The light from the roof patches remained constantly the same, and that flow was abetted within the building by a soft radiation from the walls.
Yet he did not seem in the least worried about their being able to win through to the sea--or if he was, his outer shell of unconcern remained uncracked.
He remained where he was as if he had never "heard" that question, surveying the room below with all the impassiveness he could summon.
This was not hunting land, but there remained the bounty of the river.
The door through which he had entered remained closed, refusing to yield to his push.
Shann remained hunkered on the sand, every sense abnormally alert, watching the fog.
But now both animals remained upslope, showing no inclination to descend to the water line.
There always remained the nagging fear that when he searched for the next it would not be there and he would cling to his perch lacking the needful strength in aching arms and legs to reclimb the inside ladder.
Sure enough, a wicked-looking gray cat was crouching on a branch of the apple-tree, watching with hungry eyes the few birds that had remained on the roof.
Sue's eyes remained fixed on the paper; her cheeks glowed with shame and mortification; she could not meet her friends' eyes.
Still her pale cheek told of a sad heart, and though more than one young man well to do in the world asked her to become his wife, she remained faithful to the memory of her lost Ralph.
For weeks she remained in a sadly prostrated state, attended by Dame Judson, who looked after her, as she said truly, without hope of fee or reward.
In one respect she had not changed: her mind remained clear and her trust in God as firm as ever.
Three hundred human beings had lost their lives on board the four ships, two only of which now remained afloat.
Peter came constantly, while he remainedin Plymouth, to see her.
Peter remained to dinner and amused Jessie and Mrs Judson with an account of his adventures, in all of which his honesty and courage were remarkable, though he was not aware that what he said exhibited it.
It was my own in verity; and the sums of money that I had concealed in case of any emergency, remained untouched.
One of the lads gripped the face of the corpse with his finger and thumb, and the cheeks felt quite soft and fleshy, but the dimples remained and did not spring out again.
Overjoyed at finding such an asylum, I remained in the humble cot.
She never quitted Peebles as long as Bell Calvert remained there, and, when she was removed to Edinburgh, the other followed.
And how long does your Christian reverence suppose you have remainedin this place since the late laird's death?
All his clothes that were sewed with linen yam were lying in separate portions, the thread having rotten; but such as were sewed with worsted remained perfectly firm and sound.
Seeing that the fallen figureremained quite motionless he stepped forward, drawing his knife as he came.
But it was well known that his right-hand war-chiefs, Pipe and Wishtonah, remained coldly opposed.
The injured ones bore their hurts with characteristic stoicism; if they did not sleep, both remained quiet and not a sigh escaped them.
The rafts remained close together for a while, but as the current quickened and was more skillfully taken advantage of by Jeff, the larger raft gained considerable headway, gradually widening the gap between the two.
Half King waited long for Girty to speak; since he remained silent, the wily Huron suggested they take a vote on the question.
He remained in doors all that day, except for the few moments when he ran over to Mr. Wells' cabin to inquire regarding Nell's condition.
So intrusive was their curiosity that Jim hurried back to Mr. Well's cabin and remained there in seclusion.
He was frantic with fury, and tried to get at Joe; but Silvertip remained in front of his captive until some of the braves led Girty into the forest, where the tall chief had already disappeared.
When Wetzel also had gone, only two living creatures remainedin the glade--the doomed renegade, and the white dog.
She had bathed and bandaged his wound, and remained with him all that night.
Wetzel remained with folded arms, his cold eyes fixed upon the writhing, moaning renegade.
He remained motionless for a moment, and even at such a distance the dark, changeless face could be discerned.
As he remained there stunned by the shock, he gazed up through the open space in the leaves, trying to still his fury, to realize the situation, to make no hasty move.
He remained silent, steadily regarding the fire with his somber eyes.
Then came the last wave of a white scarf, faintly in the distance, and at length the dark outline of the fort was all that remained to their regretful gaze.
He was extremely attentive to her during the trip, while she remained pleasantly indifferent and appeared to care nothing for him.
The moon had set, it was growing noticeably cool, day was dawning in the east; she shivered, a slight tremor ran through her whole frame, yet she remained motionless on her stone seat.
The gardener, who was laying out a flower-bed which surrounded three sides of the fountain in the centre of the courtyard, had witnessed the whole scene from the beginning, but remained at his work, apparently without interest.
She remained motionless in the same position, with bent head, her hands resting nervelessly in her lap, her eyes staring into vacancy.
