The pencil of the declining ray penetrating the windows of the palace, bespoke the halting of the departing sun, under the cooling shade of the royal canopy, after his weary journey all along the livelong day.
After a long search, he came in sight of the elephant halting under a tree; as when a warrior returns from the battlefield, and breathes the air under a shady arbour.
The fair ideals that outran My halting footsteps seek and find-- The flawless symmetry of man, The poise of heart and mind.
And lie who sees the future sure, The baffling present may endure, And bless, meanwhile, the unseen Hand that leads The heart's desires beyond the halting step of deeds.
At the sound of the haltingfootsteps the tramp stopped stirring the mess in the washboiler and glanced up apprehensively.
Travelling on without halting we arrived at the hacienda of San Diego at four o'clock.
The host his order well obeyed, And halting there in silence stayed Watching where from the thicket’s shade They saw the smoke appear.
But Ráma bade the chariot stay, And halting in his airy way, In Bharadvája’s holy shade His homage to the hermit paid.
Dan's slow, halting French made the Countess listen very attentively, that she might understand just what he said.
Halting under the heavy foliage of a tree, the stranger glanced down at the weapon in his hand and shuddered.
Mile after mile they galloped without halting again to see whether they were being chased.
The honest simplicity of his halting French-Canadian speech carried more weight than the too smooth flowing tales told by the well drilled citizen deputies on whom the prosecution depended for conviction.
Then, to avoid inquiries, and to realize all that had passed in the last wonderful three hours, he slipped away while they were getting her into the carriage, and wandered back into the wood, pausing at each of their halting places.
They walked steadily down the street, which was luckily a narrow one, so that three of them could keep the whole of it, halting and showing front every few yards, when the crowd pressed too much.
He was accustomed to halting confessions, and ready with a prompting word if the sinner faltered.
He leaned far forward, and watched the nervous step and halting gait.
Satan had not stirred from his first halting place, but now his head was high and his cars pricked anxiously.
And come he did, step by halting step, while she hauled him, and now the snarling hoarse intakes of breath filled the room.
Halting in New York for a few hours only, they crossed the Atlantic in the Lucania.
Halting the vehicle at a corner near Nancy's abode, he walked to the house, and surprised the earliest servants astir by bidding one of them wake Mrs. Marten at once, as he had news of her father.
Though he had been blind and deaf solely because of the depth and intensity of his love and reverence, he could utter now only a halting plea that would explain his slowness of perception.
And he stammered some halting phrase of thanks to them for coming back to fetch him out.
This spot would do," said Tode, thoughtfully, halting in front of the illest looking of the rum-shops.
For I was a little lame, halting on one foot ever since the affair of Tinkler Marshall, though I think not to any noticeable extent.
There, where the Great Hill of Stennies Water pushes down a spur to the water-side, was our halting place.
No use halting unless we are prepared to fight it out to the last," he answered; "better to keep moving on, while we can see our way.
They were just halting in the Cerolian place, when he saw them, and dismounting, chargers and men in a confused and dusty group before the door of Cicero.
In the dark path of wickedness there is no halting place; the wretched climber must turn his face for ever upward, for ever onward; if he look backward his fall is inevitable, his doom fixed.
Dick took a few rapid steps, halting before a fringe of bushes.
They worked singly between two stations, each starting at a fixed time from each end, halting midway to communicate, then returning.
In our last conflict four of his five wits went halting off, and now is the whole man governed with one!
Like ignorance in respect to the proper tactical methods of dealing with insurrection against the authority of the United States caused halting and ineffective action of the troops.
The charge of the squadrons across the square, halting at command within a few feet of the reviewing general, was a fine exhibition of discipline and perfect control.
Talking to himself, cackling at his own flashes of wit, halting after each few paces to search the immediate neighborhood and detect any guiding sound, he was now on the same side of the lake as the girl, and coming perilously near.
Trenholme told him, and Furneaux hurried away, halting for an instant in the doorway to raise a warning finger.
Meanwhile, Furneaux had not held the second glass of Château Yquem to the light in Tomlinson's sanctum before Winter's car was halting outside Brondesbury police station.
