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...et ride or a Shuttle flight as gentle for her as if she were an insect on an eagle. She would be taken to where one's head might brush against the st... ...uits to the dry cleaner; and then driving the boys to baseball practice, boy scouts meetings, or swimming lessons. Her only contemplation during the f... ...like closets with no air conditioning and a shared shower. Kind of like Boy Scouts, but no camping out in the forest and bad ventilation in the rooms...

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...wise have yielded to internal decay. Here, on the contrary, we saw a young eagle, rising into power, and robbed prematurely of her natural honors, onl... ...sdainful of the enemy, led a division upon one of the two roads, having no scouts, nor taking any sort of precau- tion. Suddenly he found his line of ... ...t to a picture too amiable and pacific of the roads before him, Mr. Spread Eagle replied with the air of one who knew more than he altogether liked to...

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...is; but from all sides of Europe. Where the car- case is, thither will the eagles gather. Think how many a Spanish Guzman, Martinico Fournier named ‘F... ...ting! And, behold, Bouille proves as good as his word: ‘at half- past two’ scouts report that he is within half a league of the gates; rattling along,... ...naced by Pikes, has taken a great attitude, or indeed the greatest of all? Scouts and Aides-de-camp fly forth, vague, in quest and pursuit; young Romo... ...e, thou shalt see! 149 Thomas Carlyle Chapter 2.4.V. The New Berline. But scouts all this while and aide-de-camps, have flown forth faster than the l... ... fighting-gear. Mortals half-dressed tumble out barrels, lay felled trees; scouts dart off to all the four winds,—the tocsin begins clanging, ‘the Vil... ...here: presided by Confusion, Irresolution, and the Clack of Tongues. Swift scouts fly; Rumour buzzes, of black Courtiers, red Swiss, of Mandat and his...

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...light. A Saxon bard had called it a feast of the swords—a gathering of the eagles to the prey— the clashing of bills upon shield and helmet, the shout... ...ely form of the Norman ap- peared to dilate in magnitude, like that of the eagle, which ruffles up its plumage when about to pounce on its defenceless... ...297 Sir Walter Scott 2. The black cloud is low over the thane’s castle The eagle screams—he rides on its bosom. Scream not, grey rider of the sable cl... ...ther and his prisoner—Cry welcome once more.—I come, noble leader, like an eagle with my prey in my clutch.”—And making his way through the ring, amid... ...ar of De Bois- Guilbert, ere worse comes of it. Thou wilt find him, as our scouts have brought notice, at the next Preceptory house of his Order.—Said...

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...p, with all their house- hold gods, into the wood, whence, from some high spur, their timid scouts might overlook the coming and going of the marauder... ...the Pope beside a woodland cross. Here, on his way to Elba not so long after, he kissed the eagle of the Old Guard, and spoke words of passionate fare...

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...and heard that an English traveler had offered a large price for a pair of eaglets. The only eyrie was on a crag supposed to be so inacessible, that n... ...unes, and raised a shout of ecstasy wherever they beheld his thin, marked, eagle face and purple robe, rushing on the enemy with a confidence of victo... ...cept their submission, and drawing up his troops in battle array, with the Eagle standards around him, he watched the whole Gallic army march past him... ...ere, with- out his crown, his purple robe, and buskins, worked with golden eagles, all laid aside, he lay prostrate on the stones, repeating the verse... ... it is the interest of the robbers to save you, they will do you no harm.’ Scouts brought word that the Russian outposts were alarmed, and that troops... ...y and stillness ensued. Then Arnold von Winkelried of Unterwalden, with an eagle glance saw the only means of saving his country, and, with the decisi...

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...ng shopboys, chariots in motion, hair-dressers on the run, and pages toiling along, this tumult and bustle had surprised him, but without losing any o... ...ay to smile; then, after a few sec- onds, he again fixed his limpid eye upon that countenance, so intelligent, so bold, and so firm, that it might hav... ...le accustomed to barley-cakes, was hungry, and his staff, at least as hungry as himself, looked with anxiety right and left, to know what was being pr... ...een oaks. Monk was perfectly well acquainted with this position, Newcastle and its environs having already more than once been his headquarters. He kn... ... Charles II. had fallen into a profound reverie. For the first time he found himself face to face with Monk; with the man he had so much desired to se... ...n of the great Henry IV ., who is as covetous as his mother and his grandfather. See if I have well traced the genealogy of the misers?” “D’Artagnan, ... ...the aquiline nose rose out sharply and incisively from a brow slightly retreating, rather low than high, and according to the railers of the court, — ...

