The bowed figures crept about the water and ruins and looked like the ghosts about the ruins of Troy, and unheeding save where instinct prompted them to make a detour about some still burning heap of ruins.
I afterwards ascertained that without storming the Boer position there was no road open to Johannesburg except by a wide detour of many miles to the right.
As it was however they camped for the night in the direction of Randfontein and in the early morning struck away south, attempting a big detour to avoid the road which they had tried to force the previous night.
The Strait of Canso seemed like a place where the priest would be compelled to make some sort of a halt, either while waiting for a chance to cross or while making a detour to get to Canso.
The prospect of a long detourwas very unpleasant to Claude; and when at length he came to a place where the tracks of the horses went towards the river, he asked why this was.
A long detour to the southeast now takes us into the ~Bridalveil Creek Basin~.
The trail now makes a widedetour to the north of ~Indian Rock~ (Alt.
A detour to the westward now takes us around and over a portion of the lateral moraine left at the junction of the ancient Tenaya and Merced glaciers.
To the right of the road, where the river makes a big detour to the north, is Camp 19.
The long distance to be traversed, on account of the detour to be made, rendered it necessary that the men be moved at the highest possible speed.
Here we figure out where he is traveling and make a detour to intercept him.
From the lay of the land it was plain that no concealment was possible and no detour or ambush could be employed.
Having located his quarry, he either shot, at suitable ranges, or made a detour to wait the passing of the game or to approach it from a more favorable direction.
At last we decided to pack up and go around a ten-mile detour and work up the outlet of the canyon.
On the 12th of July, the caravan reached Laramie's Fork, and, abandoning the Platte, made a detour to the southwest.
Through this cañon, after making a detour to avoid some very difficult ground, the wagon-road passes for three or four miles.
They were not satisfied, however, with the region, it being not nearly so fruitful in beaver as the country south of the Crows, so they made a detour to the south.
They made a detour to the north in order to deceive the savages as much as possible as to their real course.
As Custer made a detour to enter the village, Reno struck a large body of Indians, who, after retreating nearly three miles, turned on the troops and ran them pell-mell across Grassy Creek into the woods.
If he returned by the road he had come, it was probable he would be cut off, for the enemy was thoroughly roused, and the South Anna River, unfordable from recent rains, rendered a detour to the north impracticable.
At the corner of the warehouse, Miss Carewe detached her hand from Crailey's, yet still followed him as he made a quick detour round the next building.
Meanwhile the girl was obliged to make a long detour south to the railway, then across the mountains and north again by all sorts of conveyances, with many delays.
It made a wide detour through the bush, and came back to the door of the room where Mary had been sleeping.
Even as Hal had expected, Duval, believing that he had eluded his pursuers, made a detour and entered his home from a side entrance.
I could not pass through it, the streets were so crowded, but meeting on this detour Major McKinley, of Crook's staff, he spread the news of my return through the motley throng there.
Custer having the advance, moved rapidly, and on nearing the station detailed two regiments to make a detour southward to strike the railroad some distance beyond and break the track.
Thence he made a detour from his left with a view of reaching Reams's Station (supposing it to be in our possession).
Lee conformed the march of his cavalry with that of ours, but my holding Stony Creek in this way forced him to make a detour west of Chamberlin's Run, in order to get in communication with his friends at Five Forks.
As the family broke up for the holidays, he strapped on his knapsack for a cross-country tour homeward, making a detour to visit an old friend at Ruegen.
She could not avoid crossing the dam, and if she did not wish to make a detour she must intersect the long line of carters.
As Mickey came along over the same path taken by the boy, he was forced to make a detouraround the carcass of the bear.
Lone Wolf dispatched two of his most skillful scouts, one to the right, the other to the left, with orders to get to the rear of the enemy, no matter how long a detour was necessary.
Often he had to detourfar from his course to skirt long, deep cracks in the surface, or steep breaks where the crust had been raised or dropped several meters by past quakes.
The chasm that had caused him such a long detour before had widened, evidently in the big quake that had hit earlier.
He returned by a detour to an hotel in the Buckingham Palace Road, outside which a big motor-car was at rest, with a fairly complete mental picture of three people who might be possible spies among those he had passed.
He was making a detour which he hoped would lead him to the back of Dalehurst Grange.
The wall about the garden that makes the long detour necessary (Sec.
On his detour the wanderer (who desires to reach the portal of woman) meets people who are alone in the rooms and carry on dirty work.
Of course, after the completion of the detour there is no wall.
The young people of both sexes, separated by a wall, do not come together because they are afraid of the distant detour to the door.
Just then Benteen, returning from his detour southward, discovered Reno's perilous position, drove back the Indians, and joined him on the hill.
A scouting party made a detour to the north and west, but no Indians could be found.
On the morning of the 7th, Custer and Devin, under Merritt, were sent on a detour to the left, to cut off retreat toward Danville should it be attempted; while Crook forded the Appomattox and attacked a train.
Godfrey, was sent to make a detour to the south of Reno.
Making a slight detour they came back to it again--much nearer the palace now--and approached from behind a house that fronted the open space near the palace.
Each step was twice as high as their heads--impossible of ascent--so they made a detour through the grass.
Old Barret started directly toward the fields, and like an abandoned dog, began to make a detour around his farm-house.
He made a detour so as to come up at the back of the hill, and when he reached the top he stood looking down upon the line of works.
By making a long detour one could get into the rear of their lines and pass as a farmer going into camp to sell his goods.
This encompassing detour around the whole country-side was a favorite pastime of his and he was anxious that Vanamee should share his pleasure in it.
Then Delaney and Christian left the others, making a widedetour up the sides of the arroyo, to gain a position to the left and somewhat to the rear of Dyke.
