WHEN he had helped her to dismount, and Dan had ridden on with the horses, they stood in silence for a full minute listening to the growl and mutter of the river along its banks, and its gurgle and chuckle amongst the piles below them.
Now and again the small head, with its piles of brown hair and old slouch hat, would begin to incline gradually and gently in his direction, only to be raised again when the brim of the hat touched his shoulder.
They may be hiding behind the pillars or piles of stone.
Brand reached for a pile of straws, measured, clipped, laid them in orderly piles ready for binding in.
All around were piles of fragrant wood, birch and oak, with here and there a precious little store of apple wood, fruit of Jacob's thrifty pruning and thinning.
The cell, like the rest of the house, is raised on piles above the ground, and is lit by a single small window opening on a lonely place, so that the girl is in almost total darkness.
In prehistoric times the oak appears to have been the chief tree in the forests which clothed the valley of the Po; the piles on which the pile villages rested were of oak.
The mission teacher before mentioned told me that when he visited the Nanga he saw among the weeds with which it was overgrown numerous yam vines which had sprung up out of the piles of decayed offerings.
Before the country cottages are huge piles of manure from which a light steam rises.
There are the entrails and soft skins of sheep lying in little round piles in the puddles.
They move along placidly, carrying buckets and cans, orpiles of plates suspended from poles slung between them.
The piles of planks near the sheds rise in dark, geometrical masses.
We march through a narrow clearing which is no more than a ribbon of black earth between piles of dead leaves on the one side, and all-invading moss on the other.
They have made wonderfully good use of every inch of cover; kneeling behind tree-boles or piles of logs and firing; lying down behind miniature mounds, or in holes they have dug with their picks.
There were heaps and pilesof money to be made of her, he said, when she was a few years older.
As soon as the cotton and corn crops are secured, the stalks are pulled up, thrown into piles and burned.
The table is spread in the open air, and loaded with varieties of meat and piles of vegetables.
My clothes were in tatters, my hands, face, and body covered with scratches, received from the sharp knots of fallen trees, and in climbing over piles of brush and floodwood.
The herder wasn't nowhere in sight and the sheep was still in the corral, but old Bohm was there all right, fixin' little piles of that poisoned wheat just where the sheep would come acrost it the first thing.
I just took one look around and seen all them piles of poison wheat there by the corral when there wasn't a prairie-dog within two miles.
He showed her all the great buildings, and dilated on the fabulous piles of wealth they represented, taking evident pleasure in her exclamations of astonishment.
A little more, and she saw the white weir-piles shining, and the grey roller just beginning to glisten to the moon.
The great northern abbeys—Fountains, Rivaulx, Bolton—could compete in magnificence with the most famous foundations of the south, but all around these wonderful piles reigned solitude and poverty.
Piles of mail-bags are hurled out from the vans and travelling post offices with indescribable celerity.
The piles for this extension were driven in three sets of four rows each, similar to those in the old portion of the pier, except that the bents were driven with a uniform spacing of 15 ft.
An additional row of piles was then driven on either side of the two center rows, and battered so that at the elevation of the tunnels they would be close to the center rows and leave as much clear space as possible.
This left standing the four northernmost, the four southernmost and two centers rows of piles for the entire length of the pier.
When it was turned over by the New York Central Railroad Company, the contractor for the construction of those tunnels tore down the shed and removed the deck and such piles as were in the path of the tubes.
There was a strange silence,--no hurrying of feet, no rumbling of teams, no piles of merchandise.
Robert was making his way, the while, amid the piles of the wharf.
He knew the tide must be near its full flood, for he had to crouch low in the canoe, and the barnacles upon the piles were nearly covered with the water.
Noiselessly he paddled amid the piles to the farther side of the wharf, and then glided from its shelter along the shore, screened from the patrol by the projecting timbers, and was once more in the stream.
But on the boiler deck he found only its wide semicircle of chairs quite empty and no one moving among the high piles of trunks and light freight under the hanging bunches of pineapples and bananas.
When they are thirty those “boys” will be rich men, with women, slaves, and piles of stuff.
For a little time things appeared to go well but at last Bangala women, standing by, swooped down upon the piles of stuff temptingly offered for sale, and seizing handfuls, started to run away.
Rousille could be heard folding linen and arranging it in piles in the cupboard of the adjacent room.
The lake dwellings are mostly[2] placed on piles driven some 10 feet into the bed of the lake, and as many as thirty or forty thousand of these piles have been found in a single settlement.
I saw where the Indians had made canoes in a little secluded hollow in the woods, on the top of the rock, where they were out of the wind, and large piles of whittlings remained.
Twice these pilesconsisted of from 50 to 70 seeds of the common dandelion (Taraxacum officinale).
All other plants occurred less commonly in the piles of cuttings than they did in the estimated composition of the cover.
The last column gives the percentage of occurrence in the piles of cuttings of each species of plant in the area.
Four times, piles of seeds in runways indicated the species of plants which the voles were storing.
Voles in grasslands feed in runways, as attested by the piles of cuttings found in the runways and the nibbled grass which borders them.
Just as I thought I had him he dodged aside, dived under a horse, and as I ran round the back of the cart, not caring to imitate his example, he was a dozen yards away, going in and out of stalls and piles of vegetables.
I thought I saw some one enter the shed; but when I got inside no one was there, as far as I could see--only piles of great baskets reaching from floor to ceiling.
Quaintance reported the small colony at 7800 feet elevation in Douglas fir beneath which were found piles of cones from which the seeds had been eaten by the chickarees.
Other chickarees were seen and heard and the characteristic piles of parts of Douglas fir cones still attest to their presence.
With one sweep of her crop she brushed to the floor the three piles of cards that lay on the table as they had been stacked when drawn.
Illustration: With one sweep of her crop she brushed to the floor the three piles of cards.
Of the vast piles of books which load our libraries, ninety-nine hundredths and more are but printed echoes: and it is the rarest of pleasures to say, Here is a distinct record of impressions at first hand.
He heightens a vice in one place, a virtue in another, and piles them together in a heap, without troubling himself to ask whether nature can make such monsters, or preserve them if made.
At length they could see the rock of Quebec towering through the gloom, but piles of ice lined the shore, while floating masses were drifting down on the angry current.
The officers, sergeants, and orderlies rode on the piles of baggage which filled the open trucks.
Those who were tired of killing violated some girl or some woman; drank, played dice, and tossing over piles of gold, the fruit of pillage, dabbled their red fingers in it.
