Moonlight will find Skipping Rabbit waitingfor her here beside this tree.
Under the persuasive eloquence of Little Tim, the chief had made up his mind to set out for the fortress without waiting for daylight.
His squaws are waitingin his wigwam fur the scalp of Rushing River.
This was what Little Tim had beenwaiting for and expecting.
Waiting a moment till the baffled bear went to look behind another rock, he ran straight back again to his tree, hastily gathered up his ropes, and reascended to his branch, where the bear found him again not many minutes later.
He paused, and the chief, with the usual dignity of the red man, remained silent, waiting for more.
However it was borne safely the rest of the way, and it is needless to say that it was appreciated by the waiting pair, though Marjorie complained that they had been such a long, long time in getting it.
I think it is fine to have a secretwaiting in there for me.
And there is a great deal of work waiting for me abroad.
We were all awake early in the morning, long before it was light, waiting for our first glimpse of the country we had come so far to see.
The Doctor was so popular and loved by all that as soon as he showed his face at his door in the morning crowds of admirers, waiting patiently outside, flocked about him and followed him wherever he went.
To-night she had them all on the table waiting for him; and she was now fussing round the house to see if everything was tidy and in readiness for his coming.
This people, with the terrible parrots still blackening the hills about their stone town, waitingfor the word to descend and attack, were, we found, in a very humble mood.
Down at the river-wall we found a great crowd waiting to see us off.
While we were waiting for the maps Chee-Chee and I set about lighting the lamps: a green one on the right side of the ship, a red one on the left and a white one on the mast.
The very idea," she said to me one day as we were walking on the seashore--"the idea of the famous John Dolittle spending his valuable life waiting on these greasy natives!
There had been quite a gathering of sea-birds waiting to greet the Doctor; but the rough weather sort of broke up the arrangements that had been made to welcome him properly.
We were used to having quite a number of curious and admiring Indians waiting at our door at all hours; but this was quite different.
At the foot of the palace-steps the chief and all the more important personages of the tribe were waiting to meet him, smiling humbly and holding out their hands in friendliness.
It was no use their trying to pull the parrots off their heads; because for each head there were always four more parrots waiting impatiently to get on.
And there behind him stood the old man again, the crown still held in his wrinkled hands and the royal litter waiting at his elbow.
For 2,000 years these germs had slept, waiting for the day of warmth and quickening.
How vast, how vast Thy sacrifice, As ages come and ages go, Still waiting till it shall suffice To draw the last cold heart and slow!
In cases of perplexity, waiting for light and waiting upon God will commonly enable us to make an intelligent decision, while "whatsoever is not of faith is sin" (Rom.
Balfour, Foundations of Belief, 326--"Even the poet has not dared to represent Jupiter torturing Prometheus without the dim figure of Avenging Fate waiting silently in the background.
It has ceased to be possible to delude these people into waiting expectantly any longer.
There was the very thing itself, filling the skies, silently waiting for me outside, all these hours!
Often for a whole day she would not say one word, and yet in waiting upon Wilhelm she never tired.
Whom should he see waiting there but the captain, with a bill of lading in one hand and a box of jewels in the other?
When this was done, she called to a man who was waiting with a violin.
What a long, dreary waitingit was for Charney and Picciola!
Then they went on board of the ship which was waitingto carry them home.
By the time she had removed every trace of her candy-making, the confections set out on the window sill in the wintry air were firm and hard, all ready to be wrapped in the squares of paraffine paper and packed in the boxes waiting for them.
It was unpardonable that a mere school-girl should keep a lady waiting so long; a lady in mourning, too, who since she could not be making social calls, must have a very important reason for coming.
When she went to her room to dress for the occasion that night there was a great hunch of hot-house roses waiting for her with Jane's card.
She was waiting for Ethelinda to make the advances this time, and as she did not see fit even to say good-morning, the dressing proceeded in a silence so profound that it could almost be felt.
She had seen a setting like this on a stage one time, when a beautiful lady trailed down the steps of a Venetian palace to the gondola waitingin the lagoon below.
You will find check to cover remainder of year's expenses waiting for you on your return to school.
Mrs. Boyd and Lucy were at the flat waiting for them when they arrived, and after a light supper, eaten picnic fashion around the chafing-dish, they started off for the novel experience of a Christmas night among the children of the slums.
We'll make them skirts out of laurel leaves, and put them to bed in the corner.
There was a young lady named Peg, Who was terribly strong in the leg: With the boys in a race She could set her own pace; But pray do not name it, I beg.
I fear the members of our party will be awaiting us with some impatience at the Bluebell Arms.
Peggy essayed to get up and walk, but she was such a very water-logged vessel that to hasten matters her rescuer picked her up in his arms, and bore her off like a sack of flour.
The little blue drawing-room, which was always used instead, was a far more cheery apartment, with its sunny French window and fresh muslin curtains, and the blue chintz covers on the chairs.
The other men were silent with a jack pot waiting for their attention.
If I could only have a smoke," he muttered, "it wouldn't be so bad waitingto see what the play is.
Waiting for the time when I am sure there will be no loophole for him to crawl through!
