There they go straight for the School goal-posts, quarters scattering before them.
Here they break into a trot, scattering over the field to find the first traces of the scent which the hares throw out as they go along.
The others also aimed their weapons, and as the wild ducks sailed almost over them they let drive in a scattering volley.
There was one short yelp, a leap of agony, and the wolf landed in the fire, dead, scattering the burning embers in all directions.
And that one, although motionless, is alive with children--the breeze is scattering the laughter of their games and seems to play with it, and on the sandy ground are the crumbs of childish footsteps.
Towards the end of the night, when the dead fire is scattering chilliness, the women go away one by one.
It is called 'The Sower,' the dim figure of a labourer scattering seed over a ploughed field with one hand, and holding his apron filled with embryo life in the other.
It came down with a fearful crash, scattering the smaller pieces right upon his heels; but they passed all dangers safely and toward evening reached the shore where the great long Pacific billows rolled upon the sand.
They heard the chimes at midnight like other young men, they enjoyed their fun and frolics as gentlemen of spirit will do; sowing their wild oats plentifully, and scattering them with boyish profusion.
I have known Christian fathers who by their severity and want of tenderness have sown their family field with the thorns and thistles of hatred to religion instead of scattering the good seed of love to it.
The digue, a broad extent of level brickwork, is deserted, and the wind sweeps along it, scattering foam and covering it with sand and sprays of tangled seaweed.
They follow in the wake of the Procession of the Holy Blood, or wait to fall upon their knees when it passes and receive the blessing of the Bishop, who walks with fingers raised, scattering benedictions from side to side.
Not in pity, and not With half censure--with awe Hail, as it passes from earth Scattering lightnings, that soul!
Clearing a stage, Scattering the past about, Comes the new age.
The main figure is that of an Indian lying upon a bank, scattering flowers around him.
Two distinct volleys were heard by the entire command, followed by scattering shots, and it was supposed Custer was carrying all before him.
Meanwhile the arrogant pander prolongs his revels till the dawn, stinking of wine and scattering money amid the crowd to buy their applause.
He sprang on the stone as soon as they were out of sight, scattering the flowers all about him, and calling down the vengeance of a hundred gods on the heads of Christian and Mohammedan alike.
As Ford whispered these words a fiendish smile covered the lips on which death was scattering ashes.
It was now late autumn; the gorgeous leaves lay strewn along the ground, and the wind sighed up from the ocean chill and bleak, scatteringthoughts of decay with each gust.
Nature and Law compel it: whose direction now is towards grand centripetalism, where before they had ordained heterogeneity and the scattering and aloofness of peoples.
The scattering of the Jews through all lands had prepared a monotheistic starting point for the gospel in every heathen city.
That's the way people will congregate together, instead ofscattering where they are wanted.
On the other side came a procession from the village; and down every hillside and along every path, I could see scattering groups and lines of comers from the neighbouring country.
This had the effect of scattering some of us at once.
She caught up some holly, and began scattering its berries.
After scattering stones and ashes, they run about, uttering a mouse-like squeak the while, until they capture the spirit and imprison it in a bunch of leaves.
Scattering parties of the Northern Indians, too, have killed some persons in Kentucky.
Patience and observation may enable us in time, to solve the problem, whether those who formed the scattering monuments in our western country, were colonies sent off from Mexico, or the founders of Mexico itself?
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