That's what I came for, not to sit idle in a God-damn cabin and thinkthink" He got up suddenly and strode the tiny space from fire to door, a man transformed, with hands clenching and dark face almost evil.

Sergeant Corney and I spent our time in trying to soothe Jacob, who alternately reproached himself for remaining idle at the moment when he should be straining every nerve to aid his father, and relapsing into moody silence, which to me was far worse than the angry words.

Betty closed her eyes, clutching her letter and candy box tightly in both hands and letting the reins lie idle on her horse's neck.

When they do not care for yarn or calico, his looms stand idle for a year; the vast machinery of the world turns on woman's little word: I want.

"It was Sir Horace's custom to have this done when he was away every year instead of keeping the servants idling about the house on board wages, and the house was then left in my charge, as I told you, sir, and after the servants went to the country it was my custom to live at home till Sir Horace returned, coming over two or three times a week to look over the place and make sure that everything was all right.

Within a few feet of him sat the ruddy, full-faced landlord, as idle as himself.

We are here in a most pleasant country, full of walks, and idle to our heart's desire.

Having nothing to do at home, and being arrived at that happy age when a man can be idle with impunity, he took his place once more on the bench at the inn door, and was reverenced as one of the patriarchs of the village, and a chronicle of the old times "before the war."

Born of such parents, Elizabeth would have had some difficulty in persuading herself that her business was to idle through this life.

Trollope's novel of 'Dr. Thorne;' 'Aurora Leigh' (which I admire greatly); then Sir Robert Wilson's 'Russian Campaign,' which contains some curious revelations; Darwin's 'Origin of Species,' which is audacious; &c. &c. In short, you will allow that I have not been quite idle during the fortnight.

" Much concerned for my old friend, I lose no time in repairing to Greenwich, where I find him sitting idle before his lathe, with an arm hanging in a handkerchief, and his face very yellow; but this, I think, was of drinking too much ale.

Miss Wimple had been entering some trifling charge in the course of her small book-keeping, and, still dallying with the pen, a passing thought, less idle than anxious, had traced the name.

At eight o'clock, however, just as we were idling over dessert, two gray-coated police officers entered and arrested me on the serious charge of landing without a passport.

"What did you horn in for to-night?" CHAPTER XII THE DISCOVERY Racey Dawson did not remain long idle after Marie's departure.

she said to herself, in the very words she had often used before she died; but then she was idle from weakness, and now from happiness.

All knew that we inside the fortification were powerless to aid those who had wilfully gone to their doom, and none better than those same brave fellows who were ready to risk their lives in behalf of comrades who would have worked disaster to the entire garrison, yet they could not stand idle without at least a show of willingness to face danger in the hope of saving life.

It was not long before I had drawn his history from this village alderman, an Alsatian by birth, and his tales of the war of 1870 helped to wile away the time we were obliged to spend idling along the roadside while our chauffeur repaired our first puncture.

Philosophy, as ordinarily understood,that is, metaphysics,is most idle of all, since it does not pertain to mundane wants.

It was a time of business and industrial depression, and laborers were idle by thousands.

He was growing up in a languid way, dreamy, petted, idle among his mother's skirts, like the one charming weakling of that strong, hardworking family.

He idles like an Oracle, attending on inspiration, and when he has received the alleged afflatus, the fellowso different from usis neither to hold nor to bind.

I one day found him idling behind the scenes before the play was begun.

He composed hymns on horseback, and studied French and mathematics in spare hours, and was never a moment idle until his death, in 1791.

To-day, though, the rifle bought from the company stood idle beside the ridge-pole, the sledge dogs snarled and fought upon the snow outside, and Bigbeam, squat and broad as became her name, looked askance at her lord as she prepared the moose meat, uncertain of his temper, for his face was cloudy.

Base dog, it is not the custom in Italy to draw upon every idle cur that barks; and, did it stand with my reputationO, well, go to; thank my father for your lives.