Here there were signs that the donkeys had given trouble, the soft earth at the brink being so trampled and cut up as to suggest that the animals had had to be pushed and hauled into the water.
He went on, until he came once more to the brink of the river, and a mile further on saw gleaming in the starlight a broad pool, in the midst of which rose a dark mass.
The river here flowed through narrow channels between great boulders of a pinkish rock, the brink being lined with reeds.
Presently they heard the rushing noise of water, and came to the brink of a deep ravine, whose bottom they could not see for the trees and dense undergrowth with which it was clothed.
While this tragedy was being enacted, the riders came to the brink of the stream, and ten rifles sped their bullets among the swarm of black men.
He led them in a direction at right angles to the path, so as to make a circuit and come upon the runaways from among the thick vegetation at the brink of the river.
He saw himself standing on the brink of the abyss of hell, stretching his arms out in vain to the shining form of light which had appeared to him, not to save him, but to tell him of his damnation.
In your gladness of heart, with all your youthful unknowingness, you are hovering on the very brink of a terrible abyss.
I rose without a word, and taking my hat and cane I hastened to leave a place where unbridled passion had brought me to the brinkof ruin.
I was on the brink of suicide, but happily I escaped that fate.
They were not over three miles away, and after patiently waiting nearly an hour, we rode to the brink of the slope, and I ordered one of the boys to fire his pistol to attract their attention.
With picked mounts under us, we avoided the other cattle which could be seen grazing northward, and when fully halfway to town, there before us on the brink of the mesa loomed up the lead of a herd.
When the second herd began the ascent of the mesa, I left Splann and turned back, waiting on the brink for its arrival.
All at once he took off his hat and placed it on the brink of the quay.
The musketry-fire of the assailants, though impeded and discharged from below, was murderous; and the brink of the hole was soon lined with dead heads, whence dripped long red and steaming jets.
Her father stood on the brink of ruin, and she could not help him.
The discovery of Captain Oliphant's body at the foot of the cliff, with the clear traces of a struggle on the brink above, had created a profound sensation at Maxfield and the country round.
No traces now remain of the bloody struggle which took place upon the brink of this precipice.
I am preparing to defend this man for luring helpless innocence to the brink of hell, for building up a fortune on dollars wrung from starving women, for putting a bullet through his brother because he did not live a life purer than his own.
Is it not a terrible thought, that fashionable women and tender girls should supply themselves with servants from the very brink of that hell they believe they have never touched?
In six months, this nurse found two cases where the prolonged sickness of the wife had made drunkards of two otherwise steady husbands, and brought their families to the brink of ruin.
There I stood on the brink of a tremendous chasm with perpendicular walls, a mile in width, a mile in depth and eight miles in length.
Before such a monster as that we are as helpless as three men in a little skiff shooting down the rapids to the brink of Niagara!
Dead Man, as he rushed up to the brink of the chasm, and glared after Sydney and his friend with flaming eyes.
Unconscious of the danger, he slowly approached the brink of the pit; now he stood upon the extreme edge, and the next instant he fell!
Then, upon the brink of the stream, we stopped and listened.
A long line, reaching to thebrink of the river, was soon formed, and buckets were being passed from hand to hand.
He mounts; the animal speeds away to the cliff, but does not pause at the brink this time: with a sickening jump and fall he goes into the sea.
They traced his steps through the snow from his cabin to the brink of a great slope where he had been prospecting, but there they vanished, for a landslide had blotted them out.
At dawn he stood on the brink of the earth and the instant that the Sun appeared he flung the magic ball full in his face.
They brewed poisons in those holes, cast spells, and talked in harsh tongues with the arch fiend, who sat on the brink of the ravine with his tail laid against his shoulder, like a sceptre, and a red glow emanating from his body.
The messenger who bore the tidings of the destruction of the family was barred from reaching North Conway by the flood in the Saco, so he stood at the brink of the foaming river and rang a peal on a trumpet.
He fancied that if it was a home of gods they might have some message for men, so camping on the brink of the lofty cliffs he waited.
But seventeen of his men escaped death or capture, and he was pursued nearly to thebrink of this cliff.
Suddenly, yet stealthily, she sprang aside and crouched beneath a tree that grew at the very brink of the fall.
I rose and walked to the brink as the buggy came opposite.
Of course, my object in recording it here is simply to kill time; for, to speak like a true man, I linger shivering on the brink of the disclosures to which I am pledged.
Sir Jonas Atkins was there with his guards; and the Dean and Prebendaries: one of his countrymen pronouncing a funeral oration at the brink of his grave, which I caused to be dug in the choir.
At that time he secured title to a small island outside the others just at the brink of the Falls, although by some re-survey.
It caught fast just short of the brink and held him astride, with heels dangling over the abyss.
It led up stairs of graywacke, along the brink of slaty cliffs that dropped sheer, hundreds of feet to the stream below.
David always seemed just on thebrink of riches in those days, his letters were full of brilliant predictions, but when the second annual payment fell due, I had to borrow of Elizabeth.
He hugs the belief from hour to hour he is on the brink of a great find, until he has eyes for nothing but the colors in the sand.
Once, twice, the ice broke on the brinkand dropped clinking down, down.
Also other soldiers and with them bodies of men who looked like executioners, showed themselves upon the further brink of the water and then marched off, disappearing to left and right.
Next moment he forgot her for a while, for they had come to the river brinkand the litter was being carried on to a barge or ferry, about which were gathered many armed men.
The reader will not think that her position in society at the present moment was very well established,--will feel, probably, that she must still have known herself to be on the brink of social ruin.
A woman never so dearly loves a man as when he confesses that he has been on the brink of a great crime,--but has refrained, and has not committed it.
