He camecomeover to the gunrest and , thrustingthrusta hand into Stephen ’s upper pocket , saidsay: — Lend us a loan of your noserag to wipe my razor .
But when Halsey had finishedfinishhis electrical course and Gertrude her boarding-school , and both camecomehome to stay , things were suddenly changedchange.
down she camecomeupon a heap of sticks and dry leaves , and the fallfallwas over .
A sallow prisoner has comecomeup , in custody , for the half-dozenth time to make a personal application " to purge himself of his contempt , " which , being a solitary surviving executor who has fallen into a state of conglomeration about accounts of which it is not pretended that he had ever any knowledge , he is not at all likely ever to do .
“ Half an hour later , ” continuedcontinuethe sergeant , “ up comescomea captain of the guard with a squad of some dozen soldiers with him .
It was fifteen years since Silas Marner had first comecometo Raveloe ; he was then simply a pallid young man , with prominent short-sighted brown eyes , whose appearance would have had nothing strange for people of average culture and experience , but for the villagers near whom he had comecometo settle it had mysterious peculiarities which corresponded with the exceptional nature of his occupation , and his advent from an unknown region called " North ' ard " .
“ Yet I camecomewith half a mind to persuade thee to that very burden ! ” he criedcry, with another laughlaugh.
Habitually obedient to John , I camecomeup to his chair : he spent some three minutes in thrustingthrustout his tongue at me as far as he could without damaging the roots : I knew he would soon strike , and while dreading the blow , I musedmuseon the disgusting and ugly appearance of him who would presently deal it .
Upon the afternoon of which I now speakspeak, in the midsummer of the year of grace 1621 , as I sat upon my doorstep , my long pipe between my teeth and my eyes upon the pallid stream below , my thoughtsthoughtwere busy with these matters , -- so busy that I did not see a horse and rider emergeemergefrom the dimness of the forest into the cleared space before my palisade , nor knew , until his voicevoicecamecomeup the bank , that my good friend , Master John Rolfe , was without and would speak to me .
It was hardly a year since they had comecometo live at Tipton Grange with their uncle , a man nearly sixty , of acquiescent temper , miscellaneous opinions , and uncertain vote .
At about half-past six her son camecomehome , tired now , rather pale , and somewhat wretched .
Her sister , Miss Watson , a tolerable slim old maid , with goggles on , had just comecometo live with her , and tooktakea set at me now with a spelling-book .
here comecomemore crowds , pacingpacestraight for the water , and seemingly bound for a dive .
Towards the close of the eighteenth century and not long before my father camecometo Paleham , he had takentakea farm of about ninety acres , thus making a considerable rise in life .
What had comecomeas straight to him as a ball in a well-played game -- and caughtcatchmoreover not less neatly -- was just the air , in the person of his friend , of having seen and chosen , the air of achieved possession of those vague qualities and quantities that collectively figured to him as the advantage snatched from lucky chances .
One afternoon late , after they had toiledtoilup a white , winding wash of sand and gravel , they camecomeupon a dry waterhole .
Miss Cowley leftleavethe delights ( and drudgeries ) of her home life early in the war and camecomeup to London , where she enteredenteran officers ’ hospital .
Closer and closer they camecome, until one of them was directly behind the captain .
When this was over , Mr. Woodhouse gratefully observedobserve, “ It is very kind of you , Mr. Knightley , to comecomeout at this late hour to callcallupon us .
A woman servant camecomeinto a room in which a child was sleeping and drewdrawthe curtains .
This view of Marner 's personality was not without another ground than his pale face and unexampled eyes ; for Jem Rodney , the mole-catcher , averredaverthat one evening as he was returningreturnhomeward , he sawseeSilas Marner leaning against a stile with a heavy bag on his back , instead of resting the bag on the stile as a man in his senses would have done ; and that , on comingcomeup to him , he sawseethat Marner 's eyes were set like a dead man 's , and he spokespeakto him , and shookshakehim , and his limbs were stiff , and his hands clutchedclutchthe bag as if they 'd been made of iron ; but just as he had mademakeup his mind that the weaver was dead , he camecomeall right again , like , as you might say , in the winking of an eye , and saidsay" Good-night " , and walkedwalkoff .
And here he comescome, if I am not mistaken , to resolve all our doubts . "
She had heardhearthat he was a very young officer who had just comecomefrom England .
When in a quarter of an hour he camecomedown , what his hostess sawsee, what she might have taken in with a vision kindly adjusted , was the lean , the slightly loose figure of a man of the middle height and something more perhaps than the middle age -- a man of five-and-fifty , whose most immediate signs were a marked bloodless brownness of face , a thick dark moustache , of characteristically American cut , growing strong and falling low , a head of hair still abundant but irregularly streaked with grey , and a nose of bold free prominence , the even line , the high finish , as it might have been called , of which , had a certain effect of mitigation .
After the young woman in the glass cage had heldholdup to him across her counter the pale-pink leaflet bearing his friend 's name , which she neatly pronouncedpronounce, he turnedturnaway to find himself , in the hall , facingfacea lady who metmeethis eyes as with an intention suddenly determined , and whose features -- not freshly young , not markedly fine , but on happy terms with each other -- camecomeback to him as from a recent vision .
— I — [ 1 ] Stately , plump Buck Mulligan camecomefrom the stairhead , bearingbeara bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed .
He lived about a mile from Highbury , was a frequent visitor , and always welcome , and at this time more welcome than usual , as comingcomedirectly from their mutual connexions in London .
It is true that I had a country walkwalkon Thursday and camecomehome in a dreadful mess , but as I have changedchangemy clothes I ca n't imagine how you deducededuceit .
Knowing she would not be allowed to keep the child much longer , the woman kissedkisshim again ; and she passedpassher hand down his body till she camecometo his feet ; she heldholdthe right foot in her hand and feltfeelthe five small toes ; and then slowly passedpassher hand over the left one .
well did the tall stately girl of eighteen rememberrememberthe tearstearshed with such wild passion of griefgriefby the little girl of nine , as she hidhideher face under the bed-clothes , in that first night ; and how she was biddenbidnot to cry by the nurse , because it would disturb Miss Edith ; and how she had criedcryas bitterly , but more quietlyquietly, till her newly-seennewly, grand , pretty aunt had comecomesoftly upstairs with Mr. Hale to show him his little sleepingsleepdaughter .
This girl is grieved at my habit of living almost in the garden , and all her ideas as to the sort of life a respectable German lady should lead have got into a sad muddle since she camecometo me .