She was only a few inches high, and was dressed in green, so that you really would hardly have noticed her among the long grass; and she was so delicate and graceful that she
quite seemed to belong to the place, almost as if she were one of the flowers.
Dear Lord Illingworth is
quite hopeless, Lady Stutfield.
Maimie was
quite surprised to see that a number of other tall trees were doing the same sort of thing and she stole away to the Baby Walk and crouched observantly under a Minorca Holly which shrugged its shoulders but did not seem to mind her.
When she had had a headache in India she had done her best to see that everybody else also had a headache or something
quite as bad.
If it does not seem so to you, I am
quite sure I am wholly mistaken; for your unchanged poor child confides in your knowledge and goodness more than she could ever tell you if she was to try.
Cole's carriagehorses returning from exercise, or a stray letterboy on an obstinate mule, were the liveliest objects she could presume to expect; and when her eyes fell only on the butcher with his tray, a tidy old woman travelling homewards from shop with her full basket, two curs quarrelling over a dirty bone, and a string of dawdling children round the baker's little bowwindow eyeing the gingerbread, she knew she had no reason to complain, and was amused enough;
quite enough still to stand at the door.
The palace is entirely built of many-coloured glasses, and is
quite the loveliest of all royal residences, but the queen sometimes complains because the common people will peep in to see what she is doing.
said the Miller's Wife, pouring herself out a large glass of warm ale; 'really I feel
quite drowsy.
Why, your bow is
quite spoiled," said the old poet.
Each as he ap- peared snatched up one of the truths and some who were
quite strong snatched up a dozen of them.
As he was
quite too short to do anything in the way of grooming Ginger and me, James taught him upon Merrylegs, for he was to have full charge of him, under John.
As often happens when someone we have trusted is no longer before our eyes, it suddenly seemed
quite clear and obvious to him that the sergeant was an impostor, that he had lied, and that the whole Russian attack would be ruined by the absence of those two regiments, which he would lead away heaven only knew where.
The fact is that probably Hippolyte was not
quite so black as Gania painted him; and it was hardly likely that he had informed Nina Alexandrovna of certain events, of which we know, for the mere pleasure of giving her pain.
I am the best judge of my own affairs, I take it,' said the young man, who had certainly not
quite recovered from his recent heat; 'if anybody here thinks proper to make this quarrel his own, I have not the smallest earthly objection, I do assure him.
She could not help wondering whether the coach-maker suffered very much, and
quite pitied the poor man.
