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...t he was going to be found fault with. ‘Such a thing as love is!’ he said, drawing a chair near the fire, and looking round for sympathy. ‘He has set ... ...or is this,’ he added hastily, thrusting his hand into the tool basket and drawing out a hammer, ‘a scheme for robbing me? I know these roads, friend.... ... door, fastened every bolt and bar with the heat and fury of a maniac, and drawn him back into the room, that she turned upon him, once again, that st... ...‘Dreams, Barnaby, dreams,’ said the locksmith. ‘Dreams!’ he echoed softly, drawing closer to him. ‘Those are not dreams.’ ‘What are,’ replied the lock... ... muttered incoherently, waved the light above his head again, laughed, and draw ing the locksmith’s arm more tightly through his own, led him up the ... ...made a sharp search for tools and engines of destruction, such as hammers, pokers, axes, saws, and such like instruments. Many of the rioters made bel... ...nscience. ‘All right? Ah!’ ‘They haven’t been misusing you with sticks, or pokers, or any other blunt instruments—have they, Johnny?’ asked Solomon, w...

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...dom, have their shop on the ground floor): Miss Bunch, I say, begged me to draw a set of Twelfth-Night characters for the amusement of our young peopl... ...phrases in each, for all her presence; and as for her em- broidery and her drawing, she showed beautiful specimens, it is true, but who did them? This... ...call upon the Prince and Prin- cess, who were actually sitting at the open drawing-room win- dow, Gruffanuff not only denied them, but made the most o... ...ncess’s pieces when An- gelica was away at balls and parties; and when the drawing- master came, she took note of all he said and did; and the same wi... ...— (only handsomer still if possible), and the Princess put her name to the drawing; and the Court and King and Queen, and above all poor Giglio, admir... ... for Betsinda. ‘Come with me, you filthy hussy!’ and taking up the Queen’s poker, the cruel Gruffanuff drove Betsinda into her room. The Countess went... ...child. ‘No, you wicked beast!’ says Gruffanuff, driving her along with the poker—driving her down the cold stairs—driving her through the cold hall—fl...

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...herself, rising over some geranium pots in the win- dow of that lady’s own drawing-room. “It is Mrs. Sedley’s coach, sister,” said Miss Jemima. “Sambo... ... of private grief. A seed-cake and a bottle of wine were pro- duced in the drawing-room, as on the solemn occasions of the visits of parents, and thes... ...y,” said Miss Jemima, pulling the young woman away in great alarm, and the drawing-room door closed upon them for ever. Then came the struggle and par... ...iss Sharp’s father was an artist, and in that quality had given lessons of drawing at Miss Pinkerton’s school. He was a clever man; a pleasant compani... ...n Russell Square, a great deal of conversa- tion had taken place about the Drawing-room, and whether or not young ladies wore powder as well as hoops ... ...im. “Thank you for the beautiful shawls, brother,” said Amelia to the fire poker. “Are they not beautiful, Rebecca?” “O heavenly!” said Miss Sharp, an... ...traight to the chandelier. Joseph still continued a huge clattering at the poker and tongs, puffing and blowing the while, and turning as red as his y... ... dumb waiter. Two kitchen chairs, and a round table, and an attenuated old poker and tongs were, however, gathered round the fire- place, as was a sau...

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...-safe-looking blinds in the parlour-windows, blue and gold curtains in the drawing-room, and spring- roller blinds, as Mrs. Tibbs was wont in the prid... ...-day; they’ll join us at dinner for the first time. ’ Mr. Tibbs placed the poker at right angles with the fire shovel, and essayed to speak, but recol... ...mus Hicks, another of the boarders, as they were amusing themselves in the drawing-room, before dinner, by lolling on sofas, and contemplating their p... ...tanding what was going for- ward. The gentlemen rejoined the ladies in the draw- ing-room very shortly after they had left the dining- 13 Charles Dic... ...tly clear to the perplexed Mrs. Tibbs. Somebody was to call at twelve. The drawing-room was forthwith dusted for the third time that morning; three or... ...eb border. The visitor (who was very fat and red-faced) was shown into the drawing-room; Mrs. Tibbs presented herself, and the negotiation commenced. ... ...dson’s novels, and had a clean- cravatish formality of manner, and kitchen-pokerness of carriage, which Sir Charles Grandison himself might have envie...

