The applause was so-great that the building trembled and I felt the windows shake behind me.
I was once lecturing in North Carolina, and the cashier of the bank sat directly behind a lady who wore a very large hat.
The place for the officer is behind the private soldier in actual fighting.
Noticing a Confederate officer behind a tree, he stole to the tree, and reaching as far around as he could, began firing with his revolver.
Like his father, his actions never lagged behind his speech, and he made at once an open profession of the faith on which he now leaned with such happy confidence.
Every moment he expected to hear his father's footsteps behind him.
They paid him fifteen dollars a week during his last year for training students who were behind their classes in mineralogy, out of hours, of course, while pursuing his own studies.
Martin Conwell, progressive, aggressive, was not a man to let his deeds lag behind his words.
Directly behind the pulpit is a small closet containing a friction wheel, by means of which, should the electric light fail for any reason, every gas jet in The Temple can be lighted from dome to basement.
Tired men with muscles aching from a hard day's work, women weary with a long day behind the counter or typewriter, cheerfully trudged home and saved the nickels.
It had been left behind in the Captain's tent, the Army Regulations requiring that he wear one less conspicuous.
One of the finest organists in the country, a blind gentleman by the name of Wood, was the power behind the throne.
The declining sun is hidden behind the steeple, and throws its shadow straight across the street, so that my chamber is darkened, as with a cloud.
A few of the singing men and singing women had lingered behind their fellows, and raised their voices fitfully, and blew a careless note upon the organ.
Suppose that a few hours have passed, and behold me still behind my curtain, just before the close of the afternoon service.
I love to spend such pleasant Sabbaths, from morning till night, behind the curtain of my open window.
In such an ancient town as Bury St. Edmunds, with so many years behind it, the "Angel" could tell a story worth narrating.
After being used as a school for many years, it is now occupied by Benedictine monks, In a beautiful park of four hundred acres, with a lofty down behind it, the house appears to be a well secluded and charming retreat.
The lower beds behind the cottage are of geological interest from the diversity of colour in the beds.
In this view the grounds of Ferncliff can be seen behind the Arcade Bazaar, and there is a cliff path to Shanklin on the top.
The unfortunate gentleman leaves behind him a young wife, to whom he was united but a few months since.
The lumber-room is behindthe kitchen and the cellar.
But Marette herself had told him to hide behind the curtains if it became necessary, and it was an excusable caution for him to look behindthose curtains now, to see what sort of hiding-place he had.
The Landing had no jail, not even a guard-house, though the members of the force sometimes spoke of the cells just behind Inspector Kedsty's office by that name.
Different from all the other worlds God had ever made; different, even, from the world only a few miles behind them at the Landing.
He knew that behind an effort to appear calm Mercer was uneasy over what had happened.
He was only a step behind her in passing Kedsty's office.
Pelly was on duty at barracks, and it was Pelly who locked him in one of the three cells behind the detachment office.
For the first time he sensed the vast difference between the hunter and the hunted, between the man who played the game of life and death alone and the one who played it with the Law and all its might behind him.
He noticed the amazing length of her dark lashes, but the violet eyes behind them did not smile back at him.
From his first night's camp in the valley he saw the moon sink behind it.
He drew slowly out of the room, closing the door noiselessly behind him.
It seemed to him that with each of these wonderful hours danger was being left farther and still farther behind them.
The undertow behind the rock had flung a mass of Marette's long hair toward him, so that it was a foot or two nearer to him than her clinging hands.
Her own door closed behind her, and Kent, striking a match, stooped low and entered his hiding-place.
Here, on a grass plot behind the house, he made active preparations for the erection of a twenty-foot telescope.
But the veil suggests that it is a veil, and that there is something behind it which it conceals.
These were located in what would have been Siberia, and it was thought that Alexander the Great had penned them in behind the Iron Mountains.
Empty with the exception of Tictocq, the great French detective, who springs frombehind a mass of tropical plants to his side.
On the red stream of Hemorrhagia a few souls drifted away, leaving behind pathetic heaps, white and chill as the fog itself.
You will make your appearance on the scene when a gentleman should--after you are fully dressed, which indubitably private function shall take place behind closed doors.
So every day this señorita sits behind the barred windows and exhausts a conservatory or two, one posy at a time.
He leaned his head on his hands for a moment, and as he did so a sound behind him caused his heart to leap with guilty fear, but before he could rise, a hand came over his shoulder and grasped the file.
Sharp dropped behindthe outgoing stream of men, and slipped slyly into this room.
One afternoon, a week after this time, Sharp lingered behind again after the clerks had left and the office closed.
He returned to the other room, closing the door softlybehind him.
Then, with a wild, unearthly shriek that would have made a steam piano go out behind a barn and kick itself in despair, she fell senseless to the floor.
Three or four brass bands are playing behind a portière between the coal shed, and also behind time.
He is the young man who always comes behind the counter to wait on you and lets you talk for five minutes, telling him what you want.
A young man with his hair combed down on his forehead sat behind the desk.
As the old watchman himself came up behind her, she could say nothing about his indifferent attitude.
Entering the cabin, the men closed the door behind them.
