It is the instrument of emergencies, a sort of
ubiquitous watchman.
The
ubiquitous handmaiden promptly appeared, and Archer heard Madame Olenska say, in an Italian that she seemed to pronounce with intentional deliberateness in order that he might follow it: "Here--throw this into the dustbin!" and then, as Nastasia stared protestingly: "But no--it's not the fault of the poor flowers.
Did she or her mother or a cousin require an escort--was there a little friendly service to be rendered, the genial and
ubiquitous Monsieur Thuran was always available.
Sallie Gardiner was absorbed in keeping her white pique dress clean and chattering with the
ubiquitous Fred, who kept Beth in constant terror by his pranks.
It was indeed true that his fully dislocalised thought of these manoeuvres recalled to him Pantaloon, at the Christmas farce, buffeted and tricked from behind by
ubiquitous Harlequin; but it left intact the influence of the conditions themselves each time he was re-exposed to them, so that in fact this association, had he suffered it to become constant, would on a certain side have but ministered to his intenser gravity.
Max Bunster was the one white man on Lord Howe, trading in the pay of the
ubiquitous Moongleam Soap Company.
His active little crutch was heard upon the floor, and back came Tiny Tim before another word was spoken, escorted by his brother and sister to his stool before the fire; and while Bob, turning up his cuffs -- as if, poor fellow, they were capable of being made more shabby -- compounded some hot mixture in a jug with gin and lemons, and stirred it round and round and put it on the hob to simmer; Master Peter, and the two
ubiquitous young Cratchits went to fetch the goose, with which they soon returned in high procession.
The systematic arrangement of wide convenient spaces, the quantities of business-like soldiers everywhere, the occasional neat piles of material, the
ubiquitous mono-rail lines, and the towering ship-like hulls about him, reminded him a little of impressions he had got as a boy on a visit to Woolwich Dockyard.
And, as if to make the case as striking as possible, this sessile cirripede was a Chthamalus, a very common, large, and
ubiquitous genus, of which not one specimen has as yet been found even in any tertiary stratum.
It was an inconsistent and
ubiquitous fiend too, for, while it was making the whole night behind him dreadful, he darted out into the roadway to avoid dark alleys, fearful of its coming hopping out of them like a dropsical boy's-Kite without tail and wings.
But in the ordinary course of events the first sight in the hall should have been the back of the
ubiquitous, busy, silent maid hurrying off and already distant.
Down out of the blue it would rush, as it dropped upon him changing itself into the
ubiquitous electric car.