He looked at her a moment longer in silence; then, closing the curtains, he went out abruptly.
But as the night advanced, the clouds closing in and densely overspreading the whole sky, then very dark, it came on to blow harder and harder.
Rooks sometimes dive and tumble in a frolicsome manner; crows and daws swagger in their walk; woodpeckers fly with a wavy motion, opening and closing their wings at every stroke, and so are always rising or falling in curves.
The February day was closing in London in a thick, clammy, yellow fog.
Again that harsh, jarring laugh rang out, and with the last word he strode from the room, closing the door with an emphatic bang.
Your eyes are as large as bishop pippins, and closingfast now.
He was suddenly awakened from his dream by seeing Mr. Allen closing and locking the cabin door below him.
He had often heard of mines caving in as the result of a loud report, and of the vibrations from shouts closing the entrance to caves.
Previous to the closing years of the Republic the Romans had no art but the Etruscan.
All these were simple one-storied structures, with flat wooden roofs carried on parallel ranges of columns supporting pointed arches, the arcades either closing one side of a square court, or surrounding it completely.
It should be a self-acting electrical mine, with the circuit closing apparatus enclosed in the torpedo case, and capable of carrying about 100 lbs.
The Austrians employed this form of circuit closing instrument during the war of 1866, and still continue to use it in connection with their coast defence by submarine mines.
This form of circuit closing apparatus, which is purely a self-acting one, that is to say, a mine so fitted cannot be fired at will, is shown at Fig.
The advantages of this circuit closingapparatus are:-- 1.
The end was slowly drawing near, for the Sirdar was closing the lines and mustering his forces for a final blow.
The guns and Maxims withal of Wauchope's and Maxwell's infantry, must have weakened the hope in the Khalifa's breast of closing with us.
But the great event for the Moderator is the closing address, which he delivers about midnight to a mixed crowd.
Education beyond the grave, progress everlasting, was the favourite conception of his closing years.
As he finished and said grace the door opened noiselessly, and a priest in the Carthusian habit came in, closing the door behind him.
Simultaneously the young man came in again, closing the door behind him.
It's infinitely safer, too, for it's divided by automatically closing stops into tens of thousands of compartments, so a leak here and there makes practically no difference.
Again and again he tried to tear up from his inner consciousness something which he could remember, closing his eyes and sinking his head upon his hands, but nothing except fragments and glimpses of vision rose before him.
In a minute or two he leaned forward and stared again, once more closing the curtains behind his head.
More distinct is the outward closing scene; the retirement to the native country town, the modest prosperity, the business-like making of the will.
After supper, which the lady's impatience made shorter than my appetite would have dictated, the husband and wife went into the small parlour, closing the door upon us children in the library.
Proceeding along the right bank, I found gravelly slopes almost closing upon the river.
The course was very tortuous, alternately closing on rocky precipices, at each side of the valley.
The closing in of the valley lower down, seemed to shut us from further progress even so, and I encamped, rather at a loss how to proceed.
She left the room, closing the door softly behind her.
It was what is called by dealers an "important work," and represented night closing in over a sea lashed into fury by the sweep of a stormy wind.
Another nightclosing in--and the last load cleared from the field--Innocent!
Closing it, and fastening the ponderous wooden bar which stretched diagonally across it, he turned and ran to the chamber in which the weapons were kept.
During all the closing years of his reign he suffered from the crawling inroads of that loathsome disease.
A bugle rang out clear and sweet from somewhere in that surrounding circle of troopers, and instantly the outer edges of the ring began closing in.
But in some manner Paz had become aware of the closing in on him of the soldiers and the cowboys and he had tried to forestall their vengeance.
The earliest efforts of the Federal Government to shut the Confederates in had been directed toward the closing of the port of Charleston.
The city did not fall under Federal control until those closing days of the war when Sherman, after his march to the sea, began his final movement northward in rear of the Carolina port.
You know, sir, what calculations I had made relative to the probable course of events on my retiring from office and the determination with which I had consoled myself of closing the remnant of my days in my present peaceful abode.
It is a thing of mere indifference to the public whether I retain or relinquish my purpose of closing my tour with the first periodical renovation of the government.
We have seen that when Washington retired from the office of President, he had promised himself a season of leisure and repose before closing his useful and honorable life.
So saying, he rose, bowed, and having shaken my hand, left the room, closing the door behind him.
And, closing my eyes, it seemed that she was kneeling before me, her arms about my neck, as when she had bound this handkerchief about my bleeding temples.
Closing the door behind me with my foot, I crossed the room, and set her down upon the bed.
A lid or hatch for covering and closing the scuttles when necessary.
On the death that scowled at distance, on the closing murder-ring.
We all left the room, closing the door upon the prisoner.
Mounted on a fresh bird, and resolutely closing my ears to his urgent and reasonable dissuasion, I joined the smaller party which was detached for this purpose.
The attendant had placed the tray upon a table, disengaged the chains, and disappeared; the door opening and closing as he trod, somewhat more heavily than had been necessary for my host, upon particular points of the floor.
At the opposite end, closing the central aisle, was a low narrow platform raised by two steps carved out of the natural rock, but inlaid with jewellery imitating closely the variegated turf of a real garden.
The breast for woman's peril that dared the despot's ire, Shall dauntless front, and scathless, the closing curve of fire.
With a grunt, half scorn, half sympathy, the old warder shook his head and, closing the door quickly behind him, stole away in search of the more cheerful society of his wife and little Jean.
Next came the cautiousclosing of a door and guarded footsteps.
The girl took off her soft yachting cap, and fanned her face; then ceased and half closing her eyes and throwing back her head, let her red lips part slightly as she breathed in full draughts of the soft western breeze.
He started guiltily and scared, for there was the sound of a door closing softly.
He left the room, closing the door after him as loudly as he could without the shock being considered a bang; and directly after the front door was served in the same way, and they saw him pass the window.
He walked to the window and looked out at the sombre sky, and listened to the roar of the rumbling billows before closing his casement and ringing.
Neither of the group answered, and a man stepped up to them and flashed the light of a lantern quickly over them before closing it again.
Some of these facts, it is true, rest on tradition, yet we are willing to believe them, as they impart a gleam of just and generous feeling to his closing scene.
