So they sat perfectly still among the brown stalks of the wild rice along the edge of the Big River, and not for a second did they take their eyes from that strange thing moving towards them.
He sat perfectly still.
" Lightfoot kept perfectly still and watched the hunter disappear among the trees.
For a few moments he stood there perfectly still, looking and listening.
'I'm perfectly well,' Beatrice said.
In the witness-box stood William Price, dressed in black, with kid gloves, not lounging in an ungainly attitude, as might have been expected, but perfectly erect; he kept his eyes fixed on the coroner's head.
'I say, wasn't last night perfectly awful?
He did not need to be told that Anna was perfectly ignorant of the craft of pottery, and that every detail of it, so stale to him, would acquire freshness under her naïve and inquiring gaze.
The discovery, valid enough and perfectly substantiated by an inquiry into the levels, was extremely creditable to the amateur geologist, but it seriously impaired his reputation among the Wesleyan community as a shrewd man of the world.
So Owl looked down, a little surprised because he didn't know about this, and then gave a short sarcastic laugh, and explained that that was his sponge, and that if people didn't know a perfectly ordinary bath-sponge when they saw it, things were coming to a pretty pass.
"Then why bend a perfectly good one?
de Hamal's suit, I found, as I expected, that Madame Beck was perfectly au fait to that affair.
Bretton knows these points perfectly, as you may be sure, M.
" And in proof, I drew from my pocket a perfectly dry handkerchief, still clean and in its folds.
" "I know not what to think of this matter; but I believe a perfectly natural solution of this seeming mystery will one day be arrived at.
The clean fresh print dress, and the light straw bonnet, each made and trimmed as the French workwoman alone can make and trim, so as to unite the utterly unpretending with the perfectly becoming, was the rule of costume.
"Not at all strange; perfectly natural; you like him.
The little man looked well, very well; there was a clearness of amity in his blue eye, and a glow of good feeling on his dark complexion, which passed perfectly in the place of beauty: one really did not care to observe that his nose, though far from small, was of no particular shape, his cheek thin, his brow marked and square, his mouth no rose-bud: one accepted him as he was, and felt his presence the reverse of damping or insignificant.
From this date my life did not want variety; I went out a good deal, with the entire consent of Madame Beck, who perfectly approved the grade of my acquaintance.
I opened the billet: by this time I had recognised its handwriting as perfectly familiar.
