On the night of August 8, while the British troops in the Suvla area were struggling to wrest the hills from the Turks, the Turks round Lone Pine were vainly endeavouring to recapture this stronghold from the Australians.
I counted forty-one shells one day, which burst all round one of our airmen on reconnaissance.
Kosciusko is all the year round covered with a soft white mantle.
He went round the Anzac defences with General Birdwood, saw everything and then started in to weigh the pros and cons of a knotty problem.
Some of the officers wentround to see for themselves.
There were military sports by day, and there was a torchlight procession round the arena and through the streets of Cairo by night.
The enemy's guns would boom out all the time, and shrapnel shells would burst all round the 'plane without ever seeming to hit it.
It has King George in one corner, Kitchener in another, French in another, Jellicoe in another, and generals and admirals and dukes and earls all round it.
Then while the officer and three men engaged in a bombing exchange with Abdul, Albert Jacka jumped from the front trench into the communication trench behind, ran round and took the Turks in the rear.
Now and then there was a round of shrapnel sent by Beachy Bill on to the southern depot at Brighton Beach.
The rest of the dancers were just the frame round her picture.
At one time we counted eight shell-bursts roundabout the aeroplane.
Thou Scythian-like dost roundthy lands above The sun's gilt tent for ever move, And still as thou in pomp dost go, The shining pageants of the world attend thy show.
A man who overreaches his neighbor, but who does it so cleverly that the law cannot take hold of him, wins an envied reputation as a "smart man," and stories of this species of smartness are told admiringly round every stove.
I hurried after the latter, and twice he stopped till I was close to him, then turned round and cantered away.
The scarf round his waist must have had something to do with it.
From it come all storms of snow and wind, and the forked lightnings play round its head like a glory.
This introduced us by an abrupt turn round the south-west angle of the Peak to a narrow shelf of considerable length, rugged, uneven, and so overhung by the cliff in some places that it is necessary to crouch to pass at all.
But truly, seated in that deep hollow in the cold and darkness, it is in a terrible situation, with the alpine heights towering round it.
He described himself as riding through camps in his scout's dress with a red scarf round his waist, and sixteen golden curls, eighteen inches long, hanging over his shoulders.
Take it to Bauer's just roundthe corner; they'll clean it," she added.
Beneath the white cap of the Candy Man shone the round Irish countenance of Tim Malone.
My mite was taken up in a hat, which, passed round among the audience, is a common means of collecting the spectators' expressions of appreciation.
Society was very charming in Columbus then, with a pretty constant round of dances and suppers, and an easy cordiality, which I dare say young people still find in it everywhere.
I did not envy him his feelings as the parts of his long-dead past rose round him in formless resurrection.
I am not sure that the Americans have not brought the short story nearer perfection in the all-round sense that almost any other people, and for reasons very simple and near at hand.
Take this party round to the gate," the officer said, and he promised us that he would see us there, and hoped we would not mind a rough walk.
Here and there a gentleman was teaching a lady to swim, with his arms round her; here and there a wild nereid was splashing another; a young Jew pursued a flight of naiads with a section of dead eel in his hand.
As soon as she had passed into the concert-room, we who had waited to see her go in ran round to another door and joined the two or three thousand people who were standing to receive the Queens.
Luckily the woman slighted on her feet, and stood looking round in a daze.
It scrambles up and down the little steeps like a cat, and whisks round a sharp and sudden curve with a feline screech, broadening into a loud caterwaul as it darts over the estuaries on its trestles.
As Barnum used to say to me When oft we strolled together, "The people seem to like to be Led round upon a tether.
The only thing that made this land As great as we have found it, Was justice to whatever band Saw fit to cluster round it.
Colder weather had come, and they had gathered round the bit of fire in their close room: fire it could scarcely be called, for it was only a few decaying embers.
Was he a man, that he should bring 'em to this state of starvation, and then turn round upon 'em with threats?
He was a pretty boy; fair and delicate, with light curls falling round his face.
Why, it was Mr. Henry Hunter sent him round here; and he has got a post in their house.
The message is this,' said Mrs. Thornimett, lowering her voice to a confidential tone, as she glanced round to see that the door was shut.
I step round now and then, because I see that it is a satisfaction to her, and to those about her; not for any use I can be.
Mrs. Quale brought me round a pot of black currant jelly,' she explained to Mary, 'and I poured boiling water on it to make drink.
Buzzing round the entrance door and thrusting in their heads at a square hole, which might originally have been intended for a window were a dozen or two of the gentler sex.
I don't know as I should have been backward in asking you to come round and take a look at her; but a man don't like to ask favours when he has got no money in his pocket; it makes him feel little, and look little.
The general morals of the women he considered infinitely superior to those of the men; and in the midst of the horrid example and temptation, and one may add, provocation, round them, their habits were generally sober.
The hunting-grounds of the Chippewas are in the immediate neighbourhood, and extend all round Lake Superior.
