Death, because it is an incessant threat, retards progress, inhibiting our will to succeed, seeping under us at unexpected moments.
Already such influences are seeping in at more than one crack.
And some of all this has been seeping into the heathen world.
In a moment the crushing pressures of the depths would come seeping in.
The opening is wide and high, but the mouth and floor are much obstructed by large fallen rocks and the bottom is constantly wet from wall to wall with running and seeping water.
At 40 feet from the beginning, where the trench was 11 feet deep, the seeping water accumulated until it covered the bottom of the trench, so that no greater depth could be reached.
Blood, seepingfrom a gash across his forehead, blinded him.
Blood, seeping from it, had dribbled down his cheek and stained his collar.
Even though there was a fire and the wickiup was tightly sealed, Redbird felt the cold seeping up from the earth.
In the dim light seeping in through cracks in the shuttered window, Raoul saw a woman with long blond hair sitting up beside him, staring at him with pale blue eyes.
Before many minutes they had built a little concave dam, in which the down-seeping water slowly but steadily collected.
The horses were picketed well away from it and from the joint rill of the two springs, which trickled down slope a few yards beforeseeping away among the stones.
Fortunately, since the air is positively electrified and the earth negatively, certain of these differences are remedied by the aerial that connects the two, the current discharges partially seeping off through the ground.
Zeke and I chased old Whitefoot one day, and got pretty close to Seeping Springs.
The slender stream of water, swelled by seeping springs and little rills, gained the dignity of a brook; it began to dash merrily and hurriedly downward.
He wants us to ride Seeping Springs last because he'll be with us then, and Snap too.
It was well into November before the riders finished at Silver Cup, and then arose a question as to whether it would be advisable to go to Seeping Springs or to the canyons farther west along the slope of Coconina.
Holderness, I made a bonfire over at Seeping Springs," said Hare.
Holderness sent expectant glances in the other direction toward Seeping Springs.
Holderness suddenly showed he was ill at ease; he appeared to be expecting arrivals from the direction ofSeeping Springs.
I rode in to Seeping Springs yesterday," said Hare, eying the foreman.
Not a steer had been driven off the range that summer and fall; and except for the menace always hanging in the blue smoke over Seeping Springs the range-riding had passed without unusual incident.
After three hours of brisk travel he reached the top of a low rolling knoll that hidSeeping Springs.
I burned the corrals and logs--and I trailed fresh tracks from Seeping Springs to this ranch.
Now, boys, we'll ride the mountain slope toward Seeping Springs, drive the cattle down, and finish up this branding.
Holderness is building an outpost for his riders close to Seeping Springs.
His duties carried him half way toSeeping Springs, across the valley to the red wall, up the slope of Coconina far into the forest of stately pines.
But it makes me fear for Silver Cup andSeeping Springs.
It is at this point that the spy system of slow-seeping treachery and the atrocity program of dramatic frightfulness overlap.
It gives him a little thing to do in a big danger, in seeping loneliness, and the grip of sharp pain.
Despite the vent holes and the volume of water seeping through the strata from the ruptured Spokima Reservoir, there still wasn't enough pressure to raise the water level much above the fifty-foot mark, once the catch basin filled.
The beams had burned through the head of the seeping waters.
Seeping through the mantle of waste, ground water soaks into the pores and crevices of the underlying rock.
Beds of rock salt buried among the strata are dissolved by seeping water, which issues in salt springs.
For ground water is constantly seeping downward under gravity, it is evaporated in the waste and its moisture is carried upward by capillarity and the roots of plants to the surface to be evaporated in the air.
Ground water seeping through the pores of rocks may gather minerals disseminated throughout them into nodular masses called concretions.
After long rains and after winter frosts the cohesion between the waste and the sound rock beneath is loosened by seeping water underground.
She heard only a low, mournful seeping of wind-blown sand.
The wind blew steadily in from the desert seeping the sand in low, thin sheets.
Being alone, made physically uncomfortable by the water seeping through his shoulders and breeches, sensing the steady movement of the animal under him, brought some order to his mental chaos and finally realization began to dawn.
The fire was close and, besides, another warmth was seeping through his body as he looked earnestly into the face of that daughter of the mountains.
In the recesses of that draw was the smallest amount of seeping water, enough, say, to keep young calves alive.
A massive but neat desk is placed before the one set of windows, the blinds of which are kept closed but tilted toward the sky so that an aura of pale light is continually seeping through.
My hand started to puff, swelling into a spectacle which was twice the size of my other; with all of the misdirected solution seeping into the tissues, I also began to feel an annoying tightness which pained me when touched.
I could not stop suspicion from seeping into my mind; even Norm and Mom professed to be rather leary toward harboring too much optimism.
The light seeping down through was considerably less pale than it had been before, but the glass was still too dirty and covered with cobwebs for him to see the sky above.
The light in his eyes went out, he stopped breathing, and all that remained was the blood that had once given him life seeping out past the knife blade and staining his white silk shirt a deep red.
Through the day, Mrs. MacGregor and Elijah were absent, inspecting the desolate stretches of red hillsides, or the struggling green of seeping springs in deep arroyos.
Even the long, blue shadows stretched themselves stiffly along the yellow sands or lost their form in the soggy mists that hung damp and chill over the river bottoms and deep-sunk hollows, where seeping springs oozed out into the shivery air.
On the plains a few straggling herds of cattle, with uncouth vaqueros, cluster around a seeping spring of bitter water.
No gentle and loving farewell was left to her, only life seeping out, and death creeping in.
She saw clearly, now level with her eyes, a dark and shallow pool among a copse of death-black trees, the whole of the scene shrouded by mist and lit by seeping moonlight.
Mary was left to prepare her cousin's body, and to seeping thoughts of death and earth.
His suit remained ice-cold and snug in the room's warmth, which he felt seeping in through the vents in his helmet collar.
His whole body was tensed against the cold seeping into his suit.
Matthews afterwards said it was because the black water drip or coal sweat was seeping through the overalls.
The sky seemed to come down lower as the red twilight darkened; and he could hear not a sound but the crunch of the grazing mule and the slow drop, drop, drop of the water seeping from the terra cotta ledge.
By digging in and poking about in the tank they have managed to start the water seeping deeper into the ground until it finally found a new course and disappeared.
In a few moments water began seeping up through the blanket, which was so placed that it was lower in the middle than at the sides.
With Hippy's aid, she patted the canvas blanket down as she had seen Hi Lang do it, and in a moment the water began seeping through.