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...fed him that his folk should be saved and perish not. Forthwith sent he an eagle—surest sign among winged fowl— holding in his claws a fawn, the young... ...fosse, for as they were eager to pass over a bird had appeared to them, an eagle of lofty flight, skirting the host on the left hand. In its talons it... ...ird hath come for the Trojans when they were eager to cross the dyke, this eagle of lofty flight, skirting the host on the left hand, bearing in his t... ... the plain.” And even as he spake, a bird flew forth on the right hand, an eagle of lofty flight, and the host of the Achaians shouted thereat, encour... ...t we die.” Then fair haired Menelaos departed glancing everywhither, as an eagle which men say hath keenest sight of all birds under heaven, and thoug... ... place of herds, there they set them, clad in glitter ing bronze. And two scouts were posted by them afar off to spy the coming of flocks and of oxen...

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...or his Government,—scents or descries richer quarry from afar. He, like an eagle or vulture, or mixture of both, preens his wings for flight homewards... ...hem, shuts up in the Bastille. A second larger deputation he meets, by his scouts, on the road, and persuades or frightens back. But now a third large... ...significant staff-officers, inclined to taciturnity; plumed aides-de-camp, scouts, orderlies flying or hovering. He himself looks forth, important, im... ...e- hood still environs him; intriguing Dukes de Guiche, with Body- guards; scouts of Bouille; a new flight of intriguers, now that the old is flown. W... ... sides, with: “Vivent nos Parisiennes, Our Paris ones for ever!” Prickers, scouts have been out towards Paris, as the rumour deepened: whereby his Maj... ...aris; but from all sides of Europe. Where the carcase is, thither will the eagles gather. Think how many a Spanish Guzman, Martinico Fournier named ‘F... ...ting! And, behold, Bouille proves as good as his word: ‘at half- past two’ scouts report that he is within half a league of the gates; rattling along,...

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...or his Government,—scents or descries richer quarry from afar. He, like an eagle or vulture, or mixture of both, preens his wings for flight homewards... ...hem, shuts up in the Bastille. A second larger deputation he meets, by his scouts, on the road, and persuades or frightens back. But now a third larg-... ...significant staff-officers, inclined to taciturnity; plumed aides-de-camp, scouts, or- derlies flying or hovering. He himself looks forth, impor- tant... ...falsehood still environs him; intriguing Dukes de Guiche, with Bodyguards; scouts of Bouille; a new flight of intrigu- ers, now that the old is flown.... ... sides, with: “Vivent nos Parisiennes, Our Paris ones for ever!” Prickers, scouts have been out towards Paris, as the rumour deepened: whereby his Maj...

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...r, who have, as the old French say- ing expressively puts it, “swift foot, eagle eye,” and who are attuned to all the whisperings of nature. The only ... ...nd where the rarest feathered game in that part of France was to be found. Eagles were shot there occasion- ally, and birds of passage, such as rarely... ...d, without any more snow. Old Gaspard spent his afternoons in watching the eagles and other rare birds which ventured on to those frozen heights; whil... ...ver, he saw the skeleton of an animal which had been torn to pieces by the eagles, a large skeleton lying on its side. They all looked closely at it, ... ...tain, a simple captain, at the time, and was in command of a detachment of scouts who were retreating through a district swarming with Prussians. We w... ...ered their rifles, and with weary feet we set out again, when suddenly the scouts fell back. Some- thing had alarmed them; they had heard voices in f... ...st without stopping, until three o’clock in the morning, when suddenly our scouts fell back again. Soon the whole detachment showed nothing but a vagu...

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...vening prayer. But Mr. Tusher was one of the officiants, and read from the eagle in an authori- tative voice, and a great black periwig; and in the st... ...Esmond? Had I not best have joined the manly creed of Addison yonder, that scouts the old doctrine of right divine, that boldly declares that Parliame...