He had no heart for his accustomed tidy potterings, but lingered aimlessly, fingering the gold watch-chain strained across the convex surface of his waistcoat, sand looking pitifully enough between the lace curtains out on to the Green.
Serena opened and closed the dining- room door, flapping wildly in the sunshine till the sand and seed husks on the floor of its cage arose and whirled upwards in a crazy little cloud.
The child on the sea-shore flings the sand about with reckless hands, gathers shells and leaves them behind, or throws pebbles into the water, caring nothing what becomes of them.
Wave follows wave, and the grains of sand are hurried onward.
What are they more than the drops that make up the ocean, or the grains of sand that form its boundary wall?
There was a hollow place of the sand in that part, and, as it were, a glade among the cocoa palms in which the direct noonday sun blazed intolerably.
Underfoot, the sand was fairly solid and quite level, and Herrick's steps fell there noiseless as in new-fallen snow.
It's all sand and coral and palm trees; but there's a kind of a quaintness in the place.
A spur of coral sand stood forth on the one hand; on the other a high and thick tuft of trees cut off the view; between was the mouth of the huge laver.
Attwater and his servants had disappeared; and only the lamps shone on the deserted table and the bright sand about the house, and threw into the night in all directions the strong and tall shadows of the palms.
A shifting sand bar lies at the mouth of the river, but the building of training walls and dredging have increased the minimum depth of water to 22 ft.
One shark, Squatina, has sand instead of otoconia (C.
Numerous fissures opened in the ground, and many of these discharged water, mixed sometimes with sand and silt, which was thrown up in jets rising in some cases to a height of 20 ft.
In the lower forms the ductus endolymphaticus retains its communication with the exterior on the dorsum of the head, and in some Elasmobranchs the opening is wide enough to allow the passage of particles of sand into the saccule.
The most fertile soil is found in the valleys of the Pregel and the Memel, but the southern slopes of the Baltic plateau and the district to the north of the Memel consist in great part of sterile moor, sand and bog.
From the quantity of sandand mud always found in the alimentary canal of these animals, it is supposed that these ingredients must be necessary to the proper digestion of their insect food.
On the shore were two log-houses inhabited by woodmen, one of whom drew a pail of water for the refreshment of some of the passengers, from a well dug in the sand by his door.
The day was extremely hot, and at sunset we took a little drive along the belt of firm sand which forms the border of the lake.
Whenever there is any mixture ofsand with the shells, rock is not formed.
But the only steamer in the river St. Mary, above the falls, which is a sort of arm or harbor of Lake Superior, was the Julia Palmer, and she was lying aground in the pebbles and sand of the shore.
The current is rapid, and the pellucid waters glide over a bottom of sand and pebbles.
The minute a vessel strikes under these conditions she will swing broadside-to, and drive up higher, at the same time the tide will pile the sand or silt round her.
If you can hold her stern to the tide, the current will cut the sand away, and the swell will help you to pull her off.
The funny thing was the towers looked a little--but not much--like minarets and the sand dunes were colored a beautiful pink.
They were at the top of a sand dune and in the distance you could see the towers of a city.
From Marsport you can see low-slung mountains in the distance, dunes of soft, red sand stretching out to them.
Why, from Mars City you can see low-slung mountains in the distance and dunes of soft, red sand stretching out to them.
The decks were sanded so that the dust would mingle with the sand and not grime the woodwork.
Far away over the heath, where the sand gleamed yellow in the distance, six dark, rather broad patches showed up against the light ground, each surrounded by smaller objects.
Over there it was as if heavy raindrops were falling on a dusty road; everywhere little columns of sand were spurting up into the air.
The dense forest on either hand was wrapped in stillness; no sound penetrated between the slender stems of the trees; the horse's tread in the soft sand made only a slight swishing noise.
Later it came about that they were standing next each other shovelling the loose sandinto their barrows.
A hundred thou-sand for a farthing," broke out the new arrival, with somewhat unaccountable fierceness.
Two men, who could with a clear conscience acquit themselves of any guilty intention, were here herding with common criminals and cartingsand like them.
