Many hours later, and many miles farther into the mountainous country, Copeland awoke in a cavern with glassy walls, illuminated by Brinker's ato-light.
Fifty hours before the crash was due, they smashed most of the jets.
Often, Copeland spent many hours in wistful reverie about his girl, Frances, in Iowa.
You're a mighty good fellow, Rob," muttered Tubby sleepily, and they heard no more from him until hours had expired and morning was at hand.
But then none of them worried, for things had turned out splendidly so far, and they could find reason to hope for the return of the party within forty-eight hours at most.
But as there are some three and a half hours before dawn comes we might as well soak in a little more of that good sleep.
Rob did wake up some hours afterward, and creeping out replenished the fire.
I never knew the time when some fellows would refuse to take a bite, especially after some hours of rough tramping.
She would wake sometimes with a start and draw herself away, but soon fell off again, and in this fashion, neither speaking, the hours passed and they gradually drew near Moscow.
You are mine at last, and you shall pay for the hours of pain you have made me suffer!
He had been there since November, it seemed, and had been up the Nile, and had fortunately been able to secure a little bungalow at Mena, where he could spend some hours of peace.
We keep late hourshere in the winter, while it is dark and cold.
And to spend one's hours and find one's pleasure in such things as this!
Twenty-four hours ago he had not known of the existence of Miss Veronica Belyi.
Some hours after he opened his eyes and said: "Anna, bring me my umbrella, and put it here, near my bed.
When, after two hours of fruitless discussion, General Kornilov, worn out morally and physically, proceeded to the trenches, he found a scene there which could scarcely have been foreseen by any soldier of this age.
He was, however, moved by the sufferings of the people, and for six hours he fought for the bridge at the risk of being cut off, until the last cart of the refugees had crossed the bridge.
Naturally, therefore, the working hours were still further curtailed, work became careless, and production fell to its lowest ebb.
General Markov and I spent many hours discussing this subject.
Cases have occurred when orders to advance immediately to reinforce the line were debated forhours at meetings, and reinforcements were twenty-four hours late.
A few hours later the wire transmitted the manifestoes of the Emperor Nicholas the Second and of the Grand Duke Michael.
On May 20th, Kerensky stopped for a few hours at Moghilev on his way home from the South-Western Front.
Count Keller, in command of our section, having travelled for elevenhours in deep mud and over mountain paths, arrived at that moment, and rested for a while.
In the trenches the hours pass slowly and wearily, in dullness and idleness.
The girls did the churches faithfully, but I shirked them and spent my shining hours poking about dirty streets and staring in at the windows of ancient jewelry shops, patiently seeking for the watch of my dreams.
Sensible girl, to spare herself hours of mortal dulness, gossip, and dyspepsia," was the placid reply.
At every sound of steps she lifted her head like a deer, listening and watching till the stranger had gone by; and down every green vista she sent longing looks, as if memory recalled happy hours in green nooks like those.
I do, because, although it will never go again, it will always remind me of some of the happiest hours and minutes of my life, Pen.
But she bitterly repented that speech a few hours later, when her brother was brought back, apparently dead, by such of the "cheerful" party as escaped unhurt from a dangerous upset.
Samoki ware seldom passes as far east as Sakasakan, only four or five hours distant, because similar ware is made in Bituagan, which supplies not only Sakasakan but the pueblos farther up the river.
To illustrate this changing of names: A boy in Tukukan, two hours from Bontoc, was first named Sa-pang' when less than a year old.
In May, 1903, it rained hard every afternoon for two or three hours in Bontoc pueblo, and at such times the women out of doors uniformly removed their clothing.
Boys commonly furnish the power used to crush the cane, and there is much song and sport during the hours of labor.
Cayan is about four hours from Cervantes, and every foot of the trail is up the mountain.
These holes have neither surface outlet nor inlet; there are two such within two hours of Bontoc pueblo.
In the course of a few hours the shaped and nearly completed rim of the pot becomes strong and set by the heat of the sun.
It is customary to spend the night on the trail, as one goes into Bontoc, either at Bagnen or at Sagada, a pueblo about two hours farther on.
