We had passed it in all the enjoyment which can be derived both from the senses and the mind, and never had one singleinstant of weariness caused either of us to be guilty of that sad symptom of misery which is called a yawn.
To impel the ladder to the extent required I got on my knees, but the effort I had to use made me slip, and in an instant I was over the parapet as far as my chest, sustained by my elbows.
I trust my likeness will prove equally dear to you, for it seems to me that nature has created us for one another, and I curse the fatal instant in which I raised an invincible barrier between us.
He advanced to the very footlights, and stopped one instant in a graceful attitude.
The instant he saw the intruder the vintner snatched a pistol from the drawer in the table and leveled it at Carmichael.
As he did so something snapped in Herbeck's brain, though at that instant he was not conscious of it.
Her heart was beating violently at what was so suddenly coming on her, when at that instant Charles broke off short with "Good Heavens!
The boat with the two boys was drifting out to sea, and Peregrine capering wildly on the shore, but in another instant he had vanished into the castle.
In another instant she recognised the sound of voices conversing in a half whisper.
But this conclusion was combated by the fact that there seemed to be no alarm in the camp, nor any preparations on foot either for instant battle or retreat.
In the next instant the door was thrown wide open, the weapon cast aside, and the father rushed forward as he exclaimed, "Gracious God, my boy and Horse Shoe Robinson!
At the same instant that Horse Shoe spoke, a bullet whistled close by his ear; and, in the next, six or eight men galloped into the river, from different points.
But still the fate of the man was manifestly doubtful, and the rising exasperation of the troop became every instant more open.
It was after ten o'clock, and the sergeant was casting over in his thoughts the long absence of John, when his attention was aroused by the sound of footsteps, and the nextinstant John Ramsay and Mary Musgrove stood beside him.
The sweep of the broadsword fell upon the barrel of Horse Shoe's uplifted rifle, and in the next instant the broad hand of our lusty yeoman had seized the trooper by the collar and dragged him from his horse.
In any other country it would have been followed with instant cashiering.
The devotion to the cause was so sincere and so dominant, that the personal ambitions of a lifetime were subordinated in an instant upon the demand of the popular tribunal whose decision was final.
The instant restoration to four millions of human beings of the God-given right of freedom so long denied them, depended upon the vote of the House of Representatives.
To establish our sovereignty to the shores of the Pacific became a matter of instant solicitude with the watchful and patriotic President.
Sweden, that the cannoneers were perfectly right in directing their shots at him, for the war would be at an instant end if they could kill him; whereas they would reap little from killing his principal officers.
To those who wanted aninstant settlement, and the return of the seceding States upon their own terms, the administration seemed too radical.
And in an instant his heart was filled with light and love and peace, and sweet assurance that Christ Jesus was his Saviour, even his.
Speed, my soul, this instant yield; Let the light its sceptre wield.
At that instantthe hall door behind them opened, and Trafford stepped out.
The instant these words escaped Noll's lips he half regretted them.
But at that instant the door of the dwelling opened, and out came Dirk, beating his breast and crying aloud, whether with pain or grief Noll was too surprised to notice at first.
And now, with startling suddenness, a flash of lightning was followed by a sharp crack, and that on the instant by a heavy downpour of rain.
Watch him shoot forward like an arrow from a bow," my lord said to Mr. Fox, and the next instant was yards away.
And at that very instant the hounds sprang forth, giving tongue, and the field sprang forward with them, and all was wild excitement: cries of "Tally ho!
He has the look of it," thought Roxholm, remembering the old stories; but the nextinstant he gave a start.
The next instantthe glass of the first coach was smashed and its door beaten open.
And I fled from you with the cunning of a mischievous schoolgirl, coming out from the hotel when you had gone off for a few moments, at other times doubling a corner at the very instant that you turned your eyes away.
Listening to their Neapolitan curses, Ferragut believed for an instantthat they were going to kill one another.
I guessed from the very first instantthat our friendship was going to terminate as it has terminated.
They would flame up for an instant upon recalling their danger, and then relapse into indifference and fatalism.
All foreheads were bowed under the weight of severe thought: all the men in that instant appeared thirty years older.
When his mother, sweet and pallid Doña Cristina, would stop her fancy work for an instant to give him a kiss, he always saw in her smile something of the Empress.
Lumber-jacks, with Tom and Hippy, had plunged into the shallow stream the instant that Grace cried out, and were running towards Willy, now standing calmly awaiting them.
They saw the two men struggling with the gates, and at the same instant they saw something else.
June felt the sting of it, and July grunted as the club descended on the fleshy part of her hip, at the same instant shooting both hind feet into the air; but this time Joe was out of reach.
Grace, after thanking the storekeeper for his courtesy, went out laughing, but the instant she stepped into the street she intuitively sensed a change in the spirit of the crowd there.
Hippy and Tom at that instant were catapulted into the air, hurled by the gate-lever, and fell into the river below the dam with a splash.
Nora uttered an anguished wail, and in an instant her arms were about Lieutenant Wingate's neck.
Two of the trio were holding their rifles under their arms at a position indicating readiness for instant action.