There was a peculiar inflection about that last sentence, a world of meaning that was lost on me until I saw Mac go to the brush a few yards distant, return with an armful of dry willows and place them on the sand close by Hicks.
If we had a couple of little sacks we could get around that problem, easy enough--this black sand along the river would pass for gold-dust in weight.
MacRae stood staring for a second or two, then turned and scattered the fire broadcast on the sand with a movement of his foot.
Patiently awaiting the pleasure of his master, as a good cavalry horse should, was the bay gelding Hicks had ridden; and Hicks himself sprawled in the sand at the end of the bridle-reins.
Jill was soon through, and lay on the sand enjoying the antics of the bathers till she was so faint with laughter she was glad to hear the dinner-horn and do the honors of the Willows to Molly, whose room was next hers.
A boy said, when they wanted to die they comed on the sand and did it, and we saw this one go dead just now.
Jill had her quiet dip and good rubbing each fine day, and then lay upon the warm sand watching the pranks of the others, and longing to run and dive and shout and tumble with the rest.
And Joseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for it was without number.
And thou saidst, 'I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.
But I counsel that all Israel be gathered together unto thee, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, as the sand that is by the sea for multitude; and that thou go to battle in thine own person.
Brick was made from the black Nile mud mixed with sand and with chopped straw.
And the Midianites lay along in the valley like locusts for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand which is upon the sea shore for multitude.
Anything would be better than this barren waste of sand and flies and dead men.
The two bodies lay upon the sand as we stepped down.
If this silver sand was only in England a man could make his fortune," said Hawk.
I have slept in the sand by the blue Mediterranean Sea, with the crickets and grasshoppers "zipping" and "zinging" all night long.
I drew a small plan, showing how the water was pumped from the tanks afloat to the standing tank ashore, and suggested the probable cause of the sand and dirt of which the C.
DUG-OUT YARNS Oft in the stilly night, By yellow candle-light, With finger in the sand We mapped and planned.
The smell of human blood soaking its way into the sand from those two "stiffies" on the beach.
He swept the decks and floor of his cabin, and scooped the sand up with an ash shovel to throw overboard.
As he rode the waves and danced before the wind the clouds of sand were flung swiftly down upon the water, where the surface was covered with a film and a sheet of dust.
When he went out to look around, he found that the air was full of a cloud that filled his eyes with dust, and that a little drift of sand had already formed on the deck of his boat, gritting under his feet.
When he walked toward the bow of the boat, where the slope of the yellow sand led up to the woods of Flower Island, one of them casually left his seat and followed.
They kept close up to the north side of the bar because down the wind the sand was lifting and rolling up in yellow clouds.
The sand clouds carried by the north wind must ever remain an epoch in his experience.
He shut the door to keep the sand out, but it spurted through the cracks.
Then they looked around at the night; stars overhead, the strange haze from the countless grains of sand which wavered over the bar, and the river in the dark, running by.
Sheldrake, dancing on sand to make sea-worms come out.
The Pleistocene gravel and sand containing marine shells on Moel-Tryfan, about five miles south-east of Caernarvon, have been the subject of considerable controversy.
Fifty years ago I knew Shropshire well, and cannot remember anything like till, but abundance of gravel and sand beds, with recent marine shells.
At the end the victors trace in the sand with a pole the figure of some animal; and this exhibition is supposed to have some historical reference.
Setting aside the 'masters', observe; for Balzac and George Sandhold all their honours.
Monclar, draw for him from memory the likenesses of famous writers whom he had known in Paris; the sketches thus made of George Sand and Victor Hugo are still in the poet's family.
This unhappy province justifies what the ancient and modern travellers relate concerning the tempests of sand in the deserts of Arabia, in which cities and armies have been enveloped and destroyed.
The peaks or points of mountains were formerly covered with sand and earth, which the rain gradually washes along with it into the vallies, and has left only the rocks and stone, which forms the nucleus of the mountain.
The disposition of the place is such that only the east or the north-east wind can convey the sand over the lands.
It is also imagined the island of Sumatra has been separated from the continent, and the great number of shoals and sand banks are a strong proof of it.
