Moreover, the men he took with him to do the killing in the drift would suspect something and talk.
With a swift movement, he seized the Martini and five seconds later he was on the back of the pony, heading for the Crocodile Drift at a gallop.
At dawn on the fourth day from now it is the purpose of Umgona, his daughter Nanea, and Nahoon, to cross the river into Natal by the drift that is called Crocodile Drift, taking their cattle with them and flying from the king.
It was their plan to travel by night, reaching the broken country near the Crocodile Drift on the following morning.
Now you who are chief of the border and guardian of that drift, must hide at night with some men among the rocks in the shallows of the drift and await our coming.
In due course the wondrous time of spring came round, with white drift of blossom and stir of life newly awakened.
Just as they are about to draw in their nets this mischievous spirit leaps around them, freeing the fish, or he will loosen a boat's anchor so that it will drift on to a sand-bank.
Story's Cleopatra is smooth, close-fibred as glass, and the snowstorm has not been allowed to drift upon the folds of her robe, the interstices of her modeling.
She understood enough to grasp the drift of what she heard, and with a quick pulse of pity for the quiet rest thus rudely disturbed, she bent and kissed the clay-cold child, then turned without a word and left the room.
They had it at a little inn, and were very merry; only after a time the conversation always seemed to drift away towards something to eat, or something to buy.
The thought made her mind drift back to those long years during which she had been taught, and had taught, so many things.
She is rather an uninteresting young woman, though, and I am afraid I have let her drift away.
You are content, then, to let your husband drift back into his old relations with the Duchess?
She let herself drift down the surging tide of this suddenly awakened passion.
Here the canoe was allowed to drift while Has-se unburdened his mind to his friend.
They could do nothing against its fury, and soon the Spaniards were filled with joy at seeing them drift helplessly down the coast towards certain wreck and destruction.
Break the cordage which fastens me to it, and I drift aimless, hopelessly.
Venusta was glad Chios had come, for she feared the Roman might continue to speak of the Temple, and that the conversation might drift towards the priestesses, and the name of Saronia be mentioned.
It was on this drift of souls going by him, gay and light, it seemed, as blown petals, that Bernardo gazed with the most loving fondness.
From its cold, shadowless bridges to the heaped drift of the duomo in its midst, there seemed no slur, but those dark cypresses, on all its candid purity.
The drift between the coach and the embankment had now risen higher than the top of the vehicle, against one side of which it was tightly packed.
I then heard voices on the other side of the enormous snow-drift behind us; but I could see no possible way of getting over the drift.
If you grew tired, you could rest and drift for a time.
As for young Marston, he'd been chucked out of college, tried out for a failure in the old man's brokerage office, and then left to drift around town on a skimpy allowance.
So they chuck the fam'ly and drift off by themselves.
The change of position, with the constant and varying drift of the vessel, had carried them beyond the reach of the human voice.
But it wasn't; it was quite good; and after he had eaten he felt so much stronger that he went back to the beach and moored his boat to a big boulder, so that she wouldn't drift away.
So he just had to let the boat drift with the wind; and after a bit she drove ashore.
Here they found not only furs but huge quantities of ivory which was embedded in the drift along the seacoast and the rivers.
The Cape Fear Light (Bald Head), on account of its inland position and want of height, did not cover the shoals and therefore did not give sufficient warning to vessels in case the lightship should drift from her moorings.
The tower and dwelling were connected by a short covered way "which, among these sand hills, where the snow must drift in winter, is a security that the light will be well attended.
Well, once I get to de yonder side dat drift den Ou' Mensefreiter cahnt folio' me.
But Ou' Wolf he look at dedrift an' he look at Ou' Jackalse.
Den he plunk into de drift an' come out on de bank.
There the children found him, though for the moment they were quiet as their father stepped in to ask Old Hendrik, in his strong American accent, if this rain was likely to flush the Vaal too deep for crossing at the drift below.
Chapter Twenty-six Sarah was hovering around me, a sylphlike presence, as I watched myself drift up the steps of the pyramid there in the square, my senses waxing and waning like the waves on a distant ocean shore.
For her own part, Sarah just seemed to drift at first, to the point I sometimes wondered if she realized she was back at Lou's loft.
Dorothy would drift into being an old maid, like Priscilla, simply because she would never assert herself,--never put her best foot foremost.
Professor Scotch had forced his way through the crowd in time to catch the drift of this, and the full significance of it dawned upon him, filling him with amazement and horror.
By this time the native undertaker got the drift of the talk, and set up a wail of lamentation and accusation.
Frank understood Spanish well enough to catch the drift of the words, and he knew his cousin had not saved him through compassion, but for quite another purpose.
But the great generalizations which have changed the whole drift of our philosophy are the Conservation of Energy, and Evolution, including as the latter does the laws and conditions of life, and in particular the doctrine of Heredity.
Some people are injured by springing out of bed as soon as they wake, and others by letting the time drift by while they doze.
But what shall our minor aim be, or shall we be content to drift without any at all?
You know you had a horribly rotten storm of thunder and lightning and wind, and a cloudburst down the river valley where our train was stuck in the mud, and the tracks were all lost in the sand-drift and other vile debris.
At Main Drift I found a big body of police holding the ford.
The drift slants across the river at an acute angle, roughly S.
Arcoll had assumed that he would swim the river and try to get over the road between Main Drift and Wesselsburg.
Colin would carry my message to Arcoll, and at the Drift the tables would be turned on Laputa's men.
If he failed there, he must try to ford the Letaba below the drift, and cross the road between the drift and Wesselsburg.
Arcoll searched the river-banks, and crossed the drift to where the old Keeper was lying dead.
When I look at the map and see the journey which with vast fatigue I completed from Dupree's Drift to Machudi's, and then look at the huge spaces of country over which Laputa's legs took him on that night, I am lost in admiration of the man.
It is the way of the Kaffirs to rest at noon, and on the other side of the drift we encamped.
A body of men well posted at Dupree's Drift might split the army at the crossing, and under cover of the fire I might swim the river and join my friends.
I told of the plans I had overheard, and especially I mentioned Dupree's Drift on the Letaba.
At Dupree's Drift I rode the ford without a thought of crocodiles.
Finally a body of police with native runners at their stirrups rode on to thedrift where the road crosses the Letaba.
But about midday, after we had crossed the track from Blaauwildebeestefontein to the Portuguese frontier, we came to the broad, shallow drift of the Klein Labongo.
At the time when he wrote, the real drift of this new manner of pleasing people in fiction was not yet apparent; and, even now, it is only by looking at the romances of Victor Hugo that we are enabled to form any proper judgment in the matter.
