"Are you going to
lift for The Shamrock?" asks Captain Hodgson.
You know he and she went up and down in those
lifts without official help; you know also how smoothly and silently the
lifts slide.
"I'm going to do two things: first, weigh my sack; and second, bet it that after you-all have
lifted clean from the floor all the sacks of flour you-all are able, I'll put on two more sacks and
lift the whole caboodle clean."
Starting back a step, Grace
lifted her hands mechanically to her ears.
So I
lifted the Watcher and sprang into the cave, having it in my mind to slay the wolf before he
lifted up his head.
He had a vague idea that with such a force as the great kite straining at its leash, this might be used to
lift to the altitude of the kite itself heavier articles.
Genevieve saw her lover's arms drop to his sides as his body
lifted, went backward, and fell limply to the floor.
Her father put his hand on her hair, but she caught his wrist and
lifted it carefully away, talking to him rapidly.
The second girl handed him the sword, but though he tried with all his strength he could not
lift it.
When the chosen girls had all danced, the king
lifted his hand.
She
lifted her hand--not beckoning me to approach her, as before, but gently signing to me to remain where I stood.
And it was the nixt mornin', sure, jist as I was making up me mind whither it wouldn't be the purlite thing to sind a bit o' writin' to the widdy by way of a love-litter, when up com'd the delivery servant wid an illigant card, and he tould me that the name on it (for I niver could rade the copperplate printin on account of being
lift handed) was all about Mounseer, the Count, A Goose, Look -- aisy, Maiter-di-dauns, and that the houl of the divilish lingo was the spalpeeny long name of the little ould furrener Frinchman as lived over the way.