Indeed, the habitable area of the Andean plateau was so limited and the aboriginal population so numerous, that there was no room for immigration without a war of extermination.
Alcantara checked them for a few moments with his single sword, but was soon forced back into the dining-room and fell pierced with many thrusts.
Pizarro threw off his gown and snatched up a sword, while the valiant Francisco Chaves stepped forward through the ante-room to dispute the passage at the staircase.
In his heart Almagro was dissatisfied with this award, and, even if he accepted the division, there was wide room for misunderstandings and disputes.
Shrewdly guessing that for gold the Spaniards would run any risk, the Inca negotiated for his ransom, saying: "I will fill thisroom with gold as high as I can reach if only you will liberate me.
Between the Cordillera and the sea there is room for untold millions of cacao and coffee trees.
The plateau of Ecuador does not, however, offer room for any considerable immigration, and its wheat, barley, and potatoes do not and will not much more than suffice for local consumption.
No room for Thee, O little Lord of all, In cottage or in hall; Yet o'er Thy stable angel voices sound Telling around To the wide world a Prince is born to them In Bethlehem.
It was then about nine o'clock in the evening; the air of the room felt damp and chill, and the light but faintly struggled against the mournful gloom of the dark book-lined walls and sombre tapestry.
The fire burned clear on the hearth, the curtains were drawn, the pleasant but simple drawing-room of the cottage smiled its welcome as Maltravers entered, and Alice sprang up to greet him!
He moved away from the window, where he had been sitting for some little time, and began to pace the room in long, even strides.
From a cupboard in a corner of the room he produced the articles in question, and placed them on the flat-topped desk before us.
I glanced around the study and was relieved to find that the room possessed only one door, that by which I had entered, whose key was still in the lock, but on the inside.
Mr. Cunningham involuntarily put out his hand for the bauble as the detective passed him, but Jones shook his head with a smile, as he returned to the front of the room and placed the objects on the table before the coroner.
Darwin ceased speaking and there was silence in the room for a moment, then unexpectedly he rose and turned to McKelvie.
As the detective darted within the cavernous depths, the lawyer turned toward the room once more with a remnant of his smile on his lips as he stroked his beard with a well-kept white hand.
He was a tall, broad-shouldered, dark, young man, with a pair of snapping black eyes that roamed restlessly about the room during his entire examination.
If you will kindly be seated I should like to explain, with your corroboration, just exactly what did take place in this room that night," answered McKelvie.
Tenderly I gathered her limp form in my arms and was on the point of bearing her from the room when suddenly without any warning the study was flooded with light and Philip Darwin's secretary was standing obsequiously before me.
I was in that room a long, long time before he came again.
No one was around and both drawing-room and study doors were closed.
It is the kind of pack I find represented in an old oil painting hanging on my dining-room wall, which was painted by some European artist back in the seventeenth century.
Long nails, if they are well manicured, will do for the drawing room and for the office, but in camp they have a habit of turning back (Fig.
Scarcely were the prisoners driven into their narrow cell where, even standing wedged closely together, there was barely room for them, than cries for water were raised.
Inquiring for Mrs. Marryat, he was shown into a room in which a lady, somewhat past middle age, and three younger ones were sitting.
No words can express the joy of the two lads, at receiving the intelligence, and they created so much noise, in the exuberance of their delight, that Mr. Johnson came in from the next room to see what was the matter.
In vain they protested that it was impossible the room could contain them, in vain implored the officer to allow some of them to be confined in an adjoining cell.
The house, of which the bedroom occupied by Charlie formed part, was elsewhere two stories higher; this room jutting out, alone, into the angle of the wall.
Ye would be safe then, except from anyone coming through the room where I sleeps.
He had, at last, found out from one of the soldiers that the white prisoners were confined on the other side of the prison; but until he saw Charlie's cap, he had been unable to discover the room in which they were confined.
The rest of the suite of rooms were in the house itself, but access could be obtained to this room through the window, which looked on to the terrace of the wall.
It was a room of fair size, in a tower on one of the angles of the walls.
There was more room now, for already half the inmates of the place had succumbed.
My lord's room is upstairs," Hossein said, and led the way to a comfortably furnished apartment.
The French defended themselves bravely, but they were outnumbered and were driven, fighting, from room to room, until the survivors laid down their arms.
