So the verdict was `` death at the hands of a person or persons unknown '', and the elite of the city, accepting Delphine's testimony, welcomed her and the doctor back into the fold.

By this time word had got around that an American doctor was on the premises.

The doctor agreed, but explained that it would be necessary first to check Fred's blood to ascertain whether or not it was of the same type as Papa's.

his hospital and doctor bills had been large and his income had been cut until he was receiving little except small rentals on some properties he still owned.

His parents talked seriously and lengthily to their own doctor and to a specialist at the University Hospital -- Mr. McKinley was entitled to a discount for members of his family -- and it was decided it would be best for him to take the remainder of the term off, spend a lot of time in bed and, for the rest, do pretty much as he chose -- provided, of course, he chose to do nothing too exciting or too debilitating.

The doctor, since Scotty was no longer allowed to make his regular trips into town to see him, came often and informally to the house.

in an instant the doctor was stalking across the room with an antique ledger in his hands, thoroughly eared and big as a table top.

Alex's instruction was rapid, for the doctor had to go off to the Rue Ecole De Medecine to hear more speeches with only time for one sip of wine to sustain him through them all.

The doctor was wearing a long New England greatcoat, hardly necessary in the June weather but a garment which proved well adapted to the sequestration of hens.

Alex entered first and was followed by the doctor who, for all his care, manifested a perceptible bulge on his left side where the hen was cradled.

The doctor, he noticed, was attempting a transverse movement towards the stairs, but before the movement could be completed a distinct and audible cluck ruffled the air in the hollow of the stair-well.

When Alex entered his room, the doctor was already preparing a nest in the straw case, six eggs ready for the hen's attentions.

Time elapsed but the doctor was obviously unconscious of its passage until an unwelcome knock on the door interrupted the processes of nature.

It was Giselle, the fille de chambre, come to clean the room, and while she stood before him with ears pricked up and regard all curiosity, explaining her errand, Alex could see from the corner of his eye the doctor doing all he could to calm the displeased bird.

The doctor sat down rather wearily, caressing the hen and remarking that the city was not the place for a poultry-loving man, but no sooner was the remark out than a knock at this door obliged him to cover the hen with his greatcoat once more.

The doctor shot down to the lavatory and turned the doorknob, but to no effect: the lavatory was occupied.

They had been kind to us and we were indebted to them for one or two pleasant dinners, and for information as to where to shop, which dentist, doctor, plumber, and sitter to call ( not that there was much of a choice, since Catatonia was just a village ; ;

As a natural outgrowth of this approach it was often suggested that the doctor should complete the preparation for painless intercourse by dilating the vagina.

As a result, she consulted medical authorities and learned that the devices her quack `` doctor '' was using were phony.

Now under me I could see him for what he really was, a boy dressed up in streaks of paint.

Alfred was dressed for his trip to the hospital.

To people who didn't know her she was a gawky, badly dressed kid whose arms were too long, whose legs were a little too bony.

The figure was so theatrically dressed, that it was as though a character from some other play had blundered into this one.

Times Square, when I ascended to it with my fellow subway travellers ( all dressed as if for a huge wedding in a family of which we were all distant members ), was nearly impassable, the sidewalks swarming with celebrants, with bundled up sailors and soldiers already hugging their girls and their rationed bottles of whiskey.

The most that was accomplished was adding Mrs. Beige's tray to the dish pile, and by means of repeated threats, on an ascending scale, seeing that the girls dressed themselves, after a fashion.

He was dressed in a manner Esquire might suggest for the outdoor man's country weekend.

Then he said, `` Never noticed it before I mean, when she was dressed but for a woman her age, Julia had a real fine figure ''.

His chelas were required to assume the matsyendra posture dressed in hand-woven diapers while he read aloud from Rig-Veda and an assistant guru examined their purses in another room -- nothing was stolen ; ;

* The Halloween special, titled " Bungholio: Lord of the Harvest ( Butt-O-Ween )," involved them attempting to trick-or-treat in ridiculous costumes -- i. e. Beavis dressed up as a giant "' nad " by wearing underpants on his head and Butt-Head becoming nachos by pouring hot cheese-sauce over his head, although at one point he said he was dressed up as a dumb-ass.

He was dressed in a costly suit made of Frankish cloth with golden threads, and he wore a belt with a costly buckle.

Wearing a light colored suit and a bright tie, he was dressed more for some gala occasion than for a funeral.

In 1917, Chaplin imitators were widespread enough for the star to take legal action, and it was reported that nine out of ten men attended costume parties dressed as Chaplin.

Because the surface of laterite is uneven, it was not suitable for decorative carvings, unless first dressed with stucco.

The funky street scene still holds some urban flair, but was dressed up recently with Victorian streetlights, benches and bus stops.

Aged women, priestesses, dressed in white sacrificed the prisoners of war and sprinkled their blood, the nature of which allowed them to see what was to come.

The soldiers were amused that Gaius was dressed in a miniature soldier's uniform, including boots and armor.

Chiang was popular among many people and dressed in plain, simple clothes, unlike contemporary Chinese warlords who dressed extravagantly.

the ' good ' Superman, ultimately triumphant, ( is ) dressed as Clark, thus implying that he is the more valid personality ( as well as the one Lana loves )" and expresses annoyance that " Something could have been made of this, but sadly nothing was ".

When the meal was ready, he told Jones to wash up, and going into the front room, woke the girl.

A man like Jess would want to have a ready means of escape in case it was needed.

Thomas tried hard to have his cavalry ready for the test it was to meet, but his plans were wrecked when it was forced into a campaign without optimum mobility and with its commander stripped from it.

But his opposition hardened and by 1579, in The School Of Abuse, he was ready to banish all `` players ''.

The result was that by secret agreement draft machinery was actually ready long before the country knew that the device was to take the place of the volunteering method which Theodore Roosevelt favored.

It was late, and Blackman was ready to go to sleep, but Lewis was not.

At the end of World War 2,, free Europe was ready for a new beginning.

The Congo should have been mandated, because it was not ready for independence.

She was ready to kill the beef, dress it out, and with vegetables from her garden was going to can soup, broth, hash, and stew against the winter.

Last week it opened at the J. B. Speed Museum in Louisville, at the very moment that a second Schiele exhibit was being made ready at the Felix Landau gallery in Los Angeles.

Soon he was ready to go into a three-dimensional figure in clay.

Now, driving the horse and sulky borrowed from Mynheer Schuyler, he felt as if every bone was topped by burning oil and that every muscle was ready to dissolve into jelly and leave his big body helpless and unable to move.

Eileen got to dancing, just a little tiny dancing step to a hummed tune that you could hardly notice, and trying to pick up strange men, but each time I was ready to say to hell with it and walk out she'd pull herself together and talk so understandingly in that sweet husky voice about the good times and the happiness we'd had together and there I was back on the hook.

I was ready to jump but when Ma said she'd get the whisky it surprised him like it surprised me, and he ran down.