But beyond the gardens, in the meadow land to which the road descended, tiny groups of figures moved out from the river as though stretching a cordon that way, westward toward the mom-tains.
Then, without warning, we ran straight into the arms of a cordon of vigilantes drawn up in a semicircle awaiting our approach!
The Dutch contingent now made a kind of cordon round the house and watched proceedings closely, in case it should be necessary to send a runner for the police from the nearest town.
She stood up, her wide eyes fixed on that figure in pure white, with the blood-red cordon flaunting across his horse's flanks and the single crimson blossom glowing in his hat.
I can imagine the men who knew about that dreadful affair, in their Southern chivalry, drawing a cordon of silence about the name of that girl with her broken heart!
He did not succeed entirely, but there was hard fighting, and the cordon around the doomed Spaniards in Manila and its suburbs was drawn ever closer and closer.
But, when the saint demanded aid and refreshment after his long voyage, it was necessary to draw the cordon and open the gates of the town.
Early the next morning companies of English archers form a cordon around the market-place, where Joan Darc is to be executed, and a double file extends into one of the streets that runs into the place.
A cordon of sentinels, placed at a little distance from the tree at whose base Joan had been laid, kept back the alarmed, trembling and desolate crowd of soldiers.
English soldiers, casqued and cuirassed, and lance in hand, form a cordonthat keeps the crowd at a distance.
At a previous date, and while hostilities were still in course, Marshal Foch had conferred upon General Pershing the grand cordon of the Legion of Honor.
It was learned on January 17 that a German sea raider, which had succeeded in slipping through the cordon of British ships, had been preying on commerce in the south Atlantic for six weeks.
The above methods supplemented by guard boats, and a cordon of boats.
And we decided that, though we should put a cordon of guards around it at a safe distance to prevent them receiving warning, we should at present make no attack.
This story was contrived on account of the cordon bleu, which the King has not always time to lay aside, because, to do that, he must change his coat, and in order to account for his having a lodging in the castle so near the King.
That nobleman," said I, "is much more delighted with his cordon bleu than he would be with ten thousand of your pieces of metal.
I am authorised by the Emperor to tell you that he will create you a Duke, and give you the Grand Cordon of the Legion of Honour.
But there is not a cordon bleu in every regimental cook-house.
In those remote days the Metropolitan Board of Works was the controlling authority, and bone counters which emanated from them passed the holders within the cordon on any of these interesting occasions.
It is very large, and on a cordon often handsome; in warm seasons of good quality, golden yellow when ripe.
With that he detached his cordon from the breast of his uniform, and fastened it on the coat of the astonished officer, who could only mutter the words, "Sire, sire!
They are passed as presents from one royal personage to another, like a cordon d'honneur.
I have seen him in carbine shooting, when there were twelve shots to be made, draw a cordon round the black with the first eleven balls and then hit the middle with the twelfth.
But he was a trifle premature, for Ward struck the Taiping cordon at its weakest point, fought his way through, and reached Shanghai with a loss of only one hundred men.
This would result in the rebels being held within their own lines by a cordon of bayonets, and, as they had utterly devastated the regions they had overrun, would mean starvation for them.
He remained alone and sat gazing at the shallows and listening for the Cossacks; but it was some distance to the cordon and he was tormented by impatience.
The Cossacks finished their task round the cordon and gathered in the hut for supper.
And Lukashka recommenced whistling, and went along the cordon pulling leaves and branches from the bushes as he went.
He himself had to return to the cordonthat same night.
Chapter VIII It was quite dark when Uncle Eroshka and the three Cossacks, in their cloaks and shouldering their guns, left the cordon and went towards the place on the Terek where they were to lie in ambush.
Accompanied by Vanyusha he rode back to the cordon without any accident several hours in advance of the rest of the company.
He told how one morning he had killed two deer, and about his 'little soul' who used to run to him at the cordon at night.
The wag had not seen any vulture at all, but it had long been the custom of the young Cossacks in the cordon to tease and mislead Uncle Eroshka every time he came to them.
It's all one whether we're in the cordon or in ambush.
They are sending me from the cordon to a company beyond the Terek.
Lukashka went back alone to the cordon pondering over Olenin's action.
When there was a reception at the chateau, or he held a review, he put this grandcordon outside his coat.
He had seen Farmer and Barker streaking along underneath Dave and right down under the outer edge of the cordon of German planes.
Or he could make it death by agreeing with Barker's suggestions and attempting to fight through the aerial cordon of Messerschmitts until all three of them went down in flames.
We left the room and were ushered by a cordon of agents to cars which were awaiting us.
When the car came to a stop, a cordon of agents formed around me, and we walked rapidly into the hospital and then we went into a room there.
This story was contrived on account of the cordon bleu, which the King has not always time to lay aside, because, to do that, he must change his coat, and in order to account for his having a lodging in the castle so near the King.
That nobleman," said I, "is much more delighted with his cordon bleu than he would be with ten thousand of your pieces of metal.
A sanitary cordon has been formed round them, and as this method was not found sufficiently expeditious to get rid of them, they have been gorged with spirits.
The multitude was silent, however; it witnessed with calm stoicism the departure of the Mexican army; not an effort was attempted by the people to break the cordon of sentries drawn up on the fort.
You can then go boldly down and out to the cordon of soldiers.
One glance was enough to show that a strong cordon of soldiers was being drawn--nay, to all appearances was already drawn--all round the workshop.
Scores of soldiers, and they look to be forming a cordon right round the building.
The soldiers trooped noisily out and joined the cordon still drawn about the burning building.
A cordon of military cities was drawn round the old Roman centers in Lombardy, Tuscany, and the Duchy of Spoleto.
Against this cordonof fortresses every city with singular unanimity directed the forces it had formed in the preceding conflicts.
The attack was ordered for the purpose of breaking the cordon around Mafeking, with a view to ultimately reopening our communications to the north.
Beyond ourselves and our cordon of sentries there should have been no one, although occasionally we thought that, just above the skyline, lights played about the shadowy outline of the Boer gun.
