No," said I, "they'll not go till the cool of the day.
Then placing a bundle of cool ferns under his head for a pillow, I turned to the captives, from whom there had been never a word this while.
Oh," she broke out, "if it were your child you were trying to find and save, you would not be so cool about it.
And we darted noiselessly through the cool of the great trees, turning a little east from the road.
Chapter XVI I Cool My Adversaries' Courage We now, having been so long delayed, gave up our purpose of a fire, and contented ourselves with the eggs raw.
On, on we stumbled, the wet branches buffeting our faces, but a cool and pleasant savour of the wild herbs which we trod upon ever exhaling upwards to refresh our senses.
He snatched the green and yellow cap of knitted wool from his head, and let the windcool the sweating black tangle that coarsely thatched his broad skull.
The captain splashed and paddled about in thecool water for a quarter of an hour.
The white walls and green trimmings gave it a fresh, cool appearance.
Bathe your face for you and set you down on the deck to cool off," replied Harriet.
Jennie and her mother went up stairs, and Jack, without undressing, stretched out on the couch, pulling the blankets over him, for the night was cool with the approach of fall.
Nothing could have been more coolthan his manner when he joined the group and suggested a game of quoits.
For it was well known to them and to the other men that the Englishman had ridden off, in the cool hours of the dawn, to Farnie Marais' place about ten miles away, to get her some flowers.
Every day, in the cool of the early morning, while the others were still sleeping, he and she visited the graveyard, starting the good work of making it blossom like the rose, as Christine had promised.
She kissed Kitty, tucked a rug round her, for the cool of evening was beginning to fall, and went her ways.
It was cool and fresh there under the stone porticoes, with veils of green creepers hanging between her and the blazing sunshine and colour of the garden.
Leaning on the arm of his nurse, he walked down the long veranda and came to her big, cool room, delicately shaded with rose lights and full of the scent of violets and faint Parisian essences.
Looking at him with cool and lovely disdain as she leaned on the arm of the great politician who still lingered with her, she disclaimed all recollection of any such engagement.
Sarle never suspected what was going on, so cool and sweet she looked under her shady hat, so unfailing was her composure.
Other people were asking these questions also, and once the distracted mother, lingering in a cool corner of the balcony while her daughters were dancing, heard the voice of an acquaintance saying acidly: "What a fool the mother is!
He was the cool man of judgment and precision as he went to the map, drew some lines with his pencil, and gave some orders.
But women can be cool even when their underlips are trembling, as Helen's was.
How could any woman be so cool after such a shock?
Lady Violet quite agreed with their view, but Henriette was cool to her sister when they parted.
Phil, who had envied the cool officers directing their men in the preoccupation of action, tore down the sleeve and opened the dressing.
The warrior of the portrait had the cool and damp distinction of having his bones under a stone in the church floor which had been trod by generations of worshippers.
Store all meat in a cool place and do not let flies come in contact with it.
Flour, cereals and meals become wormy if they are not kept in clean, covered utensils and in a cool place.
When baked, the bread should be turned out of the pans and allow to cool on a wire rack.
Put in cool place to harden but do not put on ice as the gelatine would cause the mixture to flake.
The water in which salt meat, fresh meat, or poultry has been boiled should be allowed to cool and the fat removed before soup is made of it.
Cool and remove the layer of fat which forms on the top, scraping off any bits of meat or other material which may adhere to the other side.
When cool add the fat which has been heated until liquid.
When cool enough to handle, pull until white; make into inch-thick rolls and clip off into neat mouthfuls with oiled scissors, or chill and break into irregular pieces when cold.
They looked so cool in their green pith-like husks that she could not refrain from pulling one or two asunder to reach the blob of fragrant pulp within, tasting and awakening from her langour, before she asked where they had come from.
There is a railway, and a few modern shops; and gaily-dressed townspeople may be seen driving fast horses or playing lawn tennis in the cool of the afternoon; but these are recent innovations on the old time when M.
When I think of this dreams of dryads that troop down from the hillsides and stand, slender and adorable jewel-weeds, where the cool springs ooze from beneath the gravelly hill, do not seem in the least absurd or improbable.
She gives us cool fogs to the reopening of our shrivelled pores and just by walking along shore we are touched by this vivific principle which gives such riotous life to all things.
It is the same thrill which the wilting west wind steeps from the salt marsh as it comes across, some baffling and alluring ether distilled from under-sea caverns where cool green mermen tend emerald fires.
Under the soft mists of a cool May day I brushed the dew from the wood grasses and unrolling croziers of cinnamon fern to pause in admiration at shrubs and trees bearing calling cards.
Today, so suddenly does the change seem to become visible, I saw them blaze up out of a cool swamp at the foot of the hill on which I stood.
They have their abode in cool springs in seclusion behind the pine-clad hillside, and would, I fancy, be ashamed to be seen wandering wantonly about the open fields.
Surely this one came down out of a pasture elm to bathe slim feet in the cool spring water.
These are but the forms of overwhelming life that meet the eye on first descending into the cool depths.
Some day some one of them, wiser than the rest, will distil its potency from the cool salt of sea tides, and humanity, poor hitherto, will find itself rich in possibilities of physical immortality.
Often we dwellers far inland get more than a cool breath of the sea.
