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- While still a young man, he had a manner of folding his hands and smiling which is peculiar to capitalists, and he knew the laws concerning mortgages in several different states. [9]
- Mrs. Clemens wrote you a letter, and handed it to me half an hour ago, while I was folding mine to Mr. Howells. [5]
- I could put you a folding bed in the room where you wrote, and we could even have one in the parlor. [8]
- Being left along with his wife, who sat trembling in a corner with her eyes fixed upon the ground, the little man planted himself before her, and folding his arms looked steadily at her for a long time without speaking. [12]
- Still laughing hysterically, with her golden hair streaming about her head, folding her round like a veil which reached almost to her ankles, she came back to the chair at the dressing-table and sat down. [11]
- But his religion was a central habit, followed as mechanically as his appetite or the folding of his master's clothes. [11]
- The medley of voices within ceased; there were sounds of rattling papers, and of closing of folding doors. [9]
- Love does not thrive without hope, and Cyprian was beginning to see that it was idle in him to think of folding these wide wings of Myrtle's so that they would be shut up in any cage he could ever offer her. [6]
- In one of the upper chambers of the old mansion there stood a tall, upright desk of the ancient pattern, with folding doors above and large drawers below. [6]
- He then gave the order to admit the Alexandrian citizens, and the words of entreaty died upon the lips of the unfortunate imperial bride, for the folding doors were thrown open and the deputation advanced through them. [10]
- She is folding the gown hurriedly into a little package. [9]
- More folding of the arms to sleep; more grumbling about the hardness of a hand-bag, or the insufficiency of a pocket-handkerchief, for a pillow. [4]
- It is evident that the folding over of the tip of such an ear, unless it changed greatly during its further development, would give rise to a point projecting inwards. [1]
- He was a strange, immense figure, as he walked into the open space, and, folding his arms, looked round. [11]
- Suddenly the carriage stopped, and Bigot stood up, folding his arms, and glancing round with a disdainful smile without speaking a word. [11]
- Conrad blushed and stood folding his arms tight over his breast, while his sister received Margaret's confession with the suspicion which was her first feeling in regard to any new thing. [8]
- The latter was still seeking a fitting reply, when the folding doors of the room were thrown wide open, and a belated party of travellers entered. [10]
- Measuring, estimating, sending short notes and writing figures, names and suggestions on the plan, and on his folding wax-tablets, he was not idle for an instant, though frequently interrupted by the appointed superintendents of the workshops and manufactures in Lochias, whose co-operation he required. [10]
- This room had probably been a music room; there was still an organ in it on which some rugs were piled, and in one corner stood the folding bedstead of Bennigsen's adjutant. [2]
- Just before dawn on the second morning, worn out and heavy with slumber, Jo lay down by the piled-up fire and dropped into a sleep that wrapped him like a blanket, folding him away into a drenching darkness. [11]
- The folding doors of the adjoining room were open. [10]
- As a matter of fact (known only to the initiated), Asa didn't have it in him until last night, before he squeezed through the crack in the folding doors from room number six to room Number Seven. [9]
- After folding and laying it down beside him, he bit the nails of all of his ten fingers with extreme voracity; and taking it up sharply, read it again. [12]
- He got to his feet and went to the folding doors and opened them. [9]
- And she caught him, astonished, as he was folding his umbrella on the step. [9]
- In three strides he had reached them, flung them open, and the folding doors behind them, already parted by four inches. [9]
- I hope I have not disturbed any--entertainment going on here," he added, glancing in turn at the thoughtful occupants of the room, and then at the curtains which hid the folding doors to the apartment of his Excellency. [9]
- I'm sorry to have missed him," he added, glancing at the portieres that hid the folding doors. [9]
- The Honourable Hilary has a room next door, connecting with the new governor's by folding doors, but this fact is not generally known to country members. [9]
- The sun was going down golden red, folding up the sky a wide soft curtain of pink and mauve and deep purple merging into the fathomless blue, where already the stars were beginning to quiver. [11]
- She stood up, folding the music as she did so, and unconsciously raised her eyes toward the port-hole where I was. [11]
- She opened the folding doors of the great upright desk. [6]
- Above its widely-opened folding doors arose on either side, tower-like buildings, slender obelisks and waving flags. [10]
- He sat, sunk deep in a folding armchair, and continually cleared his throat and pulled at the collar of his coat which, though it was unbuttoned, still seemed to pinch his neck. [2]
- The helix obviously consists of the extreme margin of the ear folded inwards; and this folding appears to be in some manner connected with the whole external ear being permanently pressed backwards. [1]
- I'm John's vice, and I'm thinking of trying to cure him of it--and cure myself too," Kitty added, folding and unfolding the paper in her hand. [11]
- No, but I am not praying for trifles now," he thought as he put his pipe down in a corner, and folding his hands placed himself before the icon. [2]
- It made just a comfortable crowd in our parlor, with an overflow into Clara's through the folding doors. [5]
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