Edward pressed into the court, which was extremely crowded; but by his arriving from the north, and his extreme eagerness and agitation, it was supposed he was a relation of the prisoners, and people made way for him.
They spoke little, and that in Gaelic; and did not slacken their pace till they had run nearly two miles, when they abated their extreme rapidity, but continued still to walk very fast, relieving each other occasionally.
Dick's terror was extreme at seeing the whole army, which had been so lately silent as the grave, in uproar, and about to rush on him.
They commenced their retreat accordingly, and, by the extreme celerity of their movements, outstripped the motions of the Duke of Cumberland, who now pursued them with a very large body of cavalry.
He repulsed the Catholic chiefly on account of the doctrine of extreme unction, which this economical gentleman considered as an excessive waste of oil.
Her resolution was strengthened in these researches by the extreme delight which her inquiries seemed to afford those to whom she resorted for information.
ILK, same; of that ilk, of the same name or place, ILKA, every.
Footnote: These Introductory Chapters have been a good deal censured as tedious and unnecessary.
Waverley then requested to see the butler; upon which the fellow, with a knowing look and nod of intelligence, made a signal to Edward to follow, and began to dance and caper down the alley up which he had made his approaches.
I often thought so,' said Houghton,'though they showed us your very seal; and so Tims was shot and I was reduced to the ranks.
There is not a building worth mentioning: the Pasha's residence is a large, ungainly mansion, remarkable only for its extreme filthiness.
In no case did it take; owing, I suppose, to the extreme heat of the weather.
This water is said to have been chosen for the purpose on account of its extreme clearness.
His wings, from one extreme to the other, are said to measure fifteen feet; he is able to carry a sheep in his talons, and he sometimes attacks men.
It is a remark of Herodotus that the fairest blessings are allotted to the extreme limits of the earth; and among other places to Arabia, the southern extremity of the inhabited world.
When the Milesians, about the middle of the eighth century, discovered the north shore of the Black Sea, they found in the extreme north, at the end of the earth, a nation whom the Greeks called Cimmerians.
The peninsula of Sinai, the shores of the Red Sea opposite Thebes, and Semne in Nubia were the extreme limits in the times of the kings who built the pyramids, of the Sesurtesen and Amenemha.
Of all these kings the priests have sketches in their holy books, handed down through successive generations from extreme antiquity, showing how tall each king was, what he was like, and what he accomplished in his reign.
Nevertheless, just in front of the extreme end of the iron seat stood a small round restaurant table, and on this stood a small bottle of Chablis and a plate of almonds and raisins.
His theories were extremely complicated and were held with extreme simplicity.
For at the extreme point nearest them stood up an odd-looking building, unlike anything they could remember or connect with any purpose.
They caught a glimpse of the extreme outer edge of the tied-up flatboat, which fact told the trappers they had guessed truly as to the means taken by the Ohio settlers in descending to the region of the Mississippi.
And, yet, he knew well how important it was that he use extreme care, when the time came for firing.
It may be they took an extreme view of the matter, but it cannot be denied that it wrought changes.
As though feeling that would be too extreme a measure, he did not close his mouth altogether; but he diminished the abyss.
While still a boy he went to London, and worked as a shoemaker under an elder brother, enduring extreme poverty.
He is one of the ablest defenders of the Calvinistic system of theology, which he developed to its most extreme positions.
His extreme republican views, however, led him into the bitterest antagonism when C.
He was vain, and affected the manners of the fine gentleman, which his unattractive countenance and awkward figure, and latterly his extreme corpulence, rendered somewhat ridiculous.
His extreme vanity and sensitiveness to criticism made him often vindictive, unjust, and venomous.
He had by this time imbibed extreme democratic or, as he termed them, pantisocratic principles, and on leaving Camb.
Her Vindication received much adverse criticism on account of its extreme positions and over-plainness of speech.
He adopted the views of the Chartists in an extreme form, and was imprisoned for two years for seditious speeches, and on his release conducted a Chartist newspaper.
He was a posthumous child, and was brought up in circumstances of extreme poverty.
Even now it is only given in cases of desertion, or of the extreme of cruelty; and yet complaints are made every day that it is granted too easily.
So extreme an instance makes it almost superfluous to refer to any other: but consider the long duration of absolute monarchy.
Luncheon was eaten in a restaurant whose extreme exclusiveness made it an especially desirable place for Mr. Ashe to entertain his daughter and her guests.
Walk to the extreme northern end of the campus, then go east one hundred and fifty paces and you will come face to face with the problem," was Elfreda's mystifying answer.
At that time there was no highway between the extreme ends of these two.
Those living in the extreme south and west parts of the town followed on a little later.
