So ye be the Buckskin laud," he said, with a wink at a leering group of farmers; "ye hae braw gentles in America.
He drew me on from group to group, and I was duly presented to a score of Lady So-and-sos and honourable misses, most of whom had titles, but little else.
His big frame shook with the fun of it, for none in the colony could be jollier than he on holiday occasions: and the group of ladies and gentlemen beside him caught the infection, so that I was sore put to it.
But my eyes went back again and again to the group by the doorway, where Dolly was holding court and dispensing justice, and perchance injustice.
As we drew near the town of Kirkcudbright, which lies very low at the mouth of the river Dee, I made out a group of men and women on the wharves.
In the front of the group stood out a strangely familiar figure.
A little group stood with the Blains, listening to the weird cry.
After this the group proceeded to follow the track along which the other snares were secreted.
It need hardly be said that the other members of the group were startled out of speech and action.
The striking of iron on the flints of the creek-bed breaks the dismal silence, as a group of horsemen steal out of the surrounding gloom, and stand half-revealed in the light of the camp fire.
A group of men and boys throughout the day had lined the bank of the river, in the vicinity of the Government wharf, which was submerged.
Having secured the trap and the scalp, the group retraced their steps to where they had hitched the horses.
The advantage of this site was apparent to the group of campers, inasmuch as the foreshores of the Bay were covered for the most part with a stunted scrub that extended to the beach.
Drawing on one side, thegroup watched the proceedings with great interest.
This is the last one, mates," remarked Sandy, as the group entered the mouth of a passage.
This is undoubtedly the most remarkable groupof cave-temples upon the island.
The scene is occasionally varied by a group of men sitting upon their heels and absorbed in gambling for small sums of money.
This groupof bamboos formed a grove by itself, two hundred feet in circumference, its feathery, misty foliage yielding gracefully to every pressure of the breeze, softly fanning the surface of the still water on whose brink it flourished.
So far as the flora and fauna of Ceylon are concerned, it resembles the islands of the Malay group lying far to the eastward, much more than it does the land which is situated so near to it at the north.
On the occasion of our visit, special notice was taken of a group of bamboos in the Kandy garden, the bright yellow stems being over a hundred feet in height, and each stem at the base measuring from eight to ten inches in diameter.
The Maldive Islands, situated five hundred miles west of Ceylon, are a group of seventeen coral islets containing a vast number of cocoanut palms, and are rich in varied tropical vegetation.
One seems to be in fairyland, and looks about for the figure of a sylphid floating upon a gossamer cloud, or a group of fairy revelers tripping upon the blossom-covered ground.
There are very old plumbago mines hereabouts, and a group of mouldering stone lions, elephants, and a figure designed to represent that fabulous creature, the unicorn.
Her sense of her own shortcomings became all the more poignant when the little cavalcade, with Missy still ignominiously footing it in the rear, had to pass the group of loafers in front of the Post Office.
And then, as often follows a mood of high adventure, there fell upon the festive group a moment of pause, of unnatural quiet, of "let down.
At the same moment a smaller man on the other side of the group made a similar effort, but they were both too late.
Silvia had scarcely finished the letter, pausing instinctively before she read the name of the guilty man, when the large man, who had been furtively keeping guard of the little group of witnesses where Dr.
She paused in her recital and cast a glance at a large, muscular man, seated among a group of witnesses for the defense.
The young men of which this secondgroup was composed represented the various newspapers of New York City, and while a "beat" was evidently impossible, each of them was determined to get a line for his own journal from the returning hero, Dr.
The Judge finished reading the letter, and called Silvia to the bench, where they held a whispered conversation with the district attorney, glancing once or twice toward the little group of witnesses where the large man sat.
His eyes were on the little groupby his side at the time, but the silence caused him to turn to her again, and after another affirmative nod she resumed.
Passing some cottages I heard a group of children speaking English.
I gave the group the sele of the evening in English, which they all returned, the woman looking up from her book.
On coming to a town, lighted up and thronged with people, I asked one of a group of young fellows its name.
