From a loophole on the southern side of the keep, lighting the gallery which runs within the walls on a level with the great entrance, the countess and her bower-maiden Eadgyth watched the strife.
When the aged lady-in-waiting came to her, in obedience to the message Eadgyth had conveyed, the countess left the loophole through which so stirring a drama was visible, and advanced to meet her.
As soon as his task was completed, Charley relieved his chum at the loophole and Walter set about making coffee and cooking some breakfast.
Between them the two startled lads got the big fellow on his feet and supported him to the loophole where he leaned against the logs, his face twitching with the pain of his effort.
He thrust the barrel of his rifle out through the loophole and the next instant its sharp crack rent the stillness of the night.
From the loophole shot out quick jets of flame as the man inside worked the lever of his Winchester.
Keep watch at the loophole while I see if anything can be done for him," Charley commanded.
The man arose and taking up his rifle stepped over to the loophole beckoning to the lads to follow.
Taking a careful aim from one loophole she fired--a man dropped; then she shifted her place to the next vacant loophole, and fired from that.
I saw everything, for it was so warm in there that everyloophole had been opened.
It had all been so sudden, so overwhelming, that I felt dazed as I looked from my loophole into the murky, snow-flecked night.
There was a sudden cry from the watch-tower that the enemy were in full retreat, and I ran to a loophole to see if this good news could be verified.
I fired three times--spare muskets were passed to me--and I drew back from the loophole to reload.
Just then a bullet, fired through a loophole at one side of the door, whistled within an inch of my ear.
His last sentence I scarcely heard, for I had already left the loophole and was scrambling down the ladder.
I put my eyes to a vacant loophole and what I saw fairly froze the blood in my veins.
I poked my musket through the loophole and pulled trigger.
A gun spoke shrilly from a loophole on the right, and Baptiste's voice shouted with elation: "Bonne!
I left him in the act of reloading, and sped to a loophole near the gates, which faced eastward.
How they could see so well is a mystery, but certain it is that they brought their muskets to bear on every loophole of the stockade and the tower.
Then through my loophole I saw among the trees a moving light, evidently a lantern, and presently seven or eight dark forms moving doubtfully along the little jetty.
Just then the moon peeped in for a moment through a loophole in one of the shutters, and showed us a bracket on the wall opposite on which stood a candle, and beside it, to our joy, a tinder-box.
The hut was built so near the edge of the bank there was little possibility of an attack from in front; in each of the other three sides he cut a loophole for observation and defense.
Up to this moment Garth had been playing a dispassionate game; but he returned to his loophole conscious of a great surge of cold rage against those below.
The muzzle of the rifle again projected from the loophole and with its crack the doctor staggered for a moment and then fell.
Walter's rifle spoke again and the rifle disappeared through the loophole with a spasmodic jerk.
Dick lifted his musket and fired through a loophole upon the men rushing forward.
A long loophole had been fashioned in the thick wall on a downward slant, so that a marksman might command anyone who crept forward to fire the fort.
Suddenly before the loophole passed a slave damsel of winning face and blithesome manner, humming to herself a rude little ditty, while she balanced a large earthen water-pot on her head.
Agias pressed his head out the loophole and screamed to attract attention.
Again you offer me a loophole of escape, my dear fellow," he said sententiously, "but that theory will not hold water.
It is good of you to afford me a loophole of escape," said Sir Frank, leaning back with folded arms, "but De Gayangos gave me nothing.
If a single loophole were left him, he would be unpardonable, not for disbelieving the story, but for believing it.
The Church itself supplies theloophole for apostasy.
True to this terrible infant's character, she now refused to sleep by day, as she had hitherto done, thus cutting off poor Billy's last loopholeof earning his bread and her own with any comfort.
Oh, was there any possible loophole of escape out of that difficulty?
He turned his mind now resolutely to the other plan, the one remaining loophole out of his despair.
A native reported that he had located it, and while looking through a tiny loophole in plate iron he was shot through the forehead, the bullet making a ghastly mess of his head.
One passes a loophole (they are quite low and unavoidable in walking), and then waits for the rifle fire before rapidly crossing another.
And if I am not mistaken, we can by a glance through this loophole obtain the answer to another.
Once installed inside, he let the curtain drop till only a small loophole remained.
Now the inspector knew that Bartow had not been standing there, but at the loophole above; but the opportunity for entrapping the witness was too good to lose.
Probably he spent much of his time at the loophole on the stairway, studying his master till he understood his every gesture and expression.
Through a loophole I got a little framed picture of the Austrian trenches not five hundred yards away, and above them, cut in the mountainside, the square black openings within which lurked the Austrian guns.
Within arm's length they beheld the loophole of a German trench and could hear German voices.
President Wilson and his advisers saw noloophole for argument as to the justification or otherwise of a submarine sinking an unarmed merchantman with passengers on board her when the vessel was at a standstill.
This time there would be no loophole of escape--this last respite was all that would be granted her; and even now that she had gained that much, there seemed every hour less probability of her being able to turn it to advantage.
There they were perfectly concealed, and through an arrow-loophole commanded a view upon the farther side.
The front parapet had been partially knocked down that morning, so that the "observing" loophole was now four or five feet wide.
If it was the work of an English journalist, that does not absolve the official censorship from the charge of gross carelessness in leaving even a loophole for the transmission of important secrets.
But Admiral Seymour's reports leave no loopholefor doubt.
Seeing the shutter bend with the pressure of the Indians against it, she seized the spit, and plunged it through the loophole with all her force.
As it did so, from every loophole a stream of fire poured out, repeated again and again.
