The bushes that skirted the shore flew past with the velocity of light as I dashed on in my flight.
The new moon peered from her lofty seat, and cast her rays on the frosty pines that skirted the shore, until they seemed the realization of a fairy scene.
A part of my journey led me to a footpath which skirted the cliff, and for hundreds of yards I walked on the edge of a precipice.
As I skirted the little town of St. Eia I saw that the lights were nearly all out.
The navigation became difficult; the coast was cautiously skirted till, as September wore on, the nights became too dark for sailing, and the Vega was obliged to come to an anchor every evening.
Here the active animals took refuge on a ridge which was accessible only by a narrow path, skirted on each side with precipices.
No trees grew upon its banks where we struck it; though I was informed that higher up, it was skirted with pretty groves of cotton wood.
During his northward expedition he skirted the entire North-west Coast from Cape Mendocino to North Cape, in the Arctic Ocean, not finding, however, either the entrance to the Columbia or to Puget Sound.
At evening the schooner doubled the Skaw at the northern point of Denmark, in the night passed the Skager Rack, skirted Norway by Cape Lindness, and entered the North Sea.
The footpath skirted the side of a plantation, and she followed it closely, keeping under the shelter of the hedge.
She took the winding path which skirted the kitchen gardens and led to the green lane, along which the carts passed to the home farm.
Beyond Birmingham their route skirted towns rather than passed through them, but she saw enough to deepen the impression which the lanes and alleys of that place had made upon her.
They came, as she spoke, to a triangular space, sloping with the hill, skirted by houses, and crossed by an open sewer.
Tanned to an abiding brown, they were, and Hazel's one-time smooth face was spotted with fly bites and marked with certain scratches suffered in the brush as they skirted the Kispiox.
So she skirted its base and ranged farther afield.
It then ran across the valley of Zibreira, skirted the deep ravine of Ruda, to the heights of Torres Vedras, and thence followed the course of the little river Zizandre to its mouth on the Atlantic.
His right was in advance of Planchenois, and his left rested on the Genappe road, while his rear was skirted by thick woods.
I skirted the rock face and had laboriously worked my way around and above it when a vine to which I had been clinging stripped off and I began to slide.
We had separated, Heller keeping close to the water while I skirted the cliffs near the summit not far from the road which led through the pine forest.
For almost the entire distance the road skirted the rim of the Yangtze gorge and there the view of the great chasm was even more magnificent than that we had left.
We climbed a wooded ridge directly behind the camp and skirted the edge of a heavily forested ravine which the men wished to drive.
We were traveling northwestward through an unmapped region which Baron Haendel-Mazzetti had skirted and reported to be one of vast forests and probably rich in game.
Two sambur had skirted the edge of the wood less than one hundred yards away, but he had missed with both shots.
She skirted the house, and stepped on to the lawn, looking out dreamily into the silvery landscape.
He too, hadskirted the house, and was wandering along the lawn, towards the river.
Marguerite contrived for the moment to evade her present attentive cavalier, and she skirted the fashionable crowd, drawing nearer to the doorway, against which Sir Andrew was leaning.
A grim look of gratified desire had spread over de Batz' face as heskirted the open-air camp.
Armand skirted the square clock-tower, and passed through the monumental gateways of the house of Justice.
They passed several groups of dismal, squalid houses, in some of which a dim light still burned, and as they skirted St. Ouen the church clock slowly tolled the hour of midnight.
The corridor which skirted it all round was ill-lighted save by an occasional oil-lamp fixed in the wall.
This we skirted and then stepped out of the brook towards the left.
Hugging our precious copper cylinders we waded more than waistdeep in the water, up the Bran Brook, sometimes all but swimming, as we skirted some of the deeper pools.
In 1534 Verrazano, in the service of Francis I, skirted the coast from Cape Fear to Sandy Hook seeking the way to China.
On the opposite side was a large field, skirted on three sides by a heavy growth of pine timber, along the easterly edge of which ran a road.
His plantation was very large, and skirted the shores of Hampton Roads.
Our troops now took the road and the edge of the woods that skirted the field, and as the cavalry came across the open space at a rapid run, shouting to our men to surrender, they received both a front and flank fire at the same moment.
The Squire had his gun in his hand and was talking his face red: Hoar leaned against the wooden palings that skirted old Massock's garden, and looked as sullen as he had looked yesterday.
It skirted the garden: a long, narrow garden, running down from the side of the house.
As noiselessly as a moccasin slides into the water, he dropped from the dark spruce stump into the velvet mullein leaves, and skirted the whiteness of the moon.
Buddy debated as to whether he should continue on beneath the shadows of the trees which skirted the rear gardens and out-buildings of the frame houses just ahead.
Here we had a glimpse of a bridge across the Blackwater, which we had skirted in our journey from Lismore.
We skirted by lake after lake, lying lonely in the midst of lonely boglands, or bathing the sides of mountains robed in sombre rifle green.
As we thus skirted the back-side of the towns, for we did not enter any village, till we got to Provincetown, we read their histories under our umbrellas, rarely meeting anybody.
He skirted the flank of one of the redoubts, and, passing beyond the intrenchments, came at length to our most advanced posts, a line of cavalry vedettes, stationed at a considerable distance apart.
They now skirted the ridge of the Karabel suburb, and began to descend.
Country walks, holly-skirted lanes, and park enclosures, may tell something of the one; and alas!
Mormal is only a little bit of a wood, and it was but for a little way that we skirted by its boundaries.
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