Yet did not his Successors durably inherit that scruple, but some were anointed, and solemnly accepted the Diadem of regality. |
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Solemnly the peace pipe had been puffed and solemnly the peace powwow held. |
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He said this so solemnly and paternally, it sounded like the eleventh commandment. |
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Very solemnly and seriously I unwired the cork, as if performing an almost sacrosanct ceremony. |
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He now solemnly accuses me of plagiarising the poem he had the vulgarity to attribute to me. |
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McCartney watched them covetously as they emptied the leathern shaker, solemnly counting the spots at the conclusion of each cast. |
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A kindly but futile Ambassador shook the snow of Petrograd from his galoshes and solemnly and laboriously vanished. |
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No one could become the legitimate lord of Shumir and Accad before he had been solemnly enthroned in the temple at Uru. |
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You have trained me well, and I feel by him as solemnly as a true-born brodie. |
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Anderson patted her head reflectively as he solemnly drew his huge silver time-piece from an unlocated pocket. |
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And if you will promise, solemnly promise, not to ask another question, Ill tell you the story of puss-in-boots. |
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The General paused for the effect, solemnly nodding his head at his astounded auditors in affirmance. |
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Meanwhile, the boatswain stood solemnly on the other side with a green bag in his hand. |
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Miss Dilldall, gay little woman of the world, had solemnly proposed that a man should be hired to growse about the meals. |
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On landing they would solemnly don their clothes, deflate the skins, and go their way. |
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By the seventh article the United States solemnly guaranty to the Cherokee nation all their lands not hereby ceded. |
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They were rather of the sort that closes solemnly in slumber with majestic effect. |
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Then the other lady said, solemnly, 'My dear Mrs. Meredith, it is too true. |
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She nodded toward the promulgator of Heaven-born ideas, who bowed solemnly. |
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Mr. McLean, as stout and humoursome as of yore, had solemnly promised his wife to be jocular but not too jocular. |
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Four large dolls sat solemnly round a dolls' tea-table, and a dolls' tea service was arranged in front of them. |
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The coat tree stood at the right of the single window, and out of this window Kitty stared solemnly, at everything and at nothing. |
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Its not to be because I swore solemnly that these girls would be home before Labor Day if they were permitted to take this trip. |
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I promise you solemnly I'll never touch a cake of soap to any stenciling I do. |
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Does he not, at this instant, straiten and invade your confederates, whom you have solemnly sworn to protect? |
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He straitly enjoined Charity to tell him, and she as solemnly promised to do so. |
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And now that the time had arrived, she instated him solemnly in his office. |
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A jabiru stork saw it from downstream, solemnly squatting on four eggs which eventually would perpetuate the race. |
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What beckoning ghost, besprent with April dew, Hails me so solemnly to yonder yew? |
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All manner of devices were solemnly tried to hush the wires, and each one usually proved to be as futile as an incantation. |
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Perhaps Beckford did not intend his tale to be interpreted too solemnly. |
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On this point he solemnly assured himself as he knocked at Selene's door. |
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Mr. Atkins walked solemnly to the front, amidst a burst of recognition. |
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Then, bleeding, he sat on the ground, and heard the ban solemnly removed. |
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The copyright of authors has been solemnly adjudged, in Great Britain, to be a right of common law. |
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He is blither and at the same time he is more solemnly abstracted. |
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And of my fealty, so solemnly sworn, Caterina knoweth naught. |
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They tucked the stuff into their mouths and chumped solemnly. |
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Miss Snowden solemnly read the concluding paragraph of the resolutions. |
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Barkis solemnly made a sign to me with his forefinger to come under an archway. |
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They looked solemnly into the crepitant blaze of the new fire. |
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It was heads, and I was solemnly ordered to adhere to crofter. |
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You, to come up to London, and solemnly lecture me about a dancing girl. |
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Tim beamed and basked, and Debra nodded solemnly from her throne. |
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He was solemnly in earnest about economy and departmental mismanagement. |
