Quickly, I reached the head of the stairs, and paused a moment.

At the door, I must confess to hesitating a moment.

I waited some odd moments; then leant out of the window and felt the pipe.

As he passed along, he shook hands with several gentlemen also standing near the lobby, including R. He stopped a moment in front of him, saying: "I think this is Mr. Waddington.

But if you will stop to think one moment of the difficulties of my position, you will see that it was not as easy as at first it appears.

His instructions were that, "after quelling all disturbances at Allahabad, he should not lose a moment in supporting Sir Henry Lawrence at Lucknow, and Sir Hugh Wheeler at Cawnpore; and that he should take prompt measures for dispersing and utterly destroying all mutineers and insurgents".

I set out only after long thought, seizing the moment when the vaguely perceived band were scouring in the other direction intercepting the travellers.

" Mea reflected a moment, wondering what she had really done.

Again: "Hello!" "Who's there?" The two outside turned and looked into each other's facesbut if you want to know all the moment meant, you must travel the Winter Trail.

Out of the clouds of spray at the foot of the fall the battered, roaring river gropes its way, makes another mile of cascades and rapids, rests a moment in Emerald Pool, then plunges over the grand cliff of the Vernal Fall, and goes thundering and chafing down a boulder-choked gorge of tremendous depth and wildness into the tranquil reaches of the old Yosemite lake basin.

"Where are the men who went to your assistance?" "Dead, the same as we would be if we had lingered another moment," replied Harris, quietly.

" "I could wish I had a right to inquire why you, who have so few causes in general to be out of spirits, should have chosen a moment so little in accordance with the common feeling.

For, a minute perhaps, the pressure was kept up; and I waited, nervously; expecting each moment to see the door come down with a crash.

The farmers stopped in their care for their animals, and spent a moment in innocent wonder of the reason why their pastor should be abroad thus early.

She stood an undecided moment, her face into the wind.

With all these anxieties and his deeply planned coup d'etat awaiting the moment of action, Ella's simple outburst and even Ranelagh's unexpected and somewhat startling suggestion lost much of their significance.

As soon as a sufficient number are collected, the drove is set in motion, receiving, right and left, as they advance, fresh numbers; whole communities, or solitary individuals, streaming in from all quarters, and taking their place, without distinction, in the general herd; and, as if conscious where their breakfast lay, without wasting a moment on idle investigation, all eagerly push on to the mountains.

When she recollected their last drive her heart beat quickly, and the little memories of the few weeks of their friend-ship gave her unwonted moments of sentiment.

Moving slowly along a quiet ravine yesterday, out of sight and hearing of the other searchers, Conroy had found an intimate moment in which to urge his suit.

At first she paid no particular heed to them, but at length the steady steps became so different in number, and so regular in passing every few moments, that she was interested to go to her window and look out.

"How long will it take to get the things here, Uncle?" Mr. Merrick considered a moment.

While thus oblivious of the past, and reckless of the future, we were enjoying the present moment in this badinage, and I was extolling the odour of the rose, as beyond every other grateful to the olfactory nerves of man, a lively, flippant little personage came up, and accosted the Brahmin with the familiarity of an acquaintance.

The envoys' commission having been unfolded, she took not a moment to reply, "Be your Duke Virgil.

I see you look incredulous, but listen a moment.

She gazed at it a moment, her hands pressed against her breast.