We said our good-bys in an enormous room of the spaceport, with this year's 200 selectees there from all over Earth, each with the relatives and whoever else had permission to make the last visit.
I'll just go to my room and open the soundproofing.
As he left the room he flung the letter upon the table, and Mrs. Whately snatched it up eagerly.
He followed his son into the dining room and picked up the menu; but he did not know what to choose, and handed the card across to Roland.
He stood silent in the middle of the room while the Chief continued his letter, thinking the interview was at an end.
In her own drawing-room she would tolerate nothing independent of herself.
He walked quietly up to the house, went down to the matron’s room and consulted the study and dormitory lists.
And then at last, in that half hour when the room was slowly emptying, the door opened and he saw Beatrice, her slim figure silhouetted against the dull red wall paper of the hall.
She had never been in such a place before and her delight in the unfamiliar room and food was joy to Roland.
At the door he paused, walked back into the room and stood behind his wife.
And Roland felt even more aggrieved as they were leaving the room and the silly ass in the Harrow XI.
They were considering the advisability of having the dining room repapered and Mr. Whately was doubting whether such an expensive improvement would be possible for their restricted means.
Come along, Ralph,” said April, and made room for him in the window-seat.
After a short conference, they entered the hostel, and proceeded to a room in its rear.
Drawing it from beneath her vest, she proceeded to examine it, and to ascertain, from the evidence furnished by its exterior, what room it would afford her for any hope.
He was now in comparative darkness, but the objects of the room were still visible, and, when he turned round from the door, he glanced over them all separately, and then stepped lightly towards the bed.
So, she looked on as Dan fumbled for a moment among the papers in the letter-case, and then held out to her the note that the woman had written in his room at the hotel, the night before.
In the back room of Murphy's saloon, Jess remained impatiently in her seat at the table, with the empty brandy glass before her.
He sprang up, and darted into the back room of the saloon, where he called Jess's name, and beckoned.
The formalities of the occasion thus fully satisfied, the sheriff ordered the corpse removed to a back room in the hotel, where it was laid out on the table.
At his entrance, silence had fallen on the noisy room and the eyes of all were turned on him.
He went out of the room with a stealthy, slinking haste, as though he feared lest the self-restraint of his victor might fail.
The men in the room regarded the newcomer with frank stares of curiosity.
His answer was prompt: "You're pretty sure to find him in the back room over to Murphy's.
He got to his feet, with unaccustomed awkwardness, and went into the living-room with shambling steps wholly unlike his usual elastic tread.
He realized that in some mysterious fashion, altogether inexplicable to him, he had been overcome in the back room of Murphy's saloon.
As he looked, he saw that the other room was filled already with dense clouds of smoke.
The tiny room was like an oven, and to add to the discomfort of it and the deadly danger, the smoke thickened visibly, notwithstanding the current passing out through the door.
E was to dine there, and the refreshment room looked A 1--a reg'lar spread, I call it.
And all that long hot day on the other side of the arcaded square work went on also, so that the clang of metal on anvil or cook-room fire rose in antagonism on the dusty sunshine which slept between them.
He was not a Eurasian, that you could see by the line of white on his forehead above the tan, as he stood apologetically in the court room holding his helmet before him with both hands as if he meant to offer it up as a bribe.
So after my servant and I, wailing at our lack of wisdom, had carried the Prince down, face covered as one to whom worse sickness had come suddenly, I crept to the upper room again.
An' next morning 'arf the room complained of 'avin' a hunbaptised brute put to bed with 'em.
So I left Job in his box in the settin' room and cleared out.
In the lantern roomof the right-hand tower he spent the remainder of the night, occasionally wandering out on the gallery to note the weather.
One morning about a week later, Brown, his dish washing and sweeping done, was busy in the light-room at the top of the right hand tower, polishing the brass of the lantern.
Twas hotter'n a steamer's stoke-hole outside, but thatroom was forty below zero.
Hauled in bodily, as you might say, and shut up in a room to fight wasps!
So do I, though there's still roomfor improvement.
At last he walked to the closed door of his helper's room and rapped.
She indicated the door of a roomadjoining the living room of the little cottage.
The side door was unlocked, so I lugged that box into the settin' roomand left it there.
In the back room slept the pastor of the church, Father Omehr.
Shall every faithful shepherd be supplanted, to make room for the wolf of lay investiture, the instrument of a lustful tyrant, raised by simony, and upheld by royal favor?
