Seven elephants were driven with violence against the palingof one of the bastions, which gave way before them like a hedge, and overset all the men who were on it.
On the upper cover within the paling is a large rose-bush, bearing a large Tudor rose and two white roses in full bloom, with buds and leaves, some tendrils extending over the palings.
There is a similar paling to that on the other side, the 'Park' being dotted about with several plants, ferns, and tufts of grass.
But in that arbour of the gods above the fields of twilight the star wreath was paling about the head of Night, and ever more wonderful on Morning's brow appeared the mark of power.
Why, you fool, I could get over the paling as soon as look at you, but I won't.
Then I'll break the door, for ye shall come through,' exclaimed Milly, kicking the stoutpaling with her ponderous boot.
The stream was low enough to make our flank movement round the end of the paling next it quite easy, and so we pursued our way, and Milly's equanimity returned, and our ramble grew very pleasant again.
We found the gate locked as before; and, as Milly could not persuade me to climb it, we got round the palingby the river's bank.
I saw Dickon Hawkes grinning over the paling on which he leaned.
As he walked along he tipped up his face and stared with his stupid boyish eyes at the stars paling in the full moonlight, and the great moon herself overriding the clouds and the stars.
The yellow glow was palingin the west, the evening air was like a cold breath in his face.
There he stopped abruptly, for he faced Miss Winton and Mrs. Minturn, whose paling face told Mickey that he was stamped on her memory as she was on his.
How wonderful were the soft coils of her hair, the tints paling and flushing on her cheeks, her shining eyes!
The hours rang from some unseen clock, and in the end the palingdawn filtered across the white roofs of Christmas morning.
It was three o'clock by the palingof the dawn in the east, and the slinking scavengers in the streets, when they returned.
Across the front a paling fence corresponding in style to that across the street was built, entrance being through a swinging gate that leads directly to the outside porch.
Across the front, defining the estate, was once a neat paling fence that had been torn down until only a small portion remained.
He took the hammer from me, and fixing the paling in its place with a couple of well-aimed blows, said laughingly: "You drive a nail!
A traveller pulled rein in the roadway, and, dismounting, threw his bridle over a palingof the garden fence while he went inside to try and buy a loaf of bread.
I jumped up, frightening the horse so that it broke away, pulling off the paling in the bridle-rein.
Acting upon this advice, I asked Mr M'Swat to put a paling fence round the house, as it was useless trying to keep the house respectable while the fowls and pigs ran in every time the door was opened.
He called on us daily, tied his horse to the paling fence beneath the shade of a sallie-tree in the backyard, and when mother was unable to see him he was content to yarn for an hour or two with Jane Haizelip, our servant-girl.
The sun had set before he reached the park; and walking slowly along under a row of broad chestnuts which bordered the paling on the east, he approached Lockwood's house, thoughtful, and perhaps more sad than when he had first visited it.
Love-making birds were my mates all the road, And who would wish surer delight for the eye Than to see pairing goldfinches gleaming abroad Or yellowhammers sunning on paling and sty?
But when the beautiful ground Lights upward all the air, Noon thaws the frozen eaves, And makes the rime on post and paling steam Silvery blue smoke in the golden day.
She studied his paling cheek with keen eyes for a moment, then added: "But I almost forgot.
At the end of this glade there was a paling and a stile that Olive would have to cross, and she could now hear, as she ran forward, the needles of the silver firs rustling with a pricking sound in the wind.
Behold: consumed under the ruby shine In which its glory's arid flame exhausts itself, The chandelier is paling at the breath of Death, And burns its throes out in the face of the Sun.
The leaves are paling in the twilight chill: A mystic something in the air is swimming; Our eyes with happy tears are over-brimming; And now the source grows timid, and is still.
And then, as Guillaume, smiling, though paling with weakness, consented to the suggestion, Bertheroy retorted that before anything else he must be put to bed.
She waited in dismay, white like a ghost; while Gerard, also paling and quivering, begged her to be calm.
And, farther yet, the paling colonnade of the Chamber of Deputies bounded the horizon.
And, all at once, the Grotto appeared, with the everlasting flare of its tapers, now paling in the broad light.
Darting a last glance at Pierre, Nani seemed to have observed with pleasure the weariness and uncertainty which were paling his face.
In the rear, the Coelian hill faded away, showing only the trees of the Villa Mattei paling in the golden sunshine.
It was ringed in by a jagged palingof pines, and in the exact centre was a hummocky oasis of gray, lichened stone.
She moved her head from side to side, slowly, in dissent, and got up and went to the window, where she gazed out over the house-tops at the paling afternoon.
Durkin, with eloquent enough inadequacy, his face paling a little, for all his own assumption of easy fortitude.
She still felt the sheer need of fatigue to purge away that inner weariness that had settled over her soul, so on second thoughts she turned homeward, and went on foot, through the paling English afternoon.
The sun was shining, and she had met William leaning over the paling in the avenue smoking his pipe.
The burning rain of sparks had ceased, and there fell now, from on high, only the last shiver of the overheated and paling sky; and from the still burning earth ascended warm odors, with the freer respiration of evening.
Overhead, the paling sky was already dotted with the fliers of the Mercutians; faint sounds came to them of the clumsy thrashing of enemy patrols as they beat the woods for the fugitives.
The stars were paling now, the purple sky was enswathing itself in pearly grays.
Paling board, one of the slabs sawed from the sides of a log to fit it to be sawed into boards.
The little outlaw camp, with its shacks and cabins and row of houses, lay silent and dark under the paling moon.
The first paling of the stars quickened him with a kind of wild joy.
But his nonchalance, his air of finality, his authoritative assurance--these to Duane's keen and practiced eyes were in significant contrast to a certain tenseness of line about his mouth and a slow paling of his olive skin.
Adams and Hancock and Franklin are paling stars, despite our printing-presses, have become little more than idle words in the school-boy's lexicon.
But oft he fell, and cursed his folly for having left the flowery vale to beat against the barren mountain rocks; but Life upbraided him, and with her soft breath fanned the paling star to brighter flame--the star behind which lay the throne.
The two men rode round the kitchen-wing and dismounted at the paling fence, which made the fourth side of the little square.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "paling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
