Opposite them, on the other side of the street, between a coal wharf and a petroleum warehouse, a large platform had been erected in the open air, towards which the current of the crowd seemed to be directed.
He rushed along the track, jumped on the rear platformof the train, and fell, exhausted, into one of the seats.
Passepartout, about nine o'clock, went out upon theplatform to take the air.
The station platform burned his feet, and he could not stir.
But when the passengers counted each other on the station platform several were found missing; among others the courageous Frenchman, whose devotion had just saved them.
Egypt had, at an early period, buildings composed of very large stones; in moving these the sledge and the roller were used; and it is natural that these should be combined to form a low truck or platform moving on rollers.
On Alexander’s return from India towards Persia, he travelled in a chariot drawn by eight horses, on which a square stage or platform was erected and covered in by a tent.
There was a large platform board over the hind axle-tree, for servants or luggage.
Five steps lead from this platform towards the footlights, and five steps on the side of the platform to the middle of the stage.
There is a platform about two yards long and two yards wide, between these two doors.
On the top of the platform a door leading to the ball-room.
But Kitty had seen him first, and was flying down the platform to meet him.
Kitty, Dan, and Tony were on the platformwhen the train arrived.
Kitty musingly, as they strolled up and down the platform waiting for the train.
The big yellow 'bus with its four horses stood in the roadway outside the platform palings.
Pamela and Lady Kitson, and all the rugs and bags and everything, she was out on the platform and in his arms almost before the train had come to a stand-still.
Ought I to kiss her," she was asking herself, "on a platform like this, and before a lot of people?
From the platform the rival candidates would speak.
The platform was illumined by little lights like stars.
Back of the platform the eucalyptus trees were now pale spectres, their leaves hanging nerveless in the still air.
With this grove as a background a platform had been erected.
Just below the top was built a platform about three feet wide, and on this platform the guards walked to and fro with their guns on their shoulders.
At Albany, as he stood panting and sweating on the long, concrete platform which paralleled track No.
When the passengers are once more in their compartments, the carriage-doors should be securely locked, and the train can then remain waiting beside the platform for three-quarters of an hour.
Country Cousin paces the platform in moody silence, and wishes he had taken a cab.
Country Cousin, with a deepened sense of humiliation and bewilderment, hurries upstairs, turns to the right, and reaches entrance to platform just in time to have gate slammed in his face.
Indeed, it was difficult for any one of the candidates to stand on a clear-cut platform without losing some of the support essential to his success.
The mistress led the visitors into the best room, lofty, airy, clean, with paper windows; along one side a broad platform some thirty inches from the floor.
Once, alighting at a railway-station to make an inspection, he found the platform strewn with intoxicated officers.
Some minutes before eight o'clock Jack, by virtue of his pass, was admitted without a ticket to theplatform at which the train for Harbin was drawn up.
His captor had given a brief order to the rest of the assailants, now ranged along the platform awaiting instructions.
An enemy holding that narrow platform could command the southern outlet of the pass, and completely cut off the Chunchuse force.
If in one of the higher parts we could raise a platform and mount it we might venture farther in than if we remained on the floor.
Save for the railway servants, the riflemen who guard the line, and a few officers desperately bored in their effort to kill time, the platformwas deserted.
The few passengers for Mao-shan alighted and passed through the barrier; then the waiting crowd surged through and hurried along the platform in search of vacant places, which seemed hard to find.
The sounds of commotion on the platform were increasing; when the operator had finished he said: "Is there a fight, your nobility?
Jack stood for some minutes at the door, watching the varied crowd on the platform Suddenly he heard cheers; the high personage had no doubt arrived.
They repeated this operation until a small platform was raised some two feet above the floor; then, bidding Jack remain in safety, Mr. Brown mounted to test the result.
Flanked by the enormous bundles and parcels that in the East represent personal luggage, they were squatting on rugs and mats under the station shed, waiting for the gates leading on to the platform to be opened.
But he saw almost with dismay that the platform here was thronged.
For many days troops had been passing towards the south; the platform was now thronged with soldiers, surgeons, nurses, camp-followers.
On each of these bastions is a platform on which can be worked a Maxim gun, each gun being protected by a roof above and by iron shutters at the sides.
