82 Verbs to Use for the Word assistants

Meantime Arthur Weldon, almost dazed by the calamity that had overtaken his sweetheart, found an able assistant in his chauffeur, who, when the case was explained to him, developed an eager and intelligent interest in the chase.

This man, carefully buttoned up in an overcoat, appeared to be attended at a distance by several possible supportersfor certain police enterprises employ assistants whose dubious appearance renders the passers-by uneasy, so much so that they wonder whether they are magistrates or thieves.

Please send an assistant to help Miss Wright at Akpap, so I will be free to do this new work in the jungle.

"Had enough?" asked the assistant, breathing fiercely through his nose.

"I'll appoint you my assistant.

The other evening Robinson overheard him tell his assistant that he could easily fill the box with diamonds.

Not that she considered them capable of a greater success than she could herself accomplish, but they might prove valuable assistants in the capacity of lieutenants.

" Again writing to his brother George from Washington, on February 20, 1838, Alfred says: "In regard to Professor M. calling me his 'assistant,' this is also settled, and he has said as much as to apologize for using the term.

If you alone were sufficient for carrying on politics and war well and opportunely, and needed no assistant for any of them, it would be a different story.

Inert, slow, he had one qualification for his position: he could choose an assistant, or delegate authority with good judgment; and he found in Johnnie Consadine an adjutant so reliable, so apt, and of such ability, that he continually pushed more work upon her, if pay and honours did not always follow in adequate measure.

And where's this here Mr. Polton?" "I am Mr. Polton," replied our abashed assistant.

Shall we say a couple of furlongs to the southward?" "Two furlongs!" exclaimed his assistant.

Among the first things Joe did was to procure two assistants.

A man of moderate means, long before he has reached his thirtieth year, generally seeks one assistant; men of larger fortune may want two, five, or ten.

He noted with envy that the Lensmand had got another assistant, and the doctor another man to drive for him; he had run away from the people who needed him, and now that he was no longer there, they managed without him.

Leonard offered the purse to the apothecary, but the latter declined it, and desired his assistant, who had brought a barrow with him, to place the sick man within it, and convey him to the pest-house.

In the present instance, he contented himself with the strongest assurance that the whole story was a mistake so far as it applied to Mr. Faber, who had, in fact, dismissed his assistant for the very crime of which they accused himself.

After a hurried consultation, we decided to send a messenger back to the fort to notify the officers, and ask them to send a company of dragoons in pursuit, at once; Don Ignacio offering to dispatch his assistant, a thoroughly trustworthy man, who knew every foot of the country, with the message.

Mr. WESTMORELAND was having a pair of boots tried on at a famous Jermyn Street bootmaker's when Lord BEADING was undergoing a similar ordeal, and electrified the courteous assistant by observing: "The right-foot boot to me seems rather tight; The left, per contra, feels exactly right.

I asked for authority to engage an assistant, but the reply informed me that Stillbury himself was on his way to town; and to my relief, when I dropped in at the surgery for a cup of tea, I found him rubbing his hands over the open day-book.

The generalship had singularly enriched the booksellers assistant, Victor Bergeret.]

The greatest theologians insisted that the birth of the Infant Christ was as pure and miraculous as his conception; and it was considered little less than heretical to portray Mary reclining on a couch as one exhausted by the pangs of childbirth (Isaiah lxvi. 7), or to exhibit assistants as washing the heavenly Infant.

Ramon, too weary to expostulate, followed the assistant to a corral back of the building.

One middle-aged Irishman had had some experience as a nurse; could dress woundsslowly, but very wellwas faithful and kind; and him I made head-nurse up stairs, where there were fifty-four patients, and gave him three assistants, for whom he was to be responsible.

The operating surgeon found me so good an assistant, that he intrusted me often with the succeeding dressing of the wound.

82 Verbs to Use for the Word  assistants