Their infantry embattled, square and close, March firmly on, to fill the middle space, Covered by their advancing cavalry.
This can be covered on the back with almost any of the climbing vines.
A grass tennis court with back nets to keep the balls from going too far, covered with climbing vines or flowers, adds so much to the appearance of a garden that other improvements are sure to follow.
I was wrapped in my cloak and blankets, laid thereon, and so was borne forth, all covered even to my weak eyes.
The Cardinal perceived a young woman arrayed in black and covered with a long, white veil.
In fact, the cannonading was general; the citadel, the town, and the army were covered with smoke.
Every afternoon you may see her at the cafe, loading herself with rich cream- covered cakes, washed down by copious draughts of chocolate.
The winding roadway ran beside a mountain torrent, which for a mile or so fretted and foamed over rocks and boulders between wood-covered banks.
Its geological formation consists chiefly of variegated sandstone and granite; its lower heights being coveredwith extensive pine forests.
They promised to act, and in the evening they brought her to him in a covered wagon, together with a bill for expenses.
As a matter of fact, a dense wood covered every hill.
It is surrounded by noble larches and overhung by rock; in front of the portico there is a small open space covered with grass, and a huge larch, the stem of which is girt by a rude stone seat.
One of the young women eloped, fled to a lake which was covered with ice, was pursued by some of the ox teamsters, and carried back to the infirmary.
One sees very perfectly fitted laundries; covered ways by which to pass from house to outhouses in stormy weather; ingenious contrivances for ventilation, and against drafts, etc.
The bedstead is a cot, covered with the bedclothing, and easily moved away to allow of dusting and sweeping.
The floor was covered with strips of rag carpet, very neat and of a pretty, quiet color, loosely laid down.
The ministry and elders remarked that they believed that something was wrong; something extremely heinous was covered from God's witnesses somewhere in the assembly.
Then a new race of people came and built another little town upon the earth-covered ruins.
But before it was done a horn blew and called him away to a little table covered with cakes.
The gymnasium had a covered portico as long as the track in the stadion, where the boys could run in bad weather.
Under the rains and floods the sun-dried bricks of Hera's walls melted again into clay and covered the floor.
I was a stranger and you took me not in: naked and you covered me not: sick and in prison and you did not visit me.
And behold a great tempest arose in the sea, so that the boat was covered with waves, but he was asleep.
For nothing is covered that shall not be revealed: nor hid, that shall not be known.
Naked, and you covered me: sick, and you visited me: I was in prison, and you came to me.
This cane roofing, which was both light and strong, I thatched heavily with sedge, similar to that with which I had covered my hut.
The ground was covered with boulders, of different sizes, and there was quite an opening on the mountain side, the undergrowth being only shrubs and plants, with the trees and groves below me in larger groups.
The floor of this room I covered with pure white sea-sand for one half, and the other half with soft, pulverized, dry, clayey loam that would do me for castings.
We covered the body with our spare clothing, and each sat in sad reflection.
After I had made my balloon bag I covered all the cloth and the seams with a fine varnish that I made from the resinous trees of the island.
Underneath the centre of my car was hung vertically a propeller, also made of cane, and the blades covered with cloth, and on each side a fan wheel some six feet in circumference and two wide.
It was well also that I should have had to make this engine, for the fishes contained in the lake had commenced to die, and the air was impregnated with their effluvia, and the surface was covered with their dead bodies.
Wrecked boats and broken tools were lying in the streets, while the cellars of some houses were still filled with water covered with floating furniture.
It almost seemed as though she were going to faint, for she sat down on a chair beside the wardrobe and covered her face with her shawl.
This was a many-cornered, well-planed blackboard covered with white numerals, which hung like a lamp in the middle of the building.
The roots of the trees formed a natural stairway, and everywhere my feet encountered swelling beds of moss, for the stones are here covered foot-deep, as if with light-green velvet cushions.
They consisted of a variety of fashions of different ages, and many a woman there was so covered with gold and diamonds as to look like a wandering jeweler's shop.
Can you imagine great trees entirely covered with exquisite blooms, and garlands of pink and lilac creepers interlacing the jungle?
