Becky Zalmonowsky stood so closely over the lake that she shed the chatelaine bag into its shallow depths and did irreparable damage to her gala costume in her attempts to "dibble" for her property.
For there, beyond the rocks and lawns and red japonicas, lay the blue and shining water-lake in its confining banks of green.
It was his first speech for an hour, for Becky's misadventure with the chatelaine bag and the water-lake had made him more than ever sure that his own method of safe-keeping was the best.
Und sooner you likes you should come over the water-lake you calls a bird, und you sets on the bird, und the bird makes go his legs, und you comes over the water-lake.
I've something better to do with it than waste it on a lake in--what do you call it?
To the left of the train a small blue lake had come into view, a lake much indented with small bays running up among the woods, and a couple of islands covered with scrub of beech and spruce, set sharply on the clear water.
All the same, he would go up to Lake Louise, as he had promised, on the following morning.
Lake Superior with Lake Ontario, and was of opinion that the Mackenzie River flowed into the Ottawa.
But he had been in telephonic communication all the afternoon with Delaine and Lady Merton at Lake Louise, as to their departure for the Pacific.
Philip in the comfortable hotel at Lake Louise was recovering steadily, though not rapidly, from the general shock of immersion.
Unfortunately the "association" had included the rescue of Philip from the water of Lake Louise, and the provision of help to Elizabeth, in a strange country, which she could have ill done without.
To this end, President Smith gave me fifty dollars from the Salt Lakemission fund to aid in gathering Sister Burnham.
My brother Franklin and I were trying to save an acre of wheat of father's, growing not far from where the Salt Lake Theatre now stands.
When I reached Salt Lake City, President Young gave me a beautiful Canadian mare, which the Church had furnished me to use on the plains; and he gave me, moreover, his blessing as a reward for my services.
Afterwards I saw Brother Toronto sell a pair of her colts to Kinkaid of Salt Lakefor seven hundred dollars.
On the Mohave, having struck the Mormon road leading from Salt Lake to San Bernardino, we saw Indian signs.
Salt Lake Valley, as it lay in eighteen forty-seven, Was a desert desolate.
She drove a yoke of oxen from the Missouri river to Salt Lake City.
Trees in Salt Lake were in bloom the first of April; but we have now been having a cold rain and snow storm for seven days, and consequently fear for the loss of our fruit.
A Mormon family by the name of Lake had left Winter Quarters in search of work.
As early as 1819, the canal had been opened between Utica and Rome, and from the Hudson to Lake Champlain.
Other canal companies were organised, one to build between the Hudson and Lake Champlain, another to connect the Oswego River with Cayuga and Seneca lakes; but the projects came to nothing.
Dearborn submitted a plan of campaign, recommending that the main army advance by way of Lake Champlain upon Montreal, while three corps of militia should enter Canada from Detroit, Niagara and Sackett's Harbour.
The time was ripe for action, and on that day in August, men eminent and to grow eminent, sought the shade of a great tent on the eastern shore of Lake Erie.
In little more than a year, the jubilee over the letting in of the waters of Lake Erie would deaden the strife of parties with booming of cannon and expressions of joy.
In 1791, George Clinton took a hand, securing the incorporation of a company to open navigation from the Hudson to Lake Ontario.
The Governor announced to General Johnston his intention to proceed to Salt Lake City in company with Mr. Kane; and on the 5th, they started upon the journey.
The Big Mountain, which the road crosses twenty miles from Salt Lake City, was covered so deep with snow, that the party was obliged to follow the cañons of the Weber River into the Valley.
Along the frozen lake she comes In linking crescents, light and fleet; The ice-imprisoned Undine hums A welcome to her little feet.
The President's pardon had reached the Mormon settlements along Lake Utah on the 6th, and the manner in which it was received by the populace showed that they were not satisfied with the position of their leaders.
Nevertheless, the morning Brigham rode into Salt Lake City, the capitulation had been preordained.
Of this number, ten thousand is the proportion of the towns north of Salt Lake City, and upward of fifteen thousand that of the city itself and the settlements in its immediate neighborhood.
To reassure them, the General immediately issued and forwarded to Salt Lake City a proclamation, informing them that no one should be "molested in his person or rights, or in the peaceful pursuit of his avocations.
Mr. Kane had remained in Salt Lake City eight days before starting towards Fort Bridger,--a period quite long enough for a trusted friend of the Mormon leaders to ascertain the extremities to which the people were reduced.
The troops did not emerge from Emigration Cañon into the Salt Lake Valley until the morning of the 26th.
Here their eyes could travel over a rippling lake of leaves far, far away.
So she turned into the path leading along the lake to the old Jagdschloss.
The lake in its light blue summer beauty now lay before them with its greyish-green girdle of reeds and its glistening play of light.
