As he ate, his contemplative gaze followed her flurry of activity silently.
She couldn't help but think the barracks and all their activity and life were far more appealing than the solemn, stately apartment that was hers.
"Is there some activity in your background that you haven't told me about, Madam Spy?" he chided.
The woman, a buxom blonde about forty, Dean guessed, was clothed in a fashion magazine outfit, designed for après snow bunny activity, not actually doing anything in the great outdoors.
It was parked in the driveway of the neighboring lot, where she'd seen no lights or activity all weekend.
Now that the busy morning activity no longer occupied Cynthia's mind, she again was visibly upset about Bird Song's latest guest, Jerome Shipton, and the penchant for trouble that surrounded his presence.
Men darted through the hall in a flurry of activity that alarmed him.
Lava streams and other signs of volcanic action abound, but there has been no igneous activity since the Spaniards took possession.
They remained in the foyer, uneasy with the amount of activity and weapons, until approached.
In the midst of the activity in the mansion, Sofia saw Dustin.
While the theft of the bone cast a pall on the upcoming activity, the anticipation of an outing in the mountains helped brighten their mood.
One member of Mountain Rescue grabbed him under the arms while another unfastened his line, but he shook off their ministrations while he tried to focus on the activity going on around him.
A tow truck had already arrived and its flashing lights competed with a half dozen others while at least a dozen people moved about, with most of their activity directed downward.
The encampment was a flurry of activity, and she wondered how much was normal and how much was related to the water.
Much of the climbing activity was taking place in an area called The Schoolroom, with various routes classified and given names— Verminator, Duncan's Delight and Bloody Sunday.
When he finished the chores, he swallowed three aspirins and went outside to shovel the accumulating snow, hoping further activity might dissipate the anger he felt, not only at Shipton, but at himself for losing it in so public and childish manner.
The largest group was assembled below the bridge where some activity was taking place.
By the level of activity and sophistication, he judged this place had been used for longer than the past few weeks.
Ethel looked at him as if he'd proposed a trip to the moon, stating emphatically the only activity worthy of sweat would take place in her king size bed.
The level of activity at Norfolk Police Headquarters made Parkside's much smaller operation look like the front porch of an old folk home.
He knew Fred would be waiting up for him, but decided to let the old man cool his heels, punishment enough for setting up the evening's activity on the sly.
Early Saturday morning, the two had boarded a charter bus with scores of bikers for the 372-mile, eight-hour trip to Cortez, Colorado, where they found a pleasant little town abuzz with the activity of 2,000 riders and hundreds of support personnel.
There were unmistakable signs of hastened activity: guards lined up to draw horses from the stables while several more hurried from their posts atop a wall to the area near Sirian.
To a youth and womanhood of storm and stress had succeeded an old age of serene activity and then of calm decay.
To a prince of his temperament the vehement activity of his abnormally energetic father was very offensive.
This year may be taken as the beginning of his literary activity and public life.
The birds did not sing, nor did the cows moo; yet there was more than ordinary activity everywhere.
Does human activity cause the planet to warm?
Although the original mutation was not caused by human activity, human activity preserved and perpetuated it.
Under Hollywood's production code at the time, movies could not include nudity, criminal activity, or offensive language, or depict illegal drug use, venereal disease, or childbirth.
Notwithstanding the activity of Helen's mind, she is a very natural child.
The Peak was abuzz with activity when Lana arrived several hours later.
Any activity ten thousand feet in the sky quickly separated the properly trained from the panting wannabes.
Ouray County was perfect for invigorating outdoor activity, with its crystal clear air and dry, windless temperatures just below freezing.
At the end of the week the prince reappeared and resumed his former way of life, devoting himself with special activity to building operations and the arrangement of the gardens and completely breaking off his relations with Mademoiselle Bourienne.
Princess Mary, alarmed by her father's feverish and sleepless activity after his previous apathy, could not bring herself to leave him alone and for the first time in her life ventured to disobey him.
The activity of a commander-in-chief does not at all resemble the activity we imagine to ourselves when we sit at ease in our studies examining some campaign on the map, with a certain number of troops on this and that side in a certain known locality, and begin our plans from some given moment.
There is no longer the measured quiet sound of throbbing activity, like the sound of boiling water, but diverse discordant sounds of disorder.
Every word and action of his was the manifestation of an activity unknown to him, which was his life.
Thanks to her activity and energy, which infected her fellow travelers, they approached Yaroslavl by the end of the second week.
But we need only penetrate to the essence of any historic event--which lies in the activity of the general mass of men who take part in it--to be convinced that the will of the historic hero does not control the actions of the mass but is itself continually controlled.
And at once, as a clock begins to strike and chime as soon as the minute hand has completed a full circle, this change was shown by an increased activity, whirring, and chiming in the higher spheres.
