There was a good two-mile level before the rise of the next range.
And, speaking in the capacity of a plain, blunt man, I rise to reply--Nothing doing.
I think I ought to rise to great heights in that branch of industry.
He had not risen on Jimmy's entrance, and he did not rise now.
The uplands rise from the small bottoms in easy flowing slopes, green in fresh growth.
The salmon when on the run never rise to the fly or takes any food.
The mass of steam enveloping the jet is so great that the water column is entirely hidden, and has given rise to exaggeration on the part of those who have seen it at its best.
The history of an ordinary day was this: Miss Burney had to rise and dress herself early, that she might be ready to answer the royal bell, which rang at half after seven.
Only the negro slaves stayed with us, and these were encouraged by our enemies to rise and slay us; but God in His mercy willed otherwise.
Thou shalt prepare weapons of war, and in every way incite their negroes to rise at night and slay them.
Yet every morning of that busy week he was ready, with his prayer-book under his arm, when the church bell called its members to sun-rise service.
Low, green islands rise magically upon the forward view of the voyager, then vanish in the receding distance, like fairy worlds withdrawn.
The wavering blue nebulæ of intoxicating clouds rise and float, and fashion their fragrant columns into grander castles of smoke.
In all our annals only this one officer's record is polluted, God forbid the rise of a second traitor.
I commanded thee, 'Rise up, contend with him in battle, begin to possess his land!
Just as Reuben interceded to save his brother Joseph's life so did Simeon rise up for his sister Dinah when he took vengeance upon the inhabitants of Shechem for the wrong they had done her.
He then bade Joshua, who had been sitting on the floor like all the rest, rise and set himself upon a bench beside him.
The sin of the Sabbath-breaker was the occasion that gave rise to God's commandment of Zizit to Israel.
He would expect his mistress should rise again to reproach his inconstancy if he made court to anything but her memory.
I rise in the morning reasonably early, and before I am ready I go round the house till I am weary of that, and then into the garden till it grows too hot for me.
But now I will rise and despatch some visits that I owe, that to-morrow may be entirely yours.
And such a wife may be said to do as a kinswoman of ours that had a husband who was not always himself; and when he was otherwise, his humour was to rise in the night, and with two bedstaves labour on the table an hour together.
I'll make your stomach come down; rise quickly, you had better, and come hither that I may give you a lesson this morning before I go.
I am sorry my new carrier makes you rise so early, 'tis not good for your cold; how might we do that you might lie a-bed and yet I have your letter?
Nor did she disappoint her teachers, but threw herself into her lessons with an energy and interest which made it certain that she would rise to eminence among competitors for the prizes of learning proposed to her own sex.
Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident.
Huge factories and foundries rise from the banks of the stream; the ford is spanned by a substantial bridge; the corn-mill has disappeared, and so have the rheumatic-looking old mossy cottages.
Hythe struck out to the spot where the bubbles indicated the captain's position, for, winded by the shock, the unfortunate man was sinking never to rise again.
After the storm the tide fell short of its customary height, for the gale occurring at the time of spring tides, there had been an abnormal rise on the bar.
Relieved of this mass of iron the "Aphrodite" lurched in an effort to rise to the surface.
He, too, realized that should the submarine rise to the surface it would merely be giving her antagonist a unique opportunity of holing another of the sections that as yet remained intact.
Oh, no; werise vertically to the surface," replied Captain Restronguet.
When next an opportunity serves I will show you the engine-room, but we are about to rise now.
To see a vessel that they confidently believed to have sunk suddenly rise from the deep was to them incomprehensible.
Have you noticed the sudden rise of temperature, Mr. Hythe?
The submarine would then rise to enable the scoundrel Karl von Harburg to witness the sinking of his latest victim.
It was not until the third day that the gale moderated sufficiently for the "Aphrodite" to rise to the surface.
The latter, thinking she had fallen in with a large tramp, would doubtless either fire a torpedo at her to wantonly send her to the bottom, or else rise to the surface and demand her to surrender.
If you rise from your couch early enough in the morning, you will see many Indian men and women coming in to market from the country, all bending under the weight of provisions, pottery, or some other home product.
There are seventeen or eighteen mountains in the republic which rise more than ten thousand feet above the level of the sea, four of which are over fifteen thousand feet in height, Popocatepetl being the loftiest of them all.
These greet the eye far, far down the dizzy depths, two thousand feet, on our right, while on the left the mountainsrise abruptly hundreds of feet towards the sky.
