On the following day, the queen, seated on a most sumptuous dais, saw defile past her the hosts who were marching to the war against the Moors.
I have already sent Tony and Blacking up the defile to see how the flood has left it, and in an hour they will be back to report.
Sometimes of course the defile is easier than at others; it depends much upon the action of the last floods.
Traders consider this defile to be the very hardest passage anywhere in South Africa, and there are plenty of other bad bits too.
It was not until late in the afternoon that the party passed safely through the defile and reached the valley beyond, men and animals worn out by the exertions they had undergone.
They said indeed that the defile was now more open than either of the two gorges they had already passed through.
It all depends, Dick, upon the question whether in the lower defile there is any place narrower than the mouth, through which the water is rushing from above.
The defile must be held," Mr Harvey said, "until we are well in the next pass.
The bed of the defile was perfectly dry, the stones being scarcely wetted by the fine mist from above.
It is lucky the storm has begun so early; if we had got far into the defile we should have been caught.
On emerging at the upper end of the defile they found they were in a valley which opened out to a great width, and rose in gradual slopes at its head to the crest of the hills.
I have been many times attacked by the natives, but I do not know that any of these affairs were so interesting as the fight we had in the defile the other day.
Driven back again by the narrow entrance to the lower defile the water in the valley rose rapidly, as with an ever-increasing violence it poured in from above.
When he reached the turn in the defile he crawled forward among the boulders until he reached a spot where he could obtain a clear view of the barrier; it was to the full as formidable as it had been described by the scouts.
In the defile he had been conscious only of a slight mist, with an occasional drop of heavy rain, for very few of the rain-drops which entered the gap far above descended to the bottom, almost all striking against the sides.
Though the block of stone so powerfully overturned by Gilliatt in the defile behind the breakwater was the strongest possible barrier, it had a defect.
Between the projecting rock and the interior wall of the defile there was a large interval, something like the notch of an axe, or the split of a wedge.
The after-part with the engine and the paddles, lifted out of the foam and driven by all the fury of the cyclone into the defile of the Douvres, had plunged in up to her midship beam, and remained there.
A river of foam rushing along the zigzags of the defilesubsided as it approached the sloop.
This strange defile is a voltaic pile; the plates of which are the double line of cliffs.
There was a cracking noise; the gap spreading in the shape of a fissure, opened its vast jaws, and the heavy mass fell into the narrow space of the defile with a noise like the echo of the thunder.
The defile of the Douvres was one of these gorges, and its effect was exciting to the imagination.
The defile has its elbows and angles like all these streets of the sea--never straight, having been formed by the irregular action of the water.
It fell perpendicularly into the water, struck the rocks, and stopped in the defile before touching the bottom.
The entrance to the defile being thus protected, Gilliatt thought of the sloop.
It rolls the huge billows from the illimitable space and dashes the waves against the narrow defile in greater bulk than can find entrance there.
If any man defile the temple of God, him will God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
Like a hunted animal he presses on over ridge and through defile till he reaches the black tents and receives from Jael the treacherous welcome, "Turn in, my lord, turn in to me; fear not.
The rendezvous of Sisera's host was Harosheth of the Gentiles, in the defileat the western extremity of the valley of Megiddo, where Kishon breaks through to the plain of Acre.
Ney attacked, with forty thousand men, the Russian vanguard under Winzingerode, which, after gallantly defending a defile near Weissenfels, made an orderly retreat before forces far their superior in number.
The march by the defile of St. Albert had been indeed possible at any time during the night or in the very early morning.
The defile in which we found ourselves was the most gloomy and majestic that I have ever seen.
Hardly a man of the enemy got out of the defile alive.
We followed hard upon the track of the fugitives and entered the Terada defileat their very heels.
The defile was duly forced, but its passage was one long skirmish.
Sir Charles determined to force the defile in person.
You swear by the Mother, and then you go and disobey her and defile her temples.
Nowhere else have such stringent rules been enacted to fix the precise distance at which the bodily presence of a member of the lower castes is held to defile the sacred person of the Brahman.