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After the service the missionary was solemnly waited on by a deputation. |
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Do I realize solemnly enough how utterly and irretrievably this little womanly thing is the creature of my good or bad faith and fortune? |
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They pounded in solemnly, the waves breaking white round them, and advanced on the floe like an old-time fleet under full sail. |
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The politician solemnly pointed downwards with his forefinger. |
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Pigling Bland, who was a sedate little pig, looked solemnly at his mother, a tear trickled down his cheek. |
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Very solemnly the red-headed brats rose from the floor and formed a semicircle. |
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Fairholme saluted very solemnly, for Agatha bowed to him with marked seriousness. |
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Noel Vanstone made his appearance at the gate, solemnly carrying his bridal offering to North Shingles with both hands. |
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The captain laid his hand solemnly on his heart, and launched himself once more on his broadest flow of language. |
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At parting they had solemnly and severally kissed one another. |
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I treated it all as a joke, but he solemnly assured me that he meant it. |
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Davis had declared limes a contraband article, and solemnly vowed to publicly ferrule the first person who was found breaking the law. |
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He embraced her, solemnly commended her to Heaven, and humbly thanked Heaven for having bestowed her on him. |
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All countries pledged themselves solemnly not to go to war with any other country. |
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He was then, for the last time, solemnly cautioned from the woolsack. |
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The utterance stayed in the parishioner's soul, sounding solemnly on. |
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Mr Swiveller solemnly doffed the aquatic jacket, put on his coat, took down his hat from its peg, pocketed the letter, and departed. |
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She stopped pouring, set the percolator down and looked at me solemnly. |
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Was it for nothing that I warned you, solemnly warned you, to draw back, when I found you bent on discovering the truth? |
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At the order, six men, dressed as common drudges, marched solemnly into the room, each bearing a huge bundle upon his head. |
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With a comical pomposity of manner he bowed solemnly to both of us and strode off upon his way. |
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As we progressed, the country grew more and more solemnly aloof. |
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Whatever evils may befall you, they will not be occasioned by my instrumentality, that I solemnly promise you. |
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Merrihew solemnly spun his wine-glass, but made no effort to refill it. |
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Bread stared solemnly and then stretched her hands over her lustreless satin skirt, as if the perilous side of her situation were defining itself. |
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He stared solemnly at a bookcase containing acCouple of hundred books. |
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In the same unmoved silence I listened to a dozen in rotation, and when the twelfth had concluded with splutter, hiss, and mumble, I solemnly laid down the book. |
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On his deathbed Driscoll set Roxy free and delivered his idolized ostensible son solemnly into the keeping of his brother, the judge, and his wife. |
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Mrs Musgrove protests solemnly that she knew nothing of the matter. |
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Opening one of the windows after that, he looked out into the moonlight, and told me that the pavement was a solemnly empty as the pavement of any Cathedral at that same hour. |
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When Mauki goes to war with villages beyond his realm, he invariably gets out this head, and alone in his grass palace, contemplates it long and solemnly. |
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The scene in the picture at once shifted to Australia, where, in a pleasant room in Sydney, Uncle Henry was seated in an easy chair, solemnly smoking his briar pipe. |
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I longed to show them a tearing American gallop, for they trotted solemnly up and down, in their scant habits and high hats, looking like the women in a toy Noah's Ark. |
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Enthroned upon his monstrous steed, and solemnly proceeding up and down the wide, steep field, he looked the very incarnation of quiet, gleeful satisfaction and delight. |
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We sat in silence, solemnly tinned celery, tinned sweet corn, a raffish touch of pineapple, also from a tin, and a few potatoes, the remainder decidedly singed. |
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Elephants were bathing in the waters of the sacred river, and groups of Indians, despite the advanced season and chilly air, were performing solemnly their pious ablutions. |
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But I warn you solemnly that if you disobey my directions, as you have done twice before, you have nothing more to expect either of me or anyone else. |
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He forgot that she had made life a burden to him, and when she disported herself around him he responded solemnly, striving to be playful and becoming no more than ridiculous. |
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The cod were there in legions, marching solemnly over the leathery kelp. |
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