While her father remained behind to direct bridge traffic, Penny ran to the nearest drugstore.
Overhead a disc of orange moon rode lazily, now and then dodgingbehind a fleecy cloud.
Penny muttered as the door of the boathouse slammedbehind Sara Ottman.
Sara opened the throttle, and they shot away, leaving behind a trail of churning foam.
Close behind came another car which bore a printed card "Star" on its windshield.
Whenever she came to a clump of bushes, she would pull the branches aside to peer behind them.
Content that her aspect should be seemly, she ran down the stairs, unfastened the bolts, and without hesitation closed the door behind her.
Behind the figures, he calculated that, in all probability, Rhoda would visit her sister this night.
Algernon asked himself when, taking his ticket and the five-and-twenty pounds, he repelled the stare of a manbehind a neighbouring partition.
But, as was natural after a paroxysm of weakness, Dahlia's frenzy left no courage behind it.
There can be snow in Jerusalem, and there might be snow in Bethlehem; and when we penetrate to the idea behind the image, we find it is not only possible but probable.
Her pity and patriotism were alike moved; and she again sent the plenipotentiary to discover why he cursed the English, or what tale of wrong or ruin at English hands lay behind the large gestures of his despair.
I will not enter on the theology behind the symbol; but I am sure it was of this that all the symbols were symbolic.
Each mail feels that there are heavy forces behind a small point, as the weight of the fencer is behind the point of the rapier.
It is absurd to say that people are only prejudiced against the money methods of the Jews because the medieval church has left behind a hatred of their religion.
For the dog did indeed seem to stand for home and everything I was leaving behind me, with reluctance, especially that season of the year.
The survival of the word merely means that even when the imperial city fell behind them, they did not surrender their claim to defy all Asia in the name of the Christian Emperor.
The traveller comes on the Moslem dome round a corner; and he finds the Christian dome, as it were, behind his own back.
The wild men that rode behind Omar the Arab would have thought nothing of tearing every page of Plato in pieces.
It is vain to correct by cold logic the power of such primitive appetites; nature herself was behind the seemingly random thoughtlessness of the deed.
I know it will seem fanciful; but for a moment I really felt as if I had come home; or rather to that home behind home for which we are all homesick.
I think this a fallacy, and a fallacy not uncommon in journalism, which is professedly very much up to date, and actually very much behind the times.
Thus the Greek priests of the Orthodox Church, bearded and robed in black with black towers upon their heads, have for some strange reason their hair bound up behind like a woman's.
They would make their own rude shelter near the stones, perhaps sheltering behind them to light a fire; and for the rest, generations of gipsies might camp there without making much difference.
Sloan won the toss and elected to defend the south goal, kicking off with the wind behind its back.
This morning I formed my platoon in line in the woods behind the line.
There was a mother hen darting through the grass after a fleeing grasshopper, and close behind her was the whole flock save one.
Far behind one little black, fuzzy biddie struggled and tripped over the tall grass stems.
It sat in a lot behind a rail fence and thorn bushes, near the sweetest of springs.
She bade the little girl take hold of her hand and close her eyes, and wish herself in the wood behind the cornfield.
The South African poets, as a class, are ratherbehind the age.
And the master Breaks from the crowd, and goes, Wiping his hands, To the next bed, with his pupils Flocking and whispering behind him.
Her enthusiasm was ever ready--bubbling, but never gushing, and I eagerly kept an ear to the windward not to miss the murmur of the geographical and historical fountain behind my back.
Have you ever noticed that most of the things people tell you to look at, or that you particularly want to see in life, are always behind your back or on one side, as if to give you the greatest possible trouble?
I forgot to tell you that in one corner of our room, behind a calico curtain, was a queer, low green door, which we had wondered at and tried to open, but found locked.
She was walking, and her fat aunt was hanging on to her arm, and an Italian man leading two donkeys was close behind them.
Instantly slowing down, I looked behind me expecting to see a mangled corpse.
We were now--having crossed the bridge and left the new town behind us--in a comparatively deserted region.
He tramped before us to the big dark house, put down his lantern in the hall, opened a door, and ushered us into a dark room, following and closing the door behind him.
As I've told you, the German horror is phaeton-seated, and for me in front to talk comfortably to any lady behind is not easy.
I felt my heart thump behind my rather jolly white waistcoat.
I've no jewellery so lovely as that cameo in stone; and I've got to leave it behind in Europe.
It is truly pleasant to get behind the curtain of form and ceremony, and look at these eminent men, in their night-gowns and slippers, and listen to them thus, while talking to their wives and their children.
But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
He was finally pacified by a plain statement, and an exhibition of the old gentleman's bones behind the other coffins.
Mrs. Tisher at the same time grouped herself behind her chief, as representing Queen Elizabeth's first historical female friend at Tilbury Fort.
During the half hour the young gentlemen, broken into pairs, loitered arm in arm up and down a small piece of ground behind the house.
And the strange little dog went back to the place he came from, with his green tail curled up behind him; and he was never seen or heard of again.
We ran into the field, and found that the enemy had taken up a strong position behind the old cannon.
Fiery serpents went up into the sky, wriggling and hissing, dragging long tails of yellow flame behind them.
