The backgammon-table was placedplace; but a visitor immediately afterwards walkedwalkin and mademakeit unnecessary .
Though young , his long back was already bowed , and he walkedwalkwith a forward thrustthrustof his head and a general air of peering benevolence .
The gentleman from South Carolina , walkingwalkdown the street , glanced about him with an eager looklook, in which curiosity and affection were mingled with a touch of bitterness .
There were doors all round the hall , but they were all locked ; and when Alice had been all the way down one side and up the other , tryingtryevery door , she walkedwalksadly down the middle , wonderingwonderhow she was ever to get out again .
The doctor walkedwalkto a table on the other side of the room , upon which , under a towel , lay the body of a still-born child .
Buda-Pesth seems a wonderful place , from the glimpseglimpsewhich I got of it from the train and the little I could walkwalkthrough the streets .
A classmate named Stewart Snyder , a competent bulky young man in a gray flannel shirt , a rusty black bow tie , and the green-and-purple class cap , grumbledgrumbleto her as they walkedwalkbehind the others in the muck of the South St. Paul stockyards , “ These college chumps make me tired .
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 .
I walkedwalkaway slowly along the sunny side of the street , readingreadall the theatrical advertisements in the shop-windows as I wentgo.
A fellow askedaskhim to give it one last : but he walkedwalkon without even answering the fellow .
With the omnibuses and cabs still running in his head , and his body still tingling with his quick walkwalkalong the streets and in and out of traffic and foot-passengers , this drawing-room seemed very remote and still ; and the faces of the elderly people were mellowed , at some distance from each other , and had a bloom on them owing to the fact that the air in the drawing-room was thickenedthickenby blue grains of mistmist.
The declivity was so small , that I walkedwalknear a mile before I gotgetto the shore , which I conjecturedconjecturewas about eight o’clock in the evening .
Farther down , before one of the cottages , a lady in black was walkingwalkdemurely up and down , tellingtellher beads .
A clergyman in search of the Cooper Institute he once directeddirectto the Tombs Prison , and , followingfollowhim unobserved , was highly delighteddelightwhen the unsuspicious stranger walkedwalkup the front steps of the great stone building on Centre Street , and triedtryto obtain admission .
He could see that she was tastefully , though not richly , dressed , and that she walkedwalkwith an elastic step that revealedreveala light heart and the vigor of perfect health .
He had returnedreturnto a late dinnerdinner, after some days ' absence , and now walkedwalkup to Hartfield to say that all were well in Brunswick Square .
Presently a small boy came walkingwalkalong the path -- an urchin of nine or ten .
A two minutes ' walkwalkbrought Warwick -- the name he had registeredregisterunder , and as we shall call him -- to the market-house , the central feature of Patesville , from both the commercial and the picturesque points of view .
Then she walkedwalkoff the lawn to the meadow , whose corner to the right I can just seesee.
When he was gonego, Durbeyfield walkedwalka few steps in a profound reverie , and then satsitdown upon the grassy bank by the roadside , depositingdeposithis basket before him .
" I wonderwonderwhether the little scamp will prove honest , " saidsayMr. Greyson to himself , as he walkedwalkaway .
However , in my thoughtsthoughtI could not sufficiently wonder at the intrepidity of these diminutive mortals , who durst venture to mountmountand walkwalkupon my body , while one of my hands was at liberty , without trembling at the very sight of so prodigious a creature as I must appear to them .
But some thoughtfull persons , who had seenseehim walkingwalkacross one of his fields on a certain December morning -- sunny and exceedingly mild -- might have regarded Gabriel Oak in other aspects than these .
Reachingreachthe top floor , he walkedwalkalong the passage and knocked on a door at the end of it .
As he walkedwalkalong behind her at a measured distance , he could not help notingnotethe details that made up this pleasing impression , for his mind was singularly alive to beauty , in whatever embodiment .
The medical gentleman walkedwalkaway to dinner ; and the nurse , having once more appliedapplyherself to the green bottle , satsitdown on a low chair before the firefire, and proceeded to dressdressthe infant .
He walkedwalkdown the gallery and across the narrow “ bridges ” which connected the Lebrun cottages one with the other .
CHAPTER I THE STRANGE MAN 'S ARRIVALarrivalThe stranger camecomeearly in February , one wintry day , through a biting windwindand a driving snowsnow, the last snowfallsnowfallof the year , over the down , walkingwalkfrom Bramblehurst railway station , and carrying a little black portmanteau in his thickly gloved hand .
Phase the First : The Maiden I On an evening in the latter part of May a middle-aged man was walkingwalkhomeward from Shaston to the village of Marlott , in the adjoining Vale of Blakemore , or Blackmoor .
CHAPTER I THE CONSUL ’S YARN A week had passed since the funeralfuneralof my poor boy Harry , and one evening I was in my room walkingwalkup and down and thinkingthink, when there was a ringringat the outer door .
Casually glancingglanceover the hedge , Oak sawseecomingcomedown the incline before him an ornamental spring waggon , painted yellow and gaily marked , drawndrawby two horses , a waggoner walkingwalkalongside bearingbeara whip perpendicularly .
The settingsetsun was glowingglowon the strange lady , over the garden-fence , and she came walkingwalkup to the door with a fell rigidity of figure and composure of countenance that could have belonged to nobody else .
About nine o'clock the moon was sufficiently bright for me to proceed on my way and I had no difficulty in followingfollowthe trail at a fast walkwalk, and in some places at a brisk trottrotuntil , about midnight , I reachedreachthe water hole where Powell had expected to camp .
He graspedgraspthe prongs of the fork and heldholdthem before him with the end standing straight out , and then he began to walkwalkalong the stream bed .