Panna flushed crimson and made no reply; Pista looked at her in surprise and doubt, but also remained silent, and in a few minutes the girl went away with drooping head.
Pista had again heard and remained silent because he had perceived that blustering and raging were useless.
Here she sat down and remained motionless until it grew dark.
To cut the matter short: Pista remained obdurate from Christmas until New Year, notwithstanding that his mother and Panna's father beset him early and late.
He eagerly dissuaded her from the step, since nothing would come of it, but Panna remained immovable in her confidence in the result.
This individual remained standing at the door, while Abonyi took his seat on the wooden bench and the lawyer in his chair.
Panna wept a little, too, then they remained together until long after noon and, in the evening, went to the spinning-room and presented themselves as betrothed lovers.
There still remained some lurking suspicion in my mind, however, that the whole thing was a pre-arranged episode, intended to dazzle me, though what earthly object he could have in taking me in was past my comprehension.
There he remained until closing time, and when he came out he was so far gone that I knew the game was in my own hands.
I knew now that I held the clue to the mystery in my hand, and all that remained was to secure the murderer.
Had the wanderer remained awake for another half hour a strange sight would have met his eyes.
De Profundis" ought to have remained among the archives of Reading Gaol.
Fear, policy, remorse, superstition, even whatever poor spark of better feeling remained unquenched under the white ashes of a heart consumed by evil passions, made him shrink in disgust from this sudden execution.
From the latter position they may have gone on to Flanders--the more likely alternative--or they may have remained as part of the thin defensive line left along the Aisne positions.
Korybut arrived at Prague in May 1422, and remained there to the end of that year.
Sigismund himself, who, regardless of the taunts of the Moravian nobles had again remained with the rear of his army, did not halt till he had reached the town of Cesky Brod.
When almost all had been killed, those who remained surrendered.
They remained there for some time, and here too (at the 'Blue Star' Hotel) the treaty that concluded the war was signed on August 23.
Of historical interest are the dungeons of the town hall, which have remained exactly as they were when the Bohemian patriots were confined here in 1621 on the eve of their decapitation.
Wartenberg, abandoning the national cause, concluded a private treaty with the King, that at first remained secret.
Some of its members still, though reluctantly, remained faithful to Sigismund.
This document is a stirring appeal to the national feeling, and such an appeal has rarely remained unheeded in Bohemia.
Those who remained were yet more determined to resist Sigismund to the utmost.
After the end of the Hussite War, Sigismund, during his short reign, undertook some repairs, but the castleremained uninhabited.
The citizens now became desirous for peace, while the Utraquist nobles who had remained faithful to the Royal cause were yet reluctant to continue warfare against those whose creed they shared.
Sigismund had remained in the rear with part of his army, and returned to his camp as soon as he saw the defeat of his troops.
Aminadab sighed heavily, and his heart sank within him; but he thought of his dream, and remained steadfast.
He was cast away on a desert island, where he remained several years, when he was discovered and taken off by a passing vessel.
There were thirty men who thus left, and only five remained behind, and to these he said: "I will pray the Lord for you, that you may catch fish till you are weary.
In consequence, needless to say, heremained obstinately sceptical as regards the rising storm.
Rumour said there had once been a wife and a friend; now there remained only work and the whisky bottle; and he was overdoing both.
Whether they resented, or whether they adored, the boys remained entirely unconcerned, entirely absorbed in each other.
Thank God, there remained loyal Indians, hundreds of them--as in Mutiny days; but surely a few rounds from the Fort just then would have heartened them and been distinctly comforting into the bargain.
Roy remained motionless, one elbow on the mantelpiece.
Yet Rose remained beautiful and desirable--and clearly she loved him.
Remained the grandchildren, in whom centred all his hope and pride.
In mercy to you, I diplomatically sat down upon the idea, and remained seated till it was extinct.
While Arúna remained obdurate, nothing could be definitely arranged; and her grandfather had not the heart to enforce his wife's insistent demands.
Steeped in poetry as he was, there stole into his mind a fragment of Tagore--'She who had ever remained in the depths of my being, in the twilight of gleams and glimpses .
Corny still remained at the house of his uncle; and he was as thoroughbred a rebel as his father, though he said next to nothing about his "cause.
Of course I did not; if I had, they would haveremained on board.
Flint had remainedin the canoe, which had been partly drawn up on the beach; but the moment he sprang out upon the sand to go to the assistance of his officer, he was set upon by two men and secured.
