She was thoroughly tired of having her looks talked over in every gathering of the clans.
They've been here gathering dust for years and they are no earthly good.
She scuttled back to the house in the hollow, through the gathering twilight, all agog to get home and write down her "description" before the memory picture of what she had seen grew a little blurred.
There were thick gathering clouds in the sky, but she took no note of them save to be glad that she could raise her sunshade.
Then he resumed his coat, and, gathering together the letters from the table in the back parlour, went into the front parlour and shut the door.
'I forgot,' she stammered, gathering herself together happily, 'I forgot the time.
Let me now briefly tell the reader all that, during the past dark fortnight, I have been silently gathering from Rumour, respecting the origin and the object of M.
A gathering call ran among the faculties, their bugles sang, their trumpets rang an untimely summons.
" She did tremble: growing excitement, kindling feeling, and also gathering courage, shook her.
Gathering in my arms all that was spread on the desk before me, I carried back the unused heap to its place in the third classe.
I was gathering my courage to tell them that I would neither write nor speak another word for their satisfaction, that their theme did not suit, nor their presence inspire me, and that, notwithstanding, whoever threw the shadow of a doubt on M.
" But there was no courage in her eye; as it met mine, it fell; and there was no coolness on her cheek—not a transient surface-blush, but a gathering inward excitement raised its tint and its temperature.
Gathering an armful of his books out of my desk, I filled my apron and poured them in a heap upon his estrade, at his feet.
" was his response; and, gathering his flowers in his arms, he flashed out of classe; while I, consigning my work, scissors, thimble, and the neglected little box, to my desk, swept up-stairs.
There was a good strong partition-wall between me and the gathering storm, as well as a facile means of flight through the glass-door to the court, in case it swept this way; so I am afraid I derived more amusement than alarm from these thickening symptoms.
I had noticed their gathering, while Graham and his mother were engaged in discussing the belle in blue satin, and had watched with interest the process of arraying and marshalling them.
Had a Genius stooped his dark wing down the storm to whose stress I had succumbed, and gathering me from the church-steps, and "rising high into the air," as the eastern tale said, had he borne me over land and ocean, and laid me quietly down beside a hearth of Old England?
" In reply to this appointment, I only bowed; and pulling down my veil, and gathering round me my cloak, I glided away.
" The little man fixed on me his spectacles: A resolute compression of the lips, and gathering of the brow, seemed to say that he meant to see through me, and that a veil would be no veil for him.
Already round this pale-faced, handsome, black-bearded man there was gathering an atmosphere of mystery and of gloom.