Scarce has the ambuscade been set, when the trampling of horses heard down the defile tells of a cavalcade coming up, and presently the foremost files appear rounding an angle of rock.
One morning early he rode up the defile Katchanik, when suddenly he saw Moussa Kessedjiya, calmly seated on his black steed with his legs crossed, throwing his mace to the clouds and catching it again in his right hand.
Let no calamity be mine, let no sin defile me, and let there be no opponents or enemies of mine!
O foremost one of Bhrigu's race, do thou take every care for seeing that the chief of the celestials may not defile this spouse of mine like a wretched dog licking the Havi kept in view of a sacrifice.
Oh God, that men placed by Thee upon this earth of Thine, should defile it and outrage Thee with such heinous thoughts!
The air of this place is as pure as that of the chastest house in London, and from the time they come in until they leave they will hear nothing which coulddefile a sanctuary.
We marched about 4 miles when our Light corps fell in with the enemy on the opposite side of a defile with some slight works thrown up in their front.
And some slave somewhere purchased will defile my bed, before wooed by princes.
Thou art a fool, if thou thinkest I could endure to defile me by smiting thy neck, for neither art thou a woman, nor oughtest thou to be ranked among men.
The charge into the defile was what any man would have done.
Their flank is protected by the cliffs, but there is a defile left unguarded!
The only entrance or exit was that narrow defile through which they had ridden.
Seen by the light of morn the defile was not so choked up by trees and bushes as it had seemed in the dusk of the evening; the entrance only was marked by a curtain of young trees, which would easily succumb to a few blows of a hatchet.
This strand, which was only reached by a narrow defile between two perpendicular mountains, was exactly opposite an island of which it was impossible to make out the dimensions, which, however, were very considerable.
For some time we had watched the clouds gathering over them, and as we got to the top of the defile rain was falling from a fringe of thunder to the south.
The following August Bugeaud brought his troops up from Oudjda, through thedefile that leads from West Algeria, and routed the Moroccans.
We press on, and ere the day has dawned we have emerged from out the defile into the open land beyond.
There was only left the short afternoon of daylight, our horses were no longer over fresh, and we had five-and-twenty miles to go, ten of them along a defile valley.
This continued for ten miles, and the last defile cut through a ridge of rock, called the Backbone, which ranged in height from twenty to forty feet, smooth, unbroken and perpendicular on its eastern face.
As they emerged from the defile and left the Backbone behind, the elder looked keenly, almost affectionately, at his companion and placed a kindly hand on the shoulder of the man who had turned the balance, breaking the long silence.
As they entered the defile of the Backbone the sheriff suddenly remembered what Bill had told him and he stopped and dismounted.
Tex signalled for Bill to be let down and ran backward to the opposite side of the defile until he could see around the turn; and he discovered the sheriff, who sat quietly under the gun of the cowboy.
They got Bill in the defile of the Backbone and were going to lynch him--they beat him up shameful.
Picking up the puncher's revolver he took the cylinder from it and hurled it far out on the plain, throwing the frame across the defile into a tangled mass of mesquite.
When Bill plunged into the defile through the Backbone he began to grow a little apprehensive, and he intently watched each stretch of the road as each successive turn unfolded it to his sight.
And on the day when he had given Tex his life in the defile he had noticed the faded yellow rope which had swung at the puncher's saddle horn.
This ridge wound and twisted from the big chaparral twenty miles below the defile to a branch of the Limping Water, fifteen miles above.
He quietly made up his mind to be near the stage route on the days when Bill drove through the defile of the Backbone, and to be within call if he should be needed.
He was pursued, hounded out and hemmed in on every side, with two hundred and fifty to three hundred men, the remnant of his band; but he hoped to be able to escape by a defilethat he believed was known only to himself.
When a defile was reached, the hundred Frenchmen were slaughtered, and Fra Diavolo and his two hundred and fifty men regained the mountains!
My road lay at first through fertile fields, between the lake and the foot of the mountains; sometimes crossed by a sudden defile or glen, and by rapid brooks hurrying to the sea.
The General orders that you and Noyes defile by your left flank out of the cañon and return, at once, to the field.