At banquet board and in the theater box they passed their hours together.
The lights of the midnight hours charmed her then, and she dashed off to marry Sam Barclay, a professional baseball player.
Wooldridge replied that he had two cases already prepared before he made the raid and would be ready in six hours with a number of additional cases.
He spent hours in his rooms, gazing mutely at a huge crayon portrait of his wife, taken a year before she left him, and he seemed to have no desire or ability left for business.
In these days of the telegraph and telephone the gang must be under cover in a large city or concealed with friends by the time the crime is discovered, which, at the utmost, is about six hours after the crime has been committed.
He can open a safe having all modern improvements in from ten minutes to two hours without the aid of explosives and by only slightly defacing the safe.
Here he was again arrested, fined and given so many hours to leave the city.
They have traveled with him in the dead hours of the night, in his efforts to suppress crime or track a criminal, and have often given him assistance in the way of suggestions.
This, of course, gives the thieves severalhours of valuable time in which to effect their escape.
It is hard for the mind to comprehend how any one man could have achieved all this vast amount of labor, even if he worked twenty-four hours a day all the time.
A few hours after the tragedy of Webster Guerin all the influences and machinery at the command of Mike McDonald were brought to bear to save the life of Dora McDonald.
And then it came to pass, after all those weary and distressing hours of search--this time Suzanne uttered a shrill shriek and trembling all over held out the binoculars toward Jack crying: "Oh!
Another thing he kept before him was the important fact of eight or ten hours apparently wasted.
So two whole hours crept along with a number of abrupt turns, now north, again south, steadily covering the ground.
I'll promise to wake you up inside of three hours when you can take charge while I hit the hay--how about that arrangement, boy?
I'll give you a nudge which will mean your watch has arrived while I get a couple of hours off duty to freshen up.
What was to hinder them seeking it out again, and finding a safe harbor for the hours of darkness?
He had some things to accomplish that would take a few hours and there was no necessity for him to be on hand when Buddy reached town to create the wildest kind of excitement.
The morning is generally fair and bright, but about twohours after noon the sky is clouded, and immediately succeeds a violent storm, with thunder and lightning flashing in the most dreadful manner.
The wife had succeeded in getting him out from among the piles of dead, and was bathing his face, and giving him water to drink from a pool near by, which had been replenished by the rain that fell a few hours before.
Out of seventy-eight hours preceding the action, sixty-three hours were spent by the entire command on duty, besides a heavy picket-guard having been furnished for the remaining fifteen hours.
Among the first squads marched into the yard was one which had to wait several hours before being ordered across the river.
Here these brave men stood for nearly threehours before a terrible fire, closing up as their ranks were thinned out, fire in front, on their flank, and in the rear, without flinching or breaking.
The fog detained us for a few hours on our arrival at the bar.
I was then compelled, in order to save even a fragment of the gallant regiment which for nearly two hours had, unaided, sustained itself against Price's whole army, to order a retreat.
You have learned to suffer and to wait; but, in your hours of adversity, remember that the same God who has numbered the hairs of our heads, who watches over even the fate of a sparrow, is the God of your race as well as mine.
A few hours after entering the rebel works, our soldiers were gladdened by a sight of the veterans of the Army of the Potomac, who that night relieved our men at the front.
His leisure hours were spent in learning to read and write; and in this he seemed to take the utmost interest.
This little lady never rested when she went to rest; she would lie on the bed for hours in a state of strain about resting that was enough to tire any ordinarily healthy woman.
So well does nature work and so truly that she can make up for us in eight hours' sleep what fuel we lose in sixteen hours of activity.
The thirteen did not sleep the next night either, for it was 36 hours before the two came back with their heartbreaking news.
But when Hans Rolf and he parted, a few hoursafter they had met, they were friends for life.
Tom had stuck to his new arm of the service through the threehours of fighting.
A few hours afterwards, he awoke, refreshed and hopeful, a new man, or rather a new boy.
Ere many hours they had the added security of the night.
He was hungry; he was tired; the excitement that had upheld him through the hours of flight on the captured engine was over.
