Mr. Travilla bought the tickets, and Simon attended to the checking of the baggage.
Captain Nemo had an explicit personal interest in checking on the current condition of this giant clam.
'Apple-pie order!' said Mr Boffin, after checking off each inscription with his hand, like a man beating time.
I had to wait about three hours while he was checking the stuff with the invoices, and then he gave me a receipt which I still possess.
The Baron sat there scrutinizing ledgers, like a city merchant, and checking figures to make sure that all was correct to the last peso.
For checking the rocker in time of heavy weather special appliances are necessary, which, of course, must be easily operated from the deck.
'Oh, mum!--But there's Mrs Higden,' said Sloppy, checking himself in his raptures, drawing back, and shaking his head with very serious meaning. 'There's Mrs Higden.
To say that the constitution of England is a UNION of three powers reciprocally CHECKING each other, is farcical, either the words have no meaning, or they are flat contradictions.
Checking his steps which had begun to tend towards an object, he took a turn or two in the already darkening street, and traced the thought in his mind to its possible consequences.
Such a power could not be the gift of a wise people, neither can any power, WHICH NEEDS CHECKING, be from God; yet the provision, which the constitution makes, supposes such a power to exist.