Use charley in a sentence
Sentences starting with charley
- Charley examined his wounds, and, finding them severe, advised that the Cure be sent for, while he and Jo Portugais set about restoring him to consciousness. [11]
- Charley said he would go with me,--Charley, my Captain's beloved friend, gentle, but full of spirit and liveliness, cultivated, social, affectionate, a good talker, a most agreeable letter-writer, observing, with large relish of life, and keen sense of humor. [6]
- Charley heard her words, for the window was open, and he listened and watched now with an infinite relief in his look. [11]
- Charley found the woman in the Notary's office, which, while partly detached from the house, did duty as sitting-room and library. [11]
- Charley turned, and, without a word, followed Jo into the house. [11]
- Charley was lying with one arm thrown above his head; the other lay over the side of the bed. [11]
- Charley was pleased with my comparing the face of the small Ethiop known to his household as "Tines" to a huckleberry with features. [6]
- Charley reckoned swiftly with his fate. [11]
- Charley was wondering whether, after all, she would have the courage to keep her word, whether spiritual terror would surmount the moral attitude of honour. [11]
- Charley nodded pleasantly when the Cure introduced his brother, but showed no further interest at first. [11]
Sentences ending with charley
- For hours she would sit in reverie beside her sleeping father, her heart "over the water to Charley. [11]
- The Cure came to Charley. [11]
- He came close to Charley. [11]
- In spite of this, however, his grey eyes were nervously fixed on Charley, and his voice was shaky as he said, in reply to a question as to his finances: "That's my own business, Charley. [11]
- He had not, therefore, seen Charley. [11]
- The Cure seemed satisfied, and after looking at the sick man for a moment, he came close to Charley. [11]
- Billy, he has not been the same since Charley's death-he is so ashame of Charley. [11]
- Then he handed it to Charley. [11]
- Charley's power over her was subtle, finely sensuous, and, in deciding, there were no mere heart-impulses working for Charley. [11]
- He had a few minutes of whispered conversation with the doctor, and then turned to Charley. [11]
Short sentences using charley
- Charley did not speak. [11]
- Charley broke the silence. [11]
- Charley left the room. [11]
- Charley entered the Notary's bedroom. [11]
- But Charley did not hear. [11]
- Charley opened his eyes. [11]
- Rosalie looked at Charley. [11]
- But there was Charley. [11]
- Give us another call, Charley! [5]
- It was Charley. [11]
Sentences containing charley two or more times
- When Charley entered, the room was only lighted by two candles, and Paulette's face was hidden by a veil, but Charley observed the tremulousness of the figure and the nervous decision of manner. [11]
- He had more than a little admiration for Charley Steele, but he found it difficult to preach when Charley was in the congregation. [11]
- Now, when the real Charley Steele emerged again, the folds of mind and soul unrolling to the million-voiced creation and touched by the antenna of a various civilisation, the phantom Charley was gone once more into obscurity. [11]
- It was the old Charley Steele, the Charley Steele of the court-room, who argued back humanity and the inherent rightness of things. [11]
- It was the old Charley Steele who spoke, the Charley Steele in whom the intellect was supreme once more. [11]
- He began to look upon Charley Steele as a man he had known--he, Charles Mallard, had known--while he had to suffer for what Charley Steele had done. [11]
- It seemed so absurd, so audacious, that a man could act like Charley Steele, that he at once became interested in the phenomenon, and followed slowly after Charley, saying as he went: "Tiens, there will be things to watch to-night! [11]
More example sentences with the word charley in them
- It touched Charley with a kind of awe. [11]
- He thanked Charley with a beaming face, and then the two friends bowed and moved towards the door. [11]
- On the evening when Charley Steele met with his mishap he was a river-driver--or so it seemed. [11]
- Charley instinctively felt what was in her mind, and came towards the bed. [11]
- The Seigneur's remarks were highly critical, till, with a few hasty strokes on brown paper, Charley sketched in his figure with a long overcoat in style much the same as his undercoat, stately and flowing and confined at the waist. [11]
- Charley smiled, and went to the window. [11]
- He had lain watching Charley for a long time, his brow drawn down with thought. [11]
- Yet Charley Steele was to reply. [11]
- His first impulse was to let Charley take his fate at the hands of the people of Chaudiere, whatever it might be. [11]
- The nearer she was to Charley, the farther away from him, to her mind, was Portugais, and she became magnanimous. [11]
- And so I was glad when Charley, another veteran, arrived toward the edge of the evening, and nestled up to Henry to hear the letter read, and talked over the preparations for the welcome. [5]
- The man's guilt was freely believed; not even the few who clung to the opinion that Charley Steele would yet get him off thought that he was innocent. [11]
- The new Charley was as dead as the old had been of late, and this clarifying moment left the grim impression behind that the old law was not obsolete. [11]