Rosalie Urania presided at the tea-table, and poured the cocoa with such grace that no one would have suspected her of being helped a little by Juliet (Juliet is not a doll), who was hidden behind the table.
Here the monkey entered, while the man concealed himself behind a point of rock and peeped after him.
The next night the man hid himself behind the door of the hut, and when the monkey-thief appeared, he sprang out and caught him by his long tail.
He thought that if he stayed behind and said he was sick, his mother would bring some worms up to him, as she had always done before.
Papa, who sat quiet behind his newspaper, and appeared to be taking no notice.
So he led the way through the forest, and the girl followed, rubbing her pretty, sleepy eyes, and dragging her mantle behind her.
The satin hangings of my room, framed on canvas, wave with the gales lodged behind them every second.
Newton Bronson slipped behind a hedge, and took his infernally equipped dog with him.
That gives you a chance in history, Pretty Pierre," said a voice from behind a pile of woollen goods and buffalo skins in the centre of the floor.
He sprang behind a tree, and at that instant he heard the thud of hoofs behind him.
By simple processes he drew from Gregory his aims and ambitions, and found the real courage and power behind the front of irony--the language of manhood and culture which was crusted by free and easy idioms.
He felt rather helpless under her gay raillery; but he said: "Well, I didn't burn my kremlin behind me.
From behindthe locked door came sounds of busy gnawings; once a diminutive growl was audible.
The three youths on the seat behind had been watching affairs at first with amusement and now with apprehension.
The tone was very chilly, and Trevor’s cheeks flushed slightly as he arranged the pictures behind the army of mugs.
Across the gymnasium the runners were speeding down the back-stretch, Trevor and Stewart, side by side, leaving the other three farther and farther behind at every step.
Always, nowadays, there was ten minutes or so of practicing starts; often the varsity and second were drawn up on the mark, and were given the word together; and alas for the boat that was behind at the tenth stroke!
Often it was dotted with craft that trailed soft, gray vapor behind them; often the lights were suddenly turned quite out, and the world was left in impenetrable blackness, and he closed his eyes and was glad.
Dunlop, head back, a look of grim determination on his face, spurted until he had gained a position but a scant two yards behind Stewart.
Many yards behind Dunlop and Wharton were having a hot race of their own wholly unnoticed, for every eye followed the two youths whose flying feet were now pounding the incline at the third corner.
At the turn Trevor hugged the inside of the track and Stewart, smaller, lither, and speedier-looking, snuggled in close behind him.
He felt a downright hate of the fellows behind him because they had witnessed his degradation.
The stairs seemed steep to her and she went cautiously, waiting on each step; at each step the faint light of the candle descended with her; and behind her the night accumulated with each step that she left behind her.
He saw himself again as a child in Java, a small boy playing with his sister Constance, on the great boulders in the river behind the palace at Buitenzorg.
There was the Ornamental Water, with the Nieuwe Weg behind it.
Behind her dark eyes he saw a whole world of secret bitterness, a fierce grudge which smouldered in the depths of her soul.
Then at last the giggles of the little brother and sister behind the sofa made her look over the back: "Here they are!
The theory behindit was perfectly clear; all it needed was further experimentation.
Behind Comrade Turenski, a guide was explaining a display to a group of tourists, but Turenski ignored the distraction and kept his mind focused on the thoughts of Dr.
The two men escorted Lenny to a big, powerful Lincoln; he climbed into the back seat with the big one while the other one got behind the wheel.
Lenny Poe was seated behind the colonel's desk, leaning back in the swivel chair, his feet on the top of the desk.
But before the man behind the window grating could take the money, a huge, hamlike, and rather hairy hand came down on top of his own hand, covering it and the money at the same time.
As he growled, the Royal grumbler spied a bit of broken tumbler In a long undusted corner just behind the chamber door.
The theorybehind the heat projector was simply an extension of the laser theory, plus a few refinements.
The jumble of hash began to stabilize, becoming more coherent-- Lenny sat behind the far desk, watching his brother come up the primrose path in a unicycle.
Lenny said hurriedly, slamming the door behind him.
This note, for reasons to be told me afterwards, appointed a meeting at eleven o'clock this night, in the plain behind the Invalides, in a very mysterious manner.
Miss Hill passed into the room designated, leaving the door open behind her.
Mounted behind this cavalier, on an old cart-horse, and followed by the other ladies, each riding in the same primitive fashion with her escort, the party set out.
The two nurses followed close behind with the sleeping infant.
He travelled incognito, and although one of the queen's attendants recognized him after his arrival at the palace, and told his sister of his presence, she would not believe it until he stole up behind her chair and gave her a kiss.
The queen's riding horse was led by one of the officers of her household, and half a dozen heralds carried banners and flags bound with crepe just behind the pall.
But the English attendants who had accompanied the princess wanted something besides a beautiful residence; they were not pleased with their new home, and longed for England and the old scenes and old faces they had left behind them.
Miss Hill picked them up without a word, and left the room closing the doorbehind her.
Behind the Abbey of Holyrood there was along avenue shaded with stately oaks, where James was in the habit of taking his daily exercise.