As the sinking sun dipped into the reeds, the lake lost its cool blue silvery sheen and adorned itself with a net of reddish gold.
All the ground here will be filled by a smalllake between this lock and Pedro Miguel.
This drawing was made looking across the lake near Gatun, with the dam in the distance, and I have tried to show the rich riot of the jungle.
For anyone who has two or three days to spare for a single expedition, the trip to Merced Lake is a choice one.
Then the trail leads to the top of the Yosemite Fall and from there a path goes to Lake Tenaya.
The lake is reached in one day by the trail that leads to Vernal and Nevada Falls.
And that most charming villa of yours, what of it, and its portico where it is always spring, its shady clumps of plane trees, its fresh crystal canal, and thelake below that gives such a charming view?
The lake supplies fish in plenty, the woods that girdle its shores are full of game, and their secluded recesses inspire one to study.
The main northern part of the lake is very deep, the plummet having shown an abyss of thirteen hundred feet; but the southern end is shallow and in places marshy.
For the lake in Ceylon arising from the tears of Adam and Eve, see variants of the original legend in Mandeville and in Jurgen Andersen, Reisebeschreibung, 1669, vol.
In China we have, among other examples, Lake Man, which was once the site of the flourishing city Chiang Shui--overwhelmed and sunk on account of the heedlessness of its inhabitants regarding a divine warning.
In the lake and on the river the water is far too wide; but at the strait the space is not greater than might be crossed by a tall mountain pine, and the rocks on either side are formed by nature like a pier.
Then he rose and looked all about--and knew that the longed-for lake was only the lying cheat of the desert sands.
The heat seemed to fill the plain as if it were a deep, transparent lake of some hot, shimmering liquid.
The party must have landed at some private garden, several of which enframed the lake at this part; the surly old man on being hailed, replied "that he knew nothing.
He was filled with a new hope in life; the castle lake had suddenly been transformed, as if by fairy's art, into the enchanted Italian one.
His body, whin he killed himself, was pitched into a lake on the Alps mountains.
They halted on the borders of a lake a few leagues distant from the colony, and there feasted sumptuously on our oxen, as appeared next day from the bones they had left.
Though we had entered the lake which serves as a port there, we were miserably tost about by the waves for many hours.
In June the Army having been gathered we proceeded under Abercromby up the Laketo attack Ticonderoga.
We passed the Point going out of ye Lake St. Peter, when ye Barbars appeared on ye watter-side discharging their muskets at us, and embarquing for our pursuit.
The party was landed on the west side of the Lake near Isle au Noix and lay five days in the bush, it raining hard all the time.
Some day Jimmie's old mother will go out on the wild lake to tend her nets, and she will not come back.
The day following we took a long circle and came out on the lower end of the Lake, there laying two days in ambush, watching the Lake for any parties coming or going.
One day the Abwees glided out in the big lake Tesmiaquemang, and saw the steamer going to Bais des Pierres.
Thus we journied 8 days on yeLake Champlaine, where ye wind and waves did sore beset our endeavors att times.
The Army continued up the Lake and drove the Frenchers out of their Forts, they not stopping to resist us till we got to Chamblee, where we staid.
There were more Highlanders, Grenadiers, Provincial troops, Artillery and Rangers than the eye could compass, for the Lake was black with their battoes.
However, he was able to roll along, skull and all, but as he could not see where he was going he bumped along in a very erratic manner until at length he tumbled into a big lake and sank at first deep down under the waves.
Not finding any water he returned to his brother with the sad news that the lake had dried up, and that already bushes were growing where yesterday there was plenty of water.
But one cold winter day, when he had been out for a long time hunting, he found himself exactly on the opposite side of the lake from the wigwam.
The great lake near her wigwam was well supplied with fish, and the forests all round had in them many rabbits and partridges and other small game.
They were especially warned by their anxious mother not to go to the east, as there was a narrow lake there to which many of these evil creatures came for water, especially a great monster wolf that had devoured many people.
However, it happened that he had this year left his beautiful home at Spirit Lake and was journeying through the country, and he was willing to help all who were in real distress.
When the raccoon heard this he ran down to the lake and quickly untied the rope from the stake and, drawing it back, tied it to a clump of bushes on the land.
The children begged to be allowed to accompany them, and as the day was unusually fine and the lakealmost without a ripple they were given a holiday and allowed the privilege of an all-day outing with these two trusty and experienced men.
The wigwam of Souwanas was pitched in a beautiful spot at the edge of the great forest near the sandy, rocky eastern shore of Lake Winnipeg.
Very well,' said the other; 'it is your turn to go to the lake for water while I make the fire.
However, Souwanas, who had gone out to look at the sky and observe the winds and waves, now came in and reported that he thought they would better put off the canoe trip to some time when the lake was more calm.