The noon-tide sun, though not oppressively warm, was still sufficiently fervid to render the shade of the grove, and the cool mountain brook in the deep ravine, no unpleasant objects to wearied travellers.
No, no, I will undress the old lady, and let her have the benefit of the coolair in this hot weather.
Here Robinson interposed before Henry could make the saucy reply he meditated, by announcing that the company would find some cool water and a supply of spirits in the adjoining room.
A flurry of cool air on the saddle spot is the best thing in nature for a tired horse.
The air was elastic; the cool breeze played upon the shrubbery, and stole the perfume of a thousand flowers.
A beautiful, bright, and cool autumnal morning shone upon the wide plain, where an army of between two and three thousand men was drawn out in line.
The cool wind was blowing, but his body no longer shivered.
Ibarra was still confused, but the evening breeze, which, in Manila, is at this time of the year always cool and refreshing, seemed gently to lift the hazy mist which hung over his eyes.
Peterkin, drawing a long breath, "I've heard of a man jumping out of his skin and sitting down in his skeleton in order to cool himself, but I never expected to see a crab do it!
It was now Jack's turn to leap aside, and well was it for him that the first outburst of his blind fury was over, else he had become an easy prey to his gigantic antagonist; but Jack was cool now.
Wet your lips with this water, it's cool and clear as crystal.
Nobody was hurt, and between them they disarmed Potts, and turned the Irishman out to cool off in his own cabin.
The bacon-rinds were boiled in the mush-pot with a great deal of snow and a little meal, and the "soup" so concocted was set out to cool for the dogs.
But not even so damning a suspicion as that could cool the collector's kindness for his new Spissimen.
We were a sad and most forlorn looking company, certainly; not a man of us had any thing to say, and none cared to be interrupted in his blissful dream of cool rivers and streams.
He was very much attached to the gun, and in spite of his calm and cool philosophy in all vexatious matters, he cannot altogether conceal his chagrin.
There had been a slight shower in the night, but only sufficient to lay the dust, and it was just cool enough to be delightful.
You haven't kept me waiting," was the cool answer.
Must have had a fuse blow out, or a hot box, and they're waiting to cool it," he mused.
He was as cool as if he was the first man up in a small game, and not one on whom a championship depended.
It was, indeed, so cool and pleasant that the surveyor shrugged unwillingly when the advancing shadows emphasized Carter's remark that it was "time to be moving.
In pleasant weather he and his wife would sit on their doorstep after the children were in bed, to enjoy the quiet hour while the peace and cool charmed away the cares of the day; and this night was particularly beautiful.
Keeping on in the cool silence, he presently came to the Red River suspension bridge, where he paused and leaned on the parapet at the very spot from which she loved to watch Indians and chattering squaws float beneath in quaint birch canoes.
Her whisper dissipated his painful reflections, and, looking up, he saw that, after lighting his pipe with a coal from the stove, Michigan Red was surveying them with cool effrontery through the tobacco smoke.
Molyneux was smoking, though, to give him his due, he did not require that invaluable aid to a cool bearing.
Just as you like," returned the man, with cool indifference.
Mrs. Dinneford was half angry and impatient; Mrs. Bray cool and self-possessed.
The parched throats and swelling tongues of the castaways were soon relieved by a fairlycool drink from the filled skins in the native boat.
Now that it was over, and the excitement was beginning to cool down, the minister began to feel a little natural anger at the perpetrator of the "Joke.
After having for weeks drank the brackish water of the prairie lakes, we drank from this sweet though turbid stream, and were refreshed, as were the children of Israel, who partook of the cool water from the stricken rock.
He was a man of large experience, education and ability, and possessed, withal, a cool head.
He had a cool head, but no fighting qualities; had been an Indian trader for many years, raised an Indian family, and knew a great deal about Indian signs and customs.
It was freshly cut and evidently came from the steamboat men, as it was borne down on the bosom of the cool waters of the longed-for Yellowstone.
The latter is a most formidable weapon with the Indian if the grass is plentiful and the weather dry, and they can use it to great advantage if the attacking party is not cool headed.
He was a jolly good fellow and "cool as a cucumber," with a bay window on him like an overgrown bass drum.
He was as big and loyal and good-natured as a St. Bernard dog and he was as cool in danger as Thompson--which is the highest compliment I can pay him.
I witnessed an example of thecool daring of these mitrailleuse drivers during the fighting around Malines.
Though by this time the German gunners had the range and shrapnel was bursting all about him, he was as cool as though he were turning a limousine in the width of Piccadilly.
After the guns were out of range I could see the dark blue masses of the supporting Belgian infantry slowly falling back, cool as a winter's morning.
There, no vapors can linger; they are expelled by the fierce solar energy; and there is no cool stratum to catch them and return them.
Perhaps too, such matter, when thin, may be supposed to cool down more rapidly from its state of incandescence; and thus to become less luminous.
The vicinity of the river Iora makes this a very fertile spot, cool and inviting even in the middle of summer.
The fare was abundant and good, as was to be expected in a country so rich in game and fish, and we slaked our thirst with cool kumiss (fermented mare's milk).
I had ridden half a mile beyond the point whence I should have ascended by a bridle-path to our host's house, before the cool shade of a cliff aroused me from my state of forgetfulness.
A cool air comes along the highways, and the scents awaken.
It seems as if linen washed there should be speciallycool and sweet.
