What advantage has the family over the school and larger groups for educational purposes?
She had expected to see one of the Seven Mile boys or her brother instead of Keller--had looked with a quaking heart for the cattleman to fling back the swift challenge of a bullet.
The sun was well up to its meridian before they came through a thick clump of quaking aspens to the mouth of a gulch opening from the end of a little mountain park.
The hunters were threading a grove of quaking asp and the dogs had come up with the bear on an opening of shale rock surrounded by down timber.
The scout took his stand near a thicket of quaking asp and almost at once sighted a band of antelope.
I know not," replied the quaking host, adding the particulars of Cynthia's departure, and the information that the lady seemed in great anger.
Of this Kenneth had now a proof that set him quaking with impatient fear.
Nothing else in the streets of the mountains gives such a sense of pageantry as the conifers; other trees, if there are any, are home dwellers, like the tender fluttered, sisterhood of quaking asp.
He thought with a certain anxiety of the tawny tiny owl that had sat like a stuffed ornament on the mantel-piece of a neighboring room, and he listened with a quaking vicarious presentiment of woe for the sounds of capture and despair.
Through searing smoke they climbed the quaking stairs and burst into the shuttered room.
Dragging the quaking Cæsar after him, Taurus Antinor soon plunged into the very thick of the crowd.
He talked volubly, at times incoherently, with hoarse voice and quaking lips.
And thus the face of the whole earth became deformed, because of the tempests, and the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the quaking of the earth.
Was she to sit quakinglike that because a mere youth wanted his toy?
Instead of humiliating Ann, Ann had filled her quaking soul with a thousand intangible, rapidly augmenting fears.
Ann opened the door and led the quaking girl across the upper corridor to the stairs, and they began to grope down the steps, Ann's revolver harshly scratching as it slid along the railing.
The quaking aspens were just beginning to turn yellow; everywhere purple asters were a blaze of glory except where the rabbit-bush grew in clumps, waving its feathery plumes of gold.
The creek kept right up against the hills on one side and there were groves of quaking asp and cottonwoods that made shade, and service-bushes and birches that shut off the ugly hills on the other side.
We have had frosts, and the quaking aspens were a trembling field of gold as far up the stream as we could see.
The quaking aspens are beginning to turn yellow, but no leaves have fallen.
He sits astride an engine dread, And at his touch the awful ball Across the quaking world is sped, I see a million creatures fall.
They boom beyond the battered town; The hills are belching smoke; And valleys charred and ranges brown Are quaking 'neath the stroke.
The cannon's stroke throws customs down The black and bottomless abyss, And quaking are the gilded crown And palsied feet of prejudice.
Despite the quaking of the earth, he ventured again into the open space and saw that the pit had filled with water.
As he gazed, the column gradually sank, the boiling water in the pit sank, too, and there was no longer any rumble or quaking of the earth.
The leaves are on very slender stalks and the slightest breeze puts them into motion, hence the popular names "Quaking asp" and "Quaking aspen.
Early next morning Loud Slap came out of his hole, cut down a small quaking aspen, and ate all he wanted of its bark.
Hope and the future for me are not in lawns and cultivated fields, not in towns and cities, but in the impervious and quaking swamps.
The young goldsmith was now quaking with fear, thinking his Rakshasi-wife was about to kill him.
And death and desolation in winter, and hidden skeletons under the quaking bogs.
When the time came for making the pemmican, two large fires were built of dry quaking aspen wood, and these were allowed to burn down to red coals.
In a valley, sparsely timbered with quaking aspens and cotton-woods, stood a large camp.
Through there the road went up from the cotton-woods into the cool quaking asps and pines, and so across the range and away to Separ.
They crossed through the pass among the quaking asps and the pines, and, reaching Pacific Springs, came down again into open country.
And then, with quaking heart, I saw That she was standing in the night, A leveret cuddled to her breast.
Then once more as the girl stood clear, Before me--quaking cold with fear I saw the hare look from her eyes.
My tell-tale face and quaking limbs struck terror into Lady Biddy's heart, so that she had no power to raise her voice above a whisper.