The Portuguese, who had made several voyages to the entrance of the straits, asserted that all the coasts of Arabia were very red, and that the sand and dust which the wind carries into the sea, tinged the water of the same colour.
This journey is tedious and difficult, and dangerous also, because the way lies over a waterless desert, where the traveller is exposed to violent storms of sand whenever the south wind blows.
He paused and considered the matter, while Jerry returned to digging the sandwhere the scent was auspicious.
As it was, the chiefs were compelled to keep cleared patches of sand for it, and to fence out the dogs.
The sun blazing down upon them in the white sand and almost parboiling them, brought anything but relief.
A white man's footprints he had smelled, and through the maze of all the other prints he followed the one print down through a breach of sea-wall to the sea- pounded coral sand lapped by the sea.
He helped with his own hands, dragging out the sand in quantities, but imposing on Jerry the leaving of the indubitable marks of a dog's paws and claws.
Jerry, feigning interest in digging a hole in the sand as if he were on a fresh scent, was unaware of Michael's nearness.
The Sagamore's visage became very smooth; and we climbed down among the willows toward the sand below, and there the Mohican dropped on his hands and knees.
I looked in vain until the Sagamore, laying his naked arm along my cheek, sighted for me a patch of sand and water close inshore--a tiny bay where the current clutched what floated, and spun it slowly around in the sunshine.
He saw the moccasin tracks in the sand at the other ford, Loskiel, and remained silent.
But before I could set foot on the shelving sand the Mohican pulled me back into the water and pointed.
The Erie took the bank at one bound, struck the river sand like a ball, and bounded on.
THE tent-lights glimmer on the land, The ship-lights on the sea; The night-wind smooths with drifting sand Our track on lone Tybee.
Turn and o'erturn, O outstretched Hand Nor stint, nor stay; The years have never dropped their sand On mortal issue vast and grand As ours to-day.
You could tell Casey's camp by the manner in which the sagebrush was trampled and the sand scored with small hoofprints in a wide circle around it.
While he hurtled down the road from Pinnacle to Lund, Casey pictured himself plodding through sand and sage and over malapai and up dry canyons, hazing a burro before him.
The most powerful, silent-running car on the market would have made some noise in traveling through that sand and up and down the washes that seamed the mountain side.
His pack animals should be somewhere ahead of him, he thought groggily, and began stumbling along through the brush-covered sand dunes that bordered Furnace Lake for miles.
You'd git stuck in the sand 'fore you'd went the length of your car.
Casey flattened his abused body to the hummocky sand and hung on.
The trail was rutted in places where the sluicing rains had driven hard across the hills; soft with sand in places where the fierce winds had swept the open.
Babe reminded me of that to-day when she scratched out the snake's track in the sand up by the mine.
He lost them both for an hour in the sand pits twelve miles out of town, and after that he tied them nose to tail and himself held a rope attached to the hindmost, and so made fair time with them, after all.
Up a steep slope made heavy with loose sand that dragged at his feet; over the crest and down the other side among rocks and gravel that made harder walking than the sand.
Swiftwater and Skookum measured the huge brown carcass that lay stretched on the sand before them, and found it to be nearly ten feet from tip to tip.
A large number of stones were gathered at the highest point of the sand and gravel, and a rough fireplace constructed.
The cement, mixed with sand and water from the creek, was made into a concrete which was poured into the form upon the baked clay and boulders.
As the boulders became red hot, Rand and Jack brought the hand barrow used to cart stones from the stream, with a little sand in the bottom, and rolling the stones into it carried them to the "tub" and dumped them in.
The Indian who had been on watch had risen from his seat and followed the dogs, which had run growling up the strip of sand toward the meadow which lay between the water and the woods.
The crevices between the stones had been filled with creek sand and the whole rammed hard.
Then the lion seized the soldier by the shoulder, shook him as a cat would a mouse, and throwing him on the sand lay with his paw across him.
The material used in their construction was an artificial stone composed of pieces of rock cemented together with fine sand and lime, and as hard as natural conglomerate.
