Will this be the experience of Katie and the Admiral?
Surely no one would venture out except in a case of absolute necessity; yet the girl evidently expects some one; and by the rapid closing of her desk, no doubt the 'somebody' is in sight.
Meanwhile she hovers about the spot, till at length the thin layer of sand covering the eggs upheaves, the young issue forth, and escorted by the mother, take to their natural element, the water.
But it was all of no avail; nothing whatever had been seen or heard of the rascal who had made the attack upon Songbird.
But that was the only verse to be gotten out of the would-be poet for the present.
Songbird is going to get on the trail of that rascal if it is possible to do so.
After that Minnie demanded to know more concerning Songbird's condition, and the two youths gave her every possible detail.
He'll have to pay me for doing it," was Mr. Bray's reply.
It was a very fierce storm; the sea broke strange and dangerous.
Seven there were, tall and grey, with tails like plumes, whom none but Pierre could lay hand upon, fierce and fearless as their master.
The fierce wind sank the cold into the aching flesh like a knife and stiffened the face to a whitening mask, while a fusillade of frozen ice-particles beat against the eyeballs with blinding fury.
Things got to be pretty fierce bye-and-bye, for they had the police buffaloed, and disturbances got plentyer than the casualties at a butchers' picnic.
Her glorious eyes were flashing: the native courage andfierce determination of her race were working in her woman's heart.
Any moment might find them plunged in fierce battle; and who could foretell the results?
But the fierce policemen again stopped her from going in.
The fierce animal had drawn the turtle up out of the water and was clawing between the two shells trying to scratch the meat out.
A dark, fierce light seemed to illumine her features.
Bennigsen's guns opened fire on Eylau, and after a fierce but undecided artillery fight the French delivered an infantry attack from Eylau.
Little is known of its habits in a wild state, beyond the fact that it is a forest-dweller, active in movement and fierce in disposition.
The period was one of fierce party conflict, and the debates were frequently very acrimonious; but the dignity, temper and firmness of the new speaker were never at fault.
They came on nevertheless and reached Bannes, but when they endeavoured to advance on Mont-Août, they were met by so fierce a fire that they were obliged to draw back into the village.
They remained there in spite of fierce assaults, which caused heavy losses to the Germans and gave no result.
The struggle was very fierce and the bombardment incessant for three days.
The many graves around indicate thefierce struggle for the possession of the ford.
Held first by the Moroccan Division, Broussy was carried by the Germans after a fierce struggle.
A first line of resistance offered itself on the River Somme, where fierce fighting took place.
Through embrasures pierced in the walls, rifles and machine-guns directed a fierce fire on the French troops as they advanced to attack from the direction of Chambry and Barcy.
The fighting was extremely fierce all round the village, and particularly on the spot indicated above where the 2nd Infantry Regiment distinguished itself.
The troops of the First Division had the honour of being chosen to attack, and fierce was the fighting in the burning streets of the village.
In order to make this retreat easier along the banks of the Ourcq Von Kluck, at the end of the day, caused an extremely fierce attack to be made against the French left, which bent beneath the shock and was almost turned.
The thickets were the scene of fierce hand-to-hand struggles.
On the brow of the hill where stands the observer, fierce battles were fought at the time of the attacks on Étrépilly.
I was nursed in the lap of luxury, never knew what it was to want, and consequently had no sympathy for those that suffered, or those immersed in the fierce struggles of poverty.
Some of these seem to be at fierce war with each other, and yet what a delusion!
Especially does this become true as a resulting necessity, from the fact that there are no fierce winds or storms or cold temperature in the surrounding atmospheric belts or zones.
There stood a gentleman of a very fierce and resolute aspect, armed with a sword, hanging from a scarlet sash, and a pair of pistols in his belt.
The old man is almost fierce in his determination to be martyred.
Lastly, what power was there in a code of virtue, as calm and enlightened as that of Antoninus, to generate a zeal as fierce as that of Maccabaeus?
When they arrived in the city they discovered to their consternation that they had set foot in the land of the Læstrygones, a race of fierce and gigantic cannibals, governed by their king Antiphates.
The Doliones were descendants of Poseidon, who protected them against the frequent attacks of their fierce and formidable neighbours, the earth-born Giants--monsters with six arms.
A fierce battle ensued, in which the Theban leader, after performing prodigies of valour, perished by the hand of Alcmæon.
Atalanta was the first to wound the boar with her spear, but not before two of the heroes had met their death from hisfierce tusks.
Illustration] Iobates next sent him on an expedition against the Solymans, a fierce neighbouring tribe with whom he was at enmity.
Hector stripped the armour from his dead foe, and would have dragged the body into the city had not Menelaus and Ajax the Greater rushed forward, and after a long and fierce struggle succeeded in rescuing it from desecration.
He commenced the attack by assailing her with his fierce arrows, in order to force her to leave her lair, from which she at length emerged, and sought refuge in a wood on a neighbouring hill.
Towards evening a fierce giant made his appearance, bearing an enormous load of wood upon his shoulders, and driving before him a large flock of sheep.
But the fierce monster railed at the great ruler of Olympus--for the lawless Cyclops knew no fear of the gods--and hardly vouchsafed a reply to the demand of the hero.
The question of their authenticity excited a fierce literary controversy which still remains unsettled.
Yet, though treason and fierce unreason should league and lie and defame and smite, We that know thee, how far below thee the hatred burns of the sons of night, We that love thee, behold above thee the witness written of life in light.
Through teeth, and skull, and helmet, So fierce a thrust he sped The good sword stood a handbreadth out Behind the Tuscan's head.
