The good leech did your bidding and sent your note to the lady; but there your bad play ended and Fate's began.
Ay, I can laugh now, but it was all hanging by a thread, when my leech sent his letter that brought you to the palace.
Did you think my leech would not serve me as fair as he would serve the Earl of Leicester?
The leech stammered out a sort of apology and set meekly about his task of binding up the Baron's wound.
A leech was sent for, the best that the mountains could produce, and after feeling my pulse and looking at my tongue, shook his head gravely.
To the leech all forms of human life were sacred, and in his eyes everything that could injure the body or soul of a man was worthy of destruction.
The leech never talked of daily events, but expressed his views as to other and graver subjects in life, or in books with which they were both familiar; and he had the art of eliciting replies from her which he met with wit and acumen.
He was not afraid that the leech bad won her affections, for he knew, with strange certainty that, in spite of the hostility she displayed, her heart was his and his alone.
The leech rose and wiped his forehead, looking uneasily at Paula who had remained seated; her breath came fast, and she was more confused and undecided than he had ever seen her.
Now the cup of thy bliss is turned to poison that will slowly consume thee, and no leech on earth, nor help of all the Saints in heaven, will avail to heal thee!
Mont Ferrand for some skilful leechfrom my uncle's castle--and instantly.
Guerin saw that all farther attempt to communicate with her in any way would be vain for the time; and he only waited the arrival of the leech to leave the apartment.
The leech is retained in position under an inverted wine-glass or wide test-tube till it takes hold.
Before applying leeches the part must be thoroughly cleansed, and if the leech is slow to bite, may be smeared with cream.
A man who cannot draw does not get all his fellow-countrymen following his pencil in a rapture (as though it were the Pied Piper's whistle) as Leech did for twenty years.
All his life, after finding himself, Leech worked too hard, being, although well paid, in some mysterious way continually either in debt or about to be.
Dickens andLeech were friends as well as collaborators.
The criticism has too often been made that Leech could not draw.
Leech missed nothing; and the world is always coming full circle.
If the Volunteers were to be chaffed, Leech's was the hand; if the priceless Mr. Briggs was to be invented and kept busy, Leech was his impresario.
In 1841 Punch was founded, with Mark Lemon as its editor and Leigh on its staff; and for Leech to join up was merely a matter of time.
In those days gentlemen, at any rate in public places, were less uncommon than now; but even then Leech was conspicuous.
Of all our beauties, and thanks to Leech we have dealt in nothing else, Miss Harriet alone remains unsettled with her two strings to her bow--fine Billy and Rowley Abingdon; though which is to be the happy man remains to be seen.
About two months were spent at a fort erected near the site of Little Falls, where he left a few men and pushed on with the rest of the company to Leech Lake.
When Schoolcraft met the chiefs of the Chippewas in council at Leech Lake in 1832, the latter complained that the provisions of the treaty had not been carried out.
He heard of permanent trading posts on the south side of Lake Superior and at the headwaters of the St. Croix River; and he saw at Lower Red Cedar Lake, Sandy Lake, and Leech Lake the rude stockades and log buildings which were called forts.
A leech appeared, who in a space most brief did work a cure.
That will I do; but now, for Heaven's sake, permit the leech to bind me up this wound.
There, when the leechhad bound his gaping wounds, they laid him on a couch borne by two quiet steeds; whilst the fair dames, followed by numerous train, led Jaufry back to where they brought him from.
In Palestine I saved his life When every leech despaired of it, a wound Caused by a poisoned arrow.
Then I would have spoken, leech or no leech, to denounce him, for the Maid had no memory of his face, and knew him not for the false friar taken at St. Loup.
And, one by one, their heads fell heavy on the table, or they sprawled on their stools, and so sank on to the floor, so potent were the poppy and mandragora of the leech in Tours.
So that weary day went by, one of the longest that I have known, and other days, till now the leech said that I might go back to the castle, though that I might march to the wars he much misdoubted.
