The General, standing with exaggerated exactness upon the doorstep, had followed with his bulging eyes the receding figure.
Ethel Rolleston stands for a while, looking after his receding form till the fog closes round it and she can see it no more.
His expression was mild and inoffensive, and his watery pale eyes and recedingchin gave one the idea that he was hardly to be trusted astride anything more spirited than a gold-headed cane.
They had passed San Lazzaro, and San Servolo too was receding astern of them before May spoke again.
The tide was going out, slipping so quietly to the sea that here, at this remote anchorage, the receding of the water was imperceptible.
Uncle Dan and May were standing in the balcony, watching the receding gondola.
One by one the receding gondolas turned and came nearer, one bright eye gleaming at each prow, as they stole like conspirators upon the gaily lanterned barge.
Chimes were sounded that came floating down the water from ship to ship as if each vessel had its own special note, and then were answered back again, receding in the distance, until they faded on the air.
Her prow rose to unusual height, receding gracefully, and again projecting outward in a superb figurehead in the form of a swan, whose beak was gilded, and whose head and neck were set with jewels in laminated gold.
Large blocks of syenitic granite hung loose, ready to drop at any minute and we saw how for ages the cliff had been slowly disintegrating, and receding from the sea by action of storm and catyclism.
Glyndon's eyes followed thereceding form of the mysterious stranger.
By Erith and at Greenhithe it beslimes the low, muddy flats left exposed by the receding tide; but out in the centre of the Thames how can it avail against the influence of wind, and cloud, and sunlight?
By this time he thought to have reached his goal, but for two more days he fared on through the same scene, with the sky close over him and the green valleys of earth receding far below.
Margaret felt a rush of relief, followed by a receding wave of regret.
I don't like that sinking spell," the latter confided to his assistant an hour later as they stood looking through the window after the receding carriage.
It started again as she threaded the last Pullman, to find the bishop on its rear platform peering out anxiously at the receding station.
We hardly spoke to each other as we moved along receding from the west, which diffused a solemn animation over the lake.
He knotted their bridles together and, leading one of the number, remounted and rode west after the receding cloud of dust which hid the flock.
To the west the wash of the tideless Mediterranean tumbled along an unindented coast; to the east the sallow stony earth went up and up, toward an ever receding sallow horizon.
That watchful alarm in the brain which, at moments of demand, is instantly alive in certain sleepers, aroused the Maccabee almost as soon as the stealthy, receding footsteps of Julian died away.
Now all the figures are absolutely wanting in dignity and character, especially the downcast head of Christ, with its projecting forehead and receding chin, which is absolutely vulgar.
Here and there, through an opening in the trees, or across a broad wedge of prairie, could be seen the mountains, now bathed in a faint purple, silently receding before them.
We drove home the next day, up a wonderful river valley, deep into the heart of the foothills, with the blue mountains always beckoning and receding before us.
Walford was about to rush to the gangway, and hail the fast receding boat, when the ever-watchful Talbot caught him by the collar, and flung him from him with an "Ah!
Barbara and Bettina stand a little apart from the others, with clasped hands and dim eyes, as the shore, the home-shore, is fast receding from their sight.
The vehicle had been sent away--she heard the sound of receding wheels--and the new arrival wanted to get in.
An intense stillness prevailed except for the diminishing rattle of the receding motor car.
The three portals are not remarkable, or uniform, and are severely plain, and, though of a noticeable receding depth, are bare and unpeopled.
It grew darker, though not yet three o'clock; and my brain seemed to be receding from me with the light.
I hope when we wake we shan't be out at sea," suggested I, "for I want to watch old England receding into the distance.
I've got so I never notice his nose, any more than I used to notice Uncle Carlton's receding chin.
When poor pale-faced Dinky-Dunk bent over the bed I asked him if it had a receding chin, or if it had a nose like Olie's.
A sudden surge of quickly suppressed laughter floated back to us from the receding launch, but the visiting officers were on their good behaviour once they were "out in the open" again, and the challenge was not taken up.
While the Knight related this anecdote, the hounds and the hunters were gradually receding from view; and although at intervals some thought they could catch glimpses of them, at last they disappeared altogether.
Only one glance did Loring give that receding figure, but his eyes followed that of the girl, who skimmed lightly up the steps and into the house, banging the door behind her.
