It is also somewhat rash to carry back the chronology of Egyptians and Babylonians to times when, as we know on physical evidence, the Valley of the Nile was an arm of the sea, and the plain of the Euphrates an extension of the Persian Gulf.
These are the relics of that pleistocene submergence already referred to, in which the Nile valley was an arm of the sea and Africa was an island.
Poor Stanislas fell, badly wounded, with one bullet in his arm and another in his leg.
They were already going at full speed, when a single horseman, with uplifted arm and excited gesture, as though addressing the brigade, crossed their front.
You, a veteran with yourarm in a sling, and that brown beard--brown mixed with grey.
At this threatening stage of the discourse, Jo, who seems to have been gradually going out of his mind, smears his right arm over his face, and gives a terrible yawn.
I pointed out the gateway, put my arm through his, and we went across.
But you know more of catching foxes in winter, and climbing mountains in summer, and the grip of the arm of an Injin girl, than of these things.
Before God, if you're a man, you'll put your hand on my arm and tell me what trouble quakes your speech.
He put his arm round the other's shoulder, and supported him till he recovered himself.
Little Hammer struck him again and again; but onearm of the Indian was under his shoulder and around him, and the voice was anxious and kind.
He put hisarm about her and kissed her, and he ran his fingers through her hair.
Presently a great tremor as of pain shook all his limbs, and he set the candle on the ground, and with his stalwart hands arranged afresh the bandages about Pierre's injured arm and leg.
They walked round the quadrangle arm in arm; they sat side by side in any class where liberty to choose places was allowed.
When Marjorie laid a hand on her arm she flung her off passionately.
Once more they went about the school arm in arm, sat next to each other at tea, and wrote each other private little notes.
She beamed rather than frowned on those who walked armin arm.
Silly boy,' is the reply, while she suddenly reaches up and kisses him, and then disengaging herself from his detaining arm hurries back to the house, whither he follows her a little more slowly.
Sheeley's mighty right armhad shot out across the table and struck him in the face.
Chick and Skeeter, recognized a significant bulge to the string bag which she carried, scrambled forth, the former skilfully evading her outstretched arm of welcome.
He had evidently been there some time when she was aware of his elbow on the arm of her chair, and his head buried in it.
The young lady in question gave no appearance of haste as she perched herself on the arm of her father's chair, and presented a boot-lace for him to tie.
Sheeley, lightly running a deck of cards up the length of his arm and reversing them with a deftness that spoke of long familiarity.
He could not get over the fact that she had taken his part, that she had put her arm around him, and smiled at him.
It is not altogether beyond the range of possibility that you will marry," said the Doctor, tracing parallelograms on the arm of the chair.
The Colonel did not turn his head; he gazed with an air of great injury at the tops of the locust trees, clasping his tumbler as it rested on the arm of the rocker.
As she spoke thus, with her other arm extended through the window, she showed the gypsy the little embroidered shoe.
A fleshless arm was stretched from an opening in the wall, and held her like a hand of iron.
She heard no sound, she felt no people moving save in the tumultuous and glowing city, from which she was separated only by an arm of the Seine, and whence her name reached her, mingled with cries of "Death!
Then he rose, leaned on the arm of his interlocutor, made a sign to the sort of mute who stood before the door to precede him, to the two Flemings to follow him, and quitted the room.
Gringoire's arm with fury; "have you been so abandoned by God as to raise your hand against that girl?
It was the pretty arm of Gisquette la Gencienne, which, passed through the railing, was soliciting his attention in this manner.
He flung himself on the arm which held the knife, crying: "Quasimodo!
Mahiette, suddenly retracing her steps, and clasping her son's arm forcibly.
Meanwhile, the king thrummed gayly with his fingers on the arm of his chair, the March of Pont-Audemer.
She raised her eyelids, and saw the fleshless arm of the stone gallows extended above her head.
The other priest then bared his arms, and stretched out his left until it was five or six feet in length, at the same time shortening his right arm until it dwindled to nothing.
They then support the corpse round the room, making its dead arm move the broom from side to side, and thus sweep away wealth, happiness, and longevity, from the accursed place for ever.
Thereupon he spit out of his mouth a tiny man, no more than an inch high, and scratching Feng's arm with his nails until Feng felt as if the skin was gone, he quickly laid the little man upon the spot.
In the morning they found in the boat a huge fin--the arm that Wang had cut off the night before.
Chou rushed in, and the man inside rushed out; but Ch'eng was there, and with his sword cut his arm right off.
The arm dropped down and the man in the yellow dress ran away; whereupon one of those in white rushed at Wang who immediately cut off his head, and he fell into the water with a splash, at which the third disappeared.
He then bit Feng's arm, and the latter waked up with the pain to find that the cicatrix on his arm was no longer there.
Finally he found his handkerchief, tied it about his neck and placed the injured arm through the improvised sling.
But he heard nothing more, and presently he lay down again with a sigh, eased the position of his throbbing arm and went quietly to sleep.
Then, as the arm began to drop swiftly, Roy leaped forward and shot for second.
Then he shifted the ball to his right arm and turned acutely toward the middle of the field.
Roy winced a little, but after the lump had disappeared his whole arm felt easier.
The grace of her attitude, her extended and gently waving arm as she spoke, denoted a confidence which could only have arisen from a perfect unconsciousness of danger.
Give me that staff, my son, and your arm on the other side.
He drew Aladdin's arm into his, and they went out.
Manners took the hand in his, and a thrill ran up Aladdin's arm and all over him, till it settled deliciously about his heart, and he slept.
He put his arm gently about him, and thus they sat until the journey's end.
A big woman in a big hat was seated in the armchair facing the door.
Walking, now with the stick under his right arm and his left hand in his trousers pocket, he felt something in the pocket.
She finished the piece, rose, turned over some sheets of music and then came across the room--floated across the room, and took her perch on the arm of the great chair in which he was sitting.
He held out his arm and looked at the texture and pattern.
Downstairs he looked through glass doors into a room where men were smoking, correct men in huge arm chairs, men with legs stretched out, men smoking big cigars and talking politics no doubt.
Up to this the course had been clear with no spectators, but now came along from the direction of Northbourne an invalid on the arm of an attendant, and behind them a boy on a bicycle.
I had ensconced myself comfortably in the velvet arm chair, which had been brought thither from the distant land of the Franks; the wine had tinged my face with the same colour as the fez which covered my head.
Every one scrutinizes the infant with insignificant gestures; and well might the fear of the evil eye make the mother uneasy, but that she herself has tied the white magic-stone on the left arm of her child.
His face darkened as he dropped the rifle out of the hollow of hisarm and inspected the percussion cap, when Merriwell and the others came into view around a bend in the path.
Bruce straightened his head and tried to leap back, instinctively throwing up an arm as a shield.
His body was gracefully erect, his left side slightly turned toward the target, his left arm rigidly extended, and his right hand drawing steadily on the string of the bow.
His face, revealed by the faint moonlight, was distorted with rage and hate, and his grip on the deadly club was so tense that the muscles on his right arm stood out in a knotted mass under the sleeve of his thin, cotton shirt.
Frank's strong arm was about her, her hand was in his, and she gave herself up to his guiding will on the floor, as she had sometimes dreamed of giving herself up to be guided by him through life.
My arm ain't hurtin' so much ez it did, an' dad's a master hand ter fix up a wound like that.
His arm was about her waist, and he drew her close.
I saw her pluck it out of her arm or shoulder, but she would not stay to explain how badly she was hurt.
Frank saw the girl struggle into a sitting posture and pluck away the arrow, which seemed to have lodged in the upper part of her left arm or in her shoulder.
