The ghost, standing near them, drooped its head again on its breast, and crossed its arms.
He had his left hand at his chin, and that left elbow rested on his right hand crossed over his breast.
Renton," and sat down stiffly, with her hands crossed before her, in the chair nearest the wall.
The ghost had followed him, sadly, and now stood motionless in a corner of the room, its spectral hands crossed on its bosom, and its white locks drooping down!
On his head was a fez with a tassel, and he was sitting upon the hearthrug with his long legs crossed meditatively.
I crossed the garden bit and paced up and down the country lane that skirted it, keeping an eye upon the lighted window of the study.
A man, whom he knew slightly, spoke to them, and afterwards crossed to him.
Vick, we have crossed the dead line long ago, and it is too late to talk about retreating now; never will I move an inch toward the rear; I will win by boldness and audacity.
Not a ripple of sorrow ever crossedthe smooth surface of our sea of pleasure, save when my father would come home intoxicated, and then, for a time, we would collect in the garden and speak in whispers, lest he should find us.
Heavy iron bars crossed each other thickly in the door; and a small space was open near the floor through which the little negro usually passed the dishes that contained my food.
Every possible effort has been made to capture them, but without success, and it is pretty well ascertained that they have crossed the ocean, and are safe in some foreign land.
Lottie was as true to me as the needle to the pole; not a wave of misunderstanding ever crossed the calm sea of our happiness; all my spare moments were spent by her side.
Deeply agitated, I crossed the approach to the domain, and with a spring arrived opposite the door which my father had so often opened with that ineffable smile I still can see.
The terrible cicindela does not fly so high, but with its crossed daggers, or rather the two scimitars which serve it for jaws, accomplishes a swift and almost incredible havoc among the smaller insects.
Miss Laura, as we crossed the bridge over the river.
Gently opening the gate she descended the slope, crossed the road, and stood silent, regarding the outcasts.
Great beams and rafters which it was beyond their power to move an inch, lay crossed in all directions; and they could hold little communication with those who were in a fashion at work.
So, as soon as he got up, he walked out of the gate, crossed the road, and sat down on the spot he had occupied the night before, there to wait until the house should be astir.
Mr. Brewster unlocked the door and crossed the room.
He had smiled at the room-clerk as he crossed the lobby, and if he had had a dollar, he would have given it to the boy who took him up in the elevator.
He hummed a gay air as he entered the lobby and crossed to the cigar-stand to buy a few cigarettes to see him through the afternoon.
A heavy foot had crossed the threshold of the shop.
The thought of the unfortunate Bill had just crossed Archie's mind.
It is a long time since I saw a nice place from the inside," was the thought which crossed her mind.
Sara crossed the square to Miss Minchin's area steps, feeling faint and shaky.
Ram Dass crossed noiselessly to the door and stood close to it.
Ram Dass slipped through his attic window and crossed to hers as steadily and lightly as if he had walked on roofs all his life.
So she crossed the pavement and put her wet foot on the step.
And when they crossed the threshold, Sara shut the door gently and drew her into the warm, glowing midst of things which made her brain reel and her hungry senses faint.
She crossed the strap of the bag on her mistress's bosom, and was embraced by Carinthia and Chillon in turns, Carinthia telling her to dry her eyes, for that she would certainly come back and perhaps occupy the house one day or other.
When he had crossed that stream, he was at once in Scythia; but the Scythians had adopted the same sort of strategy, which in the beginning of this century was practised by their successors against Napoleon.
For this purpose he advanced from Susa in the neighbourhood of the Persian Gulf, through Assyria and Asia Minor to the Bosphorus, just opposite to the present site of Constantinople, where he crossed over into Europe.
When at length they had crossed over into Asia, the Crusaders found themselves without the means of sustenance.
His son, Henry the Fifth, crossed the Channel to conquer France, just at the very, the only time, when the Ottoman reverses gave a fair hope of the success of Christendom.
Alexander, again, in a later age, crossed from Macedonia to Asia with the disciples of Aristotle in his train.
They had crossedthe Don, just above the sea of Azoff, had entered the country now called Circassia, had threaded the defiles of the Caucasus, and had defeated the Median King Cyaxares, the grandfather of Cyrus.
I had crossed to Lano-tô from the village of Safata on the south side of Upolu and was on my way to Apia The previous night I had slept in the bush on the summit of the range.
Then he resumed his own mat again, and crossed his hands on his tatooed knees, for although not a Samoan he was tatooed in the Samoan fashion.
I crossed the bridge, but as I reached the cassava field I noticed to my great annoyance that it had been overrun and laid waste by some mischievous animals.
The following day they devised no less a scheme than to survey the shores of Wood Lake, and place marks wherever the surrounding marsh was practicable, and might be crossed either to reach the water or leave it.
They swam anxiously about, and with much clapping of wings and disturbed cackling showed their uneasiness; finally taking wing they crossed the harbor, and took up their quarters on Shark Island.
We crossed and entered the tall grass on the other side.
As we repassed the rocky bed of a stream we had crossed in the morning, Juno dashed ahead, and was about to rush into a cleft between the rocks, when the appearance of a large jackal suddenly checked her further progress.
