The girl looked at him with yet a new expression on her mobile face--an expression of desperation.
Like flashes of lightning the changes passed over her small, mobile features, to which the absence of even a tinge of healthy pink color gave, perhaps, an added power of portraying the emotions which might be agitating her.
In Europe, on the other hand, the laborers as a class are far less mobile than here; and in Asia still less so.
The aeroplane and the nearly costless mobile car have abolished trade routes; a common language and a universal law have abolished a thousand restraining inconveniences, and so an astonishing dispersal of habitations has begun.
In January, 1702, the colony at Mobilewas planted; several other settlements were soon after formed.
He planted his colony at Biloxi, a healthy but sterile spot between the Mobile and Mississippi rivers, and built a fortification.
Then all the forts that protected the bay were either blown up or evacuated, leaving the Entrance to Mobile Bay open to the fleet of the Federals.
The ram "Tennessee" had to strike her colors on the 5th of August, in Mobile Bay.
When de boats went down to Mobile us could sen' down for anything us want to buy.
I was big' nough in de Civil War to drive five yoke o' steers to Mobile an' git grub to feed de wimmins an' chilluns.
One looked at Venetia and thought of a still sea at daybreak, mobile to the young and fitful airs, radiant with sunlight, breathless with apprehension of the long, golden hours to come.
No organized forms but pollen, and mobile spores of some cryptogams.
Each cell of all the plants of this genus produces a large number of mobile cells--zoospores.
And Timæus of Locria says: "The equilateral triangle enters into the composition of the pyramid, which has four equal faces and equal angles, and which in this is like fire the most subtle and mobile of the elements.
In his report of the battle of Mobile Bay, where Watson was wounded, Farragut wrote: "Lieutenant Watson has been brought to your attention in former times.
The forts were passed and the victory of Mobile Bay was secure.
In January, 1864, he made a reconnaissance of Mobile Bay and informed the Government that if it would supply him with a slight additional force he would attack and capture it at once.
It was virtually a repetition of the more emphatic command of Farragut in Mobile Bay, uttered thirty-four years before.
The reader of these pages has learned something of the great battles of New Orleans, Mobile Bay, Vicksburg and Port Hudson.
He knew the fort was powerfully fortified and the bay mined, and knowing all this, he remembered the exclamation of his immortal instructor in the science of war, the peerless Farragut, when he was driving his squadron into Mobile Bay.
By that time the defences of Mobile were well nigh impregnable.
The number of officers we have at the present time would, of course, be practically lost in our proposed mobile army of a million men.
To be rational, we should have a mobile army of a million men.
Furthermore, the aeroplane is far more mobile and more rapid in flight than the Zeppelin.
Then fly with me tonight; we shall be in Mobile in two hours from this, and when the passengers are going on shore, you can take my arm, and you can escape unobserved.
The United States Government ordered the building of more monitors, some with two turrets, and they did excellent service, notably in the battle of Mobile Bay.
Their destination was Meridian, over one hundred miles east of Vicksburg, where theMobile and Ohio Railroad is crossed by that from Jackson to Selma.
The principal defences of Mobile Bay were Fort Morgan on Mobile Point, and Fort Gaines, three miles northwest of it, on the extremity of Dauphin Island.
At Corinth, in northern Mississippi, the Memphis and Charleston Railroad crosses the Mobile and Ohio.
The break-up of the manorial system, the growth of a body of mobile labour, and of capital seeking investment, the discovery of new worlds and new markets, heralded the advent of the middle class and of the commercial age.
It created a vagrant mobile mass of labour, which helped to meet the demands of new industrial markets and to feed English oversea enterprise.
A station on the Jacksonville, Pensacola, and Mobile Railroad, 95 miles from Jacksonville.
Terminus of the Pensacola and Mobile (St. Mark's Branch) Railroad.
Jefferson county, on the Pensacola and Mobile Railroad.
Twenty miles west from Quincy, situated on a river of the same name, is the town of Chattahoochee, this being the terminus of the Mobile & Pensacola Railroad.
The terminus of the Jacksonville, Pensacola, and Mobile Railroad.
Post-office and telegraph-station, 20 miles from Jacksonville, on the Pensacola and Mobile Railroad.
On the Jacksonville, Pensacola, and Mobile Railroad, 94 miles from Tallahassee.
There was much to be done in equipping the men, and teaching them the correct method of carrying their belongings on "Mobile Column," for that was what we were destined to become.
The long mobile bill of the woodcock is a study in itself.
It is interesting to watch snipe boring for food, and it is surprising what hard ground their admirably-adapted long mobile bills can penetrate.
In Section 155 the skirmishers of a troop when dismounted, with mobile horses, form one group.
Primarily we have to decide whether we intend to fight with mobile or immobile horses,[13] and in every case the question arises how the conditions of the moment, whether in attack or defence, can best be dealt with.
Further, these small batteries are both handier and more mobile in themselves; they are, therefore, better suited to Cavalry requirements, and at the same time the power of concentration when such is required is fully retained.
England under the impression that field guns were a mobile arm!
Pope declared all offices vacant in Mobile and filled them anew,[1288] in the face of a report by Swayne that reasonable precautions had been taken to prevent disorder.
Judge Dargan, member of Congress, wrote to President Davis in the winter of 1862 that many people of Mobile were destitute.
In 1862, the "Creoles" of Mobileapplied for permission to enlist in a body.
Connection was made by boat to Gainesville, within 2 miles of which a spur of the Mobile and Ohio, 21 miles long, had been completed.
Cotton was also destroyed at Mobile and by the Federal armies that came up from the South.
One of them, Robert Barbour, was given a position in the custom-house at Mobilewith the understanding that he would not have to go there.
