I did bite James once pretty sharp, but John said, `Try her with kindness,' and
instead of punishing me as I expected, James came to me with his arm bound up, and brought me a bran mash and stroked me; and I have never snapped at him since, and I won't either."
But when he went to look at the body of the bird he found instead of the dove a round white egg lying on the ground.
instead of the ugly monster the most beautiful girl he had ever seen stood before the astonished eyes of the Prince.
Then the house had been boldly planned with a ball-room, so that,
instead of squeezing through a narrow passage to get to it (as at the Chiverses') one marched solemnly down a vista of enfiladed drawing- rooms (the sea-green, the crimson and the bouton d'or), seeing from afar the many-candled lustres reflected in the polished parquetry, and beyond that the depths of a conservatory where camellias and tree-ferns arched their costly foliage over seats of black and gold bamboo.
I knew, nonetheless, exactly what dreadful face she had to show; and I wondered whether, if
instead of being above I had been below, I should have had, for going up, the same nerve I had lately shown Quint.
They took up several obviously wrong people, and they ran their heads very hard against wrong ideas, and persisted in trying to fit the circumstances to the ideas, instead of trying to extract ideas from the circumstances.
Her sight was disturbed, so that she saw objects multiplied, and grasped at visionary teacups and wine-glasses instead of the realities; her hearing was greatly impaired; her memory also; and her speech was unintelligible.
In other words, instead of always moving in the direction of one of your extremities, do you never feel a desire to move in the direction, so to speak, of your side?
Instead of moving, you merely exercise some magic art of vanishing and returning to sight; and instead of any lucid description of your new World, you simply tell me the numbers and sizes of some forty of my retinue, facts known to any child in my capital.
These coins being scarce, the people were often forced to barter their commodities
instead of selling them.
Norman of Torn made no reply, and could the Earl of Leicester have seen his face he had been surprised to note that
instead of grim hatred and resentment, the features of the Outlaw of Torn were drawn in lines of pain and sorrow; for he read in the attitude of the father what he might expect to receive at the hands of the daughter.
It might easily have been the end of Ozma of Oz, had she been a real grasshopper
instead of an emerald one.
"Ay, but look you, I was expecting money, and, instead of money, I see you."
You will then only have fifteen leagues to go, instead of thirty."
If I were to ride fifteen leagues in these clothes, they would never be fit to put on again; and, instead of selling them for thirty pistoles, I should be obliged to take fifteen."