Come forth, and drain a pot or two of wine, or, if the leech forbids it, come, I will play you for all that is owing between you and me.
But the noise being heard below, the servants rushed up, rescued the parson, and tied Mr. Leech down in his bed, and left him.
But Diana, for the love she bore Hippolytus, persuaded the leech Aesculapius to bring her fair young hunter back to life by his simples.
Jupiter, indignant that a mortal man should return from the gates of death, thrust down the meddling leech himself to Hades.
It is pitiable to think of the long martyrdom that Leech suffered from an abnormal nervous organization, which ultimately made street-noises absolute agony to him.
Leech used to go round with the hat," said Adams; "but we never could make the fellow look common enough.
Whether in these boxes full of beauties one amongst them is intended by Leech to personate Mr. Smith's "dreadfully bored" young lady, I cannot say.
This great work is travestied by Leech in a manner so admirable as to make the travesty take rank with the original.
Again, after a good deal of horsy talk: "Mrs. Leech and Chatty with her will return for good to Notting Hill on Saturday, when we shall be glad to have her with us as long as you can spare her.
Domestic troubles and misadventures were represented by Leech in many examples, with a sympathetic humour that never wearies.
Would the drawing have lost, or gained, if Leech had given us a handsome young guardsman instead of this ugly fellow?
Leech saw and seized the opportunity, with the result appended.
Michaell: sir Philip Leech treasurer of the warres kept the hill next the abbeie, and the baron of Carew kept the passage on the riuer of Seine, and to him was ioined that valiant esquier Ienico Dartois.
The leech had returned from his visit to Barbara, and feared that the burning fever from which she was suffering might indicate the commencement of inflammation of the lungs.
A hundred considerations had doubtless crowded upon her during the night, yet she by no means repented having showed the leech what she thought of the betrayer in purple and the demand which he made upon her.
On the whole, both the leech and Sister Hyacinthe could call Barbara a docile patient, and she often subjected herself to a restraint irksome to her vivacious temperament, because she felt how much gratitude she owed to both.
The leech was daily expected to give a report of her health, and when, during the middle of June, Dr.
The leech perceived how mighty a conflict between contradictory emotions would be waged in his breast, and silently gave him time to collect his thoughts.
Even the leech Nebsecht came; for he feared that the unusual summons announced the outbreak of a fire.
The paraschites had taken the little bag with the strip of papyrus, and heard the leechto the end.
At the time of this conversation the leech Nebsecht still lingered in front of the hovel of the paraschites, and waited with growing impatience for the old man's return.
The expedition proceeded up the Mississippi to Leech lake.
A little boy's advice to his grandfather is illustrated by Leech in No.
Leech here shows very graphically the shattering of the "irresistible power" and of the "unlimited means" which were to have led the Emperor Nicholas I.
For several days he refused all food; but at length pity touched some one, and a leechwas sent for, who bled him largely, which produced a change.
So saying the leech took his departure, promising to come at any hour of the day or night that he might be sent for; and Grey was left alone with his patient, who had been soothed off to a quiet sleep by a draught administered.
His hands were becoming increasingly painful, and he had forgotten to ask the leech for any medicament for them.
You had better get Master Wylde home without delay," spoke one, "and have a leech for him.
The warlike band of Leech Lake, called Mukundwas, had spread themselves over the entire sources of the Mississippi and extended their hunting excursions west to Red River, where they came into contact with the Assinaboines, or Stone Sioux.
I had this relation a few years ago, from a trader, who had lived at Leech lake, who personally knew the parties, and whose veracity I had no reason at all, to call into question.
The Head chief of the band of the Chippewas, called Mukundwas or Pilligers, who are situated at Leech Lake, on the sources of the Mississippi.
The first fall of this stream is the Kakabika, situated about half a day's journey below Itasca lake; the second is called Pukaegama, and occurs below the influx of the Leech lake branch.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "leech" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