Observing a group of idlers close at hand with their backs against a wall, I went up to them, and, addressing myself to one, inquired whether I could see the church.
One of the demands of the "postponed" group of the Twenty-one Demands was that Japan should supply military and police advisers to China.
There is also danger that one foreign nation may line up with one group of provinces, and another foreign nation with another group, so that international friction will increase.
The soft gleam of the lamps showed a very pleasant group in the roomy, comfortable saloon.
With every observant faculty on the stretch Ferrier strolled from group to group, chatting with man after man; no one was in the least familiar, but the doctor was struck with the simple cordiality of all the fellows.
Moreover, the group of the apostles presents a wonderfully lifelike aspect.
She little guessed herself to be the one figure, amid a glitteringgroup and where many were rich, who really interested the all-seeing Eye.
Literature to this group of women was not only a heritage from the past, from great shadowy masters who were mere names and books, it was a home product in actual process of manufacture about their cradles.
She could make vivid sketches of a moment or of a group or a landscape, but she could not build up touch by touch a consistent and compelling human character.
The work of the group began early, only a few years later than that of the major singers.
V To the Georgia groupbelongs in reality Mary Noailles Murfree, better known as Charles Egbert Craddock.
The group of new authors which he gathered about him is comparable only with the groupthat James T.
The group was born during the thirties and early forties, that second seedtime of American literature.
V During the closing years of the century there came into American literature, suddenly and unheralded, a group of young men, journalists for the most part, who for a time seemed to promise revolution.
The older group of writers had been narrowly provincial.
I The earliest group to appear was made up of daughters of the Brahmins--Louisa M.
Drawing aside the curtain that hung in the door-arch between the two rooms, she beckoned him to approach, and pointed silently to the group in the next room.
Just as I turned to retrace my steps, my eyes fell on a group of low bushes, which would have taken the palm in any collection of those horribly dead-looking things that ladies call phantom-flowers.
I was struck while perusing them with a certain distinct literary flavour, so to speak, which appeared to be common to a group of little volumes, all published about the same period.
This group of little books possesses, moreover, another characteristic that is sufficiently remarkable of itself to be noticed.
John thought they seem'd a motley group of quizzes, With lankey jaws, black brows, and dingy phizzes.
Below the mouth of Squaw Run a group of terrifed children stood on the bank intently watching a skiff which was being rowed slowly down stream.
Mr. O'Leary was on hand with a group of longshoremen who lifted "Sometub" from the water and carried it to a freight car as if it were a toy.
Passed on from there each recruit joined a group wearing only greatcoat or shirt and standing about a stove near the door.
His books appeared to indicate a fair number and a fair diversity of interests; but their diversity presented to him a common quality or group of qualities.
His mind was even so free from all preoccupation that he stumped out upon the wall a rough study of his group of Zagreus and the Titans, a variant which modified the position of the principal character's right arm.
Soon the last group in the parade was passing the reviewing stand.
If my group is refused a place in this parade we shall file suit immediately.
The ant rejoined the group and they continued on their merry way.
You move your groupto the corner of Thompson Street and Third Street.
As the boat swung out into the stream, and the little group on the bank faded swiftly away, I confess to a little dimness of the eyes.
A little group of tents sprang up around our own and every day was full of quiet enjoyment.
He turned out to be a "runner," so to speak, for the ferrymen at Tchincut Crossing, and led us down to the outlet of the lake where a group of natives with their slim canoes sat waiting to set us over.
These outfits were typical of scores of others, and it will be seen that they were for the most part Americans, the group of Germans from New York City and the English doctor being the exceptions.
Many of them were Italians, and onegroup which we overtook went along killing robins for food.
We drove steadily for ten hours up this magnificent water with ever increasing splendor of scenery, arriving about sunset at Taku City, which we found to be a little group of tents at the head of Taku arm.
The campfires flamed all along the lake walk, and the talk of each group could be overheard by any one who listened.
They sat about our blazing fire laughing and chattering like a group of girls, discussing our characters minutely, and trying to get at our reasons for going on such a journey.
