Holding out the tray, he presented it at the face of the prisoner on the left, whereon the cat rose, arched its back and began to lift its paws up and down.
Nor was this all, for perched upon his hairy head, with arched back and waving tail, stood a great white cat.
Thereafter, Archimedes pursued his way in the safety of the gutter until they turned into a little used lane where great trees, decked in wonderful autumnal colors, arched overhead, and unkempt hedges brushed their wheels.
Kelly slowly inhaled a mighty volume of air until his chest arched forth in all of its magnificent development.
She was a charming bit of girlhood with a complexion so clear that it seemed pale in contrast to the black hair and the clearly lined brows which arched those big, serious, blue eyes.
I'd never admit it to Celeste," the Rhett girl went on, carefully drawing heavy draperies across the arched doorway of the library and closing another door which opened toward the stairs.
Even as Penny asked the question, Anthony Parker, a tall, lean man with graying hair, came to the arched doorway of the kitchen.
The crypt beneath, with its low archedvaults and its graceful pillars rising out of the rock, is the most interesting portion of the fortress.
On their way home, half-way up the lane, where the trees arched most thickly overhead, they came to a patch of deepish mud which was too sheltered to have dried after the heavy rain of the day before.
In the west front he built two great archedwindows filled with marvellous storied glass.
Elstow church has sculptured figures above the north door; not within the containing arch, but within a separate arched space divided from the door-way by a string-course.
Here there is a northern porch of unusual size in proportion to the rest of the building; the entrance to which is by means of an arched doorway, tall and narrow.
The face was of a noble Caucasian type, with finely shaped nose, full lips, arched eyebrows, and bright eyes of the deepest black.
I was greeted with a snarl and hiss which sounded like a bunch of fire-crackers going off, and there was mother on guard, standing with archedback in front of a box of newly-born kittens in a dark corner.
I still remember how handsome she appeared with her eyes blazing, her arched back, and her open mouth, hissing and spitting at him.
I stood awhile to listen to its whisper as the gentle wind swept over it, and to look down the long green alleys of the hop-gardens beyond; and at the end of one of these straight arched vistas there shone a solitary, great star.
These features, as well as the straight sides of the body and the arched back, connect Cylisticus with Armadillidium, from which the former is, however, at once separated by its long pointed tail appendages.
The very arched body is characteristic of Armadillidium, and so is the groove into which the basal joints of the antennae fit when the creatures curl up.
But the Wizard, deep in his abstruse studies, did not hear her; and Violet felt a sensation of awe creeping over her as she noted his abstracted gaze, and looked on the high, arched forehead wrinkled with centuries of years and study.
Thrown back in echoes from the arched roof of the cave, the noise of the sea was probably magnified tenfold, and in the darkness was terrifying to hear, while the compressed air rushed through the opening above us with a long, whistling sigh.
In an agony of despair we heard it receding farther and farther in the gloom, the hoarse shouts and laughter of the men and the continuous barking of the dog, which had sprung aboard at the last moment, echoing strangely from the arched roof.
Taking their way along it for a short distance, they came to a lane, so shaded by the trees on either hand that they met together over-head, and arched the narrow way.
The doors, too, were arched and low, some with oaken portals and quaint benches, where the former inhabitants had sat on summer evenings.
These had very little winking windows, and low-arched doors, and, in some of the narrower ways, quite overhung the pavement.
Betty's cat, witharched back and long tail, brushed slowly past his knee.
By-and-by his eyes became accustomed to the obscurity, and he concluded that he was in what had at one time been a wine-cellar, as bottles were racked against the back wall of his arched apartment.
One old general mounts the bank and with arched neck and spreading wings advances to attack us, but we do not risk the battle.
There are arched doorways shaded by climbing vines and bearing great brass knockers.
Bideford, which slopes upward from its broad tide-river paved with yellow sands, and many-arched old bridge where salmon wait for autumn floods, toward the pleasant upland on the west.
Bosio enumerates six cubicula or family burial-chapels in the cemetery or catacomb of Priscilla, and thirteen arched tombs with paintings.
This done, he found himself at the head of a stone staircase, which he descended, and came to the arched entrance of a vault.
Her eyes were of a serene summer blue, arched over by brows some shades darker than the radiant tresses that fell on either cheek, and were parted over a brow smoother than alabaster.
The remnant of an ancient wall affords no defence whatever; and the large and ruinous arched passages serve but to give some evidence of its former importance.
She wandered up and down the Common, whose vivid green was starred with golden dandelions; and then, spying the arched and shady vista of a lane, entered it, bent on new discoveries.
Had her experience included Europe, her imagination might have seized the medieval parallel,--the arched bridges flung at intervals across the water, lacking only chains to raise them in case of siege.
