With some difficulty I pushed my rifle before me along the edge of the bank, and then, while the water ran down our breasts, we glided up through the gush of the stream, and reached the ledge above.
The post from Tobolsk to Beresov had made but one journey on the winter-track, and the sledges glided rapidly and smoothly on the almost virgin snow-way.
She had not discovered us, however, and we glided round the base of the knoll--but on the other side lay three hinds and a calf, and I could see no trace of the great hart.
A hundred horrible thoughts entered my mind before little Joe began to cry out to his mother, and she glided away, while I muttered to myself `Thank Heaven!
Now I tried to hold by the rocky wall; but it was slippery, andglided by my fingers.
Then I saw a rapid writhing of the coils in the cradle, and as the tail of the snake glided over the side, everything around me seemed to swim, and I tried to catch at the wall of the hut to save myself from falling.
As the launch glided on he threw the ball into the cask.
At an early hour the next morning we got under weigh, andglided down Loch Ness, which is twenty-four miles long, and about a mile and a quarter broad, although it is narrower in some places.
Nat, who was looking over the side of the vessel as we glided on.
She glided about so quickly that she reminded me of Cassowary.
For your sake I will kill no more snakes," and she glided away accompanied by a faint rustling that meant the close following of the faithful hound Ravaud.
Cleopatra retired alone, not a little indignant that this meditation should have supplanted her in her husband's affections, while he left the house and glided forth to pass the night in contemplation, as he said.
Canterbury Cathedral glided along in a very majestic manner, and the wig and gown continued to argue as far as I could see them.
I imagined, as it glided by me, that it must be Hebe herself who had been visiting you.
She glided through her own room into the chamber where Mrs. Lee slept.
She glided out of the room, leaving the door open.
He would have glided back to bed again, but Mrs. Ducklow, who sprang to the stairway-door, was too quick for him.
Here and there we glided by the ruins of some sawmill burned by the Rebels on General Wright's approach; but nothing else spoke of war, except, perhaps, the silence.
The moorings were cast loose, our hero took his station at the engine, and the gun-boat glided swiftly down the river, leaving the pirate stronghold in flames.
At that moment a third Malay glided on the scene, brandished his spear, and stood by the swaying combatants awaiting a favourable opportunity to thrust his weapon into the white man's back.
He glided into the open space, and silently but promptly sat down on the deck beside Aileen.
Silently they glided on, until the shades of evening fell, and the brilliant stars came out.
The engines were stopped, and the gun-boat glided slowly over the still water until it came to rest on its own inverted image.
The vibrating of the boat ceased, and an awful stillness seemed to sink down upon her as she glided into a little creek or bay, which was deeply shaded by mangrove trees.
Anne Mie, pale, trembling, with eyes looking wild and terrified, had glided into the room.
As it was, an unconquerable magnetism seemed to draw her towards him, and, making an almost imperceptible sign of acquiescence, she glided past him into his room.
Noiselessly, as she had come, Juliette glided out of the room again, leaving behind her an atmosphere of wild flowers, of the bouquet she had gathered, then scattered in the woods.
She closed the heavy door noiselessly, thenglided upstairs like a quaint little ghost.
Hallie, who had been resting her head against Helen's shoulder, rose from her chair, and glided from the room as swiftly as a ghost.
He touched on every subject but the war, and that heglided around gracefully.
Lewis rose: in his sleep he had glided off the trunk of the tree; his friend's letter lay open beside him.
A cloud glided away from before the moon; and the phantoms dissolved in her silver radiance.
First love encircled him with its twilight morning gleam, and let down its sparkling rainbow over the mead: his earliest sorrows glided past him in review, and threatened to greet him in the same guise at the end of his pilgrimage.
She was my sister Alice’s most intimate friend, and, after Alice left us, glided into the vacant place naturally.
So he glided along, and the powwow and racket getting more and more outrageous all the time; and at last, when he had gone around two sides of the room, he disappears down cellar.
