A quarter of a mile away the sandy road-bed curved and disappeared.
If I go, it will be something in the mood to find satisfaction in meeting and doing vicious gun practice with Morgan Map, who is presumed to be waiting in a solitary place a quarter of a mile down the road.
It was about one-quarter mile long, several miles from mainland, at least half a mile from any other island, apparently all rock, and yet it was swarming with mosquitoes.
In a moment I was standing with him under the tall spruce trees, looking over the river to the dark forest, a quarter mile away, and listening intently to a new and wonderful sound.
Once or twice I took the track-line myself for a quarter of an hour, but it did not appeal to me as a permanent amusement.
There, on a bare point a quartermile away, we saw a large Lynx walking quietly along.
We hailed him to stop when he was a quarter of a mile ahead, and he responded with his six sturdy oarsmen; but such was the force of the stream that he did not reach the shore till a quarter-mile below us.
Its beautiful evergreen leaves and bright red berries cover a quarter of the ground in dry woods and are found in great acre beds.
Two Mamelukes had in the meantime succeeded, by great exertions, in giving the alarm to their comrades in the quarter of the Azhar, who escaped by the eastern gate called Bab al-Ghoraib.
A large boat, gaily decked out, representing that in which the victim used to be conveyed, was anchored near, and a gun on board fired every quarter of an hour during the night.
The few who regained the summit of the citadel experienced the same fate as the rest, for no quarter was given.
So with my flagship I boarded the corsair's flagship, and grappled with it side to side, on the port quarter of the enemy, in the expectation that my admiral would do the same on the other side, as he was perfectly able to do.
Pollux had meanwhile come out of his nook, and said: "In a quarter of an hour I shall set before you the breakfast which has been turned into a supper.
So slumber overmastered Selene every now and then for a quarter of an hour, and each time she dreamed of her sister.
You are not afraid to be left alone for a quarter of an hour?
In less than a quarter of an hour, he and Dalrymple were on their way to Sor Tommaso's house, which was in the piazza of Subiaco, not far from the principal church.
Francesca, following Gloria, saw his movement of surprise, and attributed it merely to admiration or astonishment such as she had felt herself a quarter of an hour earlier.
Sora Nanna had not been gone a quarterof an hour when a boy came in from the street.
Long as he had lived in Rome, he was a foreigner there and liked the foreigners' quarter of the city.
In less than a quarter of an hour he had made up his mind that if Maria Addolorata repented at a late hour and refused to leave the convent, he would make an attempt to carry her away by force.
Stefanone has waited patiently for nearly a quarter of a century.
A good ploughman will set up a pole a quarter of a mile distant, and trace a furrow so true up to that goal that no eye can detect any divergence from absolute straightness.
The iron is greatly cheaper than a quarter of a century ago, for only about one-half the coal formerly used is necessary for its production.
A quarter of a century has made a remarkable difference in the feelings, even in the least informed, with regard to machinery.
It is worthy of note how the common sense of this working-man, a quarter of a century ago, saw clearly the great principle which overthrows, in the outset, all unreasoning hostility to machinery.
It will be sufficient for a broad view of the increase of production, as compared with the increase of population, to take the consumption at eight bushels, or a quarter of wheat per head.
The consequence was, that no person thought of accumulating at all, and that the price of wheat often rose, just before the harvest, from five shillings a quarter to five pounds.
There is, after midnight, in the office of a morning paper, a constant necessity for adapting the labour of every quarter of an hour to the requirements of the instant time.
The price of stocks and shares in 'Change-alley is known every quarter of an hour upon the exchanges of our great commercial marts; and the closing price of the French funds is in type before midnight at our daily newspaper-offices.
Henry Roome was Usher for one quarter in 1688 and then gave place to Richard Atkinson or Akinson, whose salary varied from year to year, but never exceeded a certain limit, viz.
Thirdly he shall not absent himselfe from the schoole foure dayes in any quarter of the yeare, without speciall lycence first obteyned of the master and Governours.
He himself could not be absent at any other time above six days, in any one quarter without the special license of the Governors.
He was not to absent himself more than four days in any quarter without license from the Master and Governors and in the absence of the Master was to supply his office.
Another task for the new boy was to climb the Scars a quarter of a mile from the School and place a stone upon the cairn, called "Schoolboys' Tower.
In onequarter we meet with stone, in another with lime, in another with iron, copper, or coal.
It is because there is a sufficient certainty that these different services will be demanded that men prepare to render them, although they do not always know precisely from what quarterthe demand may come.
In other words, does the interest of the L100 become a charge on each quarter of wheat which the field produces?
Man, however degraded, has always as much light left him as to see the quarter from whence good or evil comes to him; and when the State assumes the charge of all, it becomes responsible for all.
