On the whole, however, I have to observe, that as we approach Fezzan our camel-drivers are getting more civil and obliging.
At first occur broken limestone hills, as previous to Mizdah; but when we approach the plateau the aspect of the hills changes, and they are composed chiefly of variegated marl mixed with gypsum, and with a covering of limestone.
I had taken care, immediately on my arrival at Tripoli, to write to Mr. Gagliuffi, the British Consul at Mourzuk, announcing my approach and enclosing a despatch from the Foreign Office.
We were up early on the morning of the 18th, and prepared to make our official approach to the town of Ghât, which was now distant only two hours.
This is the outcome of the contracted muscle pulling on the base of the hair, thereby giving it a tendency to approach the vertical, and producing the simultaneous effect of making the "hair stand on end.
The progress in time of this isolation ought before long to be traced with some approach to certainty.
An approach to literature was made in the Annales Maximi, records of private families, funeral orations and inscriptions on busts and tombs such as those of the Scipios in the Appian Way.
A still nearer approach to literature was probably made in oratory, as we learn from Cicero that the famous speech delivered by Appius Claudius Caecus against concluding peace with Pyrrhus (280 B.
The approach of darkness, with its eerie suggestion of his strange experience of the night before, made him crave the society of his kind.
He saw that it would be impossible for him toapproach the side chapel by the same way as the black-bearded stranger had, if he wished to remain unobserved.
As time went on he glanced up and down the street, watching everyone's approach with interest.
In the wooden stockade and among the rocks, port holes were placed, so that those inside could command every avenue of approach with their firearms.
The matter was talked over, and at last it was decided to let White Buffalo start for Winchester with two of his braves, leaving the other redmen to scatter through the woods and give the alarm on the approach of the enemy.
He moved his canoe into a cove, and secreting himself in the bushes awaited the approach of the strangers.
Through the stillness of the forest he had caught sounds that could mean but one thing--the approach of several men.
Dangerous duty, for the bearer cannot lie down on the approachof a shell.
If, when a cloud of gas approaches or when men carrying gas reservoirs approach the trenches, you can start a bonfire every few yards along the line, the poison gas will be sucked into this up-draught and dispersed by the heat.
Crouching low when the road was reached, they darted across it, one after the other, circling until they could approach the stable of the Sages from the rear.
What do you mean, men, by allowing anyone to approach the prisoners this fashion?
The reports which spoke of the approach of the Persians were not false.
It was not till the approach of the equinox that the wind veered from the northeast to the west, and gave the Normans an opportunity of quitting the weary shores of the Dive.
Rumor spoke of the near approach of a Persian army, and the besieged, under the plea of wishing to arrange terms of capitulation, obtained a truce which they sought probably only for the sake of gaining time.
Without awaiting their nearer approach the crusaders turned on the enemy with a force and fury which were now irresistible.
The approachof this overwhelming force filled the Egyptian ministers with consternation, and they thought only of obtaining favorable terms.
On the approach of Emperor Louis with an army the Saracens, who were besieging Salerno, retire; they land in Calabria and commit great depredations.
Whatever he may do, he will remain to me and to many more the nearest approach we are likely to see to the ideal Christian--much as he will dislike my saying so.
A strike had broken out, which at first seemed a small matter, but it was accentuated by the approach of Christmas and the fact that many of the men were rather looking for an excuse for a holiday.
Prithee bring him in; and let him approach singing.
The nearest approach to a definition which it is necessary to attempt is suggested by the two petitions in the Lord's Prayer which are quoted above.
We thrust the thought of judgment from us; we treat it as an unwelcome intruder, a disturber of our peace; we block up every approach by which it might gain access to our minds.
They have to deal with the same facts, but they look upon them with wholly different eyes, they approach them from wholly different points of view.
His quick ear had caught the approach of footsteps along the wet gravel outside.
From his coign of vantage on that desolate waste, and with the aid of his telescope, no stranger could approach within two or three miles of his cabin without undergoing his scrutiny.
We suffered extreme cold, and every one dreaded the approach of night.
One can well understand the feeling of many on board as they witnessed its disappearance and the approach of darkness.
At the approach of winter they found themselves comfortably settled, having completed a number of houses and huts, and covered others in a manner which served to protect them from the rigour of the weather, there very severe.
A few days passed, and the indications of a close approach to land became frequent.
There are reefs of coral in the Red Sea which utterly preventapproach to certain parts of the coasts.
Drake had pursued a leisurely course, but in spite of this fact, no intelligence of the pirate's approach had reached Lima.
The chimes seemed to approach and dark figures which his tear-wet eyes could not distinguish passed by on the road.
At some distance, on the old farm of Barret, the dog was barking, scenting the approach of his master.
All the people of the neighbourhood rose meditating as to how they could approachand enter Batiste's house.
Other farmers, those who had shown the family the most hostility, did not dare to approach the house, and remained grouped together on the road.
