Over this marsh there was but one crossing-place, but where it joins with the river there is a sandy beach.
They crossed the marsh undiscovered, and at twenty minutes to twelve, commenced the assault.
Marsh Tremper'll ride up to his house some night and make him eat his own gun in front of his bride, see if he don't.
At the command, Marsh Tremper's mind had leaped to the fact that behind him was one man; one against five, and he took a gambler's chance.
When they came near the marsh they could hear a low chattering noise as the birds fed on the aquatic grasses.
They had observed that some of the Ostjaks had each morning brought in several wild geese and swans, and Luka learnt from them that there was a large marsh a mile away in which large flights of geese settled every night.
Part of this mud flat is already solid land, but part is mere marsh or shifting quicksand.
The English tribe of the Hastingas settled at Hastings; and the South Saxons were now supreme from marsh to marsh.
On the other hand, on the land side, the island lay off the great highways, surrounded by marsh or half-reclaimed levels; and it seems rapidly to have sunk into a state resembling that of the more distant parts of Cornwall.
Between them, the Hastings cliffs rose high above marsh and sea.
It was not by missionaries from beyond the Weald in Kent or Surrey, nor from beyond the marsh in Wessex.
Marsh was Medical Inspector of the Department of the Gulf and South, his charge comprising the States of Georgia, South Carolina, and Florida.
The object of Mrs. Marsh in going thither, was to establish a home with its comforts amidst the unfamiliar scenes and habitudes of the South.
It was a "man's work," as Mrs. Marsh often declares.
Marsh did not cordially approve, save in a few particular instances, of the introduction of women to the hospitals in that capacity.
After the close of the Lincoln Home, Mrs. Marsh continued to devote herself to suffering soldiers and their families, making herself notably useful in this important department of the nation's work.
After this communication was opened, Mrs. Marsh found a delightful task in preparing the boxes which in great numbers were constantly being sent forward to the prisons.
Mrs. Marsh had no sooner arrived than she found there was work to do and duties to perform in her new home on which she had not calculated.
It was in the early part of the year 1863 that Mrs. Marsh left her home in Vermont and joined her husband at Beaufort.
Marsh improved, but he has never entirely recovered.
Meantime the Sanitary Commission stores were constantly arriving, and Mrs. Marsh continued to take the entire charge of them.
That this was the spirit of many of the wounded men, Mrs. Marsh delights to testify.
Marsh and Foster wrote to the writer of this sketch, then acting as Secretary of the above Commission, to send them several teachers and assistants in their work.
By this time the moon had arisen, and as they emerged upon the marsh they easily discovered a track, though not broader than a sheep-walk, leading along its edge.
And breaking from him, she darted swiftly down the hill, and glanced across the marsh like a moonbeam.
The messengers sent to spy out the marsh had returned with a half-frozen prisoner.
Here, then, was cause of that firing heard across the marsh on the lower river.
You, Allemand and Godefroy, will cross the marsh to-night, bidding Chouart be ready for attack and send back re-enforcements here!
I sent two men to see if the marshbetween the rivers is fit crossing.
Radisson, "I thought 'twas the men I sent to spy if the marsh were safe crossing.
Radisson, speeding over the snow-drifted marsh through the thick frosty darkness that lies like a blanket over that northland at dawn.
In this respect it is not unlike the marshgas with which everyone is familiar, which is found bubbling up from swamps and morasses, and which constitutes the "will o' the wisp" of romance.
Again, the weight of the fuels varies directly with their age; for it is in the older formation of any series that we come upon the oils and tars and asphaltum, while the marshgas exists in later and more recently formed deposits.
In rock gas, marsh gas itself is actually found in the proportion of about 93 per cent.
They plat and twist together willows and roots of marsh plants, or other materials, which are light, but capable of supporting the earth firmly united.
Nay, Ivo himself was swept from the road, and compelled to run for it across a broad marsh where there was at this season little water, but much mud.
They evidently attempted to cross, but Captain Marsh was drowned in the effort, and only thirteen of his command escaped and reached the fort alive.
After reveille the next morning we found Captain Marsh and his comrades, but not one of them answered to "roll-call.
It was also known that a large number of citizens who had been killed near the agency were yet unburied, and the fate of Captain Marsh and his men was in doubt.
To this end a small command was organized, as narrated in another chapter, to go out to bury the dead and relieve Captain Marsh and his men if they were found alive.
They took their course around the marsh in which I lay for an hour; this was about three p.
In a period of four days the area defended was shifted approximately 1/5 of a mile south in the marsh area adjacent to the lake.
As they left the lake and flew over the extensive marsh to the east they separated and flew as single individuals.
On August 31, a family group of five flew in close formation and fed in the low wet marsh in the valley adjacent to the river.
Your path lies straight beside yon half-fallen willow; keep the left side of it; the marsh lies on the right.
I must not pull too hard," he said, "for so great is my strength that I might not only jerk her out of the marsh but all the way into the sea so that she would be drowned.
My cow is stuck in a marsh and no one on land is powerful enough to pull her out.
This was a great place for blackbirds, for the big tree was on the edge of the one piece of marsh land in the valley, and they were quick to take advantage of its reeds for nesting places.
They knew the place, every one of them; and swiftly over the meadow and over the marsh they flew, until they came to a pasture.
Now the marsh where the snowy herons went fishing, where the shallow water was a favorite swimming-place for little fishes, was ten miles or more from their nest.
I wrote to Loraine Marsh when we were going north.
Hazel visited with the three of them in the hotel parlor for a matter of two hours, went to luncheon with them, and at luncheon Loraine Marsh brought up the subject of her coming home to Granville with them.
So that at dusk of the following day she and Loraine Marsh sat in a Pullman, flattening their noses against the car window, taking a last look at the environs of Vancouver as the train rolled through the outskirts of the city.
They stood a few minutes on the corner; then Mrs. Marsh proposed that they go to the hotel, where they could talk at their leisure and in comfort.
The Marshes took possession of them upon their arrival, and they were no more than domiciled under the Marsh roof than all her old friends flocked to call.
She had the word of Loraine Marsh and Jack Barrow that they were genuinely sorry for having been carried away by appearances.
Not far his course hath run, when a wide flat It finds, which overstretchmg as a marsh It covers, pestilent in summer oft.
On Maremma's marsh Swarm not the serpent tribe, as on his haunch They swarm'd, to where the human face begins.
After walking for some time, a fen or marsh lay before us, seemingly half a mile broad, which we had to cross.
Finally he was able to add in a note that since the delivery of the lecture, Professor Marsh had discovered a new genus of Equine Mammals, Eohippus, corresponding very nearly to his description of what might first be looked for.
The world is like a littlemarsh filled with mint and white hawthorn.
I have walked once in summer by the side of a little marsh filled with mint and white hawthorn.
And old Colonel Marsh wouldn't be a bother, having a certain routine which got him through his days very well.
Then there came a letter from her cousin Dolly, who married that handsome Captain Marshand was stationed at Plattsburg.
