The black shawl having been procured, Anne spread it over the flat and then lay down on the bottom, with closed eyes and hands folded over her breast.
The flat was accordingly pushed off, scraping roughly over an old embedded stake in the process.
Anne Of Green Gables
He put a penny into the slot of the gas-meter, and soon the flat was reeking with metallic fumes.
It makes one feel so wild, when I've pretended to the people here that you're my wife--all right, you shall be my wife--and I've bought you the ring to wear, and I've taken this flat furnished, and it's far more than I can afford, and yet you aren't content, and I've also not told the truth when I've written home." He lowered his voice.
Howards End
The bees, however, did not suffer this to happen, and they stopped their excavations in due time; so that the basins, as soon as they had been a little deepened, came to have flat bottoms; and these flat bottoms, formed by thin little plates of the vermilion wax having been left ungnawed, were situated, as far as the eye could judge, exactly along the planes of imaginary intersection between the basins on the opposite sides of the ridge of wax.
In one well-marked instance, I put the comb back into the hive, and allowed the bees to go on working for a short time, and again examined the cell, and I found that the rhombic plate had been completed, and had become perfectly flat: it was absolutely impossible, from the extreme thinness of the little rhombic plate, that they could have effected this by gnawing away the convex side; and I suspect that the bees in such cases stand in the opposed cells and push and bend the ductile and warm wax (which as I have tried is easily done) into its proper intermediate plane, and thus flatten it.
The Origin of Species
And here I have lamely related to you the uneventful chronicle of two foolish children in a
flat who most unwisely sacrificed for each other the greatest treasures of their house.
The Four Million
"I use them in my own flat," said the little black-bearded man, laughing, "partly for advertisements, and partly for real convenience.
"Yes," replied Smythe coolly; "they can't tell me who left those threatening letters at my flat."
The Innocence Of Father Brown
Another day, on getting into my train at the Flats, I missed a volume of popular science-I think it was on some recent discoveries in bio-chemistry-which I had carried with me to read on the way.
I put the volume into my pocket and we dropped back into our usual silence; but as we began to crawl up the long hill from Corbury Flats to the Starkfield ridge I became aware in the dusk that he had turned his face to mine.
Ethan Frome
He won't even let me smoke, and he's been in the flat all day to see I didn't.
"I fancied a flat, and a man recommended these on the boat; such a good chap, Bunny; he was my reference when it came to signing the lease.
Raffles Further Adventures Of The Amateur Cracksman
Daylight's interest was centered in the big
flat itself, with deep water all along its edge for steamboat landings.
Burning Daylight
A man with a
flat voice distinguished himself by a display of knowledge and cunning.
The War in the Air