Morland's surprise on being applied to by Mr.
" Catherine said no more, and, with an endeavour to do right, applied to her work; but, after a few minutes, sunk again, without knowing it herself, into languor and listlessness, moving herself in her chair, from the irritation of weariness, much oftener than she moved her needle.
" Such a compliment recalled all Catherine's consciousness, and silenced her directly; and, though pointedly applied to by the general for her choice of the prevailing colour of the paper and hangings, nothing like an opinion on the subject could be drawn from her.
Again, therefore, she applied herself to the key, and after moving it in every possible way for some instants with the determined celerity of hope's last effort, the door suddenly yielded to her hand: her heart leaped with exultation at such a victory, and having thrown open each folding door, the second being secured only by bolts of less wonderful construction than the lock, though in that her eye could not discern anything unusual, a double range of small drawers appeared in view, with some l
Originally perhaps it was applied only to express neatness, propriety, delicacy, or refinement—people were nice in their dress, in their sentiments, or their choice.
Isabella, in the meanwhile, had applied her handkerchief to her eyes; and Morland, miserable at such a sight, could not help saying, "Nay, Catherine.
She applied to Mr.
Hughes could not have applied to any creature in the room more happy to oblige her than Catherine.
45) per person fee will be applied on 29 peak days between April and mid-July, including most weekends.
She had had it in her life applied to her to excess.
Arbuthnot, who sat quite still watching her suit-cases being taken from her with the same patience she applied to lesser evils.
I've applied for the school here—but I don't expect to get it for I understand the trustees have promised it to Gilbert Blythe.
So I bought it, and as soon as he had gone I came up here and applied it with an old hairbrush as the directions said.
The description applied to Barney—as well as to half a dozen other men Valancy knew—and from some casual remarks he had dropped from time to time she concluded he knew Montreal rather well.
He could not recollect that the closing word had ever been applied in his case before.
Confidence is crucial when pursing a career, according to a study published in the journal Basic and Applied Social Psychology.
China widens antitrust rules The State Administration for Market Regulation recently unveiled proposals that include guidelines on how anti-monopoly measures should be applied to internet companies.
It was coined by economist Nassim Nicholas Taleb in 2001 — inspired by a 2nd-century Roman poet who presumed that such birds didn't exist — and has been applied to such disparate outliers as the 9/11 attacks and the development of the internet.
He told me he never went to school after class 4th because he hated mathematics, but he so efficiently understood and applied the demand supply curve for his profit.
In the end, she's applied for a deferral to the next academic year.