While they were talking about it, they saw a group of officers coming to the forward deck, where they hadremained since they came on board.
Neither of them wore his uniform, as they remained as they had dressed for the duty they were to do on board of the Teaser.
He stopped instantly, and remained motionless without crossing the slight barrier.
The three partners turned quite the color of her hair; Jackson Wells alone remained white and rigid.
For one instant James Smith remainedspellbound in his chair.
He waited with his eyes fixed on the opening, ready to fly on the sallying out of any one who hadremained concealed.
The act was only precautionary, as he did not exhibit any haste in removing them to a place of safety, and remained meditatively absorbed in looking over a packet of papers taken from the same drawer.
More than that--for one instant the trout remained visible, stationary and expectant!
The jury turned eagerly to the leaves of the hymn-books, but the larger gaze of the audience remained fixed upon the speaker and the girl, who sat in rapt admiration of his periods.
The whistling ceased; the snake, with half its body out of the cleft, remained poised in air as if stiffened to stone.
The figure of Colonel Starbottle alone remained erect--white and rigid.
He remained for an instant motionless, dazed by this apparent motion of an inanimate figure; but as the absurdity of the idea struck him he hurriedly but stealthily ascended the remaining stairs, resolved to follow it.
If one ship remained when they could no longer use the gun, they would have failed.
Remember, you may one day wish you had remained on Mars for your training.
He remained passive although it hurt, occasionally stroking her hair.
While I'd like to see you come out of this thing on top, I would not like to sacrifice my life for it--which is exactly what I'd do if I remained with you and you lost.
The light blinded him, but when he could see again only six ships remained in space--casting perfect shadows on the Andromeda Galaxy!
That is true," agreed the second man, who had remainedsilent until now.
While the latter observation is open to dispute, it is certainly true that England has neverremained quiet under the dominion of Rome.
He remained the life-long friend of Simon de Montfort, the cruel agent of the papacy, and he blessed the marriage of his sons and baptized his daughter.
The brief time that remained to him was spent in exhorting his followers to have charity, to guard their humility, and to make their treasure out of poverty.
Some of those whoremained at Rome established a sort of retreat for their ascetic friends.
False monks might draw terrible rebukes from him, but the conviction that the soul could be delivered from captivity to the body only by mortification remained unshaken.
Seldom seen upon the streets, she remainedat home, surrounded by virgins and widows, obedient and loving to her mother.
But for some unknown reason the blur became motionless and remained so for several minutes.
But Frank's black-clad form merged so perfectly into its surroundings and he remained so motionless that the German at last was convinced.
All the territory west, and on the east from the 31st parallel to the Gulf, remained in the hands of Spain.
The autumn of 1540 brought what remained of the party to a large village called Mavilla, the site of the modern city of Mobile, where a terrible battle took place.
They remained gazing at Karlsefne’s men for a little and then rowed away to the southward.
The little garrisonremained there eight years and then, in 1812, was annihilated by the Indians, though a few other white settlers survived and held their ground.
We rode to within about three-quarters of a mile of the fortifications and there we remained until it was light enough to see, and then the Captain took out his glasses and scanned the whole country as well as the fortifications.
We remained with them until near Sacramento, and here I met my old friend Johnnie West.
We remained at Taos until August first, then, all being ready for our northern trip, each man taking his own saddle-horse and five pack horses, we made the start for the headwaters of the Missouri river.
We arrived at Fort Yuma about the first of November, and there I remained till the first of June, 1878.
We remained at Taos until time to go to the fort, doing nothing in particular, but hunting a little and occasionally attending a fandango.
The other three scouts that were out with him remained to watch the Indians while he came to report.
We remained here for some weeks yet, piloting and escorting emigrants through the mountains, but having very few scraps with the Indians.
George Jones went along as a scout and I remainedwith the command.
I remained in the city three months, not knowing what to do or where to go.
We remained at the Fort three days this time, after which we rigged up and started for the Kiowa nation again with more goods to trade for buffalo robes.
We remainedwith West two months, putting in our time hunting, fishing and loafing.
I remained to watch the movements of the Indians and see whether they were reinforced during the day and to report at dark, George returning to the command.
All the forged bills were promptly burnt, and there remained only those real amounts that Adrien had signed, and which, all put together, only amounted to but a minute fraction of the supposed sums owing by the young man.