Tom paused only for an instant to listen and estimate how much time they had before the flood would be upon them.
Every jack in the room leaped to his feet and the next instant they were blowing great, long-drawn breaths at the blue flame that, as they thought, was consuming something that was good to eat.
At almost the sameinstant Hippy Wingate's bull pup was galvanized into life.
They will be crooning a good-night lullaby the instant I lay my weary person down," declared Elfreda Briggs.
Delaying not an instant longer he threw off his clothing and sprang into the water.
The whole herd broke in an instant into a frightful panic, and with much snorting and bellowing rushed away in a black mass toward the east.
The bonds of friendship that united the five were the ties of countless hardships and dangers shared, and not one of them would have hesitated an instant to risk his life for any one of the others.
Kennedy instantly relaxed his grip, and in that instant Walton swung him off his feet, and they came down together with a crash that shook the room.
When Kennedy had taken over the reins, Kay's had become on the instant twice as bad as it had been before.
The true history is romantic tradition; the stimulating thing, the tale that makes the blood leap, the pictorial incident that raises up in an instant the luminous vision of some great thing that once was.
By the reality, the peril of the world's instant need, he tried the offered help from Calvary.
For an instant the turbid heart of the man cowered, awestruck, as yours or mine has done when some swift touch of music or human love gave us a cleaving glimpse of the great I AM.
But Helen's speech rubbed him up the wrong way at once, and in an instant he became the lofty and contemptuous school-boy brother again.
The instanther eyes were closed, Jim filled up her glass as she drank.
But, looking at Kraill's face for one fleetinginstant Marcella knew that he understood how sore and shamed she was.
She knew he was speaking, but she felt mesmerized by Louis, and shook her head impatiently, never taking her eyes for an instant from the boy's dribbling mouth.
In an instanthis arm, taut and strong, was round her.
She merely nodded her head, and without waiting another instant he darted into the nearest hotel, leaving her standing on the pavement.
Just for an instant she wanted to push Louis over the roof, hear him smash far below on the street for daring to say the spaewife was afraid.
For an instant he stood looking at her; the next moment with a hoarse cry he was kneeling beside her.
At the instant Stepan Mihailovitch was overjoyed, but he soon controlled his feelings and hid his happiness from his womankind.
She was smiling, and her eyes expressed such tenderness that, when he looked at her and saw her kind hand stretched out towards him, the excess of his emotion deprived him for an instant of the power of speech.
It was necessary for his purpose that she should lose patience and complain to her father; and he warned the invalid more than once that he was constantly expecting Sofya Nikolayevna to complain of him and demand his instant dismissal.
Kalutunah laughed immoderately at my failure, but dodged the next instant as I tried it again, the lash this time coming within an ace of taking him across the face.
At that instant he felt himself picked up and whirled through the air as if he had been a feather.
He was the apex of a triangle of boys, who were ready to rush down the field the instant the ball was put into play.
The next instant we struck the rough stretch of ice, and I had all I could do to cling on until we had passed it.
It was a most brutal act, and so unexpected was it that for an instant I was stupefied.
Just at the instant when the shutter must have operated, the man heard us and turned his head, facing us squarely.
It was a big loss for Ripley, and when Adams, the left end, did the same thing an instant later, the noise from the Hall boys along the bounds was ear-piercing.
The photographs of Series IX show that the difference is quite pronounced from the first instant of contact.
First the report of the German guns would be heard, and in an instant the shell would burst near the fort, throwing dirt and rock high into the air.
They were all in easy shelling distance for the Germans, in fact, Deramee was so close to the lines that one could hear the report of the guns an instant before the shells would come over.
Louis took it mechanically, laid it on the table, and looked at it for an instant with a fixed and haggard eye; then two tears coursed down his pallid cheeks, and a sob burst from his chest.
And yet, general, only an instant agone, while placing my horse in the corral.
Perhaps, general, I will reply in the remark you employed aninstant ago.
At each instant they raise their heads, and do not eat their food in comfort.
An instant later he reappeared with her; the band mounted, and, on a signal from Don Sebastian, set out.
At that instant Cynthia seized the lighted lamp which stood near, and with desperate strength flung it toward the reaching body!
In that instant she relinquished all the forced ties that held him and her--she cast him off superbly at this critical time of his life; not bitterly or unkindly--but faithfully.
At that moment a star broke through the scudding masses of rolling blackness--one kindly eye of light, and at the same instant something touched his body with thrilling familiarity.
For an instant the sweet smile faded, but it was for the loss of her mountains; not her doubt of her husband which drove it away.
Morley recoiled for an instant and his eyes, old and dim, struggled to see clearly the figure and face before him.
Up to that instant he had not considered where he was going; he only felt the necessity of flight.
The joy of the season was in his face, and he was at home in the woods, for when a redbird called to its mate, the man whistled a reply and smiled to hear the bird's instant response.
She drew a quick breath and laid instant hold on her wonted power of speech.
He, too, threw a glance and a smile backward, and the next instant the two were spinning down the road in the direction of the Iron Bridge.
Her sense of smell, sharpened by breathing forest air, took instant note of the musty odors that came from walls, floors, and clothing.
