Mother Poll said that Joshua stared at her--simply stood there and stared up at her in the queer, cold dawn, his mouth hanging open as if with a kind of horror.
And her eyes, Mother Poll says, were enough to make one pity her.
My tour of duty is to serve my king and country, and provide for my dear Poll and her chicks, which, if I faithfully perform, I shall gain the applause of the Commander.
You have made us all happy, said he; my dear Poll blubbered like a fresh water sailor in a hurricane, when I told her of your goodness.
After a while Marriott controlled himself and said: "Your Honor, we demand a poll of the jury.
The king's marriage formed, perhaps, a reasonable excuse for placing an extra hod of cement between the monarch's poll and the hollow diadem.
The horses not being so easily guided and controlled as the Parliament, soon turned restive, and ran away; which threw the Protector from his seat, and his own poll came into collision with the pole of his carriage.
The hops also presented themselves as candidates for British favour, and were soon at the top of the poll in all directions.
I was put in nomination after the poll was opened.
Minnes to our church to the vestry, to be assessed by the late Poll Bill, where I am rated as an Esquire, and for my office, all will come to about L50.
When the poll was declared the figures ran-- Jenkins (Coalition) .
But the day before the poll Mr. Jenkins's polling cards were delivered.
The instant he does the reins should be yielded to him, and he will bend in the poll of the neck and yield to his rider's hand.
The poll would not be closed for half an hour; and as he had been cheated he deemed it quite right to restore the equilibrium by a resort to the same policy.
The first part of the port watch went on duty at eight o'clock, when the secret poll for the choice of a captain, under the new order of events, was closed.
And from that time until the poll was declared open--in dumb show--not a word was audible.
Keep my voters from the poll and you stultify your own, for there will be no election.
But if he did, Sir Robert would poll only five to six, and be beaten!
There remained to poll only Arthur Vaughan and Pillinger of the Blue Duck, if he could be brought up by the Tories.
Then, while any man with five thousand pounds might buy a seat, nor see the face of a single elector, on the other hand, the poll might be kept open for fifteen days, and a single county election might cost two hundred thousand pounds.
At four o'clock, when the poll was over, Browborough was declared to have won on the post by seven votes.
This was a Bill to extend over the United Kingdom the right of keeping the poll open till eight o'clock at night, which he had secured as a privilege for Londoners in 1878.
The great town-clock strikes the hour of four; the returning officer declares the poll closed; the formal announcement of the result will be made later.
And in this Harley trusted to assist him as soon as the close of the poll would present a suitable occasion.
Then sundry split votes began to perplex conjecture as to the result; and Randal, at the end of the first hour, had fifteen majority over Audley Egerton, two over Dick Avenel, Leonard Fairfield heading the poll by five.
The alderman has fixed the date on which he must have a definite answer; and that date falls on the --th, two days after that fixed for the poll at Lansmere.
He stood at the head of the poll by a majority of ten.
She did not," said the daughter, "except only that I shouldn't comb out the hair of her poll and she dead.
The next evening they went down quietly with a shovel and they dug up the coffin, and combed through her hair, and there behind her poll they found her fortune, five hundred pounds, in good notes and gold.
This story was told by Joyce or Seoigtheach, of Poll na bracha, in Co.
The priest called the place Poll na gColum or the Dove's Hole, and that name is on it until the present day.
To sink this public debt, a poll tax of about a dollar and a half was levied upon every male, white and black, between the ages of sixteen and sixty years.
There are two varieties of this species, the Palm or Red-poll Warbler, and the yellow palm or yellow red-poll warbler.
They seized and beheaded the Lord Chancellor and the chief collector of the odious poll tax (S250).
So I will take Poll in her cage, and you must put up your night-things and take them in your hand.
The poll at Liverpool was kept open sometimes for weeks, and the custom was for voters to be shut up in pens ten at a time.
The Poll Tax was one of the greatest grievances of the time, and the high rent of land was even more burdensome.
John Albro', one of the former members, led the poll at the close of the election, Pryor and Grassie stood even.
It was said that the last vote polled was that of the Sheriff, who first declared the poll closed and then voted for Mr. Grassie, which placed the candidates even.
On the 20th February the poll opened, at the Court House, in Halifax; the candidates were Mr. Charles Morris and Jonathan Sterns.
