He thought no more of the danger which lurked near him than he did of the possible failure of his expedition.
But within this setting, Wilson knew there lurked a spirit that was but the smile which mocks from a death's head.
Meeting in an orchard the negroes set fire to a shed and then lurked about in the shadows, armed with every kind of weapon on which they could lay hands.
Her head ached, and she put out the candle, and went and sat on the window-seat, looking out into the moonlit garden, watching for her father.
He was sure that something lurked behind, and had an idea of his own that it was connected with Dunster's disappearance.
For some time it was supposed that the best (if not the only) portrait of her lurked somewhere in Italy.
I mused on this, wondering if beneath the busy exterior of life there lurked in people's hearts a secret imperishable conviction.
Formerly, the idea of death lurked constantly in the depths of the unconscious mind, and by its vaguely-felt influences spurred us on to continual exertion.
It had caught first that group which lurked in the ground near the base of the Empire State.
As the bear advanced boldly toward them, the two old men promptly threw off their robes--an evidence that there still lurked within their breasts the spirit of chivalry and ready courage.
Our chief and his principal warriors briefly conferred with the strangers, and it was understood by both parties that no thought of hostilities lurked in the minds of either.
About them, unseen as yet, lurked a grim specter, waiting only the opportunity to grip them both in the fingers of disgrace, and make instant mock of all their plans.
Amelie flushed; her manner was still far from pleasing Dorothy, for she sat as upright in her chair as if the plague lurked in the back or arms of it.
Furthermore, at that interview she had had with him suspicion, vague and darkling, she knew lurked in the shadow of her mind; the piece of him she did not know irresistibly connected itself with Mrs. Emsworth.
It was most important to ascertain whether any serpent lurked among the woods of our little territory between the cliffs and the sea.
Xaltotun stared at the Aquilonian as if he read the full extent of the mocking madness that lurked in those wayward eyes.
Set the Old Serpent, men said, banished long ago from the Hyborian races, yet lurked in the shadows of the cryptic temples, and awful and mysterious were the deeds done in the nighted shrines.
He was without a horse and lost in these haunted woods, and that staring deformed thing at his feet was a mute evidence of the horrors that lurked in the forest.
He saw the pale faces of the squires in the lamplight, the velvet shadows that lurked along the walls of the pavilion.
Up there among those hills lurked thousands of wolfish figures out of whose hearts and souls all emotion and hope had been scourged except a frenzied hate for their conquerors, a mad lust for vengeance.
Perhaps unreasoning panic rode Beloso, born of the madness that lurked in that blazing jewel.
He came of a barbaric race, and the superstitions and instincts of his heritage lurked close beneath the surface of his consciousness.
To look at the rough exterior of our men one would not suppose that music lurked within their breasts--nothing more unlikely seemed probable; and yet, listen to the vibrant harmony of their chorus as they sit upon their bags and boxes!
Under the water, always prowling about, lurked the German submarines.
But still, he was kindly and courteous, and behind those smiling eyes lurked a great sympathy, I am sure, for our little band.
It was a relief to watch this amusing but thoroughly refined tomfoolery, and to know that no problemlurked beneath it.
The servant was looking at the lady respectfully enough, but behind the respect lurked curiosity, for even a servant may question the drolleries and vagaries of his masters.
Sinister design lurked in the woman's features, a concentrated purpose of revenge on the other sex--so it seemed to him then.
After this disclosure Tess nourished no further foolish thought that there lurked any grave and deliberate import in Clare's attentions to her.
Phases of her childhood lurked in her aspect still.
But behind his fury there lurked the sinister shadow of defeat and humiliation.
There lurked the suspicions that their relationship was other than brother and sister, but being a cleanminded man he strove to banish the thought.
It could not be that men lurkedthere to cut him off.
Whatever potential complicity had lurkedin her heart, his words brought her only immeasurable dismay.
That last left-hander knocked him out,' said the old man, with a grin of qualified approval, while a strange expression lurked in his evil eyes.
How heedless was he, pursuing what appeared to be a fairly open pathway; and yet, what unsuspected dangerslurked on every side.
None the less, in his bland eye lurked a yearning to seize on Buster and boil him in oil.
The great bed with its drab hangings, the lofty press with its brass handles, the dark Windsor chairs, now lurked in and now sprang from the shadows, as the fire flickered up or sank.
Behind his personality lurked this strange gigantic dream, ever beating to get through.
That sensitive receptive nature had first perceived, then given form to the vague, incoherent dreams that lurkedin the innermost recesses of his hidden self.
Thus Tarzan of the Apes left them filled with terror at this new manifestation of the presence of some unseen and unearthly evil power which lurked in the forest about their village.
Stifling odors lurked in cellar doorways and struck one full in the face unawares.
Sickness and death were abroad, and lurked in the milk supply, the food supply, the unsanitary tenements about the alley; which, because it had not been so bad as some other districts had been left uncondemned.
These religions of the shadows, these practices of the women and peasants and slaves, gave Greece her Orphic, Dionysic, and Demeter cults; they have lurked in the tradition of Europe down almost to our own times.
And the legacy of that carelessly compiled harem of the Prophet, the family complications and jealousies which had lurked in the background of Moslem affairs during the rule of the first two Caliphs, was now coming out into the light of day.
I fancied that a faint note of irony lurked in his words--particularly as he recited my late master's titles.
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