It had not been necessary, and the few occasions of its being possible for her to go to the Hall she had contrived to evade and escape from.
The sad accident at Lyme was soon the prevailing topic, and on comparing their latest accounts of the invalid, it appeared that each lady dated her intelligence from the same hour of yestermorn; that Captain Wentworth had been in Kellynch yesterday (the first time since the accident), had brought Anne the last note, which she had not been able to trace the exact steps of; had staid a few hours and then returned again to Lyme, and without any present intention of quitting it any more.
Persuasion
Words were insufficient for the elevation of his feelings; and he was obliged to walk about the room, while Elizabeth tried to unite civility and truth in a
few short sentences.
Pride and Prejudice
Weston added, "that he could only allow himself time to hurry to Highbury, after breakfast, and take leave of the
few friends there whom he could suppose to feel any interest in him; and that he might be expected at Hartfield very soon."
Emma
"Until a
few weeks ago," he told her, "I thought of nothing but the war and my work in it--until you came, that is."
The Kingdom of the Blind
In a state of nature almost every plant produces seed, and amongst animals there are very
few which do not annually pair.
The Origin of Species
Sometimes when he came he was silent and moody, and after a
few sarcastic remarks went away again, to tramp the streets of Lincoln, which were almost as quiet and oppressively domestic as those of Black Hawk.
My Antonia
Blind would I gladly be for my
few remaining years, if that night's horrors could be washed from these eyes for ever.
Dead Men Tell No Tales
south of Cape Horn, the net was put astern several times; it never, however, brought up anything besides a
few of two extremely minute species of Entomostraca.
The Voyage of the Beagle
A
few bats skimmed his nose now and again and scared him half to death.
Adventures Of Pinocchio
'A
few nights afterwards, a boy put a dirty scrap of paper in my hand, on which were scrawled a
few words in pencil, intimating that the man was dangerously ill, and begging me, after the performance, to see him at his lodgings in some street--I forget the name of it now--at no great distance from the theatre.
The Posthumous Papers Of The Pickwick Club
Let it not be imagined, however, that I consider myself competent to reform the errors and abuses of society, but only that I would fain contribute my humble quota towards so good an aim; and if I can gain the public ear at all, I would rather whisper a
few wholesome truths therein than much soft nonsense.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Being the third in the row, I concluded I had only a
few minutes of life before me.
Crime And Punishment
A proper regulation of commerce requires much information, as has been elsewhere remarked; but as far as this information relates to the laws and local situation of each individual State, a very
few representatives would be very sufficient vehicles of it to the federal councils.
Federalist Papers Authored by James Madison
It is my fate to leave it in the evening; but those who are taken away earlier have only lost a
few hours, at the best little worth lamenting, and much oftener hours of labour and fatigue, of pain and sorrow.
The History of Tom Jones a Foundling