With what assurance they seem to glide along the viewless path which they follow.
The path was irregular and demanded some equanimity, for the stumbling-blocks were innumerable and artfully placed to trip up the unwary in an aggravating manner.
With no more definite object than that of justifying an impending table d'hote dinner, I was walking up the Montanvert path one rainy afternoon, when a ray of sunlight suddenly burst upon me in the person of Alexander Burgener.
The descriptive account will inevitably conduct the reader along a more or less mazy path to an assured goal.
Nor does he ever commit the youthful folly of walking at the rate of five miles an hour along the mule path in the valley or the high road at the end of an expedition, gaining thereby sore feet and absolutely nothing else.
Once more we found ourselves in the small hours of the morning on the path leading to Les Ponts.
But we are meandering, as it were, in the valleys, and run some risk of digressing too far from the path which should lead to the mountain in hand.
There was the path between the shanty and the landing-place to be put in proper condition; various muddy places in it to be covered with fascines; a certain watercourse we were in the habit of jumping to be newly-bridged, and so forth.
And it must be remembered that, to succeed eventually in anypath of life whatsoever, some sort of hardship, toil, and self-sacrifice must be undergone.
The path divides the garden in a part of its length, and has a hedge on either side.
The souls of our dead crowd the path that leads to the Reinga.
A well-made gravelled path leads up from the waterside, not straight to the house, which is rather to the right, but along a neat paling, which encloses the gardens round it.
The path is shaded by an avenue of fine trees, very large considering how young they are.
I saunter along the path by the iron railings; then down a little dip, at the bottom of which there is a seat overlooking a ship-builder's yard.
I ran down the garden-path to bolt the door, and arrived just in time to see it violently pushed open by an officious and sympathising crowd.
It clears, and the vision is now of a path along the side of a precipice.
For myself, I have had my elbow in a game-pie, and I see with disgust a slimy path of extinct custard, meandering down the left-hand lappel of my coat.
How she looked fifteen years ago, at the time when she so fatally crossed the path of life of Felix Lanzberg, it would be difficult to determine.
If you will trust yourself to my guidance and will take this path across the fields, you can reach Marienbad in a half hour," he remarks, and tries to fasten his horse by the bridle to the low branch of an oak.
Erwin to his wife, coaxingly, and as she nods assent he stops the carriage, and they take a path through the clover to the shady woods.
In mysterious dread of choosing the very gloomy path which lay before her, she took another.
Pistasch and the Klette turn into another path without noticing the white form in the dark elder niche.
Slowly she drags herself through the wood, the samepath which she had taken with Erwin before.
She scarcely thought of anything, only moved mechanically on, and instinctively took the path to Steinbach, as an animal wounded unto death seeks its hole to die in.
She stumbled to her feet and ran wildly down the rocky path to the wharf where the ferry-boat, glittering with electric lights, like a gigantic firefly, was waiting at the jetty.
They walked in silence along the path to Cremorne Point, the noise of birds and the rustling of leaves bringing a touch of the country to Jonah.
This in itself was a good omen, and when two black cats crossed his path on the way to the tram, it confirmed his belief that his luck was in.
On the path from the inn to the house a dark figure becomes visible which reels in zigzag lines toward the farmyard.
Hereupon she saunters across the yard toward the right and turns into the path that leads to the inn.
Of all the dangers that threaten the path of the reformer that of injustice is the greatest.
Do not imagine that America stands alone on this perilous path of reform.
The cortege, headed by a white-robed priest and two censer boys, wound slowly down the tortuous path that the troops follow on their way to the trenches.
There is a path over this hill which is hidden by trees, and on the top is a long boyau to pass through so as to keep out of sight of the Germans in clear weather.
The pathwe were following sank deeper, and became a trench.
Down a path comes a stretcher and a man wounded in arm and thigh.
The road is new since the beginning of the war; it follows the steep route of an old path and no lights are allowed on it for fear the Germans might locate and shell it.
Here he found his path to Zurich blocked, as no boats for the conveyance of his troops could be found on the lake.
Originally the St. Gothard Pass was a narrow mountain-path gradually widening into a mule-track.
The hope was vain, and the path to Naefels was blocked by the French army.
Always, on the contrary, human progress has progressed from the plain to the mountain; and found the path sometimes very difficult, and very treacherously defended.
The dweller by the shores of the sea or by the riverine plains, setting his feet along a mountain path towards the peaks which go up to meet the sky, ordinarily feels a sense of joy and freedom as he climbs to the higher air.
Over the porch at the gate mandevillea hung in a curtain of fragrant white, and an archway over the path that wound through the close-shaven lawn was a miracle of Fortune's yellow roses--gold and rose and copper blended gloriously.
They went on, through scrub that grew so closely that the path they followed became a mere sheep-track, and the bushes brushed their shoulders.
She was walking slowly along the river path when she heard a fluttering on the bank and a sound which seemed like that of a bird in distress.
Amid all these difficulties he graduated with high honors, became a professor in the same college, and was ever found in the path of duty and rectitude.
Let dot ghost come, und I vill gif him der greadest path vot I efer got.
He forgot his lazy lethargy, and scrambled up the path with a nimbleness that would have been surprising to his friends, and which took him to Nell Thornton's side in a very few moments.
Jack Diamond, placing himself in the path of the treacherous coach.
Nell Thornton, who had struck into this path from the woods, came into view, and was seen to reel and lurch like a boat in a gale.
I caught a view of the path from that other slope a while ago, and it swings under the point instead of over it.