There was a room in the Castle of Hers in which Herman spent the hours not required for the active duties of his ministry, and to this the two friends retired.
When Rodolph heard that he had been called to the throne he shut himself up in his room and sent for Father Omehr.
The room seemed to reel, and he leaned against the wall for support.
When the lay was over, the room resounded with loud praises, and the baron threw a chain of gold around the minstrel's neck.
As it was near midnight when they sat down, Father Omehr felt at liberty to leave the room without ceremony.
In a corner of the room a small statue of the Immaculate Mother of God stood upon a pedestal.
Her walks were confined to a large room adjoining her chamber, and thence along the corridor to the chapel.
This large room was hung with solemn tapestry, reaching from the ceiling to the floor.
They were conducted with much respect to a comfortable room in the castle, and the arrival announced to the Lord Sandrit de Stramen.
When Susan returned to the drawing room she saw no one there but Antonia, who, squatting on the floor, was absorbed heart and soul in copying her Chinese dragons.
Could anything be more perfectly lovely than a children's fancy ball in the old ball-room at the Towers?
Breakfast was hurried over, and Annie Forest and Nan rushed off to Nora's room to prepare her for the fact that she was soon expected to hold a levée, and that the subject under discussion was likely to be of a very rousing character.
But nurse tells me that you, Annie, spent some hours in her room to-day.
With my tendency to forty winks at odd moments, I think it is scarcely safe to have every room covered with oak parquetry and rugs that slip about.
Annie left the room a moment later, and Hester turned to Molly.
Annie's pretty room was just on the other side of the passage.
The two girls were standing in the room which Antonia was pleased to call her studio.
Before Antonia could utter a word of remonstrance, Jane had whipped her duster round the briars and had rushed out of the room with them.
Now, shall we come to the ball-room and see what is necessary to be done?
I'll run up to my room and fetch my hat and gloves, and bring yours down at the same time, Molly.
Annie was sitting in a corner of the roombusily engaged over Henry Kingsley's novel, "Geoffrey Hamlyn.
He was at Cambridge at the time, and one night in winter, on leaving the room of a college friend, carelessly picked up and took away with him a copy of the tragedy, the very name of which he had never heard before.
The maiden asks her buried lover: "Is there any room at your head, Sanders?
Chapel; the entrance to the same apartment from the north door of St. Alban's; and one side of the room from Archbishop Bourchier's tomb at Canterbury.
He was the life of a commonroom at Oxford, romped with the schoolboys when he visited Dr.
Joseph was a man of some elegance; he was fond of the company of young ladies, went into general society, and had a certain renown as a drawing-room wit and diner-out.
Once in the bounds of this sequestered room Perhaps some swain nocturnal courtship made: Perhaps some Sherlock mused amid the gloom, Since Love and Death forever seek the shade.
Aldrich had recently been appointed Dean of Christchurch, in the room of the Papist Massey, whom James had, in direct violation of the laws, placed at the head of that great college.
As to most of the provisions there was littleroom for dispute.
But it soon appeared that one exclusive system had been swept away only to make room for another.
While the hereditary right and the possession were conjoined, there was no room for doubt: but the hereditary right and the possession were now separated.
Some bore Smeaton to the room below, and others ran down for sea-water, which they dashed over their master unmercifully.
The great exertions made to carry up even a few bucketsfull of water soon exhausted their strength, and they were driven from room to room as the fire descended.
It had been washed out of the store-room entry by the water!
At this point they proceeded to fit in the entry and store-room doors; and here another vexatious check appeared imminent.
While Teddy tried to drag him down to the room below, he exclaimed that some of the melted lead had gone down his throat!
The second room was that which was used most by John Potter and his mate Isaac Dorkin: it was the kitchen, dining room, and parlour, all in one.
Teddy ran to the store-room for a leathern bucket, but before he could descend to the rock, fill it and re-ascend, the flames had got a firm hold of the cupola.
Philip was obliged to draw her away from the room by force, while others came to attend upon the dead.
They bore him to the house and laid him upon Alice's white bed in the pretty room just arranged for her comfort; it was the quietest, pleasantest place in the house, and she would have him there.
That afternoon Captain Wilde and his daughter sat in a little private sitting-room of the hotel, overlooking the street.
When Alice came out of her room dressed for the marriage ceremony she looked quaintly lovely.
