They were coming straight for the rifle pit; no doubt they had marked the bushes masking it.
But he lingered, watching its edge, especially where it ended at the line of bushes, masking the land end of the jetty.
Then he sat down on the edge, masking his concern with a smile which obtained no response from the dreamy immobility of her eyes.
Masking themselves behind Hancock, who was at that juncture in the lead, and Hendricks, the New Yorkers now prepared to present Chase; but the Ohioans were too quick for them.
They went, Major Edward turning at once, the others following more slowly He watched them below the hill-top, then sat down beside the grave that was so raw and red for all the masking flowers.
Illustration: Shrubs are better than annuals for masking right angles.
At first, apparently, the drug business was conducted independently of the Kazmah concern, but the facilities offered by the latter for masking the former soon became apparent to the wily Sin Sin Wa.
He looked along the carpeted corridor in the direction of the cubicles, paused, and then opened the heavy door masking the recess behind the cupboard.
The whole period which extends up to the moment of her first disgrace was solely employed by her in establishing her power by masking it.
She faltered a bit, indeed sank down on the box which Chockey had set in a corner of the yard, and, for a brief moment, both mistress and maid bedewed their masking falls with a few splashing tears.
The ships distributed along the crescent lay irregularly, sometimes two and three abreast, masking each other's fire.
You will proceed to act with boldness masking caution.
The cavalry, with Stonewall Brigade supporting, took the Plank road, masking the actual movement.
Stafford, riding on, presently found himself in a strip of bog and thicket and tall trees masking a narrow, sluggish piece of water.
The time had come when their souls were revealed to each other and doomed to recognition despite the most perfect masking which rascality could assume to compass its end or purity devise to hide from peril.
In that silent interview their souls stood forth, each revealing to the other, and doomed to future recognition under the most perfect masking which rascality could assume to compass its end, or purity devise to hide from peril.
A most disappointing and deceptive sort of a house--inhabited, after all: its sombre and quiet aspect masking Heaven alone knew what pitfalls!
They smoked pensively, while the afterglow faded from the western sky and veil after veil of shadow crept stealthily out of the east, masking the rectangular, utilitarian ugliness of the street, deepening its dusk to darkness.
Of four days--and nights," the Lieutenant made answer, masking a slight shiver.
The screen is just wide enough to conceal the notch, the fact that a margin of the mirror shows on each side of the screen still further masking the deception.
It came through the glistening portieres masking the doors to the room adjoining, a kind of living-room.
He snapped the little engine, and a small, blue flame threw a sickly light that helped them to find a channel through the islands of chairs and divans and tables, to the lofty hangings masking the windows.
The same excuse, which had done duty through the ages, served in masking the perfect ignorance of the cheap occultists of the present day.
The mock fight was over, but the men, still habited in their masking suits, stood together in groups, like the inhabitants of a city who have been just startled by some strange and alarming news.
I was conscious of her masking her visage with a large white tinselled fan, and that her eyes, grave and enlarged, watched us intently over the top of it.
The plain perpendicular of the so mildly conventual fronts, masking blest seraglios of culture and leisure, irritates the imagination scarce less than the harem-walls of Eastern towns.
