Steadily the skies darkened over Richmond and a terrified multitude kept pressing toward the railroad station, seeking to flee into the farther South.
There was a great gathering of officers near a large tent, and beyond them the soldiers were pressing near.
She answer'd nothing, but pressing me to her bosom, seem'd to tell me her heart was full of affection.
In China, the laws regarding property are insufficient to give it that security: hence the talent of invention is there seldom exercised beyond suggesting the means of providing for the first necessities and the most pressing wants.
It was not the most pressing thing I had to do at that time.
On the test cartridge case, this area is much broader and coarser because the bolt was pressing more tightly against the primer when it was turned.
If the cake springs back after pressing a finger on the top, it shows that it is baked enough.
Life pressing multifariously its changing suggestions upon the sentient organism prompts, at last, the act.
The taut muscles of his powerful armpressing against her troubled her.
So Isabelle was caught up in the pressing activity of this organism and worked by it, impelled without her own will, driven hard as all around her were driven by the circumstances behind her.
English to Anna, with a smile, pressing the hand with which she held a parasol.
When he has made the ashes smooth by pressing them with his hands, he makes the crucible slope down toward the middle; then he tamps it, as I have described, with a rammer.
Then he again throws moistened powder into the crucible, and again makes it smooth with his hands, and kneads it with his fists and with the pestles; then, pushing upward and pressing with his fingers, he makes the edge of the crucible smooth.
These humps project, lest the bar should slip through the hole of the right-hand rod, in which it remains fixed when it, together with the rods, is not pressing upon the furnace walls.
The self-possessed Governor coolly replied that he should be glad to see the Archbishop, but business was too pressing to allow him to be absent even a half an hour from his duties.
Following them with hoots and yells that were unheeded, they became emboldened, and pressing nearer, began to hurl stones and bricks, and everything they could lay their hands on, against the soldiers.
The need of a Museum of Natural History, and of a Gallery of Art, in New York, is so pressing that there is some danger of our accepting the appropriations without a proper regard to consequences.
Then, by pressing the brick against the next one, the whole space between the two bricks will be filled with mortar; and so he should point up the inside as perfectly as the outside, as he proceeds.
Pressing this button is the last step in activating the rest of the power plant.
The screech increased in intensity until men fell to the floor and writhed, pressing their hands firmly to the sides of their heads.
Soon he was pressing his keyboard vehemently and muttering under his breath.
Zip picked her up and she wrapped her arms around his neck; then, pressing his cheek to hers, they came to where their parents were waiting for him.
Joe was at the next console, thoughtfully pressing buttons, but there was no response.
I slowed down the car; I felt her shoulder pressing against my own, and reached out my hand and found hers.
Suddenly, in the fading light, she flung her arms around me, pressing me tightly, desperately.
And that little fool pressing his hand on the back of your neck and asking questions.
Good-bye," he said, pressingher hand and looking into her eyes.
Big rains had come down from the mountains during their absence from the mission and the banks were pressing full.
She cried softly and Mrs. Douglas could feel the girl's hand pressing her arm convulsively.
It may be mentioned here that special apparatus can be purchased for pressing and vulcanizing.
Pressing his horse with his knees, Kern started down the trail at a slow canter.
I found a flood of people calling to me and pressing around me, and all the time I was thinking of nothing but the new ring on my finger and the weight--the horrible weight of it!
Did anybody owe Quade money, anybody Quade was pressing for it?
Come, then, the most pressing matter is to find Toby again, I suppose.
My uncle Gaston," murmured Louis, pressing his hand to his brow, and comprising in those three words all that his memory recalled of that symbol of opposing sentiments.
To remain here alone, in this old castle, I who have enjoyed the delightful habit of listening to your songs, of pressing your hand, of running about the park with you.
She has always groped amidst obstacles like a mole pressing on where the earth is softest.
Nature does not shake off her baroque ornaments and her vices until they prove fatal, and she never thinks of the most obvious invention or pressing reform, until some complication brings her, she knows not how, to try the experiment.
It was pressing forward with stern resolution; it swept before it the light companies of the 74th and 88th regiments, and unless this attack could be arrested the position and the battle were lost.
Wellington was beyond the Guadiana, pressing Marmont; and Beresford, with much pluck but little skill, was besieging the great frontier fortress.
Away we went up the pass, pressing forward at the utmost speed I could stand, desperately anxious to get as far ahead as possible before the storm should overtake us.
Pressing on at an increased pace, we were presently brought to a halt by coming upon the brink of a cliff, at the base of which was a large pool of clear water.
Despite the pressing offer of the car, they walked, in order to show Mickey the country which he was eager to explore on foot.
Joseph Warton, in his frank and lively manner, was very active in pressing him to mention the particulars.
After leaving Lawley pretty comfortable, I walked about the town and witnessed the pressing operations of Moses and his myrmidons.
The enemy, under General Grant, in vastly superior force, was pressing Vicksburg very hard, and had now completely invested that fortress.
