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... to gather below, casting black spots of shadow on the vast landscape, and sailing heavily to one centre, as if the loftiest mountain peak had summone...

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...ng the damaged places. They made sails out of their Cossack trousers, and, sailing off, escaped from the fastest Turkish vessels. And not only did the...

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...s—ay, lovelier than when first Her light feet fell on our rough Lyonnesse, Sailing from Ireland. ’ Softly laughed Isolt; ‘Flatte...

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...seen her, seen the whole island at once, lying as a jewel in a silver sea, sailing as a ship of souls, with all the brave world’s fleet accompanying h...

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...ns, the golden islands floating in crimson seas at sunset, the pallid moon sailing through the shredded cloud rack, the star jewels glittering in the ...

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...rough the open window, and the sole sound the caw- ing of the rooks, whose sailing flight amused and attracted her glance from time to time with dream... ...e answered, with a pleased smile; “I heard a sort of hail-storm of dignity sailing in! How is Lord Keith?” “Very stiff. I want him to have advice, but...

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...could easily have beat, but he always cried out, when Mrs. Pastoureau came sailing to the rescue with arms like a flail. She only washed Harry’s face ... ...rs—was in a quite unheroic state of corporal prostration a few hours after sailing; and an enemy, had he boarded the ship, would have had easy work of...

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... so richly freighted were not to be run down in one summer morning’s plain sailing. Instead of looking for his revenge on Miss Dunstable, it would be ... ...ower he had. ‘I want to ask you a few questions so as to make it all clear sailing between us. ’ ‘As you have asked to see me, I have come, Sir Louis,...

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... Why should they take more than three days—or three hours? It is all plain sailing.’ ‘More shame for them who make it so.’ ‘But it is so. If I were to... ...ing the book over to her. ‘You can explain it to me.’ ‘That’s all straight sailing, that is.’ ‘And where does he keep the figures that aren’t straight... ...ailing, that is.’ ‘And where does he keep the figures that aren’t straight sailing? That’s the book I want to see.’ 354 The Last Chronicle of Barset ...

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...e other parts of the coast; and now I had a boat, I thought of nothing but sailing round the island. For this purpose, that I might do everything with...

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..., The funeral cypress, holly ever green, The weeping fir, thick beech, and sailing pine, The married elm fell with his fruitful vine. LXXVI The shoote...

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..., The funeral cypress, holly ever green, The weeping fir, thick beech, and sailing pine, The married elm fell with his fruitful vine. LXXVI The shoote...

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...eat deal farther than you without the assistance of a ship. Do you imagine sailing by different cities or countries is travelling? No. “Caelum non...

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...de. Three days afterwards, as the gallant frigate, the “Repudia- tor,” was sailing out of Brest Harbor, the gigantic form of an Indian might be seen s...

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... carried without damage, and, as I believe, with positive advantage to its sailing. The ballast, if car- ried honestly, will not, I think, bring the v...

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... a little old lady , wearing large bows of ribbon in her cap, who had come sailing in from another room as soon as the guests began to arrive; and slo... ...action of a man on parade, he stepped lightly with his muscular legs as if sailing along, stretching himself to his full height without the smallest e... ...manders. The sailor rarely cares to know the latitude in which his ship is sailing, but on the day of battle—heaven knows how and whence—a stern note ... ...earth. It was clearing, and over the tops of the trees clouds were swiftly sailing as if unveiling the stars. Sometimes it looked as if the clouds wer...

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...mail. The law of benefits is a difficult channel, which re- quires careful sailing, or rude boats. It is not the office of a man to receive gifts. How...

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...ns, then the enemy might go where he pleased, and, changing his position and sailing from place to place, our force must be called out and spread in v...

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...l his army, with a great multitude of ships, galleys, cogs, and dromounds, sailing on the sea. 150 Thomas Malory CHAPTER IV How King Arthur being shi...

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...ed by the smiles of Beauty; be it of lightly-tripping Grisette, or of high-sailing Dame, for both equally have beauty, and smiles precious to the brav... ...shipwrecked man: flung ashore on the coast of the Maldives long ago, while sailing and soldiering as Indian Fighter; flung ashore since then, as hungr...

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...rry—that element of riot and fun; Aubrey was always playing at “poor Harry sailing away,” Mary looked staid and sober, and Norman was still graver, an... ... it so much that makes me afraid.” “Even going to Ryde?” “Don’t I like the sailing? and seeing Harry too? I don’t feel as if that were waste, because ...

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...rcial Colos- sus bestriding his own hearthrug, while the little ships were sailing into dinner. Behold the vessels coming into port! The engaging youn... ...nd to swim with a weight and balance that developed her 589 Little Dorrit sailing qualities. ‘The preliminaries being so satisfactorily arranged, I t...

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...’ ‘I’ll tell you what,’ said Silverbridge. ‘If I thought this was all fair sailing I’d do it. I should feel certain that I should come a cropper, but ...

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...‘It is well known that there was formerly a rude custom for those who were sailing upon the Thames, to accost each other as they passed, in the most a...

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...was stopped, Barker and Wesson took four shillings each. Then it was plain sailing. Morel gave each of them a sovereign till there were no more sovere...

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...orn meadow, beheld the downs beautifully clear under sun- light and slowly-sailing images of cloud. At the foot of the downs, on a plain of grass, sto...

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...contented and willing it were so, if it were my heavenly Father’s choice.” Sailing from Nice to Genoa, a storm keeps her eleven days at sea. “As the i...

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...ndthrifts had aimed; so many pirates had endeavoured to run her down while sailing in the open waters of life, that she had ceased to regard such atte...

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...he inner warning. In truth she dared not think evilly of herself for long, sailing into battle as she was. Nuns and anchorites may; they have leisure....

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...sh flirtation from love, either in herself or in another. She seemed to be sailing with a fair wind just whither she would go, and her thoughts were m...

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...ish flirtation from love, either in herself or in another. She seemed to be sailing with a fair wind just whither she would go, and her thoughts were m...