Then he drooped down and glided along the wall again to his place.
Cobweb was very quiet as she glided down from my knee to her hassock at my feet, and was evidently thinking as much as I; and at last I brightened up, for a thought had come to me with a selfish kind of comfort.
Another month glided by, and by some means or other John Ross still struggled on, even hopefully, for his wife had grown almost strong again, and her strength gave energy to him in his efforts.
And then time glided on sadly, but pleasantly as well.
At times I can hardly realise that I am decidedly elderly, so busy has been my life, so swiftly has it glided away, thinking so much as I have of other people and their lives as well as of my own.
Two months had glided by, and their affairs were at such a low ebb that John Ross would have given way utterly to despair, had he been alone.
Two years glided away and then I was alone once more with a future before me that was one weary blank.
The next moment she had glided from the shop, leaving me fighting with feelings that were rather strange to me, till I was obliged to give in, and confess that I was wanting in sympathy and humanity towards one sore in distress.
I redoubled then my efforts, and in these busy occupations the time glided on.
Our bark issued from the grand canal at an early hour, glided silently over the smooth surface of the laguna, and approached the entrance of the Brenta.
A brilliant and nearly full moon glided with us through long avenues of lofty elms, linked together by the clustering tendrils of vines, festooned from tree to tree, and at this season prodigal of foliage.
There was much settling of carpet-bags and stowing of provisions in the lockers, and then they hoisted sail, and glided smoothly out from among the shipping into the bay.
With almost wistful eyes men watched the islets as theyglided past one after another, Thera now, then Ios, and presently the greater Paros and Naxos lay before them.
They glided past the scores of black triremes swinging lazily at anchor.
Glaucon never took his gaze from her, until with a rustle and sweep of her blue gauze she had glided out of the tent.
Hiram, at least, glided nearer to his victim and spoke in a smooth whisper, taking no chances of an eavesdropper.
The beautiful “mute,” mute no longer, glided across the chamber and laid both hands upon his shoulder with a gracious caress.
The boy snatched the flying coin and glided into the crowd.
Democrates accompanied them as far as the dark marge, and watched while the boat glided out into the gloom of the haven.
When his squadron glided on into the blue deep, the haven seemed deserted save for the Carthaginian trader that swung at her cables close upon the land.
The words came from the released prisoner, who had been so silent, but who had glided down and stood at Cimon’s elbow.
As he passed out of the tent and into the night, where the morning stars were burning, and where the first red was creeping upward from the sea, two figures glided forth from the next pavilion.
The orator drew into a doorway; the others glided by, seeing nothing.
As she glided through the gate in the early morning hours, the sentinel thrust his head forth and watched her swiftly descend the slope, like a ghost in the darkness.
Ere the marriage ceremony was completed, and as the monks chaunted the Benedicite, Ethel glided noiselessly from her place in the chapel, and hurried from the grounds.
My doubts were soon set at rest, for she headed towards the bluff, and came slowly on, and after being washed by one or two breakers as she was on the bar, she came into smooth water, and glided into the harbour and cast anchor.
They glided into the sea of traffic with scarcely a sense of movement.
They were left undisturbed, and the train glided off.
The door opened, and a woman, in a long opera cloak and rustling skirt gathered up in her hands, glided in.
Freedom," she repeated, and glided away from him whilst he stood there dreaming.
All at once the sound ceased, a shadow was cast upon them, and before they could realize the situation a strange, uncouth object glided from behind them over the plantains, and came to rest in the centre of the cabbage-patch.
He now stopped it altogether, but the aeroplane glided on by its impetus, and he felt, with a sinking of the heart, that nothing could save it.
Instinctively Smith touched his steering lever; the aeroplane glided into the fissure; in two or three seconds there was a bump and a jolt; it had come to a stop, and was resting on an apparently solid bottom.
The centrifugal force which propelled him was evidently, for some reason, greatly accelerated, for the scenery of the country he was crossing glided by him at so rapid a rate of speed that it nearly took his breath away.
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