And when old Fezziwig and Mrs. Fezziwig had gone all through the dance,advance and retire, turn your partner, bow and courtesy, cockscrew, thread the needle, and back again to your place,Fezziwig "cut,"cut so deftly, that he appeared to wink with his legs.

She shook her head, turned on her heel, and began circling about in the narrow space till she found another partner, French Charlie scowling after them, as they whirled away between the faro-tables back into the smoke and music at the rear.

But I took a partner a few years back, and now I've handed over the whole thing to him and I'm going Home at last to my old mother.

Who was ignorant that I was chosen a partner and colleague of Caesar and received charge of the management of public affairs equally with him, received similar honors and offices, and have been a great while now in possession of them?

Then you'll want a sparring partner.

" "I might as well give her what you call 'the once over,'" replied the senior partner.

I then managed to make him understand that I was there alone and having broken my leg, I had sent my partner off for a team to take me away.

With the exception of the scullion and household drudge there was no chance of getting a female partner.

She loved a thorough-paced partner, a determined enemy.

" Miss Morriston left her partner and held out her hand.

Consider, sir, that even the thriving husbandman may desire to change his partner; then why not your Majesty, whose title is the Law of Heaven, whose possessions are the whole world!

I shall show the honesty of my rebel blood by selecting my own partner, unless some one asks me very humbly.

Philemon was to receive him as "a son" of the apostle"as a brother beloved"nay, if he counted Paul a partner, an equal, he was to receive Onesimus as he would receive the apostle himself[B].

"I got to tell you, partner, that I'm a pile suspicious.

This seemed a little strange, and Mr. Winslow, with a slightly anxious look in his face, went into the inner office in order to consult his junior partner.

He robbed his two partners of enormous wealth in China, left them in the hands of the Chinese to be tortured and maimed for life, and now that he knows that I am acting for them in order to recover their treasure, he endeavours to put me out of the way.

Let him no more insult India by calling her a partner, if her feelings count for naught.

It is much safer than lobbing over the man's headif at all short your ball will be instantly killedand it also gives your partner at the net plenty of time to anticipate any kind of return.

He conducted his partner to her seat as she desired, and then strolled towards Mr. Hamilton's party, in the hope that Caroline would soon rejoin her mother; but Annie had been in the refreshment-room, and she did not reappear for some little time.

His sister had been always a delicate girl, one of those gentle and fragile flowers of mortality that are sure not to live till the summer; perhaps consumption, with the deceitful beauty of his smile, had already led his fair partner down the short dance of life.

First of all, you are marched with a solitary male companion up the long aisle, which on this occasion appears absolutely interminable; then you meet your future partner dressed out in satin and white ribbons, whom you are sure to meet in gingham gowns or calico prints, every morning of your life ever after.

The day before her death, she took my hand, and 'Davy,' says she to me'Davy,' poor body, she repeated (I think I hear her yet)'it wad been a great comfort to me if I had seen ye settled wi' a decent partner before I dee'd; but it's no to be.' "Weel, as I was saying, my mither dee'd, and I found the house very dowie without her.

So tonight she took her seat against the wall and watched while the first three contre-danses went by without bringing her a partner.

Vassall's broken English misled him; probably he did not know the junior partner very intimately.

Do let me ask my partner to introduce you.