Jack was miles away "in the twinkling of a bedpost," and the pleasing dream seemed about to return, when a ruthless hand tore off the clothes, swept him out of bed, and he really did awake to find himself standing in the middle of his bath-pan with both windows open, and Frank about to pour a pail of water over him.
" asked her mother, standing behind her as a prop, while the thin fingers did their work so willingly that not a flower was left.
" greeted the "Minute Man," standing motionless upon his pedestal.
" scolded Molly, standing by Merry, who was sadly surveying her mother's old purple silk, which looked like brown in the evening.
She's ever so much brighter than you are, or she wouldn't always be at the head of your class, old Joe," cried the girls, standing by their friend with a unanimity which proved what a favorite she was.
Hobbs, or standing near his mother or Miss Herbert listening to their conversation, the old nobleman was very well satisfied with him.
Errol entered the drawing-room, a very tall, majestic-looking old man was standing on the tiger-skin rug.
Hobbs that Cedric was not really far away, and would come back again; that some day he would look up from his paper and see the little lad standing in the door-way, in his white suit and red stockings, and with his straw hat on the back of his head, and would hear him say in his cheerful little voice: "Hello, Mr.
The Earl was there standing near the fire and looking very tall and imposing; and at his side stood a little boy in black velvet, and a large Vandyke collar of rich lace—a little fellow whose round bright face was so handsome, and who turned upon her such beautiful, candid brown eyes, that she almost uttered an exclamation of pleasure and surprise at the sight.
He had been standing between his grandfather and the visitor, listening with all his might.
He felt a great, strange pleasure in the beauty of which he caught glimpses under and between the sweeping boughs—the great, beautiful spaces of the park, with still other trees standing sometimes stately and alone, and sometimes in groups.
When Cedric jumped out of the carriage he saw one or two servants standing in the wide, bright hall, and Mary stood in the door-way.
It was just at the very last, when he was standing leaning on the railing of the upper deck and watching the final preparations, enjoying the excitement and the shouts of the sailors and wharfmen, that his attention was called to a slight bustle in one of the groups not far from him.
When he reached his own house there was a coupe standing before the door and some one was in the little parlor talking to his mamma.
If a man standing on the edge of a swimming-bath and wanting to jump into the cold water should ask you, "How do I begin to jump?
He was standing in front of her, turning slowly about, and he had on a new coat.
On his way to the store through the woods, the bunny uncle came to a big beech tree, which had nice, shiny white bark on it, and, to his surprise the rabbit gentleman saw a big black bear, standing up on his hind legs and scratching at the tree bark as hard as he could.
It's just like the little ice cream cones that come on Christmas trees, only it's covered with a flap, like a leaf, and under the flap is a little green thing, standing up.
" he asked Tommie Kat, who was making a fishpole of his tail by standing it straight up in the air.
" asked Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy, the muskrat lady housekeeper, as she saw the rabbit gentleman standing on the front steps of his hollow stump bungalow in the woods one morning.
