She said, and her tone had softened until it was almost friendly.

Curt was in almost as bad shape, but he wouldn't quit.

Then, with a glory that almost wiped out the deep, downward sags in her careworn face, Matilda leaned over the wheel and shouted to Hez, who was stumbling along in the heat and the dust on the opposite side of the wagon `` Pa!!

For several weeks we eyed one another almost like sparring partners, and then one day Uncle was slightly indisposed and stayed home ; ;

Sometimes he did this three or four times a day, for this Woman was almost always with him.

He was pressed far back into the corner of the car on his hay sacks, the rattling and tinning of the wheels on the rails almost covering the sound of his ocarina.

Their skin was covered with a thin coating of sweat and dirt which had almost the consistency of a second skin.

From high in the tree, the whole block lay within range of the eye, but the ground was almost nowhere visible.

The street that is full now of traffic and parked cars then and for many years drowsed on an August afternoon in the shade of the curbside trees, and silence was a weight, almost palpable, in the air.

`` Don't forget, here was a man who had been accusing his colleagues for almost a year of willfully attempting to present an incorrect report.

Trevelyan was at least in part attracted to the period by an almost unconscious desire to take up the story where Macaulay's History Of England had broken off.

The cautious Thomas re-examined the note and then, making up his mind that it was genuine, snapped his fingers, whistled and almost danced in his exuberance.

The skirmishing was almost constant.

To help him do so The Prince had conferred control of his land forces on a soldier who was different from him in almost every respect save one: both were eccentrics of the purest ray serene.

Tom said he almost burst into tears, he was so disappointed and put out.

In late December, the American army moved from Whitemarsh to Valley Forge, and although the distance was only 13 miles, the journey took more than a week because of the bad weather, the barefooted and almost naked men.

Boniface had to uphold the sacredness of the feudal contract at all costs, for it was only as suzerain of Sicily and of the Patrimony of Peter that he had any justification for his Italian wars, but in the English-Scottish-French triangle it was almost impossible for him to recognize the claims of any one of the contestants without seeming to invalidate those of the other two.

We were almost the same age, she was fifteen, I was twelve, and where I felt there was a life to look forward to Lilly felt she had had as much of it as was necessary.

Karl was an almost exact copy of his father physically and it was strange to see the expected become the unexpected.

The wholesome activities were to be provided by many organizations including the YMCA, the Knights of Columbus, the Jewish Welfare Board, the American Library Association, and the Playground and Recreation Association -- private societies which voluntarily performed the job that was taken over almost entirely by the Special Services Division of the Army itself in World War 2.

Her blond hair was frowzy, her dress torn in several places, and her shoes were so completely worn out that they were practically no protection.

It must have hurt her even to walk, for the sole was completely off her left foot and Morgan saw that it was bruised and bleeding.

She was glad, completely and unselfishly glad, to see that things were working out the right way for both Sally and Dan.

As we expected, on the following day my Uncle was completely recovered and opened the store as usual at 10 in the morning.

At the trial which took place later, the Pomham matter was completely omitted.

To the pope, head of the universal Church, to the duke of Burgundy, taking full advantage of his position on the borders of France and of the Empire, or to Othon, who found it quite natural that he should do homage to Edward for Tipperary and to the count of Savoy for Grandson, Flotte's outspoken nationalism was completely incomprehensible.

Mr. McKinley, for all his sprawling and his easy familiarity, was completely alert to his son, eyes always on the still face, jumping to anticipate Scotty's desires.

Thus, in the last few years, a number of programs which looked very promising at the time their development was commenced have since been completely eliminated.

Being placed in the hopples she was completely baffled.

It's extremely accurate for an auto, and the test rifle I tried was completely trouble-free in functioning.

On the morning following the Pratt Hall meeting the editor of the Providence Daily Journal wrote that although the meeting was milder and less extreme than those held in other areas for similar purposes, it could have been avoided completely.

Luckily, she was not completely aflame and would go down before the gasoline could erupt.

One day Maeterlinck, coming with a friend upon an event which he recognized as the exact pattern of a previous dream, detailed the ensuing occurrences in advance so accurately that his companion was completely mystified.

During the year that followed, Dick co-operated whole-heartedly with the dentist and was delighted with the final result achieved -- an upper row of strong straight teeth that completely changed his facial appearance.

But still Mel Chandler was not completely convinced that men would really die for a four-syllable word, `` Garryowen ''.

`` Oh, she was just the maid there '', he replied, waving a hand to indicate how completely unimportant she was.

There is a humorous but revealing story about a rancher who owned a large slice of Texas and who wanted to have on it everything that was necessary for a completely pleasant community.

Such optimism was completely unjustified.

Starting with the room completely blacked out, as it was when we came in, he unerringly fixed things so that the whole place was bathed in the maximum of light without at any point admitting even so much as a crack of glare.

Winsett is a quiet street with no taverns and was completely deserted at that hour.

The production, designed by Simon Virsaladze, was completely traditional but traditional in the right way.

Anne said it wasn't surprising because Charles was antisocial, a lone wolf, and completely one-sided.