Labour betakes itself instinctively to the quarter where it is best remunerated, and never fails to put an end to this exceptional advantage, so that Inequality is only a spur which urges us on in spite of ourselves towards Equality.
That is absurd--the fear of any demand from that quarter need give no great uneasiness.
It is not from thisquarter of the social horizon that the institutions so much desired by the working classes may be expected to come.
Yes, I am to be walking through Albany Grove at a quarter to four on Friday.
How very fortunate,' said Merton, and in a quarter of an hour he was attired as a simple citizen, and was driving to the house of Mr. Macnab.
He descended about a quarter to nine, breakfast was at nine, and he found Logan looking much disturbed.
All the houses in this quarter are very solidly constructed, lofty, and with flat roofs.
All the houses are constructed of the most combustible materials, and the greater number belonging to the native quarter are thatched.
There is quite enough of bustle and animation in this quarter of the Fort to engage the attention, but it seems silent and deserted when compared with the crowd of the more exclusively native portions.
All musical Europe has been upset during the last quarter of the century over the vital subject of whether the pressure touch is better than the angular blow touch.
One of his earlier works, the Polish Dance, has been enormously popular for a quarter of a century.
But, nevertheless, he was annoyed, or rather discontented, and had not been a quarter of an hour about the place before he declared his intention to go and seek her.
Then Will went out to his old room, and a quarter of an hour afterwards he found himself seated with Clara at the dinner-table; and a quarter of an hour after that the dinner was over, and they had both drawn their chairs to the fire.
Domestic habits at Aylmer Park had grown with the growth of years till they had become adamantine, and domestic habits required prayers every morning at a quarter before nine o'clock.
She went there with the express purpose of telling her friend of her engagement desirous of obtaining in that quarter the sympathy which her father declined to give her.
Over our heads the town clock rang out every passing quarter of an hour.
The farmer set the young cob at a gallop, and in about a quarter of an hour we arrived at his place, which was called Braxey Farm.
A quarter of an hour later Miss Sutton and Mr. Johnson appeared round the corner of the house.
Usually he sang or whistled all day long, and you could locate him by his melody at least a quarter of a mile away.
I used to set off with the little pony-phaeton at a quarter to eight every morning and pick Abraham up at the end of the lane which led to his father's farm.
Life in Orchardcroft was leisurely, and an hour could easily be spent in fetching a stone of flour or a quarter of a pound of tea from Miss Partridge's emporium.
In a quarter of an hour he was playing the themes of the 'Gotterdammerung,' whilst his châtelaine sat at her spinning-wheel a few yards from him.
He sat a quarter of an hour or more with the note on his knee, looking out at the light green willow foliage as it drooped above the deeper green of the lake.
A quarter of a century passed; his old friends died away one by one, nobody remained in the country who remembered or asked for him.
The chase was close enough; more than once, the Austrian head-quarter of to-night was that of the Prussians to-morrow.
Never mind; give them the rest, one every quarter of an hour.
First he heard the far-off faint barking of a dog, and in a few minutes afterwards a horseman made his appearance coming up on to the heath from the opposite quarter to that by which he himself had reached it.
I will be myself at the spot where the four lanes meet near your house, to the north of the Manor; it is about a quarter of a mile from you.
Five minutes--ten--a quarter of an hour past the usual time, but the squire had not made his appearance.
Nevertheless, it was soon evident that, although dropping behind a little in the first quarterof a mile, he was gradually drawing up nearer and nearer to the front.
We halted at a quarter past three on the morning of the 24th, having made four miles and a half N.
After passing through a good deal of loose ice, it became gradually more and more open, till at length, at a quarter before seven A.
The land on our left or to the southward proved an island, five miles and a quarter in length, of the same bold and rugged character as the rest of this numerous group, and by far the largest of them all.
Our preparations were completed on the 27th, but the wind continuing fresh from the northwestern quarter in the offing, we had no prospect of making any progress till the morning of the 29th, when we weighed at six A.
The weather was so thick that at times we could not see a quarterof a mile before us, but yet went rapidly forward to the W.
At eight the rain again became heavier, and we got under shelter of our awnings for a quarter of an hour, to keep our shirts and other flannel clothes dry; these being the only things we now had on which were not thoroughly wet.
In less than a quarter of an hour the little parlor--they always sat in the parlor in the evenings--was looking as snug and comfortable as a room could look.
A queer, convulsed sort of look passed over Jane's face for a quarter of a second, then vanished.
If you will leave us, we will all come down to the drawing-room in less than a quarter of an hour.
Miss Hillary was to board at Martha Ellen Robertson's place, the big, white house not a quarter of a mile down the road.
