I closed in above the shore light, and laid on my oars and floated.
THEY asked us considerable many questions; wanted to know what we covered up the raft that way for, and laidby in the daytime instead of running --was Jim a runaway nigger?
He had been drunk over in town, and laid in the gutter all night, and he was a sight to look at.
He wore out by and by, and laid still a while, moaning.
I got up, and laid myself in the hollow between their two backs; when the wise animals, counteracting the weight that pushed them apart, leaned against each other, and made for me a most comfortable litter.
The princess had eaten nothing, and her eyes remained shut: fearing she might die ere we reached the end of our journey, I went to her in the night, and laidmy bare arm upon her lips.
Yet more slowly it crept up on it, and laid itself, as unwilling to go further, at the feet of the princess.
I crept out, dragged the monster from you, and laid my lips to the wound.
She rose, took it off, and laid it at my feet--I imagine from a sense of propriety.
And she arose, and went away, and laid by her vail from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.
And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.
And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife; and they went both of them together.
And he gathered up all the food of the seven years, which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was round about every city, laid he up in the same.
And though Hannibal often used stratagems, and laid ambushes to entrap Marcellus, yet he could never circumvent him.
And when the people had ratified the election, he marched with his forces into the territories of the Faliscans, and laid seige to Falerii, a well-fortified city, and plentifully stored with all necessaries of war.
The criminal was then unbound, and laid on a small wheel, with his face upward, and his arms and legs doubled under him, there to expire, if he had survived the previous treatment.
His men drew out their bright swords That were so sharp and keen, And laid on the sher-iff's men, And drived them down bidene.
So they parted, and Ralph went back to the hostel, and gathered his stuff together, and laid it on a sumpter horse, and armed him, and so went into Petergate to join himself to that company.
She rose up and came close to him, and laid a hand on his knee and looked wistfully into his face as she said: "Nay then, I can tell thee all the tale as thou sittest in thy saddle; for meseems short will be thy farewell when I have told it.
Next he picked up a candlestick and stuffed the candle into it, and laid a quilt against the threshold of the door so that no light would pierce the corridor.
One of the cuirassiers lifted the ballet dancer and carried her into her bed-room, and laid her on the bed.
Mrs. Glenarm put out a little hand, ravishingly clothed in a blush-colored glove, and laid it on the athlete's mighty arm.
That same night, at the moment when I had put out my candle, and laid me down in bed, I heard a knock at the street door.
I believe, Sir Patrick, but for the two men, who ran up and laid hold of him, that Hester Dethridge would have seen what she expected to see.
The woman was alive in the world, and working in the world; and yet (so far as all human interests were concerned) she was as completely out of the world as if she had been screwed down in her coffin, and laid in her grave.
Batten not knowing how to remove his wine, did dig a pit in the garden, and laid it in there; and I took the opportunity of laying all the papers of my office that I could not otherwise dispose of and in the evening Sir W.
In the meanwhile Banks had moved upstream from New Orleans, and laid siege to Port Hudson.
At the very outset he had to meet the formidable attack of the Normans (Robert Guiscard and his son Bohemund), who took Dyrrhachium and Corfu, and laid siege to Larissa in Thessaly.
Then gathered they The bones, and poured sweet ointment over them, And laid them in a casket: over all Shed they the rich fat of a heifer, chief Among the herds that grazed on Ida's slope.
So the kings drew him from that stricken field Straining beneath the weight of giant limbs, And with all loving care they bore him on, And laid him in his tent before the ships.
He rose again impatiently, then approached his desk, and laid a hand on the telegram.
I should have thought a summer at the seaside would have been more helpful to you; but if you prefer to live in Islington--' Reardon approached her, and laid a hand on her shoulder.
She looked at him, then drew near with both hands extended, and laidthem on his shoulders, and kissed him.
A strong she-angel with mighty wings, Mary St. John came behind him as he fainted out of life, tempered the burning heat of the Sun of Death, and laid him to sleep in the cool twilight of her glorious shadow.
He put it to his lips with trembling hands, blew a note or two, burst into the tears of weakness, and laid it down.
They helped him up the creaking stair, got him half-undressed, and laid him in his bed.
His plaid was folded up and laid upon a chair, as if it had been there all night, and his Ainsworth was on the table.
He gave the cardinal his only unoccupied tester and bedstead, and assigned to the bishop the bedstead upon which his wife's waiting-women did lie, and laid them on the ground.
The King still professed friendship, and laid a great present at the door, about which the Indians lay in ambush to kill Smith.
Henderson was lifted from his chair and laid upon a lounge.
He took out his pocket-book, selected a slip of paper, and laid it on the table before him.
To this follows the trimming and tricking of their heads, the laying out their hair to show, which is curled, crisped, and laid out on wreaths and borders from ear to ear.
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