And through these daylight hours he grew ever more faint with hunger, until he told himself that he must have food, at any risk, at any cost.
A few hours after the righteous execution of Jake Johnson there had been thrust into Libby a fresh group of prisoners, captured but fortyeight hours before.
It took Tom some hours to double back towards Grant's headquarters.
Through the daylight hours he watched it with lynx eyes, fearing lest it were swept along towards the sea before he could shelter himself in it.
Johnson spent some hours with him and bored him to distraction.
He sent him from Lincoln's bedside, hours before Lincoln died, to join a troop of cavalry that was to pursue Booth.
He and his fellows had two clear days in which to get away without pursuit, for Johnson lay in his dark prison beneath the bed for fortyeight hours before he was found.
A few hours ago they had been hiding in enemy territory, two hunted prisoners of war.
In a few hours you and I shall drive together to Calais.
A Stuka bomb drops on me and I wake up hours later and miles away.
They were a vicious looking lot, but they had been made that way by the fury of war hurled down on them for the last seventy-two hours or more.
The English youth paused a moment and then told the story of leaving the Paris headquarters of the British Volunteer Ambulance Service, becoming separated from the others, and after many hours picking up Dave Dawson.
Young strong bodies had taken an awful beating for hourson end, and they needed rest.
So had some Stukas a couple of hours before and they had marked it well with a cluster of bomb craters.
He came out of it for the last time a few hours ago, but he started raving about a lot of crazy things, so I gave him something to make him sleep some more.
There is a limit to the endurance of even the strongest of men, and Dave and Freddy had most certainly proved themselves to be men, not just mere boys, during those hours of mad flight across enemy held ground.
For almost five hours he and Freddy had remained stretched out motionless on the cots.
For hours he and Freddy Farmer had trudged across strange country through the darkness striving to put more and more ground between them and the pursuing Germans.
Something of the kind was evidently required to excite the energies and to occupy the leisure hours of our numerous youth.
Let the engines cease, and possibly in a couple of hours the pit may be filled with water.
London drawing-rooms must emit a polluted air, and late hours must enfeeble, and bright eyes must become dull, and cheeks that might have vied in loveliness with the rose, sallow and pale.
Therefore be calm, there is no police officer dogging you, you are free for a few hours yet.
With the Welsh coal they cleaned out their fires but once instead of twice, and thereby effected a saving in the working day of three hours and a half.
A few hours after and the sun has shone brightly, and men have talked gaily on the very spot from whence the poor creatures leapt.
If all were employed, as the usual rate of driving is six miles per hour, they must be each employed at least four hours per diem to pay for their keep.
He erected fountains, elegant and attractive in character, furnished with pure water, and in one day of about thirteen hours twenty-four thousand seven hundred and two persons drank at the thirteen fountains in that town.
The public are not admitted to view the monuments on Good Friday, Christmas Day, or fast days, or during the hours of Divine Service.
Let me beg the considerate reader not to forget West, who ran forty miles in five hoursand a half.
I dined at Jenkins's yesterday, and for threehours over the wine I was compelled to listen to what I had read in that morning's Times.
Beneath us what fleets in a few hours about to sail, with passengers and merchandize to almost every continental port.
At night he flung himself down among the rocks, and snatched a few hours of sleep; but before daybreak he was always well on his way.
The latter is valueless if the stains are a few hours old.
Thus they journeyed on in silence, save for an occasional word of endearment from one to the other, until the dawn had broken, and a fewhours later they found themselves at the Malay village at which Kria lived.
Juggins, which was a queer thing for a man to say, who had seen the baby lying stark and dead more than thirty hours earlier, but the same thought was in my mind too, and we started forward at a run.
The frogs in the marshes behind the village fill the night air with the croakings of a thousand mouths, and the little bull-frogs sound their deep see-saw note during all the hours of darkness.
This he presently did, and for near two hours I sat watching him, and practising, for I had a mind to learn the manner of his art, thinking that hereafter I might profit by it.
For hours he lay exhausted, but wildly restless, too spent to struggle and too demented and tortured to be still.
