Grandfather Frog looked very solemn as he sat on his big green lily-pad in the Smiling Pool.He looked very much as if he had something on his mind.A foolish green fly actually brushed Grandfather Frog's nose and he didn't even notice it....
It looked very much as if he had put up the wrong bird.From the dimensions of the arm which he was holding, his prisoner seemed to be of tender years....
It would look queer her going away without even a handbag.It would look very much as if she were running away.All the girls belonging to Middleton School had to wear a badge on their hats, and Elma would therefore be known....
He was out most of the day at work in the fields, and as he had no child, for his amusement when he came home, he kept a tame sparrow.He loved the little bird just as much as if she had been his child.When he came back at night after his hard day's work in the open air it was his only pleasure to pet the sparrow, to talk to her and to teach her little tricks, which she learned very quickly....
Nothing else in life seemed so important, for it did hold him back a little.But not so much as if he had loved me more.He loved me some, but he couldn't have loved me very much, or he would have sent me some word, or seen me, if but for a minute, since Adelaide's death....
The figures are interesting, but it cannot be pretended that they are of great value.They look very much as if they had been out somewhere the night before.Of the figures in the present chapel the less said the better....
All others approached were affected in the same way.It looked very much as if the exhibition would have to be given up.Cousin Charley suggested that Alfred go to Merrittstown and hire the blind Hostetler family....
She pushed Geography aside and took a new sheet of foolscap with every prospect of passing.At first it had looked very much as if she were going to fail.Steve's withdrawal had merely been due to the sudden realization that he was making a great deal of noise in the court-house; whereupon he saw that, all things considered, he could contain himself better somewhere else....
Well, anyhow we're going to Italy in the spring, to pick things up, as Leslie puts it.That always sounds so much as if we didn't pay for them.Then we shall bring them home and have free exhibits for the Ignorant Poor, and I shall give free and instructive lectures....
Quite strictly they kept to the course; none of them, beech, hickory, live-oak, nor pecan, encroached beyond the right of way nor seemed ever to have been forgetful that these were the Plains.It was very much as if they recognized that trees ought not to grow here....
The children learned to tell the time of day, whether it was morning, noon or night by looking into the cats' eyes.These seemed to open and shut, very much as if they had doors.The fat pussy, which was brought into the house where Honig-je' was, seemed to be very fond of the little girl, and the two, the cat and the child, played much together....
It looks very much as if we're going to get our chance to-night.When a red light flashes three times at this near corner of the woods, we're to ride into 'em in line -- it'll mean that our chaps are falling back in a hurry, leaving lots of room between 'em and the wood for us to ride through....
Madame had disappeared and was nowhere to be found; the lights were out in her bureau.It looked very much as if she, too, had gone to bed and forgotten us....
Adolphus felt rather piqued as the little girl turned away her head and steadily gazed out of the window at the trees and houses flying by.It appeared very much as if she suspected he had been making sport of her....
