Garth's services on many scattered points of business at which he was sure to be a considerable loser, if they were under less conscientious management.
I've always had my hands full with scattered things, and there's always something fresh turning up.
She was humiliated to find herself a mere victim of feeling, as if she could know nothing except through that medium: all her strength was scattered in fits of agitation, of struggle, of despondency, and then again in visions of more complete renunciation, transforming all hard conditions into duty.
" And now, following the track of the hare by the little white blots of scattered paper, came the hounds.
" Mother laid down her pen among the pages that were scattered all over the table, pages covered with her writing, which was almost as plain as print, and much prettier.
The women scattered to the door and behind the bar.
Panels and windows smashed, axles hopelessly bent, one wheel off, sardine-tins scattered over the wide world, and the bird in the bird-cage sobbing pitifully and calling to be let out.
Instantaneously, with the consciousness of existence, returned her recollection of the manuscript; and springing from the bed in the very moment of the maid's going away, she eagerly collected every scattered sheet which had burst from the roll on its falling to the ground, and flew back to enjoy the luxury of their perusal on her pillow.
Studies palled just a wee bit then; the Queen's class, left behind in school while the others scattered to green lanes and leafy wood cuts and meadow byways, looked wistfully out of the windows and discovered that Latin verbs and French exercises had somehow lost the tang and zest they had possessed in the crisp winter months.
" During her absence Matthew collected his scattered senses for another effort.
When Marilla came up for the light various skimpy articles of raiment scattered most untidily over the floor and a certain tempestuous appearance of the bed were the only indications of any presence save her own.
Below was a little valley and beyond a long, gently-rising slope with snug farmsteads scattered along it.
You could see nothing but stones and boulders, some patches of snow, and scattered pine trees.
It was one of the old plantation darkeys without a doubt; but they had been widely scattered, and he could not recall the voice or face.
Then we scattered, each man for himself.
The July audience was scattered among vacant seats as widely as outfielders when the champion batter steps to the plate.
A team of horses came down the street—Olive's dust pile was scattered over the roadway—the bell rang—the girls trooped into school and had forgotten the whole affair before they reached their seats.
Ten o'clock came, and the noise of vehicles ceased, scattered lights began to wink out, all straggling foot-passengers disappeared, the village betook itself to its slumbers and left the small watcher alone with the silence and the ghosts.
" Huck began to pick up his scattered clothes.
）Reviews, meanwhile, have been scattered between accusing the film of being overly complicated in its conceit combining espionage and science-fiction, and hailing "Tenet" as a messianic return to theaters.
