- I began now to think my cave or vault finished, when on a sudden (it seems I had made it too large) a great quantity of earth fell down from the top on one side; so much that, in short, it frighted me, and not without reason, too, for if I had been under it, I had never wanted a gravedigger.
- This day I went to work with it accordingly, and got two shores or posts pitched upright to the top, with two pieces of boards across over each post; this I finished the next day; and setting more posts up with boards, in about a week more I had the roof secured, and the posts, standing in rows, served me for partitions to part off the house.
This finished, they buckled down to "fancy starch." It was slow work, fastidious and delicate, and Martin did not learn it so readily.
But Saturday afternoon, after work was finished and he had taken a bath, the desire to forget overpowered him.
But it was at last finished true as true, and they had to leave it and return to the dance.
She slept until the dream was quite finished and woke feeling deliciously cosy just as morning was breaking from its egg, and then she almost fell asleep again, and then she called out, "Tony," for she thought she was at home in the nursery.
When Sally had finished Athelny told her to shut the door after her.
"Now you're coming to live with us till you find something to do," said Athelny, when he had finished.
"You are not yet
finished, and you start out by being impudent to your poor old father.
"Look, look!" cried the Tree, "the rose is
finished now"; but the Nightingale made no answer, for she was lying dead in the long grass, with the thorn in her heart.
They were never finished, but it was enough to begin them, and there were few writers, if any, among those I delighted in who escaped the tribute of an imitation.
Schlegel's 'Lectures on Dramatic Literature' came into my hands not long after I had finished my studies in the history of the Spanish theatre, and it made the whole subject at once luminous.
He had forgotten, as he always forgot, the pictures he had finished. He did not even like to look at it, and had only brought it out because he was expecting an Englishman who wanted to buy it.
When he had finished the leg he wanted to touch that figure, but he felt too much excited for it.
But that evening Edna
finished her dinner alone, with forced deliberation.