The tesselated floor was covered in the centre with cloth of gold, the walls were clothed, at intervals, with the same gorgeous hangings, relieved by panels freshly painted in the most glowing colours, with mystic and symbolical designs.
The seats were covered with cloth and rich tapestry.
As Rienzi thus spoke, his face grew pale, his hair seemed to bristle, his tall and proud form trembled visibly, and presently he sunk down on a seat, and covered his face with his hands.
Nina, with moistened eyes, as she saw the deep and burning blush that covered the boy's cheeks.
Alone, by a table covered with various papers, sat a man in the prime of life.
He turned, and under a long tent, and round a board covered with wine and viands, sate some thirty or forty bravoes.
But the Chief Justice of the King's Bench gave his judgment in the Shalford Rector's favour, and at the height of the fair's prosperity it actually covered a hundred and forty acres of ground.
Once the Abbey precinct covered sixty acres of ground; to-day nothing remains but tumbled walls and broken gates.
When at last I stood on the edge of the water, the reason was clear enough; the pond is surrounded by banks covered with trees.
It must have covered many more miles than the maps allow it to-day.
In front of a sort of bivouac of bent polescovered with cloths sat an old, weatherbeaten man, tailor-fashion, making a straw beehive.
They edge the horizon like inverted pudding bowls coveredwith bracken, and with bell-heather kindling to crimson in the July sunlight.
But Shalford Fair was the great fair, and actually covered 140 acres of ground.
The early and especially important history of the islands will becovered as fully as before.
The bandage which covered his eyes fell suddenly; and to the flattering delusions with which he had deceived himself succeeded a formidable reality.
At some little distance and out of hearing, five warriors held a number of horses, strangely accoutred with wooden saddles covered with skins.
The old hunter alone glanced towards Fabian, as though to ask what motive this man, with his impudent and sinister manner, and his beard covered with greenish mud, could offer for thus intruding himself upon them.
By the light of a smoky candle, the Spaniard, in spite of the modest appearance of his lodgings and of his dust-covered clothes, seemed to have lost nothing of the dignity of his appearance or of his grand air.
They looked like indistinct phantoms, covered with long draperies, hanging over the river.
Straight and motionless as a bamboo stem, an Indian runner covered with blood and panting for breath, waited for some time until the chief, before whom he stood, should open his eyes and interrogate him.
Covered with mud, and his garments streaming with water, they might have mistaken him for one of the evil spirits whom the Indians believed to dwell in these solitudes.
During his recital, a cold perspirationcovered the narrator's countenance.
But the remains of the fog at that moment covered the top of the rock, and all three rushed simultaneously towards the isolated mass where they believed their enemy to be hidden.
And as he said this, the Canadian coveredhis face with his huge hand, as if to shut out from his eyes the seductive prospect which had been offered to his view.
These are my accusations; and if I do not substantiate them, I am willing to be covered with reproach.
If, through a false delicacy of feeling or cringing policy, their wickedness be covered up, alas for the slaves, and alas for the regeneration of the south!
A vast alluvial plain is spread out before the eye covered with fertile fields and thrifty woods, through which from northwest to southeast flows the Volga like a silver thread upon a verdant ground, extending from horizon to horizon.
The Prince was almost covered on the left breast with the insignia of various orders.
There is ample evidence showing that in long past ages these islands were much more extensive than at present, and that they were once covered with abundant vegetation.
The little creatures are very quiet in their portable cradles, consisting of a basket-frame covered with reindeer hide, into which they are closely strapped.
They were found easy of ascent, and were coveredwith a soft, fresh verdure, from whence we gathered a bouquet of native thyme and various colored wild-flowers which were brought back with us to Stockholm.
There is no other country where so large a portion is covered with august mountains as in Norway.
The marine shells which are found in the bottom of some of the inland lakes of both Norway and Sweden show that the land which forms their bed was once covered by the sea.
The central floor is covered with gravestones bearing the titles of historic characters and of heroic names, in the study of which and recalling of their mingled histories hours glide swiftly away.
Its former churches and monasteries have crumbled to dust, the grounds and neighborhood being now only remarkable for the beautiful trees which have sprung up and covered the wrinkles that ruthless time has scored upon the face of the earth.