However, Catalina did not disappoint Jack, and together they paced towards the semi-circular platform of the King’s Bastion.
Its platform was directly approached in early times from the Palace.
Upward went Tarzan toward a sturdy crotch across which he long since had laid and secured a little platform of branches.
This meeting was held on a beautiful Sabbath afternoon and the speakers and singers occupied the wide platform on the west end of the building.
The pulpit consisted of a box-like arrangement that stood on a smallplatform at the center of one end.
A very pleasing feature of these designs is the fact, they are constructed by the children as one after the other, or two together, carry their part to the platform and render their exercise.
Over these was laid a floor or platform about ten feet by twelve, leaving room at the bow and stern of each canoe for men with paddles who were to guide and propel the unwieldy craft in some unknown, but, doubtless, satisfactory manner.
On the platform are pitched three or four square skin pologs, which serve as sleeping apartments for the inmates and as refuges from the smoke, which sometimes becomes almost unendurable.
Mazarine~, the platformbeneath the stage in large theatres.
We descended half a dozen steps and stood upon the stone platform where it is generally believed Cicero held the famous Tusculan Disputations.
A temporary gangway extends from their platform to the gibbet in the open space.
The Hospital is perched high, as if deposited there by the deluge, upon an Ararat platform of its own.
A door opened at the back of the deep platform already edged with rows of privileged men and women, who had come in by this way, and Mr. Spurgeon walked to the front, where were his chair and table.
And Apollo and Artemis, Athene and Hercules, are standing by, and at the end of the platform Amphitrite and Poseidon, and Selene apparently urging on her horse.
And on the platform that supports the throne there are various ornaments round Zeus, and gilt carving--the Sun seated in his chariot, and Zeus and Hera; and near is Grace.
The temple of Apollo Epicurius stands on a little platform between the two highest peaks, about 3,500 feet above the sea.
Beyond it the path narrows, and a steep winding stair, just wide enough to admit one person at a time, leads to the platform before the second convent, which up to that moment is entirely concealed.
In the midst of the terraces a great platform was run out at the level of this long path, containing a rosery laid out with paths in a simple geometrical pattern.
At the end opposite to the screens was the daïs, a platform raised some few inches above the general floor level, where the family sat at meals, in the same way as the dons sit in many colleges at the present day.
Its garish lights shone and glittered, its hidden mechanical organ blared a German waltz tune, the huge pink-varnished pigs galloped gravely up and down as the platform upon which they were mounted whirled round and round.
At the end of the first revolution Hartley gave a shout of delight, for he saw that the lady with the blue hat had left her mount and was making her way along the platform towards where Ste.
Marie bought more serpentines, and when the platform came to a stop clambered up to it, and mounted the only unoccupied pig he could find.
The seaward edge of the platform is usually somewhat higher than the inner part, and is often awash at low water.
In the pulpit and on the platform he vindicated the national honor and pleaded for the maintenance of the national Union.
But should we reach what some call 'extreme views' on the several points, and should our zeal bring us onto the platform as a champion thereof, the sledgehammer we should wield is, the work of the Universalist women in their Centenary Year.
The next best thing I loved was to see Blanquette's eyes glitter when I returned to the platform and poured silver and copper into her lap.
Our little platform stood against the railings separating the garden from the quay.
III The last thing she saw on the station platform was Kennicott, faithfully waving his hand, his face so full of uncomprehending loneliness that he could not smile but only twitch up his lips.
As she came into the small business-section she inspected a broad-beamed grocer in an alpaca coat who was bending over the apples and celery on a slanted platform in front of his store.
Now they were stopping at a squat red frame station, the platform crowded with unshaven farmers and with loafers--unadventurous people with dead eyes.
They stepped uncomfortably from the safety of the plank platform and, balancing on their toes, taking cautious strides, ventured along the road.
It was as if theplatform had gaped and swallowed them.
That person," I said, "is the same who met Mr. Dwerrihouse upon the platform at Blackwater!
A gloomy platform hung with black cloth and surrounded by horse-soldiers, each with a torch in his left hand and a drawn sword in his right, stands in the midst of the public square.
I dashed along the platformas fast as my feet could carry me.
Is it possible for any one to get his life platform built so that it will stand without that first great plank?
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