Spain is the home of "chance": that element appeals to Spanish character.
A youthful sportsman was approaching a boar which had fallen and lay apparently dead, when it, too, suddenly sprang up and charged.
These initial campaigns were too early in the season (March and April).
Moreover, again, twenty yards farther on, the horses had all broken into a gallop.
At the farther end of our village there is a large native inn.
They are harnessed to a rope which runs over a pulley and has a huge water-skin fastened to its farther end.
The original Fort William, where stood the famous "Black Hole of Calcutta," was farther to the north, and the site of the dungeon is marked in the roadway.
Now, farther on in womanhood, With trainèd voice and ripened art, She gently stands where once she stood, And sings from out her deeper heart.
I shall lay This well-belovéd head low in the leaves,-- Not on the farther side.
It was, however, carried much farther in Scotland, where open adultery was declared by statute a capital crime.
That's farther than you needed, by three-score miles; for 'tis but forty from the place of battle to the city.
Let the boat away as many points as will run you under his bows--and hold on your course till I give you farther orders.
But the passage along the south or farther bank of the Arno (as the travellers stood) was now wholly impracticable.
Have nothing left to lose, so may make shift to bear the heaviest farther penalty you can inflict.
From inheriting after those who had fled and died, it was but one step farther to presume the death, and a man's flight then at once conveyed his effects to those who stayed behind.
By the farther token that the directors of St Sulpice commanded the finders to burn it privately, lest its profane exhibition should scandalise the church.
After a quick and prosperous voyage they reached New Orleans, where they expected to be farther reinforced by a company of volunteers who had come down the Mississippi river from St. Louis.
In the course of her work she complained that the heat of the fire scorched her face, and she drew her chair farther to-wards the corner of the chimney, and pulled the stand after her.
Cap, dolefully stopping in the midst of a thicket so dense that it completely blockaded her farther progress in the same direction.
He raised her farther up on the bed, her head settling into the soft, feather pillows.
A little farther up the road a big and hairy Californian, with two half-breed assistants, was struggling with twenty-five wild cayuses.
Once more these indomitable souls left their warm cabin, took up their beds and nearly two thousand pounds of outfit and toiled down the river still farther into the terrible north.
I invited them to a "square meal" a few miles farther on, and in order to help them forward I took one of their packs on my horse.
A few miles fartheron we met another family, two men, a woman, a boy, and six dogs, all laden in proportion.
Across this flat to its farther wall we took our way, facing the roaring wind now heavy with clouds of rain.
I was awakened in the early dawn by a singular cry repeated again and again on the farther side of the river.
But at last, just when it seemed as though we could not go any farther with our suffering animals, we came out of the poisonous forest upon a broad grassy bottom where a stream was flowing to the northwest.
The water was deliciously clear and cool, and from the farther shore great mountains rose in successive sweeps of dark green foothills.
Each stroke of those slender paddles was driving her farther and farther from friends, or the possibility of rescue.
At the same moment von Horn was leading Virginia Maxon farther and farther from the north campong where resistance, if there was to be any, would be most likely to occur.
Lunging and struggling the three combatants stumbled farther and farther into the jungle beyond the clearing.
Twisting and turning through the dense maze of underbrush and close-growing, lofty trees the little party of eight plunged farther and farther into the bewildering labyrinth.
The farther up this river we have come the greater our assurance that we were on the right trail, for scarcely a native we interrogated but had seen or heard of some of your party.
Virginia Maxon, idling beneath the leafy shade of the tropical foliage, became presently aware that she had wandered fartherfrom the campong than she had intended.
He was a husky lad, and knowing that if she tried to carry him farther they both would be overtaken, she hid him under a shock of corn.
To scale the wall was not difficult; the real danger lay in the fact that at no time were the sentries farther away than fifteen yards, and the chance of being shot by one or both of them was excellent.
The fact that he was at last upon the soil of the enemy caused Walker to throw off all pretence; and instead of hastening to protect women and children, he sailed a few miles farther up the coast to La Paz.
And, if you will not keep my secret and be my friend, I will go away at once and hide myself in some other place still farther away, and will ask no one again to be my friend, ever till I die!
The opposite river bank was a much higher one, and ran farther out to sea.
Suddenly, before he had a suspicion of what she was about to do, she had darted away, was lost in the darkness, and in a second more he heard her door shut at the fartherend of the hall.
After the third day was over, it was accepted by tacit consent that farther search would be useless.
On the farther point, so close to the sea that it seemed to rise out of the water, stood a high stone lighthouse, with a revolving light, whose rays swept the open sea for many miles.
More than this he would not say, farther than to express the opinion that she would live and die in St. Mary's, and devote herself to her work so long as she lived.
Raby's little life has been all well ordered, so far as we can see; but, farther back, was something wrong or he would not be ill today.
Yet had Hetty never in her life seemed farther removed from any such tendency.
But nothing seemed to be farther from Hetty's thoughts than making a wife of herself for anybody.
Then she noticed that the trees grew rather farther apart just there, and rising swiftly she ran back to bring the team.
They'd sealing rifles, and the Koriaks make out farther north in their roofed-in pits.
In descending to the valley, we took a winding road which led farther up toward the heart of the range.
A few miles farther up the Tweed is Ashetiel, the former home of Walter Scott, a place seldom seen by tourists, though here he wrote his finest poems.
Farther on, the roof of a mill rose high among trees, and an open space showed to Sylvia the black massive wheel against the yellow wall.
I thought he was going to shoot me, he came so straight and so fast, but it was only to get behind me and shut the door, driving me, as he did so, farther into the room.
