She made shift to go, but he barred her passage now in earnest, his hands clenched beside him in witness of the violence he did himself to keep them there.
As they entered there came a swift rustle of petticoats at their heels, and Mr. Caryll stood aside, bowing, to give passage to a tall lady who swept by with no more regard for him than had he been one of the house's lackeys.
In the passagehe waited for her to come up with him.
And he left his place by the spinet to come and stand immediately before her, barring her passage to the door.
A door in the somewhat dimly-lighted passage was thrown open, and as the footman stood aside to let her pass in, a pleasant, gentle voice met her ears.
So saying, she opened the door of the room and led the way along the passage to a staircase at the farther end.
For just as, with some dismay, she caught sight of another staircase, evidently leading to some very upper regions indeed, the housekeeper stopped short, turning down a small and almost dark passage on the floor where they were.
A narrowpassage leads through one of these to the top, where the old bells still call the faithful to service as of yore.
Our passage over, as unluckily we were carried a little too far down the stream, lasted three hours.
Of course a karavan must be on good terms with the tribes above named, and must count from two to three thousand men, otherwise the passage is impossible.
Still that would necessitate a passage of forty stations through the desert, without a single spring of sweet drinking water.
The water of the {148} Oxus in its proper bed is not so drinkable as in the canals and cuttings, where by its long passage the sand has had time to settle.
The Parthians held it as a maxim to accord no passage over their territory to any stranger.
On our passage Mazendran was in its gala attire of spring.
It is made clearer still by a passage in the preface to the second edition of his Descent of Man.
On the next page of the Duke of Argyll's article (page 145), occurs a passage which I must quote at length before I can deal effectually with its various statements.
It would take too much space to deal fully with the various questions which this last passage raises.
To which let us add that, since Hugh Miller penned the passage above quoted, the second of the great gaps he refers to has been very considerably narrowed by the discovery of strata containing Palæozoic genera and Mesozoic genera intermingled.
Continuous pressure on any portion of the surface causes absorption, while intermittent pressure causes growth: the one impeding circulation and the passage of plasma from the capillaries into the tissues, and the other aiding both.
There would probably be, at some parts of the wave, extensions in the areas of the light-transmitting clouds, resulting in the passage of more rays from below.
In the primordial units of protoplasm, then, the step with which evolution commenced must have been the passage from a state of complete likeness throughout the mass to a state in which there existed some unlikeness.
These examples of incongruous thoughts I give to prepare the way; and will now go on to examine the chief propositions which the quoted passage contains.
In none of the assertions contained in this passage can I agree.
To judge from the streets, one would have thought it was a procession day, when the windows are decked with the finest drapery to honour the passage of the Canopy.
A passage led from the room into a yard situated at the rear of the house; in this yard there was a well.
But although, on certain days, they summoned one another two or three times in succession to speak of trifles of immense importance, it was only in the evening in that lonely little passage that they tasted real happiness.
The passage devoted to Miette and her red pelisse was quite a flight of imagination.
I want to waken in the night and catch the hoarse hoot of the fog horn on Passage Island.
When at last she found her voice, she exclaimed joyously, "It is the Passage Island light.
Gone was the spot of green among the blue that is Passage Island, gone Blake's Point and Edward's Island.
The passage from Palma to Barcelona was not so pleasant as that from Barcelona to Palma had been.
As the weather was fine and the sea calm Chopin did not suffer much on the passage from Port-Vendres to Barcelona.
In this letter occurs a passage which is important for the dating both of the fifth and the seventh letter.
Other matters, however, have to be adverted to before we come to this passage of Chopin's life.
The acetylene comes into this same passage from openings at one side and near the inner end.
When the generator is housed in a separate structure the walls should be made of materials or construction that prevents the passage of heat or cold through them to any great extent.
This type admits the oxygen at the inner end of a straightpassage leading to the tip of the nozzle.
The difference in direction of the two gases as they enter the passage assists in making a homogeneous mixture.
This arrangement, while allowing a free passage for the carbide, prevents an excess from falling should the machine stop in any position.
The first and most important purification to which the gas is subjected is its passage through the body of water in the generator as it bubbles to the top.
With the passage of an electric current from one wire terminal to the other, bubbles of gas rise from each and pass into the tubes.
Instead of entering the passage of grey flint which led to the households of the colony, the man I was following turned to the right, where the wall curved in towards the upper door.
I thanked her, and then put my arm across the passage as the other young lady seemed about to fly.
It begins by showing us in the intellect a local effect of evolution, a flame, perhaps accidental, which lights up the coming and going of living beings in the narrow passage open to their action; and lo!
Such, however, is our illusion when we define the evolution of life as a "passage from the homogeneous to the heterogeneous," or by any other concept obtained by putting fragments of intellect side by side.
I say indeed that I change, but the change seems to me to reside in the passage from one state to the next: of each state, taken separately, I am apt to think that it remains the same during all the time that it prevails.
Letting down the passage window, he stands there in the doorway with the draught blowing his hair and the smoke of his cigar all about him.
