Saintine's 'Picciola,' the pathetic tale of the prisoner who raised a flower between the cracks of the flagging of his dungeon, has passed definitely into the list of classic books.
The city seemed hot indeed after the dewy freshness of the country, and the sun's rays beat relentlessly upon the stoneflagging and cobblestones.
One voice was lacking in the general interchange of nonsense, for to-day Jean Lawrence, who was usually the merriest of them all, found her interest flagging strangely.
And, under that fearful impact, Rhuburger reeled back from the stairhead, and went crashing down the steps, to the broad stone flagging at the bottom.
But as the two struck the flagging at the bottom, he shifted his hold, with lightning speed; stabbing once more for the exposed jugular.
Hare's flagging senses rallied, and he forgot himself in wonder.
His flagging energies leaped into life with the canyon suddenly opening to bright light and blue sky and beautiful valley, white and gold in blossom, green with grass and cottonwood.
Sir John bore no malice for this ill-usage, but did his best to cheer the flagging spirits even of his worst persecutors.
His reason was that the hearts and spirits of all, especially the weak, continue and stand bent (as it were) so long towards God as they ought to do in that duty without flagging and falling off.
A heavy cudgel it was that falling on the stone flagging sent a thundering reverberation through the vaulted chambers.
For half a century she toiled with an increasing energy and a never-flagging animation.
Owing to his splendid physique, he felt quite as good as new the next morning, save for the pain in his head, where he had fallen upon the stoneflagging of the wine cellar.
He lay upon a stone flagging through which the slime oozed.
An endless quiet valley reaches out Past the blue hills into the evening sky; Over the stubble, cawing, goes a rout Of rooks from harvest, flaggingas they fly.
As Mr. Watson nobly expresses it, the aim of the poet "is to keep fresh within us our often flagging sense of life's greatness and grandeur.
It was all done and done well, though with what secret flagging of mind and body nobody knew or suspected.
The word "silly" acts as a whip and spur to Essie's flagging courage.
At times it would seem that, poor, tired man, he had to feed his flagging invention from a dictionary of quotations.
There is no flaggingof the invention in any of them, no slipshod or careless composition.
A thin piece of flagging had opened at his feet as if hinged like a trap-door, leaving visible the top of a flight of rough wooden steps.
The man dropped to his knees and with wide gestures searched the flagging and the gutter.
At 6 I saw the other teams were flaggingand so camped at 7, meaning to turn out earlier to-morrow and start a better routine.
The rest show no signs of flagging and are only moderately hungry.
Before the leaf Is commonly abroad, in his piled sheaf The flagging poppies lose their ancient flame.
And ever on the faint and flagging air A doleful spirit with a dreary note Cried in my fearful ear, 'Prepare!
He resolved to sound the floor, and see whether any secret entrance existed; and hollowly and dully did the hard flagging return the stroke of his heel as he pursued his scrutiny.
Brawny troopers pulled her back as she would have jumped out of the window to the flagging below--and her Louise.
No, she thought; the flagging beneath her feet was heavy and substantial: 'twas probably the intersection of another street, and a few steps would bring her to house fronts again.
And that little twinkle, together with my own never-flagging perseverance, like a good and earnest pilot, steered me steadily and unflinchingly onward.
He was on the point of throwing it back, when the idea struck him that the discovery might give a momentary fillip to Beresford's flagging spirits.
At the end, however, flagginginterest revived, for now the win lay between Lamont and Orwell, the resident magistrate.
Nothing is more depressing than driving a flagging team, and Wyndham accordingly was less given to mirth and anecdote, even with the stimulus of Clare Vidal at his side, than he had been up till now.
The effects of mental strain are often mingled with, and aggravated by, those of stimulants which have been used to spur the flagging energies.
Probably the heart's ganglia are the first to submit to the influence of the poison and exhibit symptoms of flagging function.
Leigh Hunt bore himself in his captivity with cheerful fortitude, suffering severely in health but flagging little in spirits or industry.
If conversation had flagged between him and Mr. Palford because the solicitor did not know how to talk to him, it did not even reach the point of flagging with her, because she would not talk and did not allow it to begin.
For a slight distance she bore up bravely, afterwards flagging as before.
If I am useless I will go," said Bathsheba, in a flagging cadence.