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...ion, lamps extinguished, Mugby Junction dead and indistinct, with its robe drawn over its head, like Caesar. Now, too, as the belated traveller plodde... ...n of about the Barbox Brothers time of life, with his features whimsically drawn upward as if they were attracted by the roots of his hair. He had a p... ... to myself and oth- ers, or to be happy, I must cast my interest into, and draw it out of, the common stock.” Although he had arrived at his journey’s... ...”thank you, bless you, thank you!” When he next spoke, it was after having drawn aside the window curtain and looked out awhile. Then he only said: “I... ...that her silver tea-spoons were as large as her kitchen 42 Mugby Junction poker, and that the proportions of her watch exceeded those of her frying-p...

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...playing—weeks elapsed—still a stoppage— workmen employed to clean it—water drawn off—father in law discovered sticking head first in the main pipe, w... ...insulted in the house of a publican. The barmaid had positively refused to draw him any more liquor; in return for which he had (merely in playfulness... ...aw him any more liquor; in return for which he had (merely in playfulness) drawn his bayonet, and wounded the girl in the shoulder. And yet this fine ... ...ws were so long and lank, that an observer would have supposed that he was drawing the flesh of his face in, for a moment, by some contraction of the ... ... turned up during the day . The tattered remains of a checked curtain were drawn round the bed’s head, to exclude the wind, which, however, made its w... ...ffort, plucked up his courage, shivered the lock with a blow or two of the poker, opened the door, and there, sure enough, standing bolt upright in th... ...er, who had been dining out, he put his feet on the fender, and raised the poker to stir the fire. At that moment, the sound was repeated; and one of ... ...o wear. “Who are you?” said the new tenant, turning very pale; poising the poker in his hand, however, and taking a very decent aim at the counte nan... ...t aim at the counte nance of the figure. “Who are you?” “Don’t throw that poker at me,” replied the form; “if you hurled it with ever so sure an aim,...

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...ck himself or Harran about that, Bismarck,” interrupted Presley, trying to draw away. “That’s something outside of me entirely.” But Hooven was not to... ...h. “He was up in the city the whole of the time the new schedule was being drawn, and he and Ulsteen and the Railroad Commission were as thick as thie... ...cow-catcher sat back upon its monstrous driving-wheels, motionless, solid, drawing long breaths that were punctuated by the sub- dued sound of its ste... ..., rousing himself a little, he shifted his po- 36 The Octopus sition and, drawing from the pocket of his shooting coat his little tree-calf edition o... ...l returns. In the mining days at Placerville there was no more redoubtable poker player in the county. He had been as lucky in his mines as in his gam... ... miles in one hour” Magnus and Harran drove on, leaving Annixter trying to draw S. Behrman into a wrangle. When at length S. Behrman as well took hims... ...n the turn of a card. You didn’t get the reputation of being the strongest poker player in El Dorado County for nothing. Now, here’s the biggest gambl... ...th fragrant tobacco smoke. On a corner of the dining-room table, a game of poker was begun. One of the drivers, a Swede, produced an accordion; a grou... ...instincts of the old- 145 Frank Norris time gambler, the most redoubtable poker player of El Dorado County, stirred at the word. Chance! To know it w...

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... the last pole, and, shading his eyes ship-fashion, answered with the long-drawn wail of the fo’c’sle lookout: “Ham dekhta hai “ (“I am looking out”).... ...e rude thatch roof; the lime-wash beside the door was cov- ered with rough drawings and formulae, and the sentry-path trodden in the matting of the ve... ... were loose. Findlayson saw the fleet open and swing out fanwise to a long-drawn shriek of wire straining across gunnels. “A tree hit them. They will ... ... my mahajuns fat money-lenders that worship me at each new year, when they draw my image at the head of the account-books. I, looking over their shoul... ...e names in the books are those of men in far places— for all the towns are drawn together by the fire-carriage, and the money comes and goes swiftly, ... ...queaky in tone; and when the ship quivered she did not jar stiffly, like a poker hit on the floor, but gave with a supple little waggle, like a perfec...