Whence flies your sloop full sail before sofierce a gale, When all others drive bare on the seas?
Whilst Napier piloted his wondrous way Across the sand-waves of the desert sea, Then flashed at once, on each fierce clan, dismay, Lord of their wild Truckee.
The verse adorn againFierce War and faithful Love And Truth severe, by fairy fiction drest.
For the son is brought with the father, (In the foremost ranks of the fierce assault they fell, Two veterans son and father dropt together, And the double grave awaits them).
But hear thou this, fierce man, tremble to hear: The mighty Rustum shall avenge my death!
The air was full of tremendous crashing, buffeting sounds and suddenfierce gusts, which forced him to tighten the iron grip of his talons upon the perch.
Then he would settle back upon his perch again, and resume his fierce contemplation of the ruin that was falling on the city.
For far above him--so high that even his undaunted wings would never venture thither--he heard a fierce and terrible humming sound.
The coat and shirt were soaked with blood, and showed marks of a fierce struggle.
The girl straightened up suddenly and met her gaze with one in which there was the fierce determination.
I heard last night that she is to be re-arrested out there and put through a fierce examination.
Then she came in on a fierce gale from the wintry Atlantic; this time the air was soft and balmy and sweet with the kindness of spring.
She grasped his arm in a tense, fierce way, and whispered: "Be careful!
If it had been struck by some outraged husband, strong of arm and fierce with vengeance, I could understand.
From thence they came, Where, in the next ward, a most wretched band Groan'd underneath the bitter tyranny Of a fierce Daemon.
But just at this period two fierce theological disputes arose in France, and either his friends at court, or his Irish blood, prompted him to mingle in the melee.
It was near the Trebbia, almost at the very spot where Hannibal first felt the rigours of that fiercewinter in the snows of the Appenines, so graphically described by Livy.
Thus by slow degrees their wild ways were tamed, their fierce hearts were softened, and the evil spirit of Discord gave place to the heavenly spirit of brotherly Love.
He came of a fierce and haughty race, and seems to have been himself by nature, notwithstanding his name, a man of ardent temperament and strong passions.
It was delightfully situated[286] on the margin of a semicircular bay in the north-western extremity of Inishowen, where the fierce Atlantic billows spend their force in broken wavelets on its sandy shore.
But the night of the Old Year left us engaged in the fierce conflict of hostilities, and the dawn of the New Year found us still enveloped in the clouds of war--clouds whose blackness was relieved by no silver lining.
The battle lasted till sunset, and was especiallyfierce on our right, where the Krugersdorpers stood.
He informed me that he had stormed a camp during the night of the 16th December, but had been forced to retire after a fierce fight, losing 25 killed and wounded, amongst whom was the valiant Field-Cornet J.
Surely, to think nothing of taking part in a fierce battle, to be able to see blood being shed like water, to play with life and death, one could not be without some courage?
The British tried alternately to get through between one of my neighbours and myself, but we succeeded, notwithstanding their fierce onslaught, in turning them back each time.
We were weary of the fierce struggle, and we impatiently awaited the time when the Commandant-General and the Government should order us to sheathe the sword.
Here ensued a fierce fight, where we lost some men, but succeeded in arresting the enemy's progress.
Thousands of Uitlanders were flying from their homes, contenting themselves, in their hurry to get away, to stand in Kaffir or coal trucks and to expose themselves cheerfully to the fierce sun, and other elements.
He gave a short laugh, that left his lips fixed in a queer, fierce smile; his eyes mocked young Jolyon.
Her ball-dress still lay on the sofa, and with a sort of fierce care she arrayed herself, took the flowers in her hand, and went down, her small face carried high under its burden of hair.
They had roused in him a fierce jealousy, which, with the peculiar perversion of this instinct, had turned to fiercer desire.
So he will," thought Magnus, but his heart was fierce and bitter.
Then a fierce passion took possession of her, such as she had never known before.
He threw himself on the eiderdown and went through a fierce fight with God as represented by God's vicar, his conscience.
In Thora's flashing eyes, which changed the character of her countenance, and in her voice, which was husky with rage and hatred, there was something of the fierce animal which has been robbed of its young.
And then Magnus laughed out loud in the fierce bitterness of his heart.
He had a sense of fighting a fierce duel with the elements.
Then the transparent young soul, in the fierce fire of its temptation, began to lay plans for deceiving Anna and for getting her out of the way.
A fierce fight was going on in his heart even yet, for the devil seemed to be whispering in his ear, "What are you doing?
The Almighty was fighting on his side in his fiercewar with the elements!
But this mood lasted only for a few moments, and then a fierce and almost savage jealousy took possession of him, and he dried his eyes and sat up in contempt of his own weakness.
Perhaps he knew, what Anne had discovered long before, that those sensitive lips might easily reveal what the fierce eyes hid.
With a sudden fierce movement he dropped down upon his knees beside the bed, flinging his arms wide over his brother's body in such an agony of despair as Lucas had never before witnessed.
She saw again the swarthy face with its fierce eyes, the haughty smile, which for her was ever tinged with tenderness.
She had become so accustomed to the fierce directness of his stare that its absence disconcerted her.
And Nap, strung to a species of fierce gaiety that she had never seen in him before, urged her perpetually on.
She was still telling herself with fierce emphasis that never, never again would she voluntarily venture herself within the walls of Baronmead.
She could feel the fierce beating of his heart, and her own died within her.
There I was accustomed to rapid marches, wild and fierce attacks, defeat and flight, and oftentimes to indiscriminate slaughter.
They are fierce and treacherous, and their curved knives (or creeses, as they call them) are sharp and deadly poisoned.
