor all signs faileddelivering into his hand the forged tool he had so desperately needed, for which he had so earnestly prayed?

What industry or meritorious toil Canst thou produce to prove my gift well-placed?

And, loving the girl, the first thing Sinclair would do would be to remove the obstacle through the simple expedient of a well-placed bullet.

The force of a thought (otherwise well-invented, well-turned, and well-placed) is often weakened by it."

Which of the two was Conte Ulisse's father mattered far less, from a matrimonial point of view, than the fact that the prospective bridegroom was unusually wealthy and well-placed.

Do not always "smash" every overhead ball when a well-placed volley will win the ace just as well.

Remember that a good-length, well-placed service is better than a very fast one, and much less tiring in a long match.

Another well-placed shell dropped just under the gunners' quarters on the front train, and instantly the car was enveloped in flames.

The ears were short and delicately made, the eyes well-placed, the distance to the angle of the jaw longin brief, it was that short head of small volume and large brain space which speaks most eloquently of hot blood.

Two or three well-placed shots might sink us.

At Vilvorde, as a result of this aerial fire-control system, I saw the German artillery, posted out of sight behind a railway embankment, get the range of a retreating column of Belgian infantry and with a dozen well-placed shots practically wipe it out of existence.

Occasionally, after the explosion of a particularly well-placed Belgian shell, Thompson and I, from our hole in the roof and with the aid of our high-power glasses, could catch fleeting glimpses of scurrying grey-clad figures, but that was all.

Aldermaston village is nearly two miles to the south-west and well-placed among the wooded hills that march with the Hampshire border.

The Smithsonian Institution has been also a wise patron of this science, by its numerous publications, its lucid directions for observing meteorological changes, and the bestowal of standard instruments in large numbers to efficient and well-placed observers.

Its front was barred by tumbled masonry, but a well-placed shell had widely breached its side wall.

He got able-bodied men exempted from military service; he winked at corruption in the city councils that backed him, although the perpetrators deserved to go to prison; he saw to it that the constabulary was not too energetic in running down the roders, the "wanderers," who, for some well-placed shot at election time, would be forced to flee to the mountains.

Perhaps the most industriously pursued of all her goodnesses was her unflagging zealous labour in Saving the Souls of Others as well as her own Soulthe "Others" being the young, presentable, gay, and well-placed men of Gungapur Society.

"As lord chancellor," says a writer who was personally acquainted with his lordship, "from a well-placed confidence in Mr. Hargrave, who was indefatigable in his service, he had occasion to give himself less trouble than any other man in that high station.

There in that hall, is an excellent and well-placed wooden bed-stead.

Well-placed hits might wipe out most of the city and, with it, the population which had broken the Oath of the Salt.

And all her well-placed words are darts, Which need no light to reach our hearts.

May he with joy the well-placed laurel wear!

He sent me interesting literature relating to the efforts of well-placed men and women to carry into slums and hovels sweetness and light.