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... panorama, peopled with characteristic native types commonplace enough but drawn in comic relief. “The comic,” explained the author yet at the beginni... ...f Gogol’s mas- terpiece differ. Some consider the author a realist who has drawn with meticulous detail a picture of Russia; others, Merejkovsky among... ... love of colour derived from his Cossack ancestry. He realised that he had drawn a host of “heroes,” “one more com- monplace than another, that there ... ...nds exchanged hearty embraces, and Manilov then conducted his guest to the drawing-room. During the brief time that they are traversing the hall, the ... ...hing seemed to be wanting in the establishment. For instance, although the drawing-room was filled with beautiful furniture, and upholstered in some f... ...A grown, middle-aged man—a man dressed in black, and looking as stiff as a poker—suddenly takes the floor and begins shuffling his feet about, while a...

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... to mind, in fact— and said so, with some feeling; but if he was hoping to draw Aleck he failed; she reserved her opinion, if she had one; she had not... ...d patient labor they overhauled their holdings and listed them. And a long drawn procession of formidable names it was! Starting with the Railway Syst... ... church what was he doing? Gathering other blas’e multimillionaires into a Poker Club; defiling his own palace with it; losing hundreds of thousands t... ...n; it was only show: she got the words by listening in the dining room and drawing room when there was company, and by going with the children to Sund... .... The rippling stream rolled on at his feet. Twilight had already begun to draw her sable mantle over the earth, and now and then the fiery smoke woul... ...nting excursions had I waited till the deer, by some magic dream, had been drawn to the muzzle of the gun before I made an attempt to fire at the game...

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... and he knew that our utter enervation and futilization in that overheated drawingroom atmosphere was delivering the world over to the control of igno... ...ny. Still, as Calvinism gave the indi- vidual no clue as to whether he had drawn a lucky number or an unlucky one, it left him a fairly strong interes... ...he newspaper offices and political platforms and club fenders and suburban drawing-rooms to the Army and the munition factories was to pass from Bedla... ... the higher drama can, as an ascertained matter of fact, be depended on to draw. Thus the higher drama, which has never really been a commercially sou... ...n crockery. On the starboard side, but close to the middle, is a plain oak drawing-table with drawing-board, T-square, straight- edges, set squares, m... ...ack of her father’s chair and pats his shoulders. RANDALL [entering with a poker]. Keep your eye on this door, Mangan. I’ll look after the other [he g... ...eing the bur- glar so pacifically disposed, and comes forward swinging the poker between his fingers like a well folded umbrella]. It is neither just ... ...in the window-seat near the starboard door, again making a pendulum of his poker, and studying it as Galileo might have done. Hector sits on his left,... ... RANDALL. Only nerves, I assure you. [He rises and follows her, waving the poker in his agitation]. Ariadne! Ariadne! For God’s sake, be careful. You ...

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...nist the statue. I feel sure you would like to know more of that statue—to draw him out when he is off duty, so to speak. To gratify you, I have resor... ... no more lost their logic than an eigh- teenth century pastel has lost its drawing or its color, yet, like the pastel, they grow indefinably shabby, a... ...although [here be suddenly becomes very serious indeed] you have one great drawback. OCTAVIUS. [anxiously] What drawback is that, Mr Ramsden? I should... ...y] What drawback is that, Mr Ramsden? I should rather say which of my many drawbacks? RAMSDEN. I’ll tell you, Octavius. [He takes from the table a boo... ...efield and I lost chance after chance through our advanced opinions. But I draw the line at Anar- chism and Free Love and that sort of thing. If I am ... ...e her meet her match. TANNER. No man is a match for a woman, except with a poker and a pair of hobnailed boots. Not always even then. Anyhow, I can’t ... ... a pair of hobnailed boots. Not always even then. Anyhow, I can’t take the poker to her. I should be a mere slave. MRS WHITEFIELD. No: she’s afraid of...

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...aid Mark to his wife, as he sat stretching himself in an easy chair in the drawing-room, before the fire, previously to his dress- ing for dinner. It ... ...om the hall door to his chamber without encountering the temptation of the drawing-room fire. ‘No; but Lady Lufton was down here. ’ ‘Full of suggestio... ...fore dinner, the vicar again seated him- self in the same chair before the drawing-room fire, as soon as he had seen his horse led into the stable. ‘M... ...mley Cross, the hounds occasionally would meet; for the Framley woods were drawn in spite of the young lord’s truant disposition; and then, at the Cro... ...er,’ she said, ‘and then we shall be comfortable for the evening. ’ So the drawing-room door was opened, and there was Lady Lufton alone on the sofa. ... ...ter, you may be sure of that. But if your wife will swear three times on a poker and tongs that she won’t reveal, I’ll show it to her. And you are qui...