She was standing not many yards distant, wagging her white feathery tail as fast as the muscle would work, and intently watching the operations of a spade, plied fast by an indefatigable hand.
Being left alone, Paulina and I kept silence for some time: we both took out some work, and plied a mute and diligent task.
I only know it turned out as uncomfortably for Tom Tulliver as if he had been plied with cheese in order to remedy a gastric weakness which prevented him from digesting it.
Brooke could be coerced into thinking of the right arguments at the right time was to be well plied with them till they took up all the room in his brain.
Wise in his daily work was he: To fruits of diligence, And not to faiths or polity, He plied his utmost sense.
Instead, she's given a lavish chamber and plied with good food and entertainments.
Throughout the meal I tried hard to be agreeable; he sat there taciturn, looking catatonic and mildly incredulous as I plied him with question and anecdote.
He saw the shoemaker coming towards him from the other side, and as he observed by his bag what kind of a trade he plied, he sang a little mocking song to him, sew me the seam, draw me the thread, spread it over with pitch, knock the nail on the head.
' If a lantern glimmered on the island it was a thieves' lantern, for smugglers and thieves plied their trade on Thieves' Island.