We were soon made welcome, and I had leisure to look round me in admiration of the comfort displayed in the arrangement of the interior.
The blacks, still unarmed, assembled round the jail, and waited till their comrade, or their brother as they called him, was brought out and placed handcuffed in a cart.
And again silence ensued; round about the golden spots quivered continually; the locusts hissed still more loudly, and from the crannies of the cliff little lizards crept out onto stones, and sought sunny places.
And Caius would have hurled himself at every spectre which Persephone might send from the nether world, but in vain did he strain his eyes into spaceround about.
Between them the deep blue of the sky was still visible, but it was easy to foresee that they would soon pack together and conceal the whole round of the sky.
They had become dirty, idle, and lazy, just like the Indians we sometimes see going round begging food.
Strange to tell, the servant of the Lord was not hit once, although rocks and arrows flew round him in great numbers.
Their eyes are too feeble to see such sights unaided; so they look through a telescope toward the full round moon, and then they can see the birds that pass between them and the light.
When the bird-mob got too near him, he looked at them with his big round eyes, and said, "Oh!
But for all that they were wise thoughts--wise as the look of his big round eyes; and many things he knew which are unguessed secrets to dozy day-folk.
Near at hand stood a noble oak, with a big dead branch at the top that was famous the country round as a look-out post for hawks and crows; and maybe an eagle now and then had used it, in years gone by.
It is of doubtful origin, though supposed, from the form, to symbolise the spindle with yarn wound round it; of good authority, and not of very modern date.
But with the Pythagoreans the earth revolves round the central fire.
The planets include the sun and the moon, which, revolve round the earth in a direction opposite to that of the stars.
The sun, he thought, does not revolve round the earth.
It was chiefly the young men of Athens who gathered round Socrates, who was for them a centre of intellectual activity and a fountain of inspiration.
Hate, however, exists all round the outside of the sphere.
Hence all kinds of legends quickly grew up and wove themselves round his life and death.
Here he gradually collected roundhim a circle of pupils and disciples.
He becomes self-centred, and makes the universe revolve round him.
The sun, like the earth, revolves round the central fire.
Round the central fire, sometimes mystically called "the Hearth of the Universe," revolve ten bodies.
Up to this time it had been believed that the earth is the centre of the universe, and that everything revolves round it.
If, now, we look round the world and ask; in what countries and what ages the kind of thought we have described has attained a high degree of development, we shall find such a development only in ancient Greece and in modern Europe.
The soul is also composed of smooth round atoms, and is an exceptionally pure and refined fire.
After a little while I found that the Romany element was spread strangely and mysteriously round about among the rural population in many ways.
Very often the summits of the hills were crowned withround towers.
But that I was absolutely for a time alone amid all men round me in this intense hope and confidence, may be read as clearly as can be in what I and others published in those days, for all of this was recorded in type.
The newsboys who clustered round the outer door were divided in opinion as to me.
Wlislocki, but next after these great masters, and as an all-round gypsy rye in many lands, I believe that I am not far behind any aficionado who has as yet manifested himself.
Novosty's firstround caught the lead Mino-gumi kobun squarely between the eyes.
I insisted on the enlarged thirty-two-round version instead of the usual twenty-five.
After a round of farewells from the staff, they staggered out into the brisk evening air.
All Soviet pilots carry an automatic and two seven-round clips for protection in case they have to ditch in the wilderness somewhere.
A small, round shoji window in the tokonoma shed a mysterious glow on its hanging scroll, the painting an ink sketch of a Zen monk fording a shallow stream.
The island is said to have a major military airfield at Dolinsk and a naval base at Korsakov facing La Perouse Strait, the only year-round passage between Soviet warm-water ports in Asia and the North Pacific.
The round glanced off the stone archway and ricocheted down the hallway.
They were too busy complaining about the traffic, the smog, the latest roundof inflation.
Ivanhoe and the Knights of the Round Table to the contrary, there is no chivalry so exalted as that of a woman who loves, no courage higher, no endurance greater.
And ever and anon she was startled out of chimerical dreams by the clamour of bells-the trolley cars on their ceaseless round passing below.
This promised, the prisoner was led round into the back court of the building, a cellar door was opened, he was motioned down the stair, and bolts grated and chains clanged behind his descending person.
Often there was free water at the end, and we could steer round the leafy promontory and hear the water sucking and bubbling among the twigs.
It was not choice, so much as an external fate, that kept Fergusson in this round of sordid pleasures.
I was already backed by a deputation of my friends; but as if this were not enough, all the buyers and sellers came round and helped me in the bargain; and the ass and I and Father Adam were the centre of a hubbub for near half an hour.
I do not believe I have a sound view of that kitchen; I saw it through a sort of glory: but it seemed to me crowded with the snowy caps of cookmen, who all turned roundfrom their saucepans and looked at us with surprise.