The curtain falls for a few seconds to indicate the passage of three hours.
Of course the tickets I took for the passage and the little I gave her's been wasted, and all, except what I was obliged to spend myself, I've restored.
The booking of the passage had caused considerable discussion.
But as she ran along the gusty passageto the green baize door all her pride rose savagely to think that guests should come, bidden autocratically to the house, and go away unfed.
A short passage from these apartments led at one end to some small, daintily fitted sleeping-rooms beyond,--at the other was the steering cabin and accommodation for the pilot and observer.
Finding at last an open passage through the dispersing crowd, he went at something of a run after one of the newsboys, and snatched the last paper he had to sell out of his hand.
The subsequent safe passage of the army over the river is again ascribed to Kościuszko.
After three weeks' passage in a small merchant vessel, they landed at Gravesend, and thence reached London.
It was inevitable that he who threw in his lot with an unhappy country could have no easypassage through life.
Her territories were the passage for Prussian, Russian, and Austrian armies, traversing them at their will.
They managed to enter a car, though the stream of passengers, pouring in by the two vestibules, met within in dire confusion, choking up the passage with their baggage.
Think of it--the raising of thepassage money by some desperate economy, the woman left behind with hardly enough to keep her a month or two, the man's fierce anxiety to find some work!
The street was blocked when the women left, but a passage was made for them; and, followed by everybody in the settlement, they proceeded to the other hotel, whose proprietor capitulated.
In order to facilitate his passage across the Grand River he threw a sort of temporary boom across, at a spot a few yards below where the iron-bridge now spans the stream at Brantford.
It is to be regretted that history has not furnished sufficient data to enable us to describe the passage of arms very minutely.
Of that vale Dwelt I upon the shore, 'twixt Ebro's stream And Macra's, that divides with passage brief Genoan bounds from Tuscan.
He therefore invited the Spanish adventurers to meet him at Caxamarca, assuring them of a safe passage to that place.
I come for peace," De Soto replied, "and seek only an unmolested passage through your land.
There is probably no section of our country which, in a state of nature, would be more difficult for the passage of an army.
After long search a passagewas found through which, by the toilsome efforts of a whole day, the army forced its way.
As his men and horses were worn down by their fatiguing journey, he engaged a passage in the vessel to Leon.
We are in search of a distant province; and all that we ask for is an unobstructed passage through your country, and food by the way.
Contrary winds gave them a slow passage across the gulf.
The anxious and self-accusing spirit which appears in this passage deepens as the soul passes under the awe of the sacramental presence.
It was the month of the death of the great Napoleon at St. Helena, and it would almost seem as though a portion of his spirit had passed into the Maori chief on his passage through the Atlantic.
One Rembrandtesque passage may be quoted in which Marsden narrates his visit to the pa of Pataua, near Whangarei.
This information came from one of his old Paihia boys, Reihana, who had secured a passage with the Wesleyan expedition, and was now engaged in teaching his own fellow tribesmen.
But there is one passage in the literature of the period which is too graphic to omit.
What does that represent--in ebullition of steam, in gumming, and the passage of time?
In front, under the fatal space where the eternal passage of projectiles is as undistinguishable as light in daytime, the field resembles a field, the road resembles a road.
We halted a moment in a passage whose walls and windows were broken, where we could not make a step or sit down without breaking glass.
She smiled at the soldiers as she went by, and chattered willingly with the non-coms; and the passage of officers brought her to a standstill of vague respect.
A translation is posted up as well, and they have underlined the passage in which the woman says, "When is this cursed war going to end?
After the passage was made General Toombs said: "Charlie, that ferryman eyed me very closely.
He was personally interested in seeing that the Democratic party, with which he had been in full accord since the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska bill, had a strong leader in the State.
Mr. Bell had been United States Senator at the time of the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska bill, in 1854, and had been arraigned by Mr. Toombs for opposing the party policy.
They would array a new class of enemies and imperil the passage of the new law.
Mr. Toombs denied that the bill was a "Pandora's box of evil," or that its passage was violative of the good faith of the South.
Jones, and the force actually present to dispute the passage of the stone bridge did not exceed 400.
Burnside lay behind the heights on the east bank of the Antietam and opposite the Confederate right, which, Swinton says, it was designed he should assail, after forcing the passage of the Antietam by the lower stone bridge.
If I thought at all, I thought they exchanged barbarism for civilisation; and what are called the horrors of the middle passage were not so great in those days as they are now, when the traffic has become unlawful.
They are probably proceeding up the river, and will tell us what sort of people we are likely to meet with on the passage down.
As soon as we had a cargo we commenced our passage to the shore, and happily landed all those we had taken on board, who at once squatted down on the beach waiting for their companions.
A strip of green, walled by cliffs of stone: Wide enough for thepassage of a single reed.
Henceforward,--relegated to deep seclusion In a bottomless gorge, flanked by precipitous mountains, Five months on end the passage of boats is stopped By the piled billows that toss and leap like colts.
