It disappeared for a moment and then popped up like a rubber-ball, and went dancing down the current toward the break in the walls which they had visited a brief while before.
He knew it would do Jack good to yield to his sorrow for a brief while, for he would soon become cooler and more self-possessed.
Whereof a notable example is afforded by two of our citizens, of whom I purpose for a brief while to discourse.
The advantage was all on the side of the fleet-footed Indians, who were so familiar with the woods that they were sure to come up with the patriots in a brief while.
No one could have been more alive to the situation than he, who halted directly under the place that had sheltered him and his friends for a brief while, and looked and listened.
A faint hope held Pendar where he was for a brief while longer.
But that interesting fact was not learned until a brief while later.
Haunted and hunted, deprived of all real companionship save that of this conspirator criminal who called himself her uncle, Gilda's courage failed for a brief while.
To-night its mystery entered into the spirit of Raife, and for a brief while he was affected by the outlook.
Report had it that Jim met the Fraulein in the town of Lewes, nine miles away, and there purchased a fancy comb, which he induced her to wear for a brief while.
Only one figure--that of the Wyandot warrior, stark and stiff in the sunlight--spoke of the dreadful scenes that had been enacted on that spot such a brief while before.
The cloudiness became so marked, after a brief while, that the view was much shortened in every direction.
He did not stoop to take the scalp of the dead warrior, who hoped so ardently a brief while before to capture his.
Men and beasts were refreshed by their rest and food, and it required but a brief whileto reach the top of the gorge, where, as will be remembered, it terminated.
When a sort of amphitheatre was reached, it was decided to draw rein for a brief while, out of sympathy for their panting animals.
The youth leaned against the side of the apartment a brief while longer in intense cogitation, and then sighed.
At any rate, he took but a brief while to turn it over in his mind, when he set to work to put it to a practical test.
Kenton's conclusion was to stay where he was for a brief while--that is, until the gloom increased sufficiently to allow him to paddle across the open space without the misgiving that now held his muscular arm motionless.
He brings her back to the seat where they were so cold and grave a brief while ago.
The Latimers go to the city, and the professor is again domiciled a brief while at the cottage that seems so like home.
Towards evening Grandon feels that he must return for a brief while.
De Baudricourt could not have heard the words, yet when he spoke a brief while later, it almost seemed as though he might have done so.
They make a stir and a commotion for a brief while, and then they vanish to be heard of no more.
When he ceased she was silent for a brief while, and then spoke.
Whether they were to do so or not would be determined in a brief while.
A brief while after, the second shot was heard from another point, followed by a third from still another direction.
The fierce current would lift the head several feet with a splash, but could hold it thus only a part of a minute, when it would dip for a brief while, to rise again and repeat the action.
I'll do my best," said Dick, as he bade his friends good-bye for a brief while.
For a brief while he had sunned himself in the glory of a false paradise, and for that brief while the clamour of his old ambitions had been silenced, the weighty responsibility of his money had been changed into satisfaction.
For a brief while, he waited patiently for her awakening.
Never for this child, that is born in the shadow of death, and can itself live but a brief while, shall there be the sweet light of which you speak, nor the pleasantness of beholding the sun, nor the way of the day betwixt rise and set.
I saw the golden doors open a brief while ago--the doors of Pharais.
Slowly, too, the dark veil began to lift from his mind; slightly, and for a brief while at most.
It took only a brief while to work themselves up to a frenzy.
She had simply been given to him in her sorrow, to care for a brief while.
A brief while, Belike, I lost all thought and memory 400 Of that for which I came!
A brief while, Belike, I lost all thought and memory Of that for which I came!
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