A glimmer of light came from the farther end of the cave and a strange sound, a sort of strangled sobbing, reached our ears.
Anyway, hadn't you better hitch yourself a little farther from the fire?
But there may be some unburned spruce farther on," Carroll urged.
Now they're getting farther in, the ore must be carrying more silver.
A little farther on, a shoot of falling water swept out of the mist above and came splashing down a crag, spread out in frothing threads.
They set out, Mabel and Carroll leading and drawing farther away from the two behind; and the rain began in earnest as they descended.
Drayton laughed, for the sounds of a vigorous altercation rose from farther up the unlighted street.
A little farther on, they waded with difficulty through a large stream, and Carroll, who stopped, glanced round at a deep rift in a crag on one side of them.
Moving farther along the log, Carroll dropped to the ground, which was less encumbered there, and spent the next quarter of an hour hewing a passage to his comrade.
It was the high ridge north of Comox, and as he had run farther than he had expected, he must try to hoist the peak of the mainsail and haul her on the wind.
Carroll got no farther than the scuttle, for the saloon floorings on the depressed side were already awash and he could hear an ominous splashing and gurgling.
If you'll wait, I'll go a little farther along it.
I noticed a wider one farther on, and we'll see what it's like, though Hartley led me to understand that he came down a straight and gently-sloping valley.
He could not reach Comox, which lay to windward, with the sail half-set, but it was only seventy miles or thereabouts to Nanaimo and not very much farther to Vancouver.
About their feet lay crumbling masses of calcined wood which grew more and more numerous where there were open spaces farther on and then the bare, black columns ran on again, up the valley and the steep hill benches on either hand.
Yet another fault is that of heeling, or hitting the ball off the neck of the club, this can generally be cured by standing a little farther away from the ball and letting the arms go out well free of the body.
Long odds: When a player has to play a stroke more than his adversary, who is much farther on--that is, nearer the hole.
Should the ball farther from the hole be accidentally moved in so doing, it shall be replaced.
Seizing the welcome means of escape, she got up and took the child, sitting down a little farther away from Luther and hugging the baby as if he were a refuge from threatened harm.
To the south a prairie chicken drummed, and a cow called to her calf, whose reply came from a point still farther in the distance.
Determined to find it before he proceeded farther toward the west, he faced the wind squarely, and, bracing his body firmly, hurried as fast as he could toward the stalkfield.
Our friends had no farther trouble in reaching the end of the passage, and soon were standing in the outer air upon the gloomy path between the two high mountains.
Next to the water was a broad beach of white sand and gravel, and fartherback were several rocky hills, while beyond these appeared a strip of green trees that marked the edge of a forest.
For about a quarter of a mile farther Scott kept the Maud moving in the same direction, with no change in the reports of the soundings.
In a comparison of notes it was evident that the wind had blown harder on the coast of Egypt than farther to the north.
As on the Nile, the rule is hot days and cool nights, though you may find some of the latter uncomfortable farther south, for the water has shown a temperature of 100°.
There were two roads from Egypt to Palestine, the one mentioned, and one farther south, not so well adapted to caravans on account of the marshy country it traverses.
But I think we had better be farther from the island.
Whatever might be anticipated farther south, the air was soft and pleasant, and not over warm, about 70° in the shade.
As stated before, the Red Sea formerly extended to Lake Timsah, over forty miles farther than now, and the lakes before us were then a part of the sea.
I glanced upward to his face: his eye was fixed, and looked steadfastly in one direction--as though it would pierce the sheet of flame that rolled farther and farther from where we stood, and nearer to the fatal spot.
It was not to be seen; but on looking farther out, I could just distinguish the figure of a man, bent forward and rapidly gliding away.
A few feet farther would have carried us outside the margin of the wood, and then we should have been as conspicuous to the denizens of the camp, as they now were to us.
I was equally afraid to make any farther advance--for that might be still more perilous.
I could go no fartherwithout swimming, and therefore came to a stand, with my face turned towards my pursuer.
The Indians were farther out upon the plain, where they had dropped to the thick rapid detonations of the revolvers, that, so long as the warriors held their ground, played upon them with fearful effect.
We should pass near its base, and a ride of ten miles farther would bring us to the end of our journey; indeed, the eminence was within sight of the rancheria.
I could see the faces of those who were upon itsfarther side, but only the figures of these on the nearer.
Half a mile farther on we came out upon its banks, and struck the main road leading to the rancheria.
We have been scarcely an hour in the rancheria; we are perfect strangers to it: we are the first American troop its people have yet seen-- although the war has been going on for some months farther down the river.
Once we were about it, we might as well have asked a little more, and pressed for his removal to a farther distance from our shores.
The Guelph pedigree, however, goes very much farther back than the time of Henry.
If the partnership had gone on no farther than A and B, then A had got and B had lost 100l.
At the same time a successful attempt to obtain farther pecuniary assistance was made, by a public breakfast for ladies, at 2s.
Anxious to further his errand, he did not pause to look at the contents of the room minutely, but hurried across to a door on the farther side, leading, he suspected, to the terrace.
But gradually they dropped farther and farther behind; Abdul's horses were fresh; he himself was a light weight; and Tom began to breathe more freely.
Flitting silently across the square, Tom and the Moor took post under the shadow of the colonnade on the farther side, which ran at right angles to the wall of the kasbah.
To leave this place of exit, and move farther along the ramparts or back into the village, would be almost equally dangerous and would lose precious time.
Another minute or two would witness a cataclysm; but Tom thought that if thefarther side of the ravine could be reached, they might gain a little grace.
