The crowd, though thoroughly good-humoured, merely bent on enjoying themselves, had degenerated into a rabble.

Then, going to the bed, I bent over my sister, and asked her how she felt; but she only shook the more, and, much as it pained me, I had to admit that my presence seemed to make her worse.

How different were his tastes from yours or mine, my friends; and yet I felt as though it would have been easy for me to have been like him, an isolated and solitary man, had circumstances in early life thrown me into a position to have followed the original bent of my nature.

Our men bent to their oars, and had got within five or six rods of it, when it straightened up in alarm for the shore.

Thereafter Beltane strode on, head bent in frowning thought, nor spake again for a space.

Thou seest me a poor old man and feeble, bent with years and suffering, one who but waiteth for the time when my grievous sin shall be atoned for and God, in His sweet clemency, shall ease me of this burden of life.

"It will take a post-mortem to tell that," and Goldberger bent for another close look at the distorted face.

But here Sir Benedict fell to silence, walking with face averted and gaze bent towards the dewy grass, and quickened his steps until they were come nigh unto the camp.

"I think I ought to go," the girl said in a very low voice, her head drooped, her own eyes bent toward the path at her feet.

"He lay on his face with his arms bent under him.

Pinned on his inner shirt was the badge of the Yukon Order of Pioneersa footrule bent like the letter A above a scroll of leaves, and in the angle two linked

The same fond mother bent at night O'er each fair sleeping brow; She had each folded flower in sight Where are those dreamers now'?

When he got back with the Colonel and the whiskey, O'Flynn floundering in the distance, Potts was feebly striking his breast with his arms, and Mac still bent above the motionless little body.

But though they bent before Dawson, I am very sure that they did not love him, and that he will never be the Chief Commissioner of Metropolitan Police.

The rod was bent into a semicircle, but the game was fast; with the butt firm between his knees and his thumb pressing the reel, the sportsman gave him a hundred and fifty feet of line, when his efforts began to relax, and as Smith began to reel him in, a moment of dead pull, a holding back like an obstinate mule occurred.

" While he spoke the sergeant was helping me retreat yet farther among the bushes, for my knees bent beneath me, owing to the horror of it all, as well as the rough handling I had received.

he shouted hoarsely, "UlfWalkyn, to me!" An axe bit through his great helm, a sword bent against his stout mail, a knight spurred in upon him, blade levelled to thrust again, but Beltane's deadly point darted upward and the snorting charger plunged awayriderless.

Only the fresh rubbish flung out on the meadows by the flood's quick anger or lodged in the willows, still bent by the pressure of the torrent that had rushed over them and slimy with yellow sediment left on their branches and leaves, told the story of the swift rise and fall of the Cimarron the night before.

By now it's got a deep hold on me, and I'm more bent than ever on making it a big success.

Thus, the moment rays of light enter the eye they are bent out of their course.

Bent as the archer's bow my frame is now, From woes continuous as the brow Of Farrukh.

In childhood he was such an invalid that he was allowed to follow his own bent without much attempt at formal education.

An arm was bent around her plump and graceful figure.

It is implanted in their dispositions, just like anything else, and it is impossible by either persuasion or compulsion to remove such a bent from some of them.

The children that played with the lower handles had got tall enough to open the desk,to reach the upper shelves behind the folding-doors,grown bent after a while,and then followed those who had gone before, and left the old cabinet to be ransacked by a new generation.