" In the wide flare of the swinging lamp, revealing Mrs. Scogin's parlor of chromo, china plaque, and crayon enlargement, sofa, whatnot, and wax bouquet embalmed under glass, Mrs. Burkhardt stood for a moment, blowing into her cupped hands, unwinding herself of shawl, something Niobian in her gesture.

At the Cottage he entertained his party in the parlor with a generous hospitality, and treated the Radbolts with most courteous deference.

I could only see two little turkeys,both on the floor of the second-story parlor in the chicken-house, both flat on their backs and gasping.

Ruby and Essie and Charley are going to meet us in the minister's back parlor at ten sharp in the morning.

And at last, one night, after leaving the instrument silent, mute in the corner of the parlor for many years, Aunt Nancy Smith dragged out her harp, and, seating herself, reached out her knotted, trembling hands and brought forth what seemed the very echo, so faint and faltering it was, of "Douglas, Douglas, Tender and True.

The window was taken out of the parlor on Vestal street, the telescope, the little Dolland, mounted in front of it, and with Maria by his side counting the seconds the father observed the eclipse.

Aunt Sarah had these words neatly framed, and they have hung in her back parlor to this day.

But the door from the parlor into the Tower offered insuperable difficulties.

They had been sitting in the parlor by themselves, over their breakfast, when a Captain Digby was announced.

He purchased it as early in life as he could raise the means, and displayed it in his parlor as an attractive and costly ornament.

In the Square, after many citizens had informed us there was nothing to eat, a little Frenchwoman took pity on our emptiness, and, leading us to a parlor behind a shop where she sold, among other things, post cards, cheeses and underwear, she made us a huge omelet and gave us also good butter and fresh milk and a pot of her homemade marmalade.

Such an arrival could not possibly have escaped the notice of the inmates of the house; and, as the young lady from the railway came in at the front, another and a very different-looking lady marched through to the parlor from the rear.

Accordingly, one afternoon, when he had been there two months or more, and Maggie had gone with her grandmother to ride, she went down to the parlor under pretense of getting a book to read.

And thenwell, it changed to something else, I suppose; but it was after that fashion all night long, and the last I remember, I was trying to climb up the Cairn with a cup of cold water set on atilt at the crown of my head, which I was to get to the sky parlor without spilling a drop!"

The Representatives, having been summoned two by two, as we have just said, filed in the parlor before the police agents, and then they were ordered to get into the "robbers' box."

Who was in the parlor beside yourself when Mr. Galloway opened the wall safe to reward the men who had helped him extinguish the fire?

she started away from him in the abruptest fashion, and glanced off across the room, and over into a little side parlor beyond the hall, into which she certainly had not been before that day.

The whole party were tired, and Horace's gloom seemed to fill the parlor like a fog, and make even the gas look dim.

A rostrum had been erected at the end of the parlor next the hall, but I had no sooner taken it than there was an ominous murmur outside, and it was discovered that my head made a tempting target for a shot through the front door, so the rostrum was moved out of range.

Minny and her child were in a room which opened out of the parlor opposite my own.

It was a best parlor out-of-doors, where the gayety of frolicking children would derange the set order of the furniture, or an accidental touch of a sacrilegious foot might scratch the polish of a fresh-varnished fence, or flatten down the nap of the green carpet of grass, every blade of which is trained to grow exactly so.

She had taken his arm and was edging him through the press in the parlors toward the entrance hall.

" "If Aunt Keswick don't come back," said Annie, when the two were in the parlor after dinner, "I shall go after her.