Here was a sort of waiting room, to judge from the two or three chairs, the square topped table strewn with financial journals and illustrated magazines indiscriminately mixed.
It was quite in keeping with what he knew that Jimmie's note had been written at the instigation of Kid Bedloe himself and that he was to be led out here where Kid Bedloe and Ed might be in waiting for him.
Guess why they are waiting five days more before springing their mine?
Thornton went out of the yard and to his waiting horse.
He challenged them and stood quietly waitingfor the first move.
A little sense of the grim humour of this game three people were playing in the dark, this Blind Man's Buff which he waswaiting to understand, drew his lips into a quick, fleeting smile.
Other men were hurrying across the floor eager to be first to ask this or that demurely waiting maiden for the dance, but Thornton was well in the lead.
The forty minutes of waiting were forgotten, expunged from the records of time, just as the memory of a month of rain is obliterated by one splendid sunny day.
Five Towns crowded together, tier above gilded tier, up to the dim roof where ragged lads and maids giggled and flirted while waiting for the broken plates to be cleared away and the moving pictures to begin.
The gentleman in waiting humbly bowed, and departed.
Bryany has been telling him all about me, and he is waiting to see if I really am as good as my reputation.
The gentleman in waiting entered with the supper menu.
Thus, before the principal dishes had even begun to frizzle in the distant kitchens, the revellers were under the illusion that the entire supper was waiting just outside the door.
The black-calved gentleman in waiting brought the bill.
A line of waiting automobiles began a couple of yards to the north of the main doors and continued round all sorts of dark corners and up all manner of back streets toward Golden Square itself.
Of course Mr. Marrier had a taxicab waiting exactly opposite the coach from which Edward Henry descended.
The chamberlain, with an ineffable gesture, wafted the taxicab away into some limbo appointed for waiting vehicles.
Waiting in the lounge with Nurse, as you said to be.
Nance, no doubt, was near, holding her violin in her hands, waiting for the next hymn.
He pictured loved ones far away waiting anxiously for news from the great northland, and then the sorrow when at last the tidings reached them, if ever they did, of the precious toll the wilderness had taken.
Then ensued a wild scramble for the shore, but Dick was the first to land, and without waiting an instant he ran swiftly up the slope straight toward Nance.
He, therefore, sent an order to the trading post, and after waiting for over a year the books at last arrived.
Dick was waiting to accompany her home, and an amused smile played about the corners of his mouth as he observed what she was doing.
But does it therefore follow that every man, whatever his habits or feelings may be, would, if he knew his own happiness, become a clerk rather than a cornet, or goldstick in waiting rather than governor of India?
In one of them was Billaud, attended by two officers; in the other two more officers were waiting to receive Barere.
The Edinburgh Reviewers have a waiting gentlewoman's ideas of 'Utilitarianism.
Let Townsend take particular care that the Duke of Wellington does not steal the silk handkerchief of the lord in waitingat the levee.
Meanwhile, Mr. Sharp had his forces ready, and was waiting for Grace and Christopher.
But I see that you want to talk to Cripps; and I have several men waiting in the quad.
They wandered for a few days in the mountains, looking for the insurgent band which they had been falsely told was waiting for them, and then fell into an ambush prepared by the Neapolitan troops.
In the mountains Rosalino Pilo still resisted, weary of waiting for the help that came not, discouraged or hopeless, but unyielding.
An army twice beaten, a bankrupt exchequer, a triumphant invader waitingto dictate terms; this was but the beginning of the inventory of the royal inheritance.
Hess thought that two days might be safely allowed for the Austrian advance, and that the enemy would remain passive on the west bank of the river Chiese, waiting to be attacked on the 25th.
The Romans had been told that the Garibaldians were cut-throats, incendiaries, human bloodhounds waiting to fly at them.
She died broken-hearted with waiting before he was set at liberty in the year 1836.
Not only among the people, but in the army the Carbonari had thousands of followers on whom they could rely, and several whole regiments were only waiting their orders to rise in open revolt.
Curiously enough, both parties, reaching the mole simultaneously, were rowed out in the same ship's boat, which was waiting in readiness.
All those, in particular, who came in contact with the French exiles, were impressed by them with the notion that France, the real France, was only waiting for the disappearance of the Man of December to throw herself into their arms.
I returned to our own house, and when I got there I found Alex and Charley and Von Marlo, as we always called him, waiting for me.
I shall be waiting with the pony and cart at Chelmsford at eleven o'clock, and will drive you straight to Hedgerow House.
When we arrived at Chelmsford Station there was a great wagonette waiting for us, drawn by a pair of brown horses.
Waiting outside the station was a very neat little cart drawn by a shaggy pony.
But she went, and she had scarcely disappeared through the door before we forgot her, we were so absorbed waiting for the message which might come to us any moment from upstairs.
I'm going to meet the Swan girls; they said they would be round the corner waiting for me.
But there was my usual lesson in patience waiting for me; for father came in at three o'clock instead of at six, as he had done every single Thursday since I could remember.
She was becomingly dressed, and the carriage with its nice horse and well-appointed coachman was waiting at the door.
Hermione Aldyce was waiting in the church porch for us.