Here and there on the river's course long reaches of sandy shoals would appear covered with myriads of white sea-gulls, scores of which would occasionally rise, hover over our steamer and settle in her wake.
The long broad stacks in more than one instance covered several acres of land, closely ranged with narrow road-ways between them.
By the post storeroom, waiting their turn to unload, was ranged a line of the tarpaulin-covered wagons, wheeled galleons of the plains, that brought food and raiment to the Northwest before the coming of steam and steel.
I straightened his arms, and covered his face with the blood-stained coat and left him to his long sleep.
He approached her person without any ceremony, and usually came covered into her presence, of which she had complained to Queen Elizabeth.
At the upper end was the scaffold, covered with black cloth, and elevated about two feet from the floor.
At a slight distance, the table loaded with plate glittering under a profusion of lamps, and surrounded by couches thus covered by rich draperies, was like a central source of light radiating in broad shafts of every brilliant hue.
My reason for this was, that his conk was covered with carbuncles; and I thought I should vex him by taking such liberties with his conk, which in fact I did.
There is scarcely a great event or a public man of importance in the period covered that does not figure directly or indirectly in this story.
Grassy eminences, crowned with woods, andcovered with herds of horses and the handsome Jamaica cattle, descend, in successive undulations, to the sea.
Thy heritage was very fair, and the exceeding Beauty thereof covered the Evil, and in all things were planted the germs of Good.
You may travel over miles and miles on the plains once rich with the cane, or ridge after ridge in the uplands once covered with the dark-green coffee plantations, which now are almost a wilderness.
The difficulty is that our physical senses only perceive the surface of our surroundings, and that we have hitherto been looking at the Woof of Nature as though it were the glass of a window covered with patterns, smudges, flies, &c.
This remarkable phenomenon tells us of a time when the whole of the centre of Iceland was covered with glaciers, like the centre of Greenland now.
Grettir defended himself with a fire-brand plucked from the hearth; the sons of Thorir stumbled over the fire, and the embers were strewn about over the floor that was covered with fresh straw.
This hill was coveredwith snow when Grettir arrived.
The windows high up were covered with parchment, and admitted now and then a sickly yellow glare from the full moon, which, however, shone in through the smoke hole, silvering the rising smoke.
North of the Vatna-jokull is a vast region, as large as a big county, coveredwith lava broken up into bristling spikes and deep clefts of glass-like rock, which no one can possibly get across.
Now Hoering had lain in the bottom of the boat, covered with a piece of sailcloth, so that the brothers saw nothing of him as the boat was approaching the islet.
In one place two of the cracks unite, and there is a high mound of blistered lava covered with turf and flowers between them.
I was there the very end of June, and then the whole of the mountain flank to the west was covered with frozen streams spread like a net of icicle over the black and red striped bare rock.
One sees in front the green basin, and above it rise the mountains to Skeggoxl, a cone covered with eternal snows and with glaciers streaming down its flanks.
East and west of this mighty tract of broken-up lava come extensive moors also quite desert, covered with inky-black sand which has been erupted by volcanoes, burying and destroying what vegetation there was.
Oxmain was a very strong man, and his shield was covered with well-tanned hide stretched over oak, and the blade of Grettir fell on it, hacked into it, and sometimes caught so that he could not at once withdraw it.
A Cossack orderly stood there, his horse covered with sweat and he with dust.
Never did he feel more secure in his quiet life and snug possession than when, bound for bed, he crossed the large hall, with its vaulted roof painted in Gothic blue with faded gilt stars, and its antler-covered walls.
The thin hands which had clasped the crucifix so eagerly a little while back were clutching at the rags with which they had covered him.
Then he glanced at Joe over the broad table, handsome with plate and flowers, covered with the remains of a well-served, well-cooked meal.
The two men covered up the tops so well that none could tell the ground had been disturbed twenty-four hours after they had finished.
The Countess covered his thin, withered face, so peaceful in its long sleep, with a peasant woman's kerchief.
However, after being able to check these statements by the help of lanterns, Ian decided that ten roubles more than covered the damage.
