Now, however, I saw that it was not so; for the candles burned with a steady flame, and showed no signs of going out, as would have been the case had the change been due to fumes in the atmosphere.

She also abruptly withdrew, giving manifest signs of one of the qualities ascribed to her.

A very clever American writer, whose books have been much read and admired, says that when travelling in France in the country, he never saw any signs of wealth or gentlemen's property.

What he said nobody understood; as a matter of fact, he was ordering my lady of Fever to be taken away, and making that sign with his trembling hand (which was always steady enough for that, if for nothing else) by which he used to decapitate men.

"We ought to have found some sign of him there.

He is so modest in his looks that I have wondered whether he really can read the sign.

The two old women moved forward and commenced making passes over his body, murmuring the while some charm, and as they waved the seven-knotted handkerchief above his head he regained consciousness and sat slowly up, "breathing like one that hath an evil dream" and bearing upon his features the signs of deathly fatigue.

Greatly agitated, as men are apt to be when surrounded by supernatural influences, they do not perceive the cause of this apparently unnatural illumination; and, upon turning round and round in irregular circles, and still finding the light in the wrong place, they exhibit signs of great trepidation.

He discovered signs of the loftiest virtues and most heroic enterprise in the Brahmin; and, near the bottom of one of his nails, a deep-rooted sorrow, which would leave him only with his life.

Jack betrayed not the least sign of excitement, and insisted on going down into the grub-room to feed two white mice before setting out for the "front."

Doctors had detected the signs of breaking up, which are not less plain in the written gesture, and had strenuously urged Dickens to stop the incessant strain caused by his public readings.

I then tried by signs to find out how many days it took to go down to Pelly River, but although I have never known these signs to fail in eliciting information in any other part of the territory, they did not understand.

I had, as I have before said, guessed that the remains had been removed; yet, I could not conceive that it had been done so thoroughly as not to leave some certain sign, beneath the stone, indicative of their fate.

" She sat down on the flat-topped boulder which he designated, and, looking up, observed the first sign of emotion in his face.

Imagine old LABAN'S daughter starting in business, and hanging out a sign something like this: +-+ | | | MRS.

No one knew how to speak to them, and they did not understand the signs which were made to them.

Gifford asked with a certain apprehensive curiosity, as he noticed signs of suppressed excitement in his friend's face.

Yet, it was a great time before I perceived any signs of the place, toward which I was being conveyed.

But others display signs of sex differentiation that are to be traced back to an awakening interstitial gonad action.

"I hate complaining; 'tis no sign I am easy that I do not trouble you with my head-aches, and my spleen; to be reasonable one should never complain but when one hopes redress.

Not a living thing appeared on board, and, as the fog slowly drifted away, my eyes could discern no sign of any boat, no evidence of the crew, along the wide sweep of water.

He shews signs of Joy.

It cannot here be denied, that as new ideas always require new signs to express them, some foreign words, and perhaps phrases, must necessarily, from time to time, have insinuated themselves into the Romansh, by the military and some commercial intercourse of the Grisons with other nations; and this accounts for several modern German words which are now incorporated into the language of the Engadine.[AI]

He evinced no sign of relief, the colour did not rise to his face, and his eyes were still fixed on Falconer.

"Hearken to the cry of them that walk in darkness, misled by wolves in sheep's clothingwolves, Lord, wearing the sign of the Holy Cross" O'Flynn shuffled, and Mac pulled himself up.