Two days after he had absconded, and when he was quite thirty miles distant from Bar Harbour, he saw smoke arising from a dense scrub.
Men and women never travel far from yesterday; nor is their morrow in a distant light.
Malbrook" would be comparatively modern, were not all things that are sung to a drowsing child as distant as the day of Abraham.
Let, then, the stimulus be of a mild and strong kind at once, and mingled with the thought of distant pleasure.
The whole upstanding world, with its looks serene and alert, its distant replies, its signals of many miles, its signs and communications of light, gathers down and pauses.
The penny is mild and strong at once, with its still distant but certain joys of purchase; the promise and hope break the mood of misery, and the will takes heart to resist and conquer.
So delicate and so slender is the distant horizon that nothing less near than Queen Mab and her chariot can equal its fineness.
The visible world is etched and engraved with the signs and records of our halting apprehension; and the pause between the distant woodman's stroke with the axe and its sound upon our ears is repeated in the impressions of our clinging sight.
This distant hill outsoars that less distant, but all are on the wing, and the plain raises its verge.
You see the clouds that repeat each other grow smaller by distance; and you find a new unity in the sky and earth that gather alike the great lines of their designs to the samedistant close.
I felt security in the word, and, without a further pang, heard his tread echoing along the distant corridor.
Michael retreated to a distant part of the room, and watched his man.
It was already twilight; the fine summer's day, as if it had been dimmed by the desperate scenes of which it was witness, set in sudden clouds; and the distant shoutings of the populace seemed to be answered by the voice of a storm.
They had known each other in the early and distant days of their prosperity--they had grown poor together--they were united by the uniformity of their fortunes as by the similarity of their natures.
Hearing the distant shouts, these fellows rushed down to the entrance of the court, and arrived there just as Jack passed it.
These measures," said the speech, "his majesty is persuaded, will evince to his subjects in those distant possessions the solicitude with which parliament watches over their welfare.
A guerilla warfare was carried on in many distant provinces and districts, and some towns on the eastern coast in Catalonia and Valencia were captured by the French, but the French masses remained inactive.
On the following night the low hum of voices proceeding from the encampment suddenly ceased, and it was succeeded by the distant but gradually increasing sounds of a multitude moving stealthily through the woods.
In proroguing parliament the king expressed his hearty approbation of it, auguring the augmentation of the public revenues, a unity of the interests of his most distant possessions, and an increase of commerce, as its natural results.
In the distant provinces there were thousands who were their friends.
A chandelier, suspended from the center of the ceiling, illuminated certain portions of the room, while the more distant parts remained in deep obscurity.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
The air was filled with a tumult of uncertain wind and a hiss as of distant rain.
Beyond this river stretches a vast plain bounded on the horizon by mountain ranges, each line of them rising higher than the other till their topmost and more distant peaks melt imperceptibly into the tender blue of the heavens.
And as for the thunder, I was not in the least afraid of it, but gloried in its loud peals and distant reverberations among the encompassing mountains.
And as he gazed he moved the helm so that his little craft gradually turned from her course, and sailed to meet the distant ship.
I envy nests of sparrows That dot his distant eaves, The wealthy fly upon his pane, The happy, happy leaves That just abroad his window Have summer's leave to be, The earrings of Pizarro Could not obtain for me.
It is instructive to reflect that the Paris which made for a short day Mesmer its idol, was not far distant from the Paris of the Reign of Terror.
It mattered not how far distant the sufferer was from the scene of operation.
My sister has no private fortune whatever, at present, and all she has in prospect is the reversion of a trifling sum--at a distant period.
Water is found ten or twelve feet below the surface, and may be supplied by underground streams from the Himalaya, distant forty-five miles.
The transparency of the pale-blue atmosphere of these lofty regions can hardly be described, nor the clearness and precision with which the most distant objects are projected against the sky.
The abundance of animal life was wonderful, compared with the want of it on the south side of Donkia pass, not five miles distant in a straight line!
At about 2000 feet, and ten miles distant from Dorjiling, we arrived at a low, long spur, dipping down to the bed of the Rungeet, at its junction with the Rungmo.
Nawadlook, the little beauty of his distant kingdom, was not looking well when he left.
Alan knew the men-folk of the village had departed hours ago for the distant herds.
From a pool hidden in the lush grasses of a distant hollow came to him the twilight honking of nesting geese and the quacking content of wild ducks.
And I--" he began, then caught himself and pointed to the distant hills and mountains.
He could feel that the land was more distant now, but the Nome was still pushing ahead under slow bell, and he could smell the fresh odor of kelp, and breathe deeply of the scent of forests that came from both east and west.
Out of the clearness of the night came to them a distant sound like the low moan of thunder.
It rolled away, echo upon echo, through the mountains, like the booming of signal-guns, each moredistant than the other.
