The two fellows loosened the rope about my ankles, and Peter waddling ahead, the graybeard gripping my arm, we climbed the steps, and entered the hall.
The graybeard threw open a door, standing aside as though on guard, and I stepped across the threshold.
The graybeard handed over the access point, and the East Indian woman ran off to get the other two, and before they knew it, they were out on the street.
Graybeard pleasures are but toys; Sorrow shatters them at last: For this brief hour we are boys; Trim the sheet and face the blast; Sail into the happy past!
Dick, run up to the barn and tell Uncle Polidore to saddle Patty for me and Graybeard for your Mas' Robert.
Go and ask your Miss Sudie to put two or three shirts, and some socks and handkerchiefs into my satchel for me, and then you go and tell Polidore to saddle Graybeard and the bay, and get ready to go with me to the Court House directly.
That a doting graybeard like Khosrul should trouble the peace of Al-Kyris the Magnificent, .
But yon frantic graybeard prates of naught but death, .
And he knew I wasn't half "at myself" yet, physically.
But conductors are no more infallible than other people, and once in a blue moon in going through a train they miss a passenger.
Thereupon, without another word, the graybeard fetched each of the dancers a blow upon the head with might and main--One!
Then the old graybeard gripped the cudgel in his hand.
A fisherman from the little seaport of Pharan, who met him half-way and exchanged a greeting with him, thought to himself as he looked after him, "The great graybeard looks as happy as if he had found a treasure.
Who, indeed, could guess that an old graybeard would derogate from the duties of his office as father and as judge for the sake of a woman's smiling face in clay--as Esau sold his birthright for a mess of pottage?
That answers my question," declared Larry, his admiration for this doughty graybeard rising momentarily.
The answer of the priests was a blow that knocked the graybeard senseless, and lifting Diane up, half-swooning, they flung her upon the altar.
One old graybeard occupied himself by standing on tiptoe and screeching, "Maji!
The oldgraybeard suddenly ceased crying "maji," and darted forward to where I stood on the bale of cotton.
So what does he do but up and shout To a graybeard turnkey, "Let 'em out!
Fifty or thereabouts is only the childhood, as it were, of old age; the graybeard youngster must be weaned from his late suppers now.
One desperate graybeard vaulted over the railing, only to be hustled back with contumely.
A graybeard told the stranger ladies that Santillana was the oldest city in Spain and its cathedral the most beautiful.
He caught a glimpse of the gaunt, old graybeard who had spoken, but did not know him.
On the morrow the butler gropes alone, The graybeard in the desert hall, He seeks his Lord's burnt skeleton, He seeks in the dismal ruin's fall The shards of the Luck of Edenhall.
The graybeard with trembling hand obeys; A purple light shines over all, It beams from the Luck of Edenhall.
Know ye," continued, the graybeard priest, "that Altara is ever guarded by two thousand picked priests and warriors?
Tell thegraybeard he has naught to fear if he comes alone.
Ring it shall be my glad duty, Something to teach of a wronged viking's power; Fire we the palace at midnight's still hour, Scorch the old graybeardand bear off the beauty.
But she was beginning to believe the oldgraybeard to be a bear.
He appeared so indifferent that she did not understand he was a prisoner until she heard thegraybeard call out: "Well, put him in the barn.
Over both rules Maoliosa, a warrior-priest, and under him, at the town, is a graybeard called Rumun mac Coag.
