They struggled a short distance farther; their feebleness overcame them, and they were forced to sink down in despair.
So great were the numbers of those who were daily packing up their effects and setting off for the goldfields of New South Wales that Victoria seemed likely to sink into a very insignificant place on the list of Australian colonies.
He was content to sink at once to their level, and to lead the purely animal life they led.
The missionaries had told them that the white men were coming for their benefit; yet now they began to see that the white men were soon to be the lords of the soil, and that the natives must sink back into the position of servants.
These shells hulled the Glenholme forward on the waterline, and she commenced to sink slowly by the head.
Often would he sink moaning on the floor, or stretch himself like a corpse, save that it was face downwards, on the boards of the bedstead.
You a soldier, And sink beneath the violence of a woman!
The pirate was sweeping up at some little distance on our quarter, and had hailed us to heave to directly, or she would sink us.
At last the pirate came within hail, and swore with the most horrid oaths that he would sink us, if we did not immediately heave to.
The door opens under the low scullery roof, with the sink to your right hand as you go in, where the whole family takes turns at the papier-mache basin before tea.
It willsink only if it leaks badly,” explained Leblance.
She’s water logged, and bound to sink the first capful of breeze that hits her.
They had tempted away her darling child, her comfort and delight, lured her with splendor and ease, only to sink her in shame!
He stood so for a moment, looking straight ahead, entirely oblivious of us, and then seemed again to sink down within himself.
Deep in thought, subconsciously with relief, I watched the shore linesink behind; welcomed the touch of the wind of the free seas.
It struck his face and seemed to sink in," I said.
Suns that sink on the wan sea's brink, and moons that kindle and flame and fade, Leave more clear for the darkness here the stars that set not and see not shade Rise and rise on the lowlier skies by rule of sunlight and moonlight swayed.
The dark forgets not dawn, nor we The suns that sink to rise again, and shine Lords of live years and ages.
One's feet sink deep into the mould--a mould composed, so the caretaker told us in awestruck voice, of human dust.
What Ireland needs is to be chucked overboard and told to sink or swim.
I shall sink soon; you'll hear a gurgle, and I shall have gone.
They say that rats desert a sinking ship--though I have always wondered how, since ships are not apt to sink at the piers, are they?
Bartley paused, apparently to give these facts and reasons time to sink into Halleck's mind.
When the ship parted, she had seen him sink into the deep waves, and she was glad, for she thought he would now be with her.
Therefore we must always be near a resting place before sunset; for if we were flying toward the clouds when we recovered our human form, we should sink deep into the sea.
As he did so, the light fell athwart so ghastly and strange a countenance, from whose lips the blood was slowly trickling, that he let the head glide from his hands, for it to sink suddenly with a dull thud upon the stairs.
Salis looked at him aghast once more, just as if he had been indeed drinking; but his friend's acts belied his words, for he uttered a low groan, laid his arms upon the table and let his head sink down.
I felt as if I should sink through the floor with indignant shame.
He deserves to have the doorstep sink beneath his feet.
The body had, no doubt, floated up under some cake of ice, and from thence would speedily sink to a bier of sand at the bottom of the bay.
Every moment he was watching the dark water, where he thought he saw a little heap of light clothes rise and sink again further off.
A fear oppressed him that perhaps this apparent effort of hers and her slow motion were only a ruse to lead him on--that at any moment she might dart from him or sink into her familiar depths.
He would ride by slowly, and shoot his gun in the air to see them rise and wheel upward, appearing snow-white against the blue firmament; and watched them sink again, growing dark as they alighted among the snow and ice.
The Kumharsen Serai is the great foursquare sink of humanity where the strings of camels and horses from the North load and unload.
I pushed the corpse out hastily, and saw it sink from sight literally in a few seconds.
He was ready to sink on the floor in sheer terror, and with difficulty could he utter a request that I should instantly leave his house.
The correspondent of the Evening Mail, writing from London, stated that Mr. O'Connell added to his adhesion, a voluntary promise to sink the cause of Repeal provided measures of a truly liberal character were carried into effect.
Big Chief, with a second heavy mat, was right at his heels, and Cassowary ran in, and turning on the water in the sink threw dish-pans of it on the flames.
Do you know," she said quietly, "that just when I was about to sink to the ice something very strange happened.
Knowing his ships to be hopelessly outmatched, it is a matter for wonder that the admiral did not sink them in the bay, after having removed all the guns and stores.
Another minute, and he would have turned over to sink into sleep once more, when something bumped heavily against the woodwork which separated his compartment from Mr. Brindle's.
Pressure upon a simple button would fire them, and, it was hoped, would blow such a hole in the vessel's side that she would sink immediately.
But he would not alter his course, and went rushing on, only missing the other craft by a foot or two, and leaving it behind in a trice, rocking so violently that it was a wonder that it did not fill and sink at once.
Supper was waiting; and after a hasty wash at a long sink in the wood-shed, I followed grandfather through the kitchen to the room beyond it, where the large round table was spread.
Then when the big pan of fat on the stove was just beginning to get smoking hot, the pies were launched gently in at one side and allowed to sink and rise.
It quite frightened the girls to think how far they were from home, in the forest, now that the sun began to sink behind the tree tops.
Dom Basilio recited the funeral service; and there, watched by his comrades from the quay, we let sink my father into six fathoms, to sleep at the foot of the great rock which had been his altar.
I did not see the stroke itself; but between my spread fingers I saw the Prince sink to the floor with the handle of Marc'antonio's dagger between his shoulder-blades.
The sun began to sinkon the far side of the mountain, and the shadow of the summit, falling into the deep gulf at our feet, to creep across the green tree-tops massed there.
Help me to slew this blessed gun round, and we'll sink boat and all for 'em unless she slips her moorings quick!
The mortal earth shall serve him as domain Whether he mount to Heaven or sink to Hell.
In an agony of grief, pale, trembling, and ready to sink to the floor, Isabella was only sustained by the hope that she would be able to save her child.
The repulsive scenes, that showed the suffering, neglect, and cruelty which these poor creatures had experienced, made her heart sink within her.
No doubt it was an addition of great importance, for, in comparison with it, the other natural modes of communicating ideas sink into insignificance.
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