Here, I spent the afternoon, reading, and occasionally glancing down into the gardens.

On leaving the city, Moore passed a second afternoon at La Mira, had a glimpse of Allegra, and the first intimation of the existence of the notorious Memoirs.

He ain't much of a looker, sirI've seen hundreds like him sitting out in front of the cafés along the boulevards, taking all afternoon to drink a bock.

The truth was that since his rupture with his wife he had been devoting his afternoons to paying attentions to a girl serving at a beer-house.

We didn't always know beforehand, and I remember some dull afternoons with one or two members making long speeches about purely local matters, which didn't interest any one.

After the exhibition of temper you've given this afternoon, I believe you are capable of anything.

One would think that they were in fear lest some impish fact might get outside the covers to spoil the afternoon.

She felt Cynthia's arm steal around her waist, and Cynthia said softly, "I did enjoy my afternoon.

So thus it was that as the Sergeant presently came striding along on his homeward way, he was suddenly aware of Miss Anthea standing before him; whereupon he halted, and removing his hat, wished her a "good-afternoon!" "Sergeant," said she, "will you do something for me?" "Anything you ask me, Miss Anthea, mam,ever and always.

When Mrs. Corbett left that afternoon it was a brighter and more liveable dwelling.

As Lady Mary mused alone, she could not but recall other summer afternoons, when she had not felt less lonely because her husband's voice might at any moment break the silence, and summon her to his side.

That very night Governor Gooch gave a ball at his palace, and be sure the Stewart family was there, my lady in her new London gown of flowered damask in the very latest mode, and Tom in his best suit of peach-blossom velvet, and in great hopes of attracting to himself some of the bright eyes he had seen that afternoon.

A dashing sleigh-ride occupied the afternoon, and then great was the fun and excitement over the costumes.

They would arrive that afternoon, as little preparation was needed for this impromptu journey, the novelty of which was its chief charm to these blasé people.

At the back of the house was another hill, where we used to roll under the shade of the old elm, and where Miles and I would sit whole afternoons and fly the kite, each taking turns in bolding the string.

"I'm afraid I've wasted your afternoon," she said; "but we don't often get a chat nowadays, do we?

I shall never forget the sunny afternoon when I first entered its gate and walked slowly up the hill, between rows of tombs, gleaming white amid the heavy foliage, while the green turf around them was just beginning to be starred by the opening daisies, From the little chapel on its summit I looked back at the blue spires of the city, whose roar of life dwindled to a low murmur.

Have you ever got a spare afternoon?" Mike's heart leaped.

It is necessary for Judges to sit on Derby Day, to show that they do not go; but if by some accident the work of the court is finished in time to get down to Epsom, those who love an afternoon in the country sometimes go in the direction of the Downs.

Something warned him that, in accordance with that rule of compensation which governs all terrestrial matters, these delights were too keen to last, and there must surely be annoyance and vexation in store to complete the afternoon.

Not long after this, Teddy and his schoolfellows were having a delightful afternoon in the woods.

But now the Assembly of Grenada had themselves stated, that, though the Negroes were allowed the afternoon of only one day in every week, they would do as much work in that afternoon when employed for their own benefit, as in the whole day when employed in their masters' service.

They were all in good spirits, anticipating a jolly afternoon at the ocean resorts, so when they discovered themselves to be congenial companions they lost no time in stilted phrases but were soon chattering away as if they had known one another for years.

"Miss Sessions would pay a substitute for the whole day though I told her I'd only need the afternoon for the party.

Wherever I walk these afternoons, the Purple-Fingered Grass also stands like a guide-board, and points my thoughts to more poetic paths than they have lately travelled.