Bagdad, and lands further towards the rising of the sun, made me think of thee.
At this I scratched my head, but had still no notion of the truth: until at last I came to a rising ground, and it burst upon me all in a moment that I was cast upon a little barren isle, and cut off on every side by the salt seas.
Instead of the sun rising to dry me, it came on to rain, with a thick mist; so that my case was lamentable.
All the while Cluny entertained us with stories of Prince Charlie's stay in the Cage, giving us the very words of the speakers, and rising from his place to show us where they stood.
A projection of the cliff had been cunningly employed to be the fireplace; and the smoke rising against the face of the rock, and being not dissimilar in colour, readily escaped notice from below.
Altogether it was no such ill night to keep the seas in; and I had begun to wonder what it was that sat so heavily upon the captain, when the brig rising suddenly on the top of a high swell, he pointed and cried to us to look.
A shape of horror was risingout of the deep to engorge him.
Darkening the room as a matter of common-sense precaution, Lanyard, pistol in hand, stepped out into the alleyway in time to see the girl in the act of rising from her knees on the landing, near the spot where Thackeray had fallen.
Lanyard glanced across the table to see Cecelia Brooke rising in response to the invitation of dapper Mr. Revel.
The rising sun found him purposefully splashing on, weary but enheartened by the discovery that he had left behind the more thickly wooded section of the island.
Almost at the same instant, warned by a trail of sparks rising in a long arc from the German trenches, the soldiers imitated his action, and, as long as those triple stars shone in the murk, made themselves one with him and the heedless dead.
He knows me too well, knows that if ever I lay hands on him again--" His voice was rising to an hysterical pitch when the other checked him with a sibilant hiss.
Slavery prevented wages from rising by flooding the labor market, and the free artisan had to compete with a vast body of slaves.
Before her sat the shades of the heroes of old, each crowned with a shadowy crown and seated on a shadowy throne, rising up only that they might salute the ghost of some human potentate who came to join them from the upper world.
The poor contented themselves with a single mattress laid upon the floor, and since everyone slept in the clothes he had worn during the day, rising in the morning was not a difficult task.
He had given man all the elements of civilization; risingeach morning out of his palace under the waters of the deep, he taught them the arts and sciences, the industries and manners, of civilized life.
John prevailed on Edward Prescott, the master and part owner of the Seahorse, to release him from further service in order that he might remain in the Northern Neck of Virginia.
When butter was slow in coming, a heated horseshoe was thrown into the churn.
The Carter family attended this church, traveling by both land and water.
Meanwhile her children had married--Betty Washington Lewis was living in Fredericksburg, and George was established at Mount Vernon, which he had inherited after Lawrence's death.
He came as a captive of the Indian chief, Opechacanough.
Frances' teacher may have been her mother or an indentured servant.
Perhaps her six-year-old sister Anne rocked the cradle now and then as she played around the floor, and little John Mottrom may have peered into its shadows to look at her face.
Edmund then threw down his helmet, and taking the advantage of a rising ground, stood up bareheaded, and called upon his warriors to renew the combat; but many were already beyond hearing.
As the Danes had been the first to form into battle order, so did they commence the attack; and although they had the advantage of the rising ground, Alfred, nothing daunted, led his forces in close order up the ascent to meet them.
We find the Saxon organs described as rising high, some having gilded pipes, and many pairs of bellows; one especially is pointed out by the monk Wolfstan, as having stood in Winchester cathedral.
The Lieutenant looked out at the palms and the silent gloomy mountains and the empty coast-line, where the same wave was rising and falling with weary persistence.
Early in June the gorge became almost impassable by reason of the rising waters.
The canoe, which was quite an elaborate affair, built of wood, with a high projecting prow and stern, was presently brought alongside the wharf, the end of which was already submerged by the rising tide.
The next instant he caught a whiff of smoke and saw it risingin a dense cloud through the trees.
As for the river, that, too, had freed itself, and its muddy current was rising inch by inch.
It had become impossible to make satisfactory progress except by rising at two o'clock in the morning and starting as soon as there was light.
And now, having seen all her brood safely disposed, the brave mother-bird made use of her wings, rising in a graceful sweep and turning back up-stream to gather her scattered family.
The snowflakes were whirling and driving now before the rising gusts, and the air felt colder.
Perhaps she is hungry," said mamma, rising quickly.
One of the most hackneyed and yet one of the most effective illusions in the repertory of the conjurer, is that known as the Rising Cards.
The hollow rod, the escaping sand, and the descending weight have long since been discarded; but the illusion of the Rising Cards survives and is now performed in an unending variety of ways.
Now that the drama isrising again into rivalry with prose fiction, is not the playwright who allows his piece to be novelized a traitor to his cause?
He asserted that "in the Rising Action, the first stage was usually in the first act, the last sometimes in the third; of the Falling Action the beginning and the end were sometimes taken in the third and fifth acts.
Then Elsie stopped, checked the tears that were rising to her eyes, and looked at Dick, who was listening intently.
