273 Verbs to Use for the Word while

Then he waited a little while.

The only reason we have for believing in the slow rate of the change in living forms is the fact that they persist through a series of deposits which, geology informs us, have taken a long while to make.

Again Willie thought a while.

The doctor himself, after having rested a while, announces it solemnly.

Put the milk into a saucepan with the sugar and lemon-rind, and let this infuse for about 4 hour, or until the milk is well flavoured; whisk the eggs, yolks and whites; pour the milk to them, stirring all the while; then have ready a pie-dish, lined at the edge with paste ready baked; strain the custard into the dish, grate a little nutmeg over the top, and bake in a very slow oven for about 1/2 hour, or rather longer.

Doubtless, He knew all the while that they were in her heart, though not as yet shaped into words.

I managed to beat the nails of the shoe with a stone, so that its sole should not be lost, and she readjusted it, allowing me to lace it up for her and smiling the while.

At times he made his appearance in a wild, haggard state, declaring that he should certainly be sent to prison that evening if he did not secure ten francs, and talking the while of smashing everything in the room or else of carrying off the little clock in order to sell it.

Valentine, who good-naturedly treated Marianne as a poor friend, had even been amiable enough to visit her there, and had declared the situation of the place to be quite poetical, laughing the while over her previous ignorance of it like one who had known nothing of her property.

It is that of Hatton, on which I stumbled in the course of a forenoon's ramble, and paused a little while to look at it for the sake of old Doctor Parr, who was once its vicar.

I lingered a little while in the work-room, at the Mechanics' Institution, interested in the scene.

" "And what do we do with this evening of such questionable value?" "We finish dinner here at our leisure; we smoke and chat a while in the lounge, if you like, or if nothing better offers we go to a play; and then you will take me by the hand, if you please, mademoiselle..."

We came to a rich green valley, comparatively speaking, and stopped a while to let our horses rest and eat grass.

And afterward, I climbed to the topmost of the caves, and told Mine Own the while that she walk up and down a little; so that she come to a full awakedness; and this I was careful to, because that she should have a need of all her powers that she come safe upward unto the cave.

I stopped off in Deraa to listen a while, where the tide of rumour flows back and forth across the border.

And when the lady was drunk, she took her chariot and went away, the priests singing all the while.

Soft Musick plays the while.

" The proprietor, having pondered a while upon my friend's remarks, in a tone of exultation said,"Do you think, then, I could ever prevail on my people to forbear, when they saw a likely flock, from laying violent hands on it; or could I resist so favourable an opportunity of revenge?

"And you, Prudy?" "I'm so thankful, sir," answered Prudy, reflecting a while, "so thankful this house isn't burnt up.

Doubtless there is somewhere a middle to the arc, and in the lapse of ages the needle may at last find the "pole-point of central truth" and be at rest; but as yet, in every department of labor and thought, it is vibrating, and after tarrying a while at one extreme it swings unsatisfied back to the other.

" The Brahmin, after musing a while, replied: "The difference is far less than you imagine.

He stayed a short while with the landlord and me, and it was arranged that he would join us again the following night and watch the Well with us from midnight until daylight.

I wonder whiles if you ever were a laddie.

Their weapons clashing but unstained with blood, A satirist him besought to intervene, Whereat he slew them as he drave between "Thy spear to me," the satirist cried the while, The hero answering, "Nay," he cried, "I'll thee revile.

Tell me, brother, did he sing all the while, as was his custom?

273 Verbs to Use for the Word  while