His hard eyes darted a piercing glance at the three men, who walked near him, but nothing denoted that he recollected being their fellow, or at least having been so.
In piercing the whale’s body with the tremendous weapon at his snout, the Sword-fish seldom inflicts a dangerous wound, not being able to penetrate beyond the blubber.
The bill is straight, strong, and angular at the end; and in most of the species is formed like a wedge, for the purpose of piercing the trees.
Then came a grinding, splitting jumble of sounds, the solid ground shook under the passage of some mighty force which increased for a moment followed by a piercing scream.
So saying he set his face toward the cottage, but before he had taken a dozen steps he was startled by a piercingscream from Thalma.
The smoke arose, thick and dark, but the grey reconnoissance, piercing it, saw enough to .
High in the tree, against the rosy sky, a bird with a lyric throat began to sing, piercing sweet and clear.
The sound in its high piercing beginnings, that dwindled to final melancholy moans, expressed a red and grim tragedy of the unfathomable possibilities of the man's dreams.
Carter felt uncomfortable before that tense stare which just missed him and in that confined cabin seemed awful in its piercing and far-off expression.
The tall grasses swayed themselves into a rest, a chorus of yells and piercing shrieks died out in a dismal howl, and all at once the wooded shores and the blue bay seemed to fall under the spell of a luminous stillness.
Unto Cales cunninglye, came we most speedilye, Where the kinges navy securelye did ryde; Being upon their backs, piercing their butts of sacks, Ere any Spaniards our coming descryde.
The man quailed under the termagant's piercing eye, and trembled at the renewed curses.
Some magicians had such piercing sight that they could discover everything, however carefully concealed, and look into futurity with a certainty of making known what was to come to pass.
He listened until they had found the headless body, and he heard their piercing shrieks of rage and sorrow as he took his way to the lodge of his kind adviser.
They beheld the waves close over his head, and a loud and piercingwail went up which rent the sky.
He took that course, and coming to the spot where the arrow had fallen, was rejoiced to find it piercing the heart of a deer.
But in spite of the keen searchings of a score or so of piercing eyes, the prahu slowly passed them lower and lower down the stream, till the voices began to grow faint.
The word of the Lord must be a two-edged sword of truth, piercing to the dividing asunder even of soul and spirit.
It is, we may say, the first note of a piercing strain which thrills on to the present time.
The sky was black with it, and in the terrible moment that followed his piercing cry for Mukoki he fancied that he heard the sound of rifle-shots.
Hearing Rod's first piercing yell of attack, they had raced into the forest, afterward guided by the two or three shrill screams which Minnetaki had unconsciously emitted during the struggle.
Slowly but steadily, Olvir was piercing a rift for his followers into the steel core of the shieldburg, when the Danish ranks before him opened, and in the gap towered up the terrible figure of the Saxon war-earl.
The shaft was yet quivering from its fall when he flung up his hand and uttered a piercing cry.
Unable to meet thepiercing brightness of Olvir's black eyes, she lowered her gaze and bowed as she had bowed to the king.
Heedless of the maiden, heedless even of the king, he flung back his cloak and stood with the light shimmering on his bared mail, his piercing gaze fixed upon Duke Lupus.
The rugged field, the rough plunge of artillery fire, and the piercing musket-shots delayed somewhat the march, but Alexander dashed up with his batteries and gave new spirit to the worn infantry ranks.
Mr. Carter looked up sharply and, catching sight of the grinning features of Mr. Blows protruding over the edge of the straw, threw up his arms with a piercing shriek and fell off the shafts on to the road.
Thus the most beautiful, ravishing tones and most genial fancies alternated with sudden piercing shrieks.
For a moment her nephew lay motionless and silent, then he began to utter piercing screams and cry for his mother.
Miss Mapp revived a little as she made this piercing analysis of Mr. Wyse, and the warmth of the central heating pipes, on this baffling day of autumn tints, was comforting.
With his customary shrewdness and his usual gift of piercing to the center of what he was engaged in analyzing, Aristotle more than four thousand years ago saw the necessity of a neatly articulated plot.
Before thepiercing wistfulness of that sudden gaze Stephen was abashed.
At the beginning of the fifteenth century, there was a man named Basil, residing in Florence, who was noted over all Italy for his skill in piercing the darkness of futurity.
She was small and slightly made, had an Oriental expression of countenance, and the piercing eyes of a prophet, the gleams of which were increased in their power and beauty by her long dark eyebrows and eyelashes.
But at the same moment he uttered a piercing cry and drew back his hand in great terror: a scorpion, hid in the lion's mouth, had stung him, and the poor youth died of the venom.
The women in the company set up the zilagheet, a high piercingtrill of the voice, and all goes merry as a marriage bell.
Cultellus: one of the blade-like lancets in piercing flies: = the mandibles of some authors.
Heterotypical: a genus, described from more than one species, these differing in structure, Hexachaetous: Diptera in which the mouth structures have six piercing setae.
Shrill and piercing was the cry, in the voice of a woman.
But he subsided before the piercing eyes of the sergeant, so that his final words were scarcely more than a gurgle in his throat.
This first impression is connected with certain grassy alleys piercing deep the grand old-world park, or rather forest, of St. Cloud, which were my favourite playgrounds in the early sixties of the last century.
It was never without an awful sense of horror and mystery that I pictured those dead eyes, endowed with miraculous vision, piercing through wood and stone to stare out upon what she still loved.