As a matter of fact the Corporal at that moment was just rising to his feet, and wondering whether he was on his head or his heels.
But the time we are wasting," protested Mr. Llewellyn John, rising and pacing up and down impatiently.
I know," said Dorothy, rising and drawing herself up with dignity.
John Dene, rising and indicating that the girl should occupy his chair.
And it will be obvious that when the rising of the sea has gone so far as completely to cover the highest points of the island, the reef will have passed into the condition of an atoll.
And, at the same time, it would gradually increase in breadth; as the rising sea, covering more of the land, would occupy a wider space between the edge of the reef and what remained of the land.
Thus the rising sea would eventually convert a large island with a fringing reef into a small island surrounded by an encircling reef.
The raft itself, rising and falling on the surge, became very small, and to the girls' anxious eyes it seemed nearer to that distant island than to this one on which they were marooned.
Allow me," Neale said, rising and bowing very low to Agnes.
Out of this, rising slowly and ghostily, was a glistening gray body like a drowned giant that might have suddenly come up to breathe.
The tide was rising and that served to lift the log and make it rather unsafe for Tess and Dot to pass over; and when the little girls had done so, splash!
The fog isrising slowly and the dawn will soon appear.
They had gone little more than a furlong when they came to the outstanding thickets of a wood, the trees rising black and strange against the heaviness of the sky.
And so their nags went homeward side by side, so close that the man’s arm was over the girl’s shoulders, and her breathing rising up to him in the keen, clear air like a little cloud of incense.
The risingmoon was beginning to throw gleams down into the valley, but the western quarter of the tower was as dark as a well.
There was a stretch of landscape in one corner of the picture, the one sunlit space upon the canvas, a scene of meadows and of woodlands, with a mansion of red brick rising from the narrow waters of a moat.
John Gore, jogging along at a good pace, with the fields and woods all silver under the rising sun, looked back at the hours of yesterday with more thoroughness than the majority of lovers.
The dog set up a savage barking, and in the moonlight they saw a man ride into the court of Thorn, steam rising from his horse like smoke, so that the beast looked huge and spectral.
You are a heaven-born gift on a night like this," said I, rising up and walking to its side.
Again, let the required nature be the latter of the two motions we have supposed; namely, that of a rising and subsiding motion, if it should happen that upon diligent examination the progressive motion be rejected.
In many cases the result of a number of particular facts, or the collective instances rising out of them, can only be discovered by geometry, which so far becomes necessary to complete the work of induction.
Yet if one consider the subject attentively, this does not prove the necessity of a rising motion, nor refute the notion of a progressive motion.
The rays of therising sun, reflected from such a splendid garb, gave him a majestic and awful appearance.
All these may be accounted for by a momentary insanity; for the characteristic symptom of human madness is the rising up in the mind of images not distinguishable by the patient from impressions upon the senses.
The moon was just rising through a bank of threatening clouds which had gathered since the sunset.
Yes; he hath twelve hundred regulars, and everywhere in tide-water Virginia the militia are rising to join him.
As Anthony was lounging over the quarter of Peter Stuyvesant's galley one summer morning this nose caught a ray from the sun and reflected it hissing into the water, where it killed a sturgeon that was rising beside the vessel.
Sunlight and leaf shadow were dappled over the earth when he awoke, and rising stiffly from his bed, with compunctions in his bones, he reached for his gun.
With every daybreak the rising sun had to wade through a crimson stream, luminous and sinister, like the spilt blood of celestial bodies murdered during the night.
The scuppers of the brig gurgled softly all together when the water rising against her sides subsided sleepily with a low wash, as if playing about an immovable rock.
For it was unusually hot, the sun rising in a cloudless sky, blazing down all day steadily, and setting without even a ray being intercepted by a cloud.
It stood high up on a knoll, with rising park-like fields behind, and at some considerable distance the blue slate roofs of the farm-steading peeping up through the greenery of the trees.
What is that down yonderrising white over the trees?
There it lay, miles upon miles of houses, towers, and steeples, spread out along the coast, and rising inland.
Recovery was strong based on rising demand for Singapore's products in OECD countries and improved competitiveness of domestic manufactures.
Growth in national output, however, appears to be recovering, rising from 1.
In recent years, the droughts, the conflict with Senegal, rising energy costs, and economic mismanagement have resulted in a substantial buildup of foreign debt.
The economy showed signs of recovery in 1990, however, helped along by rising oil prices.
In 1990, despite risingoil prices and a sharp drop in inflation, performance remained slack with continuing underutilization of industrial capacity and a second year of relatively weak agricultural performance.
The economy suffers from high unemployment, rising inflation, large trade deficits, and a growing dependency on foreign assistance.
Rising abruptly from the shores of this harbour, the island becomes a hill, whose eastern side is a precipice dipping into the German Ocean.
I gave him the chance of rising in his odious profession by sending him to Paris, and what has been his conduct in return for my kindness?