A kindly neighbour came to his rescue; but John insisted on nursing Lucy himself, while the woman remained downstairs.
Leroy gazed sadly at him, but remained silent; and Shelton grew hot, and then white with irritation, at this inexplicable silence.
Hawermann remained standing out in the street, lost in thought, and following the receding carriage with his eyes.
The good folk of Rahnstaedt began to take much more interest in politics than they had ever done before, and the post-master said that if matters remained as they were, the thing would have to be enquired into.
This at least I can testify that Fred Triddelfitz remained leader of all the dances; and that Anna often blushed when she was his partner, and he generally was able to persuade her to dance with him.
While they were sitting together the door opened, and a slender figure came softly into the room and remained standing in the full light of the moon.
Kurz in his vehemence had thrust the point through something that had remained on the stick when he threw it away.
Hawermann kept very much alone, and when visitors came to see Mrs. Behrens, he either remained in his room or went out into the garden.
Hawermann was about to knock it off, when on looking more closely at it he remained motionless with surprise.
The mountains were covered to a depth of twenty-two feet, and all flesh died that moved upon the earth: Noah alone remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.
Lieutenant Glassells jumped into the water, to escape death from the shower of balls; the pilot followed him, but the fireman remained at his post, as the boat drifted away from danger.
The Romans obtained the models of their vessels from the Greeks, though they remained almost entirely unacquainted with the sea till the third century before Christ.
Some of them remained a long time in the South Sea, and made many discoveries of undoubted benefit to mankind.
This number was so inconsiderable that it was deemed probable that more of them would have died had they remained on shore.
Thorfinn remained here three years, and had many communications with the aborigines.
They remained during the winter, finding plenty of salmon in the river and lake.
As he neither doubled nor named this cape, itremained for the daring navigators Schouten and Lemaire to demonstrate its importance, by passing around it from one ocean into the other, which Drake, it will be observed, had not done.
Kellett and McClure remained for many months in the Resolute and Intrepid, beset in the ice.
It was first deposited in the vaults of the Franciscan Convent of Valladolid, where it remained seven years.
In order to double the Cape of Good Hope, the captain ascended as high as the forty-second degree of south latitude: he remained wind-bound for nine weeks opposite the Cape.
Whatever might have been the efforts of the Senatorial patrons and the allies of the engineers, the following facts remained for ever unalterable: 1st.
Butler remained in his command in the Department of the Gulf.
Many women remained true to the loftiest womanhood, others became carried away by the impure turmoil.
The fireman remained so long invisible that serious doubts were entertained of his safety.
The effects remained in a degree for three or four days, accompanied by a hoarseness, which he attributed to the exertion made while under the immediate influence of the gas.
The tar remained in complete contact with his skin, and he wiped it off with tow.
After the cavity has remained open for a day or two, the dense fluid comes out and quickly hardens into a transparent and yellowish resinous-looking substance, which absorbs moisture, though with less avidity than the other.
He continued to observe it for about twenty minutes, during which time the appearance remained precisely the same; but rain coming on, they were prevented from making any further observations.
Her legs, with the stockings on, remained untouched, and the head, half burned, lay between them.
The circumstance, however, remained in his memory, and, with other subsequent observations, led him to the knowledge of his defect.
The apparition remained perfectly distinct till she sat down, as it were, in its lap, when it vanished.
The boy again told us, that there remained but few devils, and these were at a great distance.
It remained visible about ten minutes, and disappeared as the shadow decreased.
He told her of a pestilence which had run through his city's streets, knocking at the doors of beggar and of prince till those who might took refuge in the hills, while others remained because of poverty or lack of fear, and died.
As the years of war went by, she changed not in the beauty of form and face, for her strange, unearthly charms remained with her, thus causing all to wonder at her immortality; yet with Ninus it was otherwise.
Sorrowing, she commanded Huzim to descend into the rift to learn if a spark of life remained within her dog; so the Indian went down.
The agony of this pleading aroused all that remained of strength in the young husband's frame.
He followed her into the house, without waiting for an invitation, and remained there for more than an hour, chatting familiarly with the girl, whose rude good-humor had particular charms for him.
After this, sheremained some minutes by the window, lost in thoughts that revealed themselves plainer than language as they passed over her mobile features.
All the next day he remainedat home, expecting some message from the baronet, but none came.
Richard remained behind, for the man met him with a broad grin, as if some good joke were on his mind.
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