Clare himself would have been satisfied if he had seen the quiet contempt on her face as she
laid aside his letter.
Realizing that the game was about up Tarzan with a farewell shot
laid aside the rifle and melted into the hills behind him.
Thou shalt take that five hundred pounds
laid aside for people more in need than the Bishop is, and shalt pay thy debts to Emmet therewith.
peace was signed between the survivors of the war; the thunder of the guns gradually ceased, the mortars were silent, the howitzers were muzzled for an indefinite period, the cannon, with muzzles depressed, were returned into the arsenal, the shot were repiled, all bloody reminiscences were effaced; the cotton-plants grew luxuriantly in the well-manured fields, all mourning garments were
laid aside, together with grief; and the Gun Club was relegated to profound inactivity.
He had risen, however, unknown to me, and, actuated by some base spirit of curiosity, been looking over my shoulder for I know not how long; for when I had
laid aside my pen, and was about to close the book, he suddenly placed his hand upon it, and saying, - 'With your leave, my dear, I'll have a look at this,' forcibly wrested it from me, and, drawing a chair to the table, composedly sat down to examine it: turning back leaf after leaf to find an explanation of what he had read.
Dear mother," interposed Renee, "you know very well it was agreed that all these disagreeable reminiscences should forever be
laid aside.
Most of the men approached Marmaduke, and shook his offered hand, hoping “that the Judge was well;” while Major Hartmann having
laid aside his hat and wig, and substituted for the latter a warm, peaked woollen nightcap, took his seat very quietly on one end of the settee, which was relinquished by its former occupant.
But in his later writings he seems to have
laid aside the old forms of them.
He had
laid aside his coat and waistcoat; his shirt was open at the throat, as it used to be when he did that work; and even the old haggard, faded surface of face had come back to him.
He was agitated; this extraordinary gathering not only of nobles but also of the merchant-class- les etats generaux (States-General)- evoked in him a whole series of ideas he had long
laid aside but which were deeply graven in his soul: thoughts of the Contrat social and the French Revolution.
I found some receipted bills, which failed to interest me; some letters, which it is needless to say I
laid aside after only looking at the addresses; and, under all, a photograph, face downward, with writing on the back of it.
Glegg felt that she had adequate fighting-ground; then she
laid aside Baxter, and was ready to meet all comers.