One after another our dear ones came running to the opposite bank, testifying in various ways their delight at our return, and hastening up on their side of the river, as we on ours, to the ford at which we had crossed in the morning.
She crossed the plains in 1848 with her parents, Jacob Conser and wife.
We crossed the Stony island portage & encamped below it at a late hour.
This part of the book is of especial value to students of Western history, and of absorbing interest to the few remaining pioneers who, like the writer, crossed the plains in a "prairie schooner.
As we crossed the Cascades on our way to Seattle, one of the passengers was moved to explain his feelings on the excellence of Puget Sound in contrast with the remaining visible Universe.
Steptoe's expedition crossed here in the year 1858 on its disastrous expedition.
Charlie the chief who accompanied us from our last encampment crossed the river with a horse, and in swimming back either was seized or pretended to be seized with a cramp & called out for assistance.
She crossedthe plains with her parents, named Rice, who took a donation claim sixty years ago.
Absorbed by these pleasant contemplations, he was so lost to all around him, that he was within an ace of being crushed to death under the wheels of an enormous coal-wagon, which he had not seen approaching, as he crossed the street.
Presently he glanced at the packet in his hand, and taking one of the letters from it, crossed the street, making for their door.
Cecil began: "Sam, depend on it that child has crossed the river to this side.
The Wyandots had, however, at the sound of firing crossed the river, and the Potawatomis also had joined in the combat, in spite of the truce so recently made with Gladwyn.
But on the 11th Pontiac crossed to the Wyandot village, and threatened it with destruction if the warriors did not take up the tomahawk.
The spring freshets had cut it up; deep gullies crossed the path; and the bridges over the streams had been in most cases washed away.
I had crossed a road, and left it for something like an hour, during which time I walked very fast, when, to my surprise, I came to the same place again.
My feelings were terrible when the jailor turned the key in the lock, secured the heavy iron bar that crossed the door, and left me.
When I had crossed this, I was again completely lost.
A few steps further brought me to the same river I had crossed hours before.
The thought of a new expedient crossedmy mind, which saved us for some time longer.
On his request being complied with, he testified that we crossed their picket-line at the ferry, on the evening of our first arrival at Chattanooga.
Immediately pursuit was made, but he dashed through the woods, and regained the river, much lower down than he had crossed the evening before.
Toward evening, we reached Manchester, crossed Duck river, which was at flood hight, and entered the town.
It was open, and a grin of triumph crossed the sweet countenances of the friends as they exchanged glances, and began to put silver forks and spoons by the dozen into a bag which they had brought for the purpose.
Minnie went out in some surprise, and had barely crossed the threshold when she found herself pinioned in a strong man's arms!
I move that we have him crossed in the buttery{32} for making us laugh during dinner, to the great injury of our digestive organs, and the danger of suffocation.
Crossed in the buttery--not allowed to battel, a punishment for missing lecture.
Never crossed a greater slug in my life--She's only fit to carry a dean or a bishop--No go in her.
Not caring to endure a closer attack of the togati, who had now approached me, I crossedand entered the great quadrangle, or, according to Oxford phraseology, Tom Quad.
The first crack was nearly at right angles to the axis of the channel; the subsequent ones crossed the first; the wind being in the one case from the westward, and afterward changing to the southward.
Toward the west the field of a telescope is constantlycrossed by these detachments.
Reaching the shore, we pushed forward about a mile and a quarter to the head of the inlet, and then crossed over on the ice to a cairn that stood near it.
We crossed the Arctic circle at some unknown hour this forenoon.
Near them was a solitary dovekie, dressed in its gray winter plumage, the first bird I had seen for days; here, too, had crossed the tracks of a bear.
Crossed the Detroit river on a boat as we did the Missouri, but it is dark and I can only see the reflection of the electric light on the water as we cross to the Michigan shore.
But the crack in my slate was a bridge I never crossed with my book.
Rose creek has crossed to the left; what a wilderness of small trees and bushes follow its course!
It has passed heavy freight trains bound for the Indian Agency and the Black Hills, and what a mingling of emigrants from every direction have paid their toll and crossed over to find new homes beyond!
In the rear of the coach were a party of emigrants that look as though they had just crossed the briny wave.
In this fort, 64 feet square, they lived the first winter, but I stayed in my dugout home, which you may have noticed in the side of the hill where you crossed the little bridge.
We crossed the Mississippi river at Burlington, 207 miles from Chicago, but it is night and we are deprived of seeing what would be an interesting view.
They had been told that the Russians had all crossed the Vistula and were in rapid retreat to the west, and that the probabilities were that the road to Moscow would be open in a few weeks.
Half of that crossed south of Warsaw before six, and probably the last division left about midnight, and at three a.
Since the enemycrossed the Dunajec there has been an unbroken stream of wounded flowing steadily back across the frontier.
My friend paused and a shadow crossed his kindly face.
As I have crossed a number of the recuperating fragments of the old Dunajec army in quarters where they were having comparatively an easy time, I was curious to see how the new one was composed.
It was in my own mind that it would not be unpleasant when we crossed the ridge.
So he came home, and crossed the paddock just as the dinner-bell was ringing, opening the hall-door as the children were running across it to the dining-room.
Poor, listless, stolid, deplorable logs, with bowed backs andcrossed ankles, pipy voices and heavy eyes!