- Charley Langdon, Jack Van Nostrand, Dan and I, (all Quaker City night-hawks,) had a blow-out at Dan's' house and a lively talk over old times. [5]
- Charley stooped, picked up his hat, and put it on his head again coolly. [11]
- The Cure came two or three times, and Charley spoke to him but never held conversation, and no word concerning the past ever passed his tongue, nor did he have memory of what was said to him from one day to the next. [11]
- His legs were trembling under him, for now he knew that Charley Steele was himself again. [11]
- Charley stepped again towards the door. [11]
- Charley had now touched the three, and the whole man was alive. [11]
- Charley was in touch again with the old life, but in a kind of fantasy only--a staring, high-coloured dream. [11]
- Many people have told me that they had seen the original of Charley Steele in an American lawyer. [11]
- Charley Warner said to-day, "Sho, Livy isn't worrying. [5]
- Charley went over to the fire and sat down on a bench, opening and shutting the scissors mechanically. [11]
- A hurried question to the Cure from Charley, a key handed over, a nod from Jo, and before the Cure could prevent them the two men had rushed through the smoke and flame into the vestry, Portugais holding Charley's hand. [11]
- They parted, Jo to remain behind as they had agreed, to be near Rosalie if needed; Charley to return to the valley of the Chaudiere. [11]
- I had gone to Quebec to start the thing in the atmosphere where Charley Steele belonged, and there it was borne in upon me that it must be a three- decker novel, not a novelette. [11]
- As Charley stooped to put wood in the fire, the tailor thrust a foot forward and pushed the piece of paper further under the table. [11]
- I go now to prepare him for his long journey, to--" Charley realised and shuddered. [11]
- Presently Charley staggered to his feet, purpose in his face. [11]
- Charley had yielded to her request, while he shrank from granting it. [11]
- Charley had come to give his one-fortieth with the rest. [11]
- The first person to fill the perspective was Charley Steele. [11]
- Monsieur," he added to Charley, "if I had gifts like yours, nothing would hold me. [11]
- Charley appeared not to be breathing at all. [11]
- She had been thrown off her balance, or poise, as Charley had, for an unwonted second, been thrown off his pose, and her thought could not pierce beneath the surface. [11]
- Charley had, however, thrown a spell over her in another fashion. [11]
- As Billy passed through, Charley, looking sharply in his face, said hoarsely: "By Heaven, I believe you're not worth it! [11]
- He shivered at thought of the tavern, for it was near it he had heard Charley Steele's voice calling to him out of the trees. [11]
- Charley nodded, and they left the office together and moved away under a long avenue of maples to where, in the shade of a high hill, was the house of the uncle of Kathleen Wantage, with whom she and her brother Billy lived. [11]
- Without a word they crossed the street, entered the saloon, and passed to a little back room, Charley giving an unsympathetic stare to some men at the bar who seemed inclined to speak to him. [11]
- Charley was of these people--from the first instant she saw him. [11]
- At that instant there pushed forward into the clear space beside Charley Steele the great figure of Jake Hough, the horse-doctor, the strongest man, and the most popular Englishman on the river. [11]
- They only say, 'There goes Charley Steele! [11]
- Charley looked at them interestedly, then glanced at the clothes he had on, the suit that had belonged to him last year--grave- clothes. [11]
- The occasion of their meeting alone was the first night of her return, when the Notary and Charley had kept watch beside her father's body. [11]
- It was not the voice of Charley Steele the fop, the poseur, the idlest man in the world. [11]
- Charley was putting the surgeon's letter into the fire, and did not see her; yet she blushed again. [11]
- When he entered the sick man's room, Charley followed, and again Rosalie and old Margot came and stood within the doorway. [11]
- Before she left the shop, with the stranger's smile answering to her nod, she had made up her mind that Charley was a tailor by courtesy only. [11]
- Jo rushed into the shop, and saw, as he thought, Charley lying dead-- saw the robber dead upon the floor. [11]
- Charley bowed to the Seigneur and the Abbe, then turned inquiringly towards the two constables. [11]
- He had heard the Romany wife of Ruliff Zaphe use the word many years ago when he and Charley Long visited the big white house on the hill. [11]
- One by one the points had been made against him--with no perceptible effect upon Charley Steele, who seemed the one cool, undisturbed person in the courtroom. [11]
- New phases of the most interesting case Charley had ever defended spread out before him--the case which had given him his friend Jo Portugais, which had turned his own destiny. [11]
- Charley hated him the more at that moment because he was Kathleen's brother. [11]
- Charley started at the look of the shrunken, yellow face; for if ever death had set his seal, it was on that haggard parchment. [11]
- As Charley saw the knotted brows, the staring eyes, the clinched hands, the figure of the woodsman rigid in its agony of remorse, he said to himself: "What right had I to save this man's life? [11]
