Skirting a line of low savage hills that ruggedly stretched from north to south, a gleaming line of metal threaded its way.
By this time Peveril had again got his craft under way, and they were skirting a wooded islet that lay off the coast just beyond the black ledge.
He was paddling almost without a sound, and skirting a ledge of black rocks that jutted well out into the lake, as he spoke.
Lilies and ferns, narcissi and irises, are intermingled in one chaos of beauty, skirting the velvet sward that runs down to the water's edge.
We spent one pleasant day skirting along the Isles of Greece.
From Valencia, the homeward course will be continued, skirting along the coast of Spain.
Skirting its southern border rises "Little Hermon," over whose summit a glimpse of Gilboa is caught.
The hedges and trees skirting the road were washed clean of their coating of dust and the whole countryside gleamed like an emerald in the yellow flood of the afternoon sunshine.
Quite different is the fame of Ecclefechan, a few miles farther--a mean-looking village closelyskirting the road for a half-mile.
The road to Egypt ran southward from North Syria through Palestine, skirting the maritime valley by 'the way of the Philistines'.
Walking on as in a dream, the black, impenetrable barriers of skirting thickets opened and gave way to vague distances that it appeared impossible to reach, dim vistas that seemed unapproachable.
Believing that Miss Nellie had diverged from the highway only as a momentary excursion into the shade, and that she would not dare to penetrate its more sombre and unknown recesses, he kept within sight of the skirting plain.
On one of these afternoons she noticed a slowly moving carriage leave the highroad and cross the almarjal skirting the edge of the lagoon.
He glanced round once and saw that the troopers had halted on the further side of the nullah; but he had no doubt that they would soon find a means of crossing or skirting it and follow at his heels.
Ahmed could just see the fugitive ahead, bending low on the saddle, skirting obstacles in bush and tree.
The troops moved on to a wood, skirting either side of the road, and were thrown into line of battle.
Skirting around through underbrush to our left, concealed from the Rebs, we came to an open again of about thirty yards.
But the river itself, now increased considerably here, makes the finest display of all, skirting the houses in wider current and spanned by a bridge of six arches very like its fellow at Huntingdon.
Rising at Naseby, skirting Rugby, and washing Leamington, Warwick, and Stratford, is a fine record for the upper part of a single river.
Unlike Salisbury, however, where the Avon tumbles through the heart of the town before skirting the sacred groves where Mrs. Proudie once reigned, the Itchen only skirts the older city, which lies like Salisbury in the lap of downs.
So you go as he has bidden you; across the stream, skirting the How, over the gulf and up the hill again.
So he brushed his way along, and ever the night grew blacker; until, from the swell of the ground beneath his feet, he knew himself skirting the Giant's Chair.
He led me to a back window and pointed out the Boundary, which was a tree-shaded road skirting the inner fortifications.
The road between Shibarghan and Sar-i-pul is flat, skirting the edge of the rolling Chol to the east of it.
There is, however, the difficulty of a formidable band of mountains skirting the desert Seistan, which would be a difficulty to railway construction.
It is probable that through all ages this palpable method of circumventing the Dasht-i-Lut (the Kirman desert) by skirting it on the south was adopted by travellers seeking Seistan and Kandahar.
However this may be, there is the bed of the stream called Parkan skirting the north of the Taloi range and leading westwards from the Hingol, and we need look no farther for the Parikanoi.
After leaving Tromsoee our course was north by east, crossing broad wild fjords and skirting the main-land, passing innumerable islands down whose precipitous sides narrow waterfalls leaped hundreds of feet towards the sea.
Skirting the hill which bounded his farm on the north were extensive meadows rich with grass.
Thence it runs westward, skirting the north end of Reindeer Lake, and then bending to the north-west, crosses Great Slave Lake, and touches the southern extremity of Great Bear Lake.
We started about nine o’clock, skirting along the north shore of Lake Kamloops by Battle Bluff.
The direct course of the “Campana” was along the coast of Georgian Bay, skirting Craigleith and Thornbury.
The grays traveled well, and a little after noon they were detached from the carriage, and tied in the grove of scrub-oaks skirting the beach.
Skirting the edge of the bush, a short distance to the north, I turned to penetrate further toward the valley, when suddenly, as I took a step forward, I felt myself sinking downward.
The boat shot around the point and began skirting the shore toward us.
At the end of the first bench, skirting the central path, which was becoming crowded, the Vigneron family had succeeded in finding room for themselves.
By dint of money, the wild bank where swine had formerly pastured had been transformed into a superb avenue skirting the Gave.
For the next few days the treasure-hunters followed the narrow, hard-beaten path through stretches of dark jungle and thorny thickets, or found themselves skirting lonely lakes hidden in the very heart of the virgin forest.