Enormous fungous growths flourish luxuriantly; and over all, during the long hot hours of the day, hangs a silence as of the grave.
Mat, as he lay trembling in the shelf overhead, watched the tiger, through the long hours of that fearful night, play with the mangled bodies of each of his victims in turn.
At Kôta Bharu, women, both young and old, crowd the markets at all hours of the day, and do most of the selling and buying.
These things were told me by Râja Haji Hamid, as he and I lay smoking on our mats during the cool, still hours before the dawn.
The moon had risen some hours earlier, and the river ran white between the dark banks of jungle which seemed to fence it in on all sides.
The last few hours had only confirmed her conviction that the end of all things was at hand.
All the happiest hours of the life they had spent together crowded on his memory; he answered her glance with a loving and grateful gaze and painfully held out his hand.
We arrived at their sugar camp about two hours in the night.
Two days after I went to stay at the baker's, the Indian that claimed me, his squaw and the young squaw that followed us to the new town, came to see me and stayed three or four hours with me.
We arrived in Vincennes in forty-eight hours after we left the Kickapoo trading town, which is said to be two hundred and ten miles.
Paper hawkers crowd there at certain hours each day, then rush away, vying with one another to call attention to their stock-in-trade.
And there, in 1792, Louis XVI was tried, and after a sitting lasting thirty-seven hours condemned to death.
For two hours or more he rode in silence, and ever as he passed deeper into the great void before him his musing mind contemplated with increasing serenity the events of the last night and day.
When luncheon was announced a couple of hours later Muriel came into the living-room, carrying herself with dignity.
If you are wandering and hungry they give you shelter and feed you; if they like you they treat you as a brother; and when they wish to kill you they tell you so, and give you four-and-twenty hours in which to quit.
In Egypt this particular illness is rampant: everybody who is not old feels youthful, and the actually youthful have hours of violent delirium.
After some two or three hours of dancing, however, she began to grow weary; and when something went wrong temporarily with the suspender which held up one of her stockings, she was glad enough to come to rest in the supper-room.
The hours passed unnoticed, for time had ceased to be; and it was already late when at last Daniel arose, and stood looking down at her with a smile upon his face.
Footnote 73: The Julian Calendar, which reckons the days and hours from midnight, was used at Constantinople.
Age and empire appear to have relaxed this narrow bigotry: his aspiring genius disdained to acknowledge a power above his own; and in his looser hours he presumed (it is said) to brand the prophet of Mecca as a robber and impostor.
In his last hours the emperor testified a wish to forgive and be forgiven, a just anxiety for the fate of John his son and successor, who, at the age of eight years, was condemned to the dangers of a long minority.
It was his delight to converse with the learned on topics of history and science; and the amusement of his leisure hours was the game of chess, which he improved or corrupted with new refinements.
After the death of Basil he experienced the vicissitudes of courts and the ingratitude of a royal pupil: the patriarch was again deposed, and in his last solitary hours he might regret the freedom of a secular and studious life.
From St. Sophia he proceeded to the august, but desolate mansion of a hundred successors of the great Constantine, but which in a few hours had been stripped of the pomp of royalty.
But Ducas seems to understand the natural hours from sunrise.
But from the last hours of Vataces, (Acropolita, c.
The school-room also chanced to be just beneath, and all through school-hours of the long summer days we heard the shrill scoldings and vicious threats with which Miss Sally fulfilled her mission.
Had he ridden Van for two hours under his heavy weight and housings that morning, all would have been lost.
That hour came, however, as all hours come to those who know how to wait.
He had his hours of duty, and keenly relished them.
Twas a fine play to take a man to who was only thirty-six hours on the water wagon.
Old "Con" Murphy was on the stage door of the Boston Theater for eighteen years; his hourswere from 9 A.
I got the car pulled in under a wagon shed and put in eighteen hoursbuilding a new transmission out of an old copper pump and a rainspout.
Then what the devil have you kept me here rehearsing you for three hours for?
Owing to conditions over which she, apparently, had no control, the exact hours of her appearance were a little uncertain.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hours" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