I want tea and toast and an egg for father; he iswaiting for them, and we must hurry," I said.
They were not kept waiting an instant at the door.
Hannah was waiting for me on one of the big platforms at Liverpool Street Station.
The vessel with Hoche on board got separated from the rest of the fleet, and while the troops were waiting for him to arrive a violent gale accompanied with snow suddenly sprang up.
In addition to these an immense number of English speculators had advanced money upon Irish lands, and were now eagerly waiting to receive their equivalent.
The game for Tyrone to play was clearly a waiting one.
They were waiting for orders from the English Parliament, with which they were in close alliance, and were perfectly willing to let the revolt spread so that the area of confiscated lands might be the greater.
For the new owners, who were to supplant those about to be ejected, were ready and waiting to step into their places.
You must expect a shout at your expense as you triumphantly stand up to fit them to the one who is waiting to have them tried on him.
She left the potatoes waiting to be washed, and sat down on the steps with eager little Sate, and made old lady after old lady.
The village could be reached within two hours' march, but John advised waiting for the following morning before approaching.
They are either waiting for morning, or for reinforcements," was Stut's comment.
The allies were still at the Kurabus' village, and without waiting for the wagon and the remaining part of the force to come up, all started on the march for the south.
It was but the work of a moment to wrench the bars away, and without waitingfor any ceremony George and Harry were inside.
He crashed down but alighted on his feet, and without waiting for any explanations bounded over to the spot where Ralph and Will were crouched behind a fallen tree.
I have suspicions that they are delaying on account of reinforcements, or waiting for reports from the runners which they have, no doubt, sent to the Cataract.
Advice that the tribes are waiting for reinforcements.
Without waiting to make any other preparations than to provide a day's provisions, his party sallied forth, and headed straight for the southwest.
Sutoto begged to be permitted to go there and inform them of the danger of attack, and Blakely consented, and without waiting for the morning, was on his way.
Without waiting for a moment, the train started back for the Illyas' village.
By a common impulse they moved toward the entrance, and as they marched out and saw the party there waiting to receive them, together with their own chief, the consternation was most marked on the faces of all.
We would go to you, but we still have powerful enemies to the north, and they are waiting to attack us.
George's query, as they sat in the wagon with John during the afternoon waiting for night to come.
That means," remarked Ralsea, "that they are waiting for reinforcements.
They were ready and waiting when the train came in sight.
Word had come from the interior of the Temple that the chief priests were waiting for the sacrifices.
She told them to dress quickly; that it was already late in the day; that breakfast was waiting for them and, she added smilingly, that if somebody did not reach the breakfast room in a hurry somebody would be scolded.
Samaria held out bravely enough for two years, waiting all the time for help from Egypt.
Pashhur stood over the prostrate body of Jeremiah, like the victor over his defeated adversary--waiting for him to show signs of rising that he might strike him again.
When Kitty drove up to her own door, she saw the mayor and aldermen standing in the kitchen waiting for her.
But no,' thought I, 'there are many people waiting here to cross besides myself.
This I desired the landlord to do, as it would enable me to intimate our introduction to his sister, and intention of waiting on her the next morning.
She leads them to the waiting ship; She kneels in anguish on the deck, And while she breathes a silent prayer, Their arms like tendrils twine her neck.
He looked like an artist conscious of power waiting for his time, knowing that immense results would depend upon his antics.
Buttons is only fourteen, and he drags heavy trunks about and moves furniture and does the work of two men, besides running on all the errands, and blacking all the boots, and waiting at the table.
Everywhere are little stories, pictures, glimpses of other people's lives, waitingfor you.
After which were more and more "Hochs," and then the illustrissimi seated themselves in the carriages which were waiting to convey them slowly through the crowded streets.
Poems, too, in golden letters fitly framed, were here and there waiting to meet him and do him honor.
His imperial majesty the Kaiser descended from the car and embraced his majesty the king, who was waiting on the platform to receive him.
Only take to-day to your heart the loveliness that is waiting for you, for indeed there is something in it that makes you not only happy for the time, but brave and hopeful for the future.
This exception was Tom Harper, who apparently gave up the contest when half-way across, and began skating about, here and there, apparently waiting for his companions to return.
I have at present two thousand dollars in bank waiting for investment.
Well, the old cup’s stillwaiting to be won; and so’s the medal.
For perhaps ten minutes we stood waitingand listening.
And there I found my luggage waiting me, and a berth all engaged; for my man from the hotel had followed his orders to the letter.
The big shaggy dog, that had once pulled Sue from the water, was very fond of the children, and if he did not go with them (which he did nearly every time) he was always waiting for them to come back.
I wonder if he'll be there waiting for us," said Sue, as they came within sight of their Grandpa Brown's house.
She was anxious to see it, and she and Bunny were waiting for the time when they could let their secret become known.
The man, seeing the children waiting for him, hurried forward, and stopped to see what was wanted.
All the children who were to take part in Bunny's and Sue's show were in the barn, waiting for the curtain to be pulled back.
Once in a while they saw a red, yellow or blue bird, and they stopped to watch the pretty creatures fly to their nests, where their little ones were waiting to be fed.
