They were confined for the evening at different tables, and she had nothing to hope, but that his eyes were so often turned towards her side of the room, as to make him play as
unsuccessfully as herself.
We had occasion, in a former paper, to take notice of the repeated trials which have been
unsuccessfully made in the United Netherlands for reforming the baneful and notorious vices of their constitution.
I have frequently been amused at seeing one of them, after crunching the obstinate nut with his teeth for a long time
unsuccessfully, get into a violent passion with it.
Pangloss for himself; and very earnestly, but very
unsuccessfully, trying to persuade the others that there were some fine tragic parts in the rest of the dramatis personae.
Lilla made gallant efforts to brace her dwindling powers, but for a time
unsuccessfully. At length there came an interruption, which seemed like a powerful stimulant.
The blow on the temple seems to show that the murderer wished to stun Mademoiselle Stangerson,--after he had
unsuccessfully tried to strangle her.
She wentshe had driven once
unsuccessfully to the door, but had not been into the house since the morning after Box Hill, when poor Jane had been in such distress as had filled her with compassion, though all the worst of her sufferings had been unsuspected.
I then expounded to Miss Mills what I had endeavoured, so very
unsuccessfully, to expound to Dora.
``Has your suit, then, been
unsuccessfully paid to the Saxon heiress?'' said the Templar.
Vincy, in her fullest matronly bloom, looked at Mary's little figure, rough wavy hair, and visage quite without lilies and roses, and wondered; trying
unsuccessfully to fancy herself caring about Mary's appearance in wedding clothes, or feeling complacency in grandchildren who would "feature" the Garths.
Scotland Yard has strained every nerve to bring the guilty people to justice, but so far
unsuccessfully. It seems to me that your friends on the other side scarcely seem to give us credit for our exertions.
Singularly enough, the beast beheld this apparition and backed instantly, but the rider evidently saw nothing and whipped up unmercifully, also
unsuccessfully, for the spirit stood directly in the path, and the amiable beast would not budge a foot.