Down the track lights shone under the cracks of the doors of the tool-shed and the box-car habitation of the section-boss, and one curtained window of Costigan's rented cottage glowed dullyagainst the night.
Come, you shake the head at so long a breathing; but I warrant thee, Claudio, the time shall not go dully by us.
For an hour past they had been struggling on, doubting their direction, wondering dully if they were not lost and merely drifting about in a circle.
A few red coals glowed dully in the fireplace, but all else was dense blackness.
A fire, nearly extinguished, glowed dully at the farther corner of the enclosure, and he crawled close enough to distinguish the recumbent forms of men sleeping about it on the ground.
He felt a sudden tremor in his limbs, and his arteries throbbed dully in his ears.
Dropping his head into his open palms, he sat dully staring at the whitening ashes.
She saw and heard all this, and more, and reasoned dully on it.
A watch-fire smouldering and sputtering in the rain was burning dully before the drawbridge; the forms of one or two men, apparently sentinels, were dimly visible about it.
But his miserable, restless eyes went back almost at once to their ceaseless quest of the deserted big road, stretching dully toward the dim, distant horizon.
He leaned his aching head on his hand as the business of the court droned dully along and the heat grew steadily greater.
At one stroke he struck down the three supporting lance-shafts, and dully fell the heavy turf-roof back into the ditch.
Dolios knocked upon it with the hilt of his sword; the stroke reverberated dully through the vaulted halls--the door sprang open.
Victor rang, and Shaik Tsin presented himself so quickly that Sofia wondered dully where he could have been waiting.
As Jonathan stood gazing dully at the disappearance of these last evidences of his two inadvertent murders, he was suddenly and vehemently aroused by feeling a pair of arms of enormous strength flung about him from behind.
At last he aroused himself with a shake, looked dully up and down the street, and then, putting on his hat, turned and walked slowly and heavily away.
Hiram never made answer to such salutation, but went his way as heavily, as impassively, as dully as ever.
Its eyes, on either side of a delicate little nose, looked rather dully out into the distance, and the tiny hands did not reach for the little stick that her father held out to her.
The Jelly-bean turned and looked dullyback over his shoulder.
Perry sat down dully and looked disapprovingly at all the neckties.
The air cleared and became radiant with dawn, and turning over on his face he began to sob dully into the pillow.
He wondered dully that the Dark Master had not made a general assault, and concluded that he must wish to save men.
Brian wondered dully what the outcome of all this was to be.
He pondered dully upon this new development of his fate all that afternoon, and then, suddenly, while he was beating the staccato roll of the retraite in the court of the caserne that night, he understood!
The words beat dully at Gregoire's temples, as he watched the cab swing round the corner of the Institut toward the quai Malaquais, with Jean's handkerchief fluttering at the window of the portiere.
But Gerhardt was becoming restless and dullyirritated as he began to realise more and more what caste meant to Prussians and how insignificant to these people was a German-American multimillionaire.
He laid a large fat hand flat against the wall, as though to support and steady himself, and gazed dully at the terrified maid.
It was on a Saturday night, soon after midnight, that our hero suddenly realised that another strange mixture of sounds was coming to his ear and echoing dully through the store.
He ventured a few words in English to the stolid Atlantean at his side, whereat the fellow only stared dully and shook his red, flower-crowned head.
The hoplites, standing about, turned their helmeted heads and stared uneasily, their brazen armor glowing dully with each movement.
Like unreal automata, they remained utterly motionless, fixed in the various postures of an ancient Macedonian phalanx, their broad backs gleaming dully in the light of the neon flares.
The blood in her arms throbbed dully and her knees kept giving way under her, but the feel of the cool glass was good.
She paused and poised a moment on her toes with every muscle tense, her young face looking out dully at the audience in what one young girl afterward called "such a curious, puzzled look," and then without bowing rushed from the stage.
Shabalov repeated dully and stubbornly: "Things are not done that way.
Then, looking dully around, he saw the dungeon was hung thick with other webs, foul with the dust of years.
Her head ached, and she wondered dully how anybody could feel lively enough to sing as Aunt Cindy was doing, somewhere back in the servants' quarters.
As the carriage disappeared and there was nothing more to watch, she wondered dully how she could spend the long morning.
I did not anticipate hearing any one stirring in the few houses around until late daylight, and dully wondered at the sound of voices which penetrated to our hiding-place, hours before some chinks in the roof showed faintly gray.
Dully she watched the broad straining backs of her beloved animals as they planted their great fetlocked feet and heaved their burden ever upward.
A shot barkeddully in the heavy atmosphere of the forest, and the smoke hung in a little ball.
One man grasped her head in both hands; the next instant Hiram realized with horror that a blade was gleaming dully through the rain in the right hand of the other man.
All that she had dreamed and fancied and believed and cared for in man passed dully through her mind.
Leaning on her window ledge when off duty, deadly tired, Ailsa would listen dully to the near or distant strains, wondering at the strangeness of her life; wondering what it all was coming to.
He's Councillor McGinty, young man," said a voice from the group.
I'm not convinced yet that there was ever anyone in the house," said he.
I have many times in my life felt nearer to death than when I stood on the top of that lofty column, surrounded by the thousands of squatting dwarfs, whose black bodies reflected dully the mounting light from the flaming urns.
Suddenly, as I sat gazing dully into the semidarkness of the cavern, I saw that which drove the apathy from my brain with a sudden shock, at the same time paralyzing my senses.
Each one carried a spear; their heads of copper, upraised in a veritable forest, shone dully in the light of the urns on the wall above.
