From the windmill, where we underwent our quarantine, I could see the tricoloured flag flying on the fortress of Figueras.
We were reassured by the sight of the tri-coloured flag, which was flying on two or three buildings.
The curve was reached, and the two were just congratulating themselves upon having passed the dangerous spot in safety, when a large bird, flying from a near-by bush, frightened Billy and caused him to shy to one side.
In another minute the girl wasflying down the tenement stairs, two steps at a time, the other girl close behind her.
The colonel and Ralph, their curiosity aroused, followed the flying reporter.
Curly grinned as though he thought Tim was joking but the flying reporter insisted that the cowboy strap himself in the plane.
The flying reporter switched on the motor again and fed fuel into the white-hot cylinders.
Tim explained what had taken place earlier in the day and the army officer whistled as the flying reporter told how they had been caught by the explosion of the oil tanks.
The flying reporter phoned for a cab and then went downstairs to await its arrival.
The flying reporter pushed them aside and looked down on the scorched, smoke-blackened features of Harry Benson.
As it happens he was on special duty tonight, flying in here from Fort Armstrong.
He finally worked it loose and then dropped the damaged wheel on to the flying field far below.
Then the flying reporter let go and sprawled on the wing, his hands clutching the forward wing.
He motioned for Tim to slow down and the flying reporter shut off the motor.
The flying reporter moved carefully, eyes on the alert for any sign which might give him some clue on how the bandits had escaped after wrecking and setting fire to their machine.
The flying reporter realized fully the danger of going to sleep at the controls and used every power at his command to ward off the sleepiness.
The flying reporter returned to the News office and started writing his aviation column for the following day.
The flying reporter's first call was at the office of the largest aircraft manufacturer in the United States.
When the flying reporter returned to the meadow he found that the cowboys had appointed themselves a ground crew and had turned the mail plane around.
Towards it the French advanced, with flying colors and sounding trumpets, as if with purpose to strike terror into the ranks of their foes.
Yet such was the terror that the very name of Ziska now excited, that the mere rumor of his approach sent these invaders flying across the borders.
During the three succeeding years the land was visited by enormous flying armies of locusts, which descended in myriads upon the fields, and left the shadow of famine in their track.
The Turks entered the camp and began pillaging, when the ambushed knights broke upon them from the tent, the flying soldiers turned, and the confident enemy was disastrously defeated.
Seeing the confusion into which they had been thrown, Ziska gave the order to charge, and in a short time the army that was to defeat him was flying in a panic across the plain, a broken and beaten mob.
The birds of prey were flying back, eager to fatten on the body of slain liberty in Switzerland.
It was driven out by the mere rumor of Ziska's approach, the soldiers flying in haste on the vague report of his coming.
The queen was surrounded by a band of faithful Gepidæ, with whose aid she seized the palace and made herself mistress of Verona, the Lombard chiefs flying in alarm.
A flannel shirt of an agreeable dark hue, which the satirical called black; a light tweed coat made by a good English tailor; ready-made cheap linen trousers and leathern gaiters completed his array.
In June, 1888, Stevenson sailed out on the Pacific in search of health, and followed the shining shadow through the isles and seas till he made his last home at Samoa.
To get and take the lie with equanimity is a stretch beyond the stoic; and the Arethusa, who had been surfeited upon that insult, was blazing inwardly with a white heat of smothered wrath.
Swiftly as men forget, that countryside was still alive with tales of uhlans and outlying sentries, and hairbreadth 'scapes from the ignominious cord, and pleasant momentary friendships between invader and invaded.
My knife was cordially admired by the landlord of Bouchet, and the spring filled him with wonder.
The "Deutschland" had therefore been severely tested, and had come through with flying colours.
The thistle falls before a trampling clown, But who can chain the flying thistle-down?
They soon came in sight of it, and when they passed near it they could see that its sides were all white with hundreds of these geese that were sitting there, and great numbers were flying in the air over it and round it.
