| William Clark Larrabee - American essays - 1855 - 292 pages
...I had difficulty in recognizing him. Welcoming him to my fireside, right glad as I was to see him, I asked him where he had been, and what he had been doing, these many years. He cheerfully gave me a history of his life and adventures, with his various enterprises... | |
| 1879 - 594 pages
...having told one lie, he felt himself called to hide it by another, when his master, in order to try him, asked him where he had been and what he had been doing. This picture of Gehazi is true to the life. A man feeling himself hard pressed for money, states what... | |
| Charles Major - Great Britain - 1912 - 330 pages
...any conclusion after a long discussion of the subject, Hamilton and I began to speak on other topics, and I asked him where he had been and what he had been doing. "I have been at the French court, gambling furiously, and hoarding my money," he answered. "I have... | |
| Charles Franklin Thwing - Education, Higher - 1914 - 326 pages
...Emmanuel College, Cambridge. When he returned to London after making the foundation, Queen Elizabeth asked him where he had been and what he had been doing. He said that he had been away planting an acorn but he said aside, "No man knoweth what that acorn... | |
| Horace Annesley Vachell - 1914 - 362 pages
...of speech. More, he had spent another night, or part of another night, away from home, and when she asked him where he had been and what he had been doing, he merely laughed and said as before— " Gee ! We air curious." Meanwhile, love-making was suspended.... | |
| Arthur Machen - Fiction - 1922 - 336 pages
...the men fancied that he was in some vague manner changed in appearance; but he only laughed when they asked him where he had been and what he had been doing with himself. But Mary noticed that every evening he spent at least an hour in the boxroom; she was... | |
| 1923 - 770 pages
...wrote, asking me to play him a round and give him half a stroke a hole. We played and halved the match. I asked him where he had been and what he had been doing to make such wonderful progress, for he played beautiful golf without the semblance of pressing in... | |
| Jack Gantos - Juvenile Fiction - 1976 - 52 pages
...a kiss on his cold nose. On the way home she told him she had been looking for him everywhere. She asked him where he had been and what he had been doing. Even Sarah's mother and father were happy to see Ralph again. "We have missed you, Ralph," they said.... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1914 - 874 pages
...of speech. More, he had spent another night, or part of another night, away from home, and when she asked him where he had been and what he had been doing, he merely laughed and said as before : ' Gee ! We air curious.' Meanwhile, love-making was suspended.... | |
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