To watch the
outgoings on one side," said Sir Joseph, with a gentle and pathetic solemnity, "and the incomings on the other--the sad lessening of the balance at one time, and the cheering and delightful growth of it at another--what absorbing reading!
Borthrop Trumbull was mounted with desk and hammer; but the rows chiefly of masculine faces behind were often varied by incomings and
outgoings both from the door and the large bow-window opening on to the lawn.
When you have quarrelled, all his
outgoings and incomings you know, as if you were his spy.
There was a winch for the pulling in of the slack; the
outgoing line being controlled by a racket.
That this might be accomplished within the day was the explanation of the reverberation occurring so soon after midnight, the aim of the carters being to reach the door of the
outgoing households by six o'clock, when the loading of their movables at once began.
A curious seeker, she stood for a while at the verge of the sea that tells so little, but tells a little, and watched the
outgoing of this last tremendous tide.
The
outgoing tide exposed star-fish and sea-urchins, and the children tried to catch the flakes of foam which the wind blew away.
Though his mind was firmly made up, during the several days of the Makambo in Sydney, lying alongside the Burns Philp Dock, he saw to every detail of the cleaning up after the last crowd of
outgoing passengers, and to every detail of preparation for the next crowd of incoming passengers who had tickets bought for the passage far away to the coral seas and the cannibal isles.
The errors of the South Sea missions are pointed out with even more force than in 'Typee,' and it is a fact that both these books have ever since been of the greatest value to
outgoing missionaries on account of the exact information contained in them with respect to the islanders.
There was no sense of present danger to check the
outgoing of her mind to the old home; and she strained her eyes against the curtain of gloom that she might seize the first sight of her whereabout,--that she might catch some faint suggestion of the spot toward which all her anxieties tended.
There were lady tourists on the
outgoing steamer, and Bertie was again a hero, while Captain Malu, as usual, passed unnoticed.
In the Multiple board, as it grew up under the hands of Scribner, the
outgoing wires are duplicated so as to be within reach of every operator.