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I upset the table over her and her guests; and then I got on my horse again, and here I am." Every one had great difficulty in keeping his countenance at the exposure of this heroi-comedy, and when the laughter had subsided, one of the guests present said to La Fontaine: "Is that all you have brought back?" "Oh, no! I have an excellent idea in my head." "What is it?"
Alexandre Dumas - Louise de la Valliere
If you attempt to carry me forcibly with you, I will struggle and resist I will proclaim to the guests in the ball room your dread character and name; the mask will be torn from your face, and you will be dragged back to prison, from whence you escaped. For the second time did the Dead Man pause, and reflect profoundly.
George Thompson - City Crimes
or Life in New York and Boston
We, guests in their own comfortable house, did not ask them to join us. Llewellyn, when I put the question, answered: "No. I am both white and of too high native rank. You cannot afford to let the native become your social equal." McHenry said: "You're bloody well right. Keep him in his stall, and he's all right; but out of it, ye'll get no peace."
Frederick O'Brien - Mystic Isles of the South Seas.
Mary hesitated, not knowing which way to turn, for there were several doors under the high galleries that ran the whole length of the hall. This must be the atrium, where, Peter had said, the "guests of Hercules" were accustomed to make rendezvous.
A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson - The Guests Of Hercules
The Lady Booby, who was as wakeful as any of her guests, had been alarmed from the beginning; and, being a woman of a bold spirit, she slipt on a nightgown, petticoat, and slippers, and taking a candle, which always burnt in her chamber, in her hand, she walked undauntedly to Slipslop's room; where she entered just at the instant as Adams had discovered, by the two mountains which Slipslop carried before her, that he was concerned with a female.
Henry Fielding - Joseph Andrews, Volume 2
He waited, therefore, with impatience until his master had shown his two principal guests into the Tower, and then commenced his operations. "I think," he said to the stranger menials, "that, as they are bringing the stag's head to the castle in all honour, we, who are indwellers, should receive them at the gate."
Sir Walter Scott - The Bride of Lammermoor
As the six took their chosen positions, and gazed at a particular pattern in the carpet, selected by them at a private rehearsal in the morning, they were the subject of mental comment by the forty guests. The women, looking at the costly dress of the bride, pronounced her beautiful.
John Bell Bouton - Round the Block
She went to the chair at the desk, and seated herself in a leisurely fashion that increased the indignation of the fuming Inspector. She did not trouble to ask her self-invited guests to sit. "To whom do I owe the pleasure of this visit, Inspector?" she remarked coolly.
Marvin Hill Dana - Within the Law
Among the guests there was one class of which a representative was usually to be found at the Mission House. This was the drunken clergyman, which sounds as if there was at this date a high proportion of drunken clergymen in the Church of England; but which means that when one did come to St.
Compton MacKenzie - The Altar Steps
But I think I've paid to-day for my right to ask such a question how does it happen that you and your brother you, especially can have sunk to such straits that you take orders meekly from a murderer like Rodney Hade, and that you let him dictate what guests you shall or shan't receive?" She shivered all over. "I I have no right to tell you," she murmured. "It isn't my secret.
Albert Payson Terhune - Black Caesar's Clan : a Florida Mystery Story