Ben, bouncing across the grass with Brownie at his heels, and seeing the kitten dragging the knitting by a lengthening line of wool, shouted and clapped his hands; Brownie barked, the kitten, desperate, jumped on the tea-table and upset the milk, then jumped down again and swept half the cherries with it; and Ben, snatching up the half-knitted sock-top, fitted it over the kitten's head as a new source of madness, while Letty arriving cried out to her mother against this cruelty—it was a history
But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure to go wrong.
The foreign stranglehold on the vital sectors of the Chinese economy was reinforced through a lengthening list of concessions.
jpg Don't try to chase every great idea The other side of permitting yourself time to explore alternative ideas, as well as the suggestions of managers and colleagues, is that you are left with a lengthening list of new directions to investigate.
"This is all because the body's internal clock has a natural period of slightly longer than 24 hours, which means that it has an easier time traveling west and lengthening the day than traveling east and shortening the day," Dr.
These central banks have also substantially expanded their balance sheets through quantitative easing or, in the case of the Bank of Japan, "quantitative and qualitative easing" (which includes lengthening of the maturity of the assets it buys).
The shadows are lengthening for me.
commonly occurs after exercise that involves lengthening muscles while they contract, Dr.
In astronomy, this lengthening is known as redshifting.
In fact, the volunteers in the exercise group who had worked out the most during the past six months tended now to have slightly less lengthening and even some shortening, compared to those who had exercised less but stood up more.
The shadows were lengthening when Reuben arrived at the factory.
Summertime without a summer theatre seemed to be only a time that made her old; while, on the other hand, a theatrical evening that lasted till midnight was a lengthening of her life.
The ruined old ramparts of the fallen fortress are now the last visible witness of your childhood home; their lengthening sunset shadows point to the spot where stood the house in which you were born.