This greatlake is well called The Sea, which is the meaning of its Indian name.
These brothers moved far away and built their wigwam in a lonely country on the shore of a great lake which is now called Mirror Lake, because of its beautiful reflections.
When he came up to the top of the water in the lake he found himself transformed into a beautiful seal.
The level plain was broken here by steep, sandy rises crowned with jack-pines and clumps of poplar, and a shallow lake reached out into the open from their feet.
Then a lake offered a smooth path, and they had made a good march when dark fell.
Perry, not twenty-eight years old, was intrusted with the plan to gain control of Lake Erie.
Next summer, when the prettylake dried up and began to smell, we advised the Baron to take a holiday.
The Baron built himself a bungalow on a small hill overlooking a pretty lake which dried up in summer and smelled evilly.
He's bought Sunny Bushes an' the lake of ile for two hundred and fifteen thousand and one hundred dollars.
He, by the Jumping Frog of Calaveras, proposed to paddle his own canoe into and over the lake of oil.
After heart-rending months of humiliation, upon the eve of foreclosure by the banks, Uncle Jap wrote a forlorn letter to Nathaniel, accepting his offer of fifty thousand dollars for the lake of oil.
Because Thirlmere is at once a lake and a reservoir.
Not far from Derwentwater is the pretty lakeof Bassenthwaite.
Coniston Water is a noble lake embosomed in a mass of mountains, of which the finest is Coniston Old Man, a famous peak.
It may be seen admirably from the deck of a lake steamer which runs from end to end.
On a summer day the great lake is a picture of beauty: its bosom is dotted with white-sailed yachts, while pleasure-boats glide from island to island or from shore to shore.
Near this point the River Derwent enters the lake from the narrow glen of Borrowdale, famous for its "Bowder Stone," a vast boulder which has fallen from the crags above.
The placid lake lies sleeping in its hollow, and beyond, up springs the noble mass of the mighty Helvellyn, furrowed with watercourses, jagged with scaurs and grey outcrops of rock, with wide stretches of bracken and sweeps of green grass.
But there is one other lake we must glance at before we leave this land of beauty, and this is Coniston Water.
To secure the lakefrom pollution, the whole of the ground around it has been purchased and cleared of its scanty population, and now clear brooks pour their water, undefiled by any use, into the great basin.
Like a great river the lake winds between its banks till northwards it is shut in by lofty hills, which spring from the water's edge.
It is noted as the home of char, that mysterious and beautiful fish of the Lake Country.
Over the top of Dunmail Raise we go, and soon Thirlmere comes into sight--a long, lonelylake with never a farmhouse or cottage to break the silence of its shores.
They can go by innumerable waterways from lake to lake, from pool to pool, from mere to mere, through a wide district.
It also embraces the (perhaps) Gothic sound of TH, which is wholly unknown (the Shawnee excepted) to the modern lake dialects.
Soon after we saw the insects, a flock of white birds, about the size of a thrush, appeared, flying quickly along the side of the lake in a very swallowlike manner.
Then down came the rain in a drowning deluge, roaring on the foliage, and churning the surface of the sleeping lake into a torrent of bubbling, boiling foam.
The country, so far as we could judge in the deepening gloom, was forbidding in appearance, and the reflection from the lake of molten fire shone on the heavens for a vast distance.
We stood upon the crag Remagaloth, a jutting rock which arched and overhung in awful grandeur a vast lake of seething molten fire!
The country, as far as we could see, from the base of the mountains to the shores of the lake and beyond it, was much the same throughout its area as that which we had already explored the previous day.
The bed on this side of the lake was much deeper than on the other, and the bottom was rocky.
Let them and their evil carriage be hurled into the Lakeof Melag, from the crag Remagaloth, so that all may be consumed in living fire, and we may see them no more.
No less than nine of these terrible monsters came from thelake during the hour that we watched, and all took the same beaten track into the swamps that the first had followed, and we saw them no more.
The surface of this molten lake was remarkably still; here and there a tongue of flame shot upwards, and then sank again; here and there the seething mass heaved gently, as though simmering and swelling in sullen rage.
Peal after peal of thunder shook the ground beneath him: flash after flash of lightning glanced along the lake of mercury, and illumined its smooth waveless surface like a mirror.
Laden with a great variety of specimens, we made our way to the boat, and were soon rowing across the lake again towards the swamp.
As we entered one by one we noticed a score or more stalwart troopers standing round, evidently waiting for the signal to hurl us over into the lake as soon as all was prepared.
The white drifts were everywhere; the vague level of the frozen lake stretched away from the hotel like a sea of snow; on its edge lay the excursion steamer in which Northwick had one summer made the tour of the lake with his family, long ago.