He pleaded with them to dispense with that trouble, for his extreme age meant that he should soon die anyway.
It shows to me an entirely new side of Titian in its extreme delicacy and sweetness.
Candido was much too well bred to show any signs of contumacy; but the expression of his countenance varied, under the observation of the phrenologist, from wonder to annoyance, and from that to the extreme of sullen, silent wrath.
Extreme curiosity will excite some people as much as fear, or what resembles fear, acts on some other less impressible natures.
The breaking of stone in state-prison is not harder work than riding over a Cuban road; yet thisextreme of industry is endured by the Cubans from year to year, and from one human life to another, without complaint or effort.
I then complicated the idea into a wheel, with eight arms, and food only at the extreme point of each.
And yet, notwithstanding the extreme and unreasonable partiality and severity of these laws, it is not unusual for the barbarous spirit of slavery to overleap them in its unmerciful punishment of the slave.
The extreme servility of the popular churches is opening the eyes of many earnest people to the importance of taking a bolder position.
The exorbitant demands of the slave power, the extreme measures it adopts, the deep humiliation to which it subjects political aspirants, will produce a reaction.
A number of distinguished citizens, and a Committee of the City Council accompanied him to the northern line of the city; and the governor's aids attended him to the extreme part of the state adjoining New Hampshire.
The lake was reached at last, to the extreme pleasure of the corps.
What galled him most was, that in case he should succeed in getting Scott into his hands, he had no proofs that would be regarded as sufficient evidence upon which to proceed with the extreme of vengeance toward him.
But let us hope rather that extrememeasures will be unknown and that the lessons of the past will guide us in the future.
From the extreme of mental depression Jean Marot was thus suddenly transported to the extreme of happiness and hopefulness.
As the couple occupied a table in the extreme rear, the patrons in front found it convenient to go out by way of the Rue Champollion in order to see if not to bow to the distinguished guest.
Sensitive, sympathetic, impulsive, passionate, extreme in all things, he embodied in method and temperament the characteristics of his race.
Each covered the beer with the little saucer, to protect it from the occasional gust of confetti that even found its way to the extreme rear of the half a hundred sidewalk sitters.
Our fathers met in convention to frame a constitution, and they found some difficulty in agreeing upon the details of that constitution, and for a time it was a matter of extreme doubt whether any agreement could be reached.
Rest restored their tone somewhat, and he made one or two legal arguments and public addresses, which showed that his intellectual vigor was undiminished, but these efforts were followed by extreme nervous prostration.
In this matter the national government certainly went to the extreme verge of generosity.
On the opposite seat, at the other extreme end, sat Edith Darrell, her eyes riveted upon the pages of a book.
If I were marrying any one else--Lady Gwendoline for instance--would my extreme juvenility still be an obstacle?
The man with the soft calm eyes listened to me quietly, even politely, and with extreme attention; but nothing in his countenance indicated that he had understood my story.
Nevertheless, Captain, you possess an extremerapidity of movement, which does not agree well with the power of electricity.
Under the impossibility of forming an opinion, I jumped from one extreme to the other.
At last, after walking two hours, we had attained a depth of about three hundred yards, that is to say, the extreme limit on which coral begins to form.
We are old friends now, united in that unchangeable friendship which is born and cemented amidst extreme dangers.
The reefs were still numerous, but more equalised, and marked on the chart with extreme precision.
Half an hour had already passed without our situation being bettered, when the dense darkness suddenly gave way to extreme light.
Thus situated, this volcano lit the lower plain like an immense torch, even to the extreme limits of the horizon.
The instructions say: seven hundred and fifty feet back, from the extreme tip of Greenberry Point, is the quadrangle of trees.
The extreme tip of Greenberry Point had shifted, a dozen times, likely, in a hundred and ninety years, and the four beech trees had long since disappeared, but there was no note of these facts to aid the search.
For full twenty minutes, he stood on the extreme tip of the Point, and looked out to sea.
More than that, the zone of exploration embraced every possible extreme of territory--yet, we failed.
Finally, one went down to theextreme point and stepped off two hundred and fifty paces inland.
They went out to the extreme edge, and stood gazing across the shoals toward the ruins.
He went out on the extreme edge, faced about, and taking a line at right angles to it, stepped two hundred and fifty paces.
The two essentials, however, are wanting: the extreme tip of Greenberry Point in 1720, and the beech-trees.
I flung myself upon him, so to speak, without waiting to note the extreme unlikeness of the man to anything of the kind I meant.
It was a house of the mostextreme simplicity and frigid cleanliness.
I replied that I was prepared to follow him, took with me the sacred articles necessary for extreme unction, and descended in all haste.
I always retained with extreme vividness all the perceptions of my two lives.