To read to his young friend while she sewed; to watch her flitting about the room while he reclined upon a lounge; to talk with her; to study her changing countenance, grew every day more sweet to him.
Viands, worthy of the occasion, filled the store-room to overflowing.
Every five minutes she would leave her work to speak with the restless young creature, who, beautiful with hopes and fears, fluttered from room to room, trying to occupy herself so that her heart would not beat quite so unreasonably.
I have frequently taken off my hat before an image that I have seen in a room or in the streets.
They could not hear one another in the room where they met in conference.
The city was all in commotion with the amusements of the carnival; balls, masquerades, and noisy feasting engrossed the people of Jena; and when the two travellers arrived, they could find no room at any of the inns.
But there was no longer room for temporizing: it was necessary to act.
Kessler made no answer, but returned into the room and took his seat at the table, burning to repeat to his comrade what he had just heard.
Faith is the quartermaster who alone can find room for him, or, more truly, who makes us dwell in him.
The gallant conductor, with an air of mystery, leads the way to a storage room in the little box of a station, and there chops pieces from a clay-covered plank and presents us as souvenirs.
The floor upon which I entered from the street was paved with flat stones; a solid wooden staircase, dark with age, led to the guests' room in the second story.
The library was crimson, and the dining-room beyond two exquisite shades of brown and gold, a curtained doorway between.
Those who had gained admission were reluctant to depart to make room for the hundreds awaiting entrance outside.
The room in which Mr. Beecher lived is still about fifteen feet by ten, but it does not present the bare and forlorn appearance it did when he inhabited it.
The stories are low (seven to eight feet), but the windows are placed side by side, and each room is thoroughly lighted.
From garret to cellar, every corner was occupied; bread, wine, and steamy dishes passed in a steady whirl from kitchen and tap-room into all the roaring chambers.
As we went out, old Mr. Burton wished each good night; then some one showed me where my room was, and I found myself alone.
We have not left ourselves room for what we had intended to say about the notes, which form half of each of these three volumes.
Then Richard felt as if the room were revolving about him, and as if his throat were choked with imprecations,--as if his old erratic passion had again taken possession of him, like a mingled legion of devils and angels.
It would be like opening the windows upon a stuffy, overcrowded and unventilated room of disputing people.
In their experience it was usually a pitcher who was taken out to make room for a pinch hitter.
Reggie, as he caught a glimpse of his sister passing the door of the room in which they sat.
He's got the fixed idea that I've done him a wrong of some kind and his poor brain hasn't room for anything else.
No message of any kind came from yourroom to-night," he announced.
My friend who is sharing the room with me has just gone down to the lobby, and he's probably told the clerk to send it up.
The driver tooted his horn and Joe drew a little to one side to give the car plenty of room to pass.
The opportunity to make sure about that important matter came a few minutes later, when Mabel came into the roomlooking more lovely, Joe thought, than he had ever seen her before.
But later on two very sober and wrathful young men sat in their own room discussing the holdup.
I give just to come face to face with him and have him in a room alone with me for five minutes.
After the meal was finished, Joe and Jim were on their way to the room they shared together when they passed McRae and Robbie, who were sitting in the lobby enjoying their after-dinner cigars.
Did you get an order from me or from my room to send up any lemonade?
Joe showed him to his room, chatted with him a few minutes, and then returned to the living room where he found Mabel alone, as Clara and Jim had drifted into the dining room.
I am sorry to be here on an unpleasant business; but I have got to say as the squire wishes to see Master Walsham in the justiceroom at ten o'clock, on a charge of 'salt and battery.
Aggie is too fast, madam," the squire said, entering the room accompanied by the sergeant.
Not a word was spoken in the justice roomuntil the constable returned.
There was always a room ready for him there, in the house of a fisherman's widow, when he arrived on the Saturday, and he generally stopped till the Monday.
The largest room had a singular aspect of familiarity to our eyes; its walls being adorned with prints of American origin, among which were portraits of all the Presidents of the United States, previous to General Harrison.
We began to ascend, winding along the rocky path, one by one, there being no room to ride two abreast.
The grape-vines run along frame-work, raised four or five feet from the ground, so as to allow the cultivator room to weed the stalks beneath.
The master of an English merchant-vessel would hardly be considered a fit guest for either the cabin or ward-room of a British man-of-war.