The soft glow of the candles fell upon her shining hair, and upon cheek and brow; and I could see her bosomrise and fall with the quick-coming breath, and the pulse throbbing in her fair white neck.
But touching this, 'tis only on the mimic stage of the romances that the players rise to the plane of superhuman sagacity and angel-wit, never faltering in their lines nor betraying by slip or tongue-trip their kinship with common humankind.
But certainly it is not so ill for a valiant man to rise to a degree of rashness as it is to fall short, and border upon cowardice.
Let me go, that I may seek my old course of life, andrise again from that death which buries me here alive.
For as it is easier for a prodigal to become liberal than a miser, so it is easier for the hardy and rash person to be reduced to true bravery, than the coward ever to rise to that virtue.
Here my exploits suffered a total eclipse; and in short, here fell my happiness, never to rise again.
This volume contains a complete account of this eventful period, commencing with the first rise of the revolutionary movement, and including the whole career of Napoleon down to the battle of Waterloo; with Engravings and Plans.
The gorgeous rhetorician of the church was not likely to rise philosophically into the larger air of universal history, properly so called.
It is because the writer had to do with public business; it is because he could be magistrate, priest, soldier; and because if he could not rise to the highest functions of the state, he had at least to make himself worthy of them.
It is not in human power to choose the kind of men who rise from time to time to the supreme control of momentous changes.
This failure to rise to the highest ideas involved in the great debate explains, along with much besides, two striking facts connected with it.
The leaves are often arranged at the tips of the branches in star-shaped clusters, giving rise to the specific name stellata.
The superior size of the fruit and the smallness of the kernel probably give rise to the common name, "mockernut.
In spring the bark of the small branches is easily separable, giving rise to the name "whistle wood.
The fragilis and alba group of genus Salix gives rise to puzzling questions of determination and nomenclature.
Modifications of these elements give rise to various well-marked forms which have received popular names.
Spherical surfaces in combination with each other or with plane surfaces give rise to six different forms of lenses, sections of which are given in Fig.
There may be men who take every moral height at a dash; but to the most of us there must come moments when our wills can but just rise and walk in their sleep.
He felt a longing to rise up and run forward in this flood of beams.
The moon will rise about three o'clock," thought he.
Why did we not rise yesterday, when the public heart was stirred?
Aurora and Clotilde heard the strife begin, increase, subside, rise again and decrease.
As to William Lake, coming up to London full of hope with his rise in life, he soon found realization not answer to expectation.
I saw him rise from his chair; I saw the astounded look of old Deborah Preen when she came in with his supper ale in a jug.
He had been distracted with face-ache all night, he said, which caused him to rise late.
A man treads another down that he may rise himself: and there he stands high and flourishing.
He used to come to church late on the Sabbath morning; and he never remained till the service was over, but would rise and stride out in his spurs in the noisiest way and at the most unseemly times.
And, if you do that, hell will have none of you; all hell will cast you out, and all heaven will rise up and carry you in.
Never be content, that is, till you can rise up above manses and pulpits and books and sermons, and even above your own salvation, to see the pure and infinite loveliness of Christ Himself.
And I saw the monster writhing coils of a great serpent rise dripping from the water and enfold the broken stump of a tree.
For I was one with them, even these little living things of the endless wilderness, encompassed by so many dangers, at the mercy of the great forces of Nature that might at any moment rise against us and stamp out our little lives.
A dreadful misgiving came over the mind of the youth, and he felt his very hair rise thrillingly, as he for a moment admitted the horrible possibility, that the shock produced by his recent accident had affected his brother's intellect.
Accustomed to rise with the dawn, the Aide-de-camp was not long after its appearance in shaking off the slumber in which he had so profoundly indulged.
I knew that, on my return, I should be enabled to explain everything, but yet felt nettled that even my short absence should, as I knew it must, give rise to any strictures on my conduct.
He reasoned, however, that their rise would be quicker were they to start in the offices of the company.
Steve muttered, beginning to rise a little higher in the water as he took wide strokes, driving himself along at as great a speed as was possible.
Yet there was something bitter in the smile too, from remembrance of the events which had first given riseto his enmity towards the pope.
At the same time, all around, rise up a giant family of mountain peaks, which, each standing out abrupt and single in the sunny air, seem frowning on the traveller that invades their solitude.
When the sun was low in the sky the girls prepared to return home, but Takane could not rise from the ground, nor could her companions lift her.