Her long fur coat was flying carelessly, unfastened in the cold night air; her features were pale, and her eyes had the fixed look of one who saw nothing but grief.
The senator and his daughter made a flying trip back to town.
The wind took off his voice like a flying feather of sound.
The panorama of other journeys rolled in colour through the little room, flying on one another's heels.
Movement and sound and flying sand thus merged themselves more and more in a single, whirling torrent.
No longer flying at an angle as before, he pointed his ski straight down the mountain-side.
It seemed a host of these flying figures of the snow chased madly just behind him.
But they heard Captain Brant's voice directing two negroes to carry their master into the woods where he would be out of range of the flying bullets.
I have traveled miles doing it, and do you see that one flying across the river?
With three giants in impregnable armor at point--Tedric and Sciro were so close beside and behind the king as almost to be one with him--that flying wedge simply could not be stopped.
It swept away his flying restraint even as the flame of powder snaps through a fuse to explosion; and he made a sudden, swinging step toward her, and caught her in his arms savagely, greedily, tenderly fierce.
She had the terror of a panic-stricken animal flying into the danger of the open air to die.
One of them was perched on a low cliff, the other was flying about, now and then returning near to its mate.
Some of them even flew on to his back and shoulders, and he touched them without their flying away.
Ultimately he left me, and my delight was immense when, instead of seeing him over my head, ready to plunge on me at any moment, I saw him disappear behind the cliff, flying rapidly but unsteadily back to his eyrie.
Another bullet went through his wing, and his flying became unsteady; he flew on to a distant cliff, and there he remained.
The black scavengers generally attack very young animals, and, flying on the pony's head, peck out its eyes.
They set off on a smart run, but Merrick could run also, and fear now lent speed to his flying feet.
They applied themselves diligently to their studies, and when the final examinations came off all passed with flying colors.
The German youth was wearing an old-fashion tippet around his neck, the loose ends flying behind.
OVER THE POLAR ICE In a giant flying boat Andy beats his enemy in a dash to the South Pole.
Interplanetary Press, Circa 2022--Septimus Spink, the first Earthman to reach and return from New Mu in a flying saucer, threw a hydroactive bombshell into the meeting of the leading cosmogonists at the University of Cincinnatus today.
He has been flying cargo between Earth and Parsnipia and says he is quite unable to explain certain expense items in his book.
The Flying Cloud* Cloth decorative, with a colored frontispiece .
She was drenched with water from the slapping waves and the swiftly flying paddle, which was Rutledge's only weapon against the wrath of the river.
Rutledge wasflying to her before she was fairly prone.
The thundering horse tore alongside the flying mare just as she reached the washed-out road.
The first morning Helen was on the lake after coming to the Inlet her launch passed a small catboat commanded by Jimmie Radwine and flying a Yale pennant from her diminutive masthead.
Influence Aguinaldo to accept American flag, flying it everywhere, thus obliging them to remain.
The Cavite battalion has possession of the Cuartel de Meisic and our flag is now flying there.
No one seemed to know how Paganini arrived in Dublin, which gave rise to a vague idea that he was wafted across by the Flying Dutchman.
We have no sailing-boats equal to the flying proas of of the South Seas, no rowing or paddling-boat equal to that of the Greenlanders for swiftness and safety.
There were a good many pigeons flying about, but he did not care for pigeons except in a pie.
For in one a horse was clearing a stream about the width of the Thames at Reading, and in another an animal of probably the same breed was flying a solid stone wall quite ten feet high.
Selecting a leaf of the natural weed and adding a pinch for filler, he would somehow twist the spill and nip under the ends with flying fingers.
So he went out with the Allo tribe once again and they led him up a creek to the place where the flying frog lives.
Now few people have ever seen theflying frog of Borneo, and those who have are called nasty names by those who haven't.
It seems they had located a flying frog in the depths of the jungle somewhere.
Our streets are filled with Blue Boars, Black Swans, and Red Lions, not to mention Flying Pigs and Hogs in Armor, with other creatures more extraordinary than any in the deserts of Africa.