He had already spotted the small flat valley where nestled the little native village of Pidang, and where the famous American Volunteer Group was supposed to be located.
He lowered his gaze to see suddenly the group of sun bronzed American pilots at the side of his plane.
As Dave spoke the words he looked down at the group of buck toothed, wide grinning brown faces about the plane.
It was you, my good man, who went to the Group Commander and checked the rumor.
He had smaller worries as well, and not the least of them was General Kashomia's plan for them to scout the American Volunteer Group field north of Lashio.
He really doesn't want to know a blasted thing about that American Volunteer Group north of Lashio.
For some weeks, now, a group of fools has been giving aid to the Chinese armies.
Well, a couple of thousand miles up that way there's a group of islands that are called Japan.
There are not many pilots in this group of American fools, but they are good pilots, and they have not as yet realized that their task is hopeless.
If many royalists remained in the Orne and the Manche, it was impossible to group them or pay them.
Querelle now led them by chance, thinking he recognised a group of trees, a turn of the road, even imagining he had found a farm "by the particular manner in which the dog barked.
In this way the Chevalier Acquet de Férolles had become the idol of the littlegroup of naïve royalists among whom he had found refuge.
The descent of a French prince on the Norman coast would in d'Aché's opinion, group all these malcontents.
Mr. Carter found the door open, and a group of servants clustered in the gothic porch.
The woman at the lodge was not alone; a little group of gossips were gathered in the primly-furnished parlour, and the talk was loud and animated.
Arthur Lovell, Mr. Balderby, and the Anglo-Indian sat in a little group apart from the rest.
Later, however, he fell under the influence of a group of separatists, and began to imitate their practices.
The last name of this group we would mention is that of a layman, Per Olof Nystrom.
We have tried the same experiment with a group of Bible students, and "Rock of Ages" easily headed the list.
The last name in this groupis by far the most important and will be given more extensive notice in the following chapter.
Foremost in this unusual group was the beloved Frans Michael Franzen, a lyric poet of singular talent.
Arvid Afzelius, court chaplain and pastor at Enkoping, was another member of this remarkable group of Swedish hymnists that contributed to the "Psalm-book" of Wallin.
In 1777 he became editor of a newspaper at Darmstadt, at which place he became acquainted with Goethe and a group of freethinking philosophers.
The authors of our great hymns have come from practically every Christian communion, proving that in every church group there are souls who are living in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.
About twenty-five years ago a group of literary men within the Norwegian Lutheran Synods undertook the task of translating some of the gems of Danish and Norwegian hymnody.
One of his hymns, published in 1630 under the group known as "Songs of Tears," is entitled "Treuer Waechter Israel.
National Library, they group themselves into certain definite trains [75] of speculation and study.
Villon is certainly in the small first group of the poets.
A group of men to which allusion will be made in connection with Du Bellay set out with a programme, developed a determined school, and fixed the literary renaissance of France at its highest point.
Mr. Corrigan, surrounded by a group of sympathetic neighbours, was cataloguing his losses and Mr. Brady called to him as they passed.
The birds of this groupmay be characterised by their resemblance in all important points of structure, especially in the beak, to the rock-pigeon.
I have classed them under four Groups, in order to mark their affinities and degrees of difference; but the third group is artificial.
Our third main group includes Carriers, Barbs, and Runts, which are plainly related to one another, yet wonderfully distinct in several important characters.
This group may, as a general rule, be recognised by the beak being long, with the skin over the nostrils swollen and often carunculated or wattled, and with that round the eyes bare and likewise carunculated.
It perhaps deserves notice that besides these five birds two of the eight were Barbs, which, as I have shown, must be classed in the same group with the long-beaked Carriers and Runts.
This group includes a single race, that of the Pouters.
This group is artificial, and includes a heterogeneous collection of distinct forms.
If we could collect all the pigeons which have ever lived, from before the time of the Romans to the present day, we should be able to group them in several lines, diverging from the parent rock-pigeon.
