The morning brought no news, and even Kelson began to think there might be something serious in it.

The Walker affair, which now broke out again, was much more serious than the storm in the Council's teacup.

me was too serious for this tomfoolery.

Behind her loomed the tall, lean form of Lucky Todd, the "proprietor," who was serious as a goat, which animal he closely resembled in feature.

I have prepared a serious of questions, which I propose to ask candydates who come sneakin around for my sufferage.

" "Do you see nothing serious about me?"

The loss of the was a serious to the rider of the bicycle.

They also grew serious at times, talking of home and their folks.

Thingslike this areare pretty serious with people in our walk of life.

She was serious by temperament, and when at the age of nine years she happened to meet the funeral cortège of a child the same age as herself, she was attracted to the burial, and used afterwards to trace her first abiding sense of the eternal world to the profound impressions produced upon her mind by that service.

Roused by the sound of her voice, the earl changed color sensibly, and continued: "But to be serious on a subject of great importance to my future life (for I sometimes think her negative will make Denbigh a duke), the lovely girl did not appear happy at the time of our interview, nor do I think she enjoys at any time the spirits nature has evidently given her.

The problems connected with the aggressive policy of Russia on the Indian frontier are very serious from every point of view to every Englishman, and whenever the time comes, if it ever does come, the frontier will be defended with all the power of the British Empire.

"There was never anything the least serious between us, not a sign or a scrap, do you mind?

The result of the altered arrangement was a decided but temporary improvement, and the losses again became serious during the summer months.

The children were so sweet and serious over their play!

Her father's demeanour was always more thoughtful and serious after the stranger's visits.

The lady to whom the room belonged sat near me all the meeting, and looked serious before the close; and she took leave of us with very different feeling from that in which she first met us.

He was of a gentle disposition, serious beyond his years, amenable to the dictates of conscience, and attracted by the offices of religion.

I do not believe that the problem is very serious among workers.

What was much more serious throughout the proclaimed districts, the soldiery and militia regiments which had been brought over from England were kept under no discipline, but were allowed to ill-use the population almost at their own discretion.

We were just three hundred and fifty-two miles to the southward and westward of Scilly, when I observed at meridian, and the wind blowing fresh from the south-south-west, there was no time to lose, did I meditate anything serious against the prize crew.

They knew that Golden could not be surprised while the sun was shining, and that the savages were not likely to attempt anything serious until the following night So they felt they were not needed for the present.

If a shortage of the water supply of a neighboring town or city threatens, or if floods or erosion become serious due to fire or overgrazing of the land, the range is closed to live-stock and allowed to recuperate.

" I saw that she, too, essayed the feat of being both light and serious without letting the seam show.

But to Shakespeare, Dryden objects, that his comic sometimes degenerates into clenches, and his serious into bombast; to Jonson, the sullen and saturnine character of his genius, his borrowing from the ancients, and the insipidity of his latter plays.