He would sit down on the brick bench next to the master's door, and there the master and the shepherd would talk, silently admired by Dona Josefa and the bigger boys of the school, who would approach slowly and form a group around them.
And he bent backward to avoid the approach of old Barret: he attempted to sneak away, to flee from that terrible sickle, upon whose blade a ray of sun broke, and where the blue of the sky was reflected.
The family looked at him with attention; he was the only person who had ventured to approach the land within the two weeks they were here.
It seemed to him that she was talking with a man who followed in the same direction as herself, although somewhat apart, as the betrothed always walk in the huerta, for whom approach is a sign of sin.
He handled her with an approach to gentleness, asking the auctioneer all he wanted to know.
The lion was hungry, so hungry, indeed, that the jackal would not approach too close to the lair, preferring to howl without it.
For some weeks past the camels had rested and had been tended with an approach to care.
Did you hear the factor," continued Father Grouse, after as near an approach to a chuckle as a red grouse can achieve.
She could see over the approach to the wood and yet remain unseen, so she was well content.
He seldom called as he had been in the habit of doing when he was young, but with manhood, if the term be permissible, he had developed a violent temper, and there were seasons of the year when only Abdullah dare approach him.
Injustice is done it, if it is regarded merely as the longing of a Levite for approach to the sanctuary.
The certainty of return to the Temple overbears the pain of absence from it, and the vivid realisation of the gladness of worshipping again at the altar takes the place of the vivid remembrance of former festal approach thither.
Not mere entrance into the place of worship, but closer approach to the God who dwelt there, cleared away the mists.
The beggar-maid married to a king was full of reverence as well as love; and the souls whom Jesus stoops to love and wash and wed are never to forget to blend adoration with approach and obedience with love.
It was at a cottage not far from the high school that Roger came upon his nearest approach to an adventure.
The approach of the German army upon Paris was watched every day and its advance was marked upon a large map that Roger had installed in the sitting-room.
The ellipses are generally very narrow, but sometimes approach to circles.
The nearest approach to an ellipse was an elongated figure of 8, with one end a little open, and this was completed in 1 hr.
It only remains to glance, for a single moment, at what befell, when he had gone, the society he had organized on the optimistic principle of the approach of human beings toward perfection.
We all know the almost intolerable situation of those unfortunates who, in the East, are excluded from social intercourse, and sit without the gate, and are permitted to approach no one.
When he brought down his head again, it was to perceive theapproach of Clementina.
As soon as she was released to the grandeur of hotel life, she expanded to the full measure of its responsibilities and privileges, but still without seeking to make it the basis of approach to society.
As he stood there, he was conscious of the approach of some one, but did not turn to see who it might be.
The approach to land gave Juan the opportunity he had sought, however; for Diego stood alone, gazing abstractedly at the towering peak of Teneriffe.
One could have heard a pin drop in the old square house on the campus as the first strains of the wedding march arose and the rustle of skirts on the stairway announced the approach of the wedding procession.
She is not a protection to the young lady, and she disgusts the honorable men who would like to approach her charge.
Each footman should approach the guests on the left, so that the right hand may be used for taking the plate.
When he arose, and while he was dressing, such of his courtiers as were privileged to approach him at this hour gathered in an anteroom-waiting to assist at his toilet, to wish him good morning, or perhaps prefer a request.
In the first place, arrange your ideas, know what you want to say, and approach the business of writing a note with a certain thoughtfulness.
Yet, amidst all the congratulations, Paoli saw the approach of anarchy, and behaved with some reserve.
But this plan galled the pride of the general, who had culled plenteous laurels in Italy until the approach of Bonaparte threatened to snatch the whole chaplet from his brow.
We here approach one of the most interesting experiments of the modern world, which, if successful, would profoundly have altered the face of Europe and the character of its States.
Who then so fitted as he to approach the victor of Hohenlinden?
Thus, while the royalists were conspiring the overthrow of Napoleon, he through his agents was countermining their clumsy approach to his citadel, and prepared to blow them sky high when their mines were crowded for the final rush.
In that bay he therefore anchored his largest ships, trusting that the dangers of the approach would screen him from any sudden attack, but making also special preparations in case he should be compelled to fight at anchor.
Many years' collection of the dirt of the town thrown in such a situation as completely covered the approach to the gate from the only guns that could flank it and from the sea .
At their approach the animal neighed, and Garin, hearing the sound, reined in and peered forward into the gloom, to descry the horse's head and back outlined above the blur of the hedge.
In the infernal din of that fight upon the stairs they had not caught the sound of this approach until now that the new-comers--whoever they might be--were at the very gates of Bellecour.
But to fly thus--some fifty of them from the approach of less than a score--was to confess unworthiness of a better fate than that of which their seigneurs rendered themselves the instruments.
But now the sound which had warned him of someone's approach reached her ears as well.