He stared along at the dim path and at the bushes beyond which he heard the voices of his friends, then plumped himself down on a rock and began hastily to unloose the shoe lace.
Frank was shown a path that led over a rise and through some timber to Barnaby's home, and he immediately set off in that direction.
You stand half the loss for carelessly leaving it in a path which, by your admission, is not wholly private, and I will stand the other half for what I did.
Yes, thepath is up here," he shouted back, letting down an end of the rope.
Thar's a path which the mounting men foller when they air in a hurry, sech o' them ez knows 'bout it.
Frank and Jack often were seen taking the path that led over to the little hollow in which stood the home of Capt.
Merriwell had reached the narrow path that ran across the grounds and was directly in front of a tree that stood in the path and cut off the view toward the village.
Half an hour later, he came to a dead stop, with the unpleasant feeling that he had wandered from the right path and was lost.
It is the idea of an official class, an order of office-holders, which appears to throw itself across the path of the democratic activity which we have attempted to describe.
The gate was opened from within the wall as soon as Miss Mackenzie rang, and she and Baubie walked up the little flagged path together.
To scramble up the trunk of one of the chestnuts and swing herself over the wall was quickly done, and then she was once more on the flagged path of the street, and the world lay before her.
One of the little boys whispered as they were going down to dinner, "Helena, I do believe that this is the good-natured gentleman who went out of the path to make room for us, instead of running over us as the other man did.
By an unfrequented path she used to gain the window that looked into Lady Delacour's bedchamber.
The two men rose, and took their way across the fields, following exactly the same path which our hero had traveled earlier in the morning.
At last two guards called his name, helped him to the bank, and suddenly he found himself again on the path leading to the city of All-virtues.
On the winding pathcut in the side of the hill about twenty mules were following each other, bending under their heavy load; the muleteers, being tired, did not cease to hurry forward their animals, abusing them with coarse voices.
There is not the trace of a path to the Golovliovo estate.
During the whole summer she had kept to the path of virtue, jealously guarding her honor, as if anxious to show the Volpino priest that moral strength can be found even among actresses.
But the question was whether Yudushka would continue along that path or whether his idle mind would even in this grave matter perform its usual function of finding a loophole through which he could crawl out and emerge unscathed.
Passing the churchyard she stopped again and went to the grave alone without the ecclesiastics, following the path that had been cleared.
She made this her slogan, because it was the easiest way out, and gave at least outward decorum to the path she had chosen--the path toward which the whole of her being was instinctively tending.
The cemetery was snowed under, so that the path to the grave had to be shovelled clear.
He watched spellbound quickly coming awake, as the craft quickly began a flight path that circled around and past the lower end of Manhattan.
But if you take the elevator down to the first floor of the basement, where the lab is, there's a fire exit there, in the back, that opens onto a path down to the lake.
It nettled him to think that he had failed to take advantage of his opportunities while this shrewd, capable old man was alive and in a position to set him on the right path to prosperity.
And he had gone to his grave in a manner that left no room for doubt that his death was to stand always as an obstacle in the path of the lovers.
You have heard of women and men murdering husbands and wives in order to remove obstacles from the path of love.
Sometimes John pretended to be asleep when he heard his grandson's whistle on the path below him.
If you walk down that narrow path between the leaning twisted hollies you come suddenly upon an opening in the thicket, and a paved path leads you into another little garden.
Mildred and I are walking on the towing-path arm in arm, and I don't approve of boating for her because I don't like it myself.
My dear Giles," said my predecessor drily, "I have indicated to you the path your feet should assiduously tread as regards the Robinsons.
Consequently we have two green front doors exactly alike, and each approached by a short brick path edged with clipped box.
Presently John asked that his chair might be wheeled up the steep path through the wood to the little clearing at the top.
They soon reached a second cave, where the old man did not forget to mark the path by which they entered, by a figure of bones which he erected before the mouth.
The path guided him gently along, and ended in a wide expanse, from which at a distance a clear light shone towards him.
Terrible anxiety, the sterile coldness of indifferent despair, urged him to seek the wild horrors of the mountains; the most toilsome path soothed the tumult of his soul.
Behind the meadow rose a lofty cliff, at whose foot an opening was visible, which seemed to be the beginning of a path hewn in the rock.
In deep thought a pilgrim was walking along a narrow foot-path which ran up the mountain side.
I soon saw an ascending path leading into the mountain, and I followed it.
I have seldom felt so solemnly; and the distant light glimmered like a happy star, pointing out the path to the secret treasures of nature.
A specious lump often entices him from the true direction; but he soon discovers that the way is false, and breaks his way by main strength across the grain of the rock, until he has found the true path that leads to the ore.
The paththrough the wood is used as a public thoroughfare, and the whole of the plantation is known to be infested with poachers.
It was a path rarely chosen by any of the household at the Park, as it was the longest way to the town.
Norvins did not notice that the party now took the path towards the wood, nor was he conscious of the flight of time, when suddenly the loud report of two pistols, so close together as to be almost blended, rang through his ears.
I caught her to my arms with one last embrace, and the next moment dashed down the path towards the dragoons.
The footsteps came nearer and nearer, and I had barely time to move off the pathinto the brushwood, and lead my pony after, when they turned the angle of the way.
I asked no more, but followed the group along the path towards the mill.
Yes, from the humble lips of a peasant girl I learned to feel that the path I once deemed the only road to heroism and high ambition could be but "the bandit's trade," who sells his blood for gain.
I chose my path early in life, and never saw reason to regret the choice.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "path" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