- Charley stood on the embankment above the road, the notables of the parish round him. [11]
- He ran into the drawing-room, announcing Charley with the words: "I say, Kathleen, I've brought the man that made the judge sit up. [11]
- Charley looked at the Cure, mournful and broken but calm. [11]
- The eye-glass troubled the Cure, and the look on Charley's face troubled him still more, but it passed as Charley said, in a voice as simple as the Cure's own: "You may still help me as you have already done. [11]
- So it was that, soon after the Cure and the Seigneur had bade good-bye to Charley, she left the post-office and went quickly through the village to a spot by the river, where was a place called the Rest of the Flaxbeaters. [11]
- Well, it appears that from here she went to Charley Warner's. [5]
- He was convinced that Charley was speaking the truth. [11]
- It seemed hopeful that Charley was going to make the best of a bad job. [11]
- We all remember that Charley spoil him, and that make us sorry for him. [11]
- It was the tallest kind of a holiday when Charley and I walked out to the big white house-golly, but it was white--to visit her! [11]
- There was one subject which, however, was barred; perhaps because there was knowledge abroad that M'sieu' was not a Catholic, perhaps because Charley himself adroitly changed the conversation when it veered that way. [11]
- Can't fool Charley Steele, we use to say here. [11]
- It was Charley Steele with a twist--gone to seed. [11]
- The real Charley Steele had been enveloped in oblivion for seven months. [11]
- As the wagon started, Charley looked across to the post-office. [11]
- She found Charley standing at a table pressing seams, and her quick eye took him in with knowledge and instinct. [11]
- He took his stand by Charley, raised his great hand, smote him in the small of his back, and said: "By the Lord, you have sand, and I'll stand by you! [11]
- The Notary was sound asleep in his arm-chair, but Charley sat silent and moveless, his eyes gazing straight before him. [11]
- Then she took some fresh flour and oil, and thrust them inside the bedroom door where Charley now sat clinching his hands and fighting down the pain. [11]
- As he did so, Charley appeared in the doorway of his shop. [11]
- Kathleen was now sitting at another man's table--no, probably at his own table--his, Charley Steele's own table in his own house--the house he had given her by deed of gift the day he died. [11]
- In the pause--very short--before Charley began speaking, Suzon's fingers stole to his on the counter and pressed them quickly. [11]
- The Cure's eyes shone when he saw on a little knoll in the trees, apart from the worshippers and spectators, Charley and Jo Portugais. [11]
- Well, Livy said she had never told me to invite Charley and she hadn't dreamed of inviting Susy, and moreover there wasn't any dinner, but just one lean duck. [5]
- Charley had often seen Jo on his knees of late, and he had wondered, but not with the old pagan mind. [11]
- She could easily see Charley at work--pale and suffering still --for the door was generally open in the sweet April weather, with the birds singing, and the trees bursting into blossom. [11]
- Only the Cure's scant news were authentic, however, and Charley never saw the good priest but he had a secret hope of hearing him say that Rosalie was coming back. [11]
- That night Charley sat in the tailor's bedroom, rigid and calm, though racked with pain, and watched the candles flickering beside the dead body. [11]
- At last Charley said: "Your brother--Portugais tells me that your brother, the surgeon, has gone away. [11]
- Had Charley not said, "Tell them so? [11]
- The household is sad enough Charley is in Bavaria. [5]
- The cross which Rosalie had torn from the pillar, Charley had thrust into his bosom, and there it now lay on the red scar made by itself in the hands of Louis Trudel. [11]
- Portugais left the room, and when he came back, Charley was dressed in the suit of grey fulled cloth. [11]
- Jo Portugais had recognised the voice--that of Charley Steele the lawyer who had saved him from hanging years ago. [11]
- He had scarcely realised what was happening when Charley first sat down on the bench beside him. [11]
- Charley could not read her tale. [11]
- Charley, looking up quietly from his work, said "Thank you, Monsieur. [11]
- Then he turned quickly towards Charley, who, looking at the procession, then at the tailor, then back again at the procession, smiled. [11]
- Judge, jury, and public riveted their eyes upon Charley Steele. [11]
- In the week preceding Easter, when all the parish was busy at Four Mountains, making costumes, rehearsing, building, putting up seats, cutting down trees, and erecting crosses and calvaries, Charley disclosed to Jo a new intention. [11]
- Charley and Jo Portugais, the infidel and the murderer, were thus the sentries to the peace of a parish, the bankers of its gifts, the security for the future of the church of Chaudiere. [11]
- This night Jo Portugais was sleeping up-stairs, while Charley lay upon the bench in the tailor-shop. [11]
- Once, in the past, the night her uncle died, she had walked in her sleep, and the memory of this flashed upon Charley now. [11]
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