Even on reading, 'A distant view of the city of Wilsonople,' he was only slightly enlightened.
So, perhaps, having satiated her revenge, she might now be inclined for peace, on the terms of distant civility.
Such traditional subjects as "Curfew from a Distant Temple" and "The Moon over Raging Waves" indicate the poetic atmosphere of this art.
The sea has been the only means of communication with distant parts of the country, and must continue to be the chief transportation route.
According to an old legend, Shun banished "the four wicked ones" to distant territories.
Removed from the eye of that country that supports them, and distant from the government that employs them, they cut and carve for themselves, and there is none to call them to account.
A country furnished with arms and ammunition as America now is, with three millions of inhabitants, and three thousand miles distant from the nearest enemy that can approach her, is able to look and laugh them in the face.
When distant low voices are to be imitated, the articulation may be given with sufficient distinctness, without moving the lips, or altering the countenance.
With his booty he made off to a distant part of the country, where he had reason to believe that neither he nor his master were known.
Thus spar'd, she visits each far distant main: In fourteen battles, amid heroes slain.
Grateful for this, when left on Norway's beach, She brav'd the sea, the distantship to reach.
The same year, the island of Pharos itself, originally seven furlongs distant from the continent, was joined to it by a causeway.
The sylvan scene Migrates uplifted; and, with all its soil, Alighting on far distant fields, finds out A new possessor, and survives the change.
Having taken an early breakfast, (says he,) we set out towards the Sulphur Mountain, which is about three miles distant from Krisuvik.
The news of this infant prodigy soon circulated through the neighbourhood; and many persons came from distantparts to witness so singular a circumstance.
But the morning mists, which the rising sun had not yet dispelled, rendered the more distant and complex objects distorted and portentous.
The spot where they found themselves was far distant from the parts where the courtesans generally celebrated the rites of their religious profession.
A vague and distant harmony floated in the cypress branches.
Across the meads, the vast distant plains, Cybele chases Attys; And because she adores the scorned, She infuses into his veins The great cold breath, the breath of death.
It was at the distant extremity of the long straight avenue which traversed Alexandria from the Canopic gate and led from the Temple to the Agora.
He was undoubtedly a stranger; his action was meant to convey to Barnes the information that he too was from a distant and sophisticated community, and that a bond of sympathy existed between them.
He is a distant cousin of the crown and, in a way, remotely looked upon as the heir-apparent.
His hand was on the knob when a door slammed violently somewhere in a distant part of the house.
It sang a song of defiance that even the mournful chant of sheep on the distant slopes failed to subdue.
The difficulty was bridged in short order by telegrams requesting the distant players to apply the next day at his office in New York where tickets to Crowndale would be given them.
As from our tower we watched the lower world, a small cumulus cloud here and there grew into being, some 7,000 feet beneath us, and cast a blue shadow on the distant plain.
This mighty outlier was the one object which riveted our eyes, quite eclipsing the moredistant glories of the Bernina.
The distant panorama was marred by clouds; in its main features it must be a repetition of the lovely western view gained from every high summit of the Bernina group.
Despite the beauty of the day there was little distant view and no peak near enough at hand to tempt to further exertion.
A steep step broke the valley, and cliffs, from the base of which the river sent up far distant murmurs, barred our progress.
But the image which has been adored as a god is for a time cast aside, and it is only to distant generations that it becomes valuable for its intrinsic beauty of design and workmanship.
Feeling that a distant view was hopeless, we hastened to retrace our steps before any wandering storm should burst on the mountain.
There was no sound but the gentle lapping of the waves or the continual murmur of a distant waterfall.
Nothing impeded our view over the central dolomite region, and beyond it we recognised against the horizon the pale snowy line of the distant Tauern.
It is but rarely any distant group is completely seen; only, wherever the nearer ridges subside, one or two peaks come into view disconnectedly and as it were by chance.
West of the green gap of the Passo di Verva rose a cluster of peaks about the head of the Dosde Glacier, and further distant we recognised the sharp heads of the Teo and Sena, the former crowned by a stoneman of my own building.
In the west were the Cima del Largo, and the more distant peaks surrounding the Bondasca Glacier.
The distant view was veiled; but the Presanella, rising through clouds opposite, proved that the chain was really crossed.
The communication with a place so distant as Naples was not then to be made under fifteen or twenty days, and all was over before we could hope that the intelligence even of his wife's illness had reached John.
Hush," she said again; and just at that moment, as I strained my ears, I thought I caught upon the sleeping air a distant and very faint murmur.
You will drive me mad;" and while I spoke the murmur seemed to resolve itself into the vibration, felt almost rather than heard, of some distant musical instrument.
The evening was closing in; there had been heavy thunder-rain in the afternoon, and the moist air hung now heavy and steaming, while across it there throbbed the distant vibrations of the tenor bell at Christ Church.
