409 Verbs to Use for the Word couples

He took a couple of steps farther into the room, only to utter an exclamation of intense surprise and horror; then turned quickly with an almost scared face.

He had seen Mr. Holymead disappear into the hotel, and he knew from the experience gained in his watch that the K.C. would spend the next couple of hours in dressing for dinner, sitting down to that meal, and smoking a cigar in the lounge.

"What in the world has Mr. Beaumaroy to do with" But she broke off, as she saw the couple by the fire.

It would take a long time nowadays to find even a couple of the flowers.

When he left, he brought a couple of gallons of the water with him, and intends keeping it in the water-cooler in his office, for loungers.

" "Very well," said I, "I've got a couple of sage-hens here.

I didn't care about appearin' skeered or uneasy, but I'd have given a couple of month's wages just then, to have been on dry land.

"I don't say that, in my opinion," said Lady Mary, "it would not be wiser to leave a young married couple to themselves; I have always thought so.

I think I would better drop a word to Simmonds and get him to send down a couple of men to watch the house.

All the fortnight we have only met two Europeansa couple called Martin.

As for Gregoire the page, restive and always ready to bolt, he did not behave very well; for he actually tried to pass the royal couple at the head of the procession, a proceeding which brought him various severe admonitions until he fell back, as duty demanded, to his deferential and modest post.

It is not a pleasant thing for a man to carry a couple of umbrellas, and we believe it has been found very difficult for any one to put up and use two at the same time; still it is satisfactory to know that if ever the Friends of Preston decide upon such a course, there will be plenty of provision for their umbrellas at the meeting house.

"We have to pick up a couple of friends at Sheppey first.

I have known several couples who lived years in comparative happiness after love had flown; who were kind to each other, considerate, business-like.

I guess we waited a couple of hours.

"And now, landlord," said the stranger, at last, pulling a couple of long, unidentified hairs from his mouth as he hurriedly retired from the meal, "I suppose you are wondering who I am?" "Well, sir," was the frank answer, "I can't deny that there are points about you to make a plain man like myself thoughtful.

" "Chaplain A.S. Fiske on one occasion married in about an hour one hundred and nineteen couples at one service, chiefly those who had long lived together."

He built a small board-and-batten house, planted a vineyard and orchard, bought a couple of cows and an incubator.

It was suspected that he had killed a couple of men, and robbed others, but as yet the police had failed to get anything "on" him.

"Well, lend me a couple of pounds, then, or else run back and fetch my pocket-book," he added, with a sly grin.

Its First fruits must be its Last, for 't would never produce a couple.

Perceiving that he was disposed to suspect me of a disposition to 'poetize the lake,' to use his own term, I took care to drop a couple of lines, roughly written off, like a hasty and imperfect effusion, where I felt sure he would find them, and have been living for a whole week on the fame thereof.

The stranger ran a couple of lengths astern the Ocean Star, swung his main-yard aback and hailed; but while the bold buccaneer was doing this, Captain Lane had performed an equally sea-manlike manoeuvre.

'May I govern my passion with an absolute sway, And grow wiser and better, as my strength wears away, Without gout or stone by a gentle decay.' The Old Man's Wish was sung to Sir Roger de Coverley by 'the fair one,' after the collation in which she ate a couple of chickens, and drank a full bottle of wine.

The round itself was but a short one, for my list contained only a couple of "chronics," and this, perhaps, contributed to my cheerful outlook on life.

409 Verbs to Use for the Word  couples