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...ting was held at Juanita Haydock’s new concrete bungalow, with its door of pol- ished oak and beveled plate-glass, jar of ferns in the plastered hall,... ...again she did not think of her husband but of the book-drugged hermit, Guy Pol- lock. She wished that Pollock would come calling. “If a girl really ki... ...al-faced bristly-bearded Lyman Cass as much as upon Miles Bjornstam or Guy Pol- lock. She gave a reception for the Thanatopsis Club. But her real acqu... ...dmired the diamonds and furs and frosty silverware and mahogany chairs and pol- ished morocco sewing-boxes in shop-windows, and were abashed by the th...

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...o prayers. The wind and the surf bore a burthen. By the cem- etery gate a mother in crimson suckled an infant rolled in blue. In the midst the widow s... ...ns are not armed from the highest to the lowest with revolvers and repeating rifles, neither do we go on a debauch by the whole townful—and I might ra...

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... of the sconces, and whatever dust had gathered on the carpets or upon the pol- ished flooring was distributed so evenly as to be invisible in the moo... ...ackstairs way, had access to her social altitudes, and could converse in a pol- ished argot that Hill understood perhaps, but felt incapable of speaki... ...begins, a mass of crystal, worked into the shape of an egg and brilliantly pol- ished. And at that two people who stood outside the win- dow were look...

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...ied away and the last grain of dust beaten and banged and swept our of it; then brought back and put down again. The brass stair-rods received an exha...

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...er of pepper and salt coloured legs, terminating in a pair of imperfectly pol ished boots. Although his coat was short in the sleeves, it dis close...

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...e grace not to beg secresy. That would have been an intolerable whine of a pol- troon, adding to her humiliation. He abstained; he stood at her mercy ... ...inguish in the man a known, if not common, type of the externally soft and pol- ished, internally hard and relentless, who are equal to the tri- als o...

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...esses of the Court in another twenty four. The fact is, it is just a sort of pol ished up court of Comanches, and there isn’t a squaw in it who doesn...

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...ravels. She goes to Germany to morrow with one of your nieces for a little pol ishing up in her education. We make a feast of the event, and you will...

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...reed.’ He picked up his lathi–a five foot male bamboo ringed with bands of pol ished iron–and flourished it in the air. ‘The Jats are called quarrel ...

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...oth his arms above his head, shouted brokenly, “Sacrifice! Sacrifice! What pol- lution of such a holy word! Sacrifice! No one dares live up to thee, n...

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...Miraguarda are excellent and of admirable contrivance, and the language is pol- ished and clear , studying and observing the style befitting the speak... ...t what they heard sung were the verses not of rustic shepherds, but of the pol- ished wits of the city; and so it proved, for the verses they heard we... ...e be than putting before us an old man as a swashbuckler, a young man as a pol- troon, a lackey using fine language, a page giving sage advice, a king... ...Quixote placed himself at her service with an abundance of well-chosen and pol- ished phrases. Almost the same civilities were exchanged between him a...

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...t are truer than the truths of such a man. He is the insincere man: smooth-pol- ished, respectable in some times and places; inoffensive, says nothing...

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...Y.M. Oh, indeed yes. O.M. It could drive lathes, drills, planers, punches, pol ishers, in a word all the cunning machines of a great factory? Y.M. It...

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...ing depended on a first impression, a pair of black trousers and carefully pol- ished boots, a sulphur-colored waistcoat, which left to sight an exqui...

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...Quixote placed himself at her service with an abundance of well-chosen and pol- ished phrases. Almost the same civilities were exchanged between him a...