But the instinct of an ass is what might be expected from the name; in half a minute she was clambering round and round among some boulders, as lost a donkey as you would wish to see.
And indeed, for a man who has been much tumbled round Orcadian skerries, what scene could be more agreeable to witness?
The young ladies, the graces of Origny, were not present at our start, but when we got round to the second bridge, behold, it was black with sightseers!
The tendency of lost travellers to go round in a circle was developed in her to the degree of passion, and it took all the steering I had in me to keep even a decently straight course through a single field.
All of a sudden we came round a corner, and there, in a little green round the church, was a bevy of girls in Parisian costumes playing croquet.
A bouquet of old trees stands round a white farmhouse; and from a neighbouring dell, you can see smoke rising and leaves ruffling in the breeze.
From that period he continued to ennoble his manner, rendering the contours more round and ample, the foreshortenings more new, the expression of the countenance more warm and lively, as well as the motions of his figures.
In the village burying-ground of Round Rock, Texas, is a simple headstone devoid of any lettering save the name "Sam Bass.
The bottle passed freely round the circle, and with toast and taunt and jeer the counting of the money was progressing.
Their gay round of pleasure had no check until the last day of the races.
Mr. Seigerman, it would surprise you did I give you the figures in round numbers of the cattle that my company have lost by these brand-burning rascals who infest this section.
Our herd had been overlooked during the scrimmage, and had scattered so that I had to send one man and the horse wrangler to round them in.
We felt easy, for we were well mounted, and if it came to a pinch, we would burn powder with them, one round at least.
Miller turned the horse halfway round as though he was going to lead him under the tree, gave him a slap in the flank with his hand, and the sooner, throwing the rowels of his spurs into the horse, shot out from us like a startled deer.
The trio now arose, and with a round of oaths that would have made the captain of a pirate ship green with envy swore Seigerman had taken a step he would never regret.
Sunny Boy turned and saw a white-bearded, blue-capped man in a small round pilot house above the deck.
Go 'round there," directed the elevator boy when he ventured to ask him.
As the colored boy dodged round a truck in the street the hat fell off.
The round walls of the fort were set with what looked like glass plates, behind which great lazy fish were idly swimming.
There they lay stranded, with scarcely nine inches of water round them.
From morning till night he was to be seen going round and round the fortifications, showing were points might be strengthened with advantage, and to encourage the labourers, often himself taking a spade or pick in hand.
Bereaved as he is of his brothers, it is the duty of every true-hearted man to rally round him.
I will, on my way, send round to summon them, as we must lose no time in preparing to defend our city.
Curiosity had, however, prompted him one bright morning to take a walk round the ramparts, and he arrived at a spot where a new battery was being thrown up.
Already roundshot and bullets came flying across the water, and a stray one might chance to hit the boat.
Just as he had announced that they were close upon it they saw a body of horse who had evidently galloped round to take possession of the post.
When asleep, the Toucan takes great care of its bill, covering it nicely with the back plumage, so that the whole bird looks like a great round ball of feathers.
Some of these mounds are enormously large, one of them being found to measure fifteen feet in height and sixty feet round the bottom.
She burst into tears and clasped her arms tightly round his neck; they lay thus cheek against cheek.
She stood still, just as though someone had taken her round the waist and stopped her.
Neither could the boy's father believe his, for the round head in the gray woollen cap stretched farther and farther forward over the horse's neck, till he had to lean with both hands on the pommel of the saddle.
From there Kallem went round by Soeren Pedersen's, who told Kallem that the former porter at the hospital had been at Larssen's to try and convert him; he would not like him to go straight to hell.
The patient he had been talking to crept on before them; he was pale and had a thick woollen scarf round his neck, even on that warm day; he kept at a distance and did not bow.
The self-sufficient cunning in Soeren Pedersen's round shining face disappeared by all sorts of back ways, his face was a blank whose doors and windows all were open.
Aune slouched round to tell her that he had been "to the station with her luggage.
He turned round and went toward the hospital with the same decision.
Two newly awakened butterflies circling round each other above and below his window, had not the smallest idea of all the difficulties that can ensue when one has a fortune and not the disposal of it.
And it seemed to him, that all stood staring at these two, who swung round now to the right, then to the left, then twirled round on the same spot, then dashing right round the room.
He walked right round the study on his hands," the minister assured her.
Then she dared not go for her morning round in the garden; he might come driving past.
The gentlemen fought for the chance of merely whirling her once roundin a cotillon tour.
She made up her mind to shirk, so she quickly appeared at his side in a very pretty dressing-gown, which she had thrown round her.
Blest if she didn't throw her arms round his neck and kiss him--just because he had last seen you!
But Captain Billings, who was beside me, lifting up my head tenderly with his arm placed round me, shook his head sadly.
Cast-off those lee braces here; haul round to windward sharp, and square the yards!
