He could not stand still for very long, but strode up and down the road that skirts the fortifications at this point.
Then he opened the door for her to pass out, and as her skirts brushed against him he bowed with studied deference, murmuring a cordial "Good-night!
Between the trees, the flowering alders seemed gleaming out of sight before him like the white skirts of maidens.
She gave a start when she saw him appear with a great jostling of white branches, and made as if she would have fled; then she held up her head with gentle dignity and advanced, lifting her lady-skirts with dainty fingers on either side.
She gave her skirts a careless flirt and entered the door with the snow still clinging to her.
Often, watching from a distance across the fields, he had seen a pale flutter of skirts in the lane, and knew well enough that Dorothy was there, and had turned back; but this time he walked on.
Dorothy straightened herself suddenly, though she kept her face averted, flung up her head, caught up her blue skirts again, and made as if she would pass on without another word.
She looked at Lot and moved softly away a few steps, holding herskirts clear of the vines.
She shrank away, twisting herself and hiding her face, so that he could see naught of her but the flow of her muslin skirts and her curling fair locks.
The steamer from England was coming round the head, and her sea-sick passengers were dense as a crowd on her forward deck, the men with print handkerchiefs tied over their caps, the women with their skirts over their drooping feathers.
Then Indifference comes; she stretches herself on the divan, taking no care to draw down the skirts of her robe which Desire but now lifted so chastely and so eagerly.
Balzac had just shaken hisskirts clear of the immature dust of the Oeuvres de Jeunesse, and by the publication, in 1829, of The Chouans, had made his first real bow to his larger public.
Caroline, as she walks in the admirable wood that skirts Marnes and Ville d'Avray.
But the child draws back and grasps fearfully at the skirts of her attendant.
A moment more and her satin skirts trail across the toes of a tall fellow in the dress of a British officer, who is leaning against a vine-wreathed pillar, intently watching the crowd through his yellow mask.
The little one peers at him from behind Millie's skirts and then comes slowly forward.
Orders stupid cab-drivers off the only dry crossing, to save a pretty pair of feet from immersion, and don't forget to look the other way when their owner gathers up the skirts of her dress to trip across.
Fan--these long skirts are very effective weapons in the hands of a pretty woman.
A little commotion of skirts told us that she was drawing up her feet to sit cross-legged in her chair.
She rushed along past the sleeping cottages like the wind's bride, her skirts fluttered, her hair had come undone owing to her hasty flight, and the cold breath of autumn beat against her face.
But now she let it fall with a piercing shriek, and lifted her skirtsso high that you could see her gay-coloured, striped stockings, and her neat feet encased in shiny leather slippers.
And when she had safely got out of the ditch, she shook herskirts and examined her dress, and was delighted to find that nothing had been spoiled.
It is being prolonged southwards to the old quarantine-ground and the modern prison, which rests upon the skirts of the remarkable Skopo, the Prospect Mountain, 1,489 feet high.
Gaudy shawls cover white cotton jackets; and skirts of bright, showy longcloth suggest the parrot or the cockatoo.
He stood leaning against the bannister, watching her until she vanished, and he stood there after the soft silken rustle of her skirts and her faint footfall were lost, staring at the last turn in the stairs.
She scrambled to her feet, and gathering up her skirts tore down the steps and drive to meet it, Tom Cameron at her heels and the collie bringing up the rear.
She stopped and, dropping her long skirts that fell back upon the oaken stairs with a silken rustle, she shielded the taper with her hand.
Then she gathered up her long silk skirts and began slowly to mount the stairs, the taper lifted carefully before her.
Woodlands are seldom to be met with, except in narrow skirts and small copses along the watercourses.
Copses and skirts of woodland again present themselves in the neighbourhood of the mountains, but they are of small magnitude, and the trees they furnish are of a dwarfish growth.
These are waving or flat tracts of country, of greater or less extent, separated from each other by narrowskirts of woodland situated upon the margins of rivers and creeks.
It occurs in the central portions of that extensive field of transition which skirts the western margin of the primitive of New York and New England, and forms the great body of the Alleghany and Catskill mountains.
This tract of sandstone, which skirts the eastern boundary of the Rocky Mountains, and appears to belong to that immense secondary formation which occupies the valley of the Mississippi, abounds in scenery of a grand and interesting character.
The girl peered out from her hiding place cautiously, holding her skirts together to make herself slim and small.
A breeze, coming through oak and pine, tossed their hair and fluttered the girls' skirts and the broad collar of Corker's voluminous shirt.
His skirts were clear there; both had truthfully been taken prisoners, fallen into an ambuscade of ancient instinct; there hadn't been the slightest premeditation.
She won't be able to tell a bundle of skirts from a gold pan or a tea-kettle.
It approaches the coast at Grosseto, seventy kilometres from Siena, and thence, all the way to Rome, skirts the lapping waves of the Tyrrhenian Sea.
From Lecco to Monza the highroad skirts the Brianza, as the last Alpine foot-hills are called before the mountains flatten out into the Lombard Plain.
Mason and Harmer had been boys together, had inherited these two houses on the bridge from their respective fathers, and had both prospered in the world.
Feel the skirts of good Fold them in dull-blessed sharing Of infinitude.
She said something pleasant to cover my confusion, and then swept her skirts aside for me to share her seat.
We each had a dotted Swiss this summer, made exactly alike, but Lucy is so much taller than I that her skirts trail on me.
Lloyd, scrambling to her feet and tripping over the long skirts again as she threw her arms around her mother's neck.
She insisted until Lloyd finally allowed her to have her way, and got up wearily to put on the dry skirts and stockings which she brought to her.
After leaving Frejus, the railway skirts the coast, and as the train emerges from a tunnel, the passengers have the opportunity of seeing the most lovely bays formed by the jutting promontories and the blue Mediterranean.
Apart from the disagreeableness of starting at such inhuman hours, to travel by the midnight train would be to miss for great part of the way the view of the most interesting scenery along the railway route, which skirts the Pyrenees.
The road thenskirts the water by the Quai Bonaparte (so called after Napoleon I.
Julia at eight had gone to dancing school, in the briefestskirts ever seen on a small girl, and the dirtiest white silk stockings.
In the fire and candlelight Julia looked very young, her loosened hair glimmering against the back of her chair, her thin white skirts spreading in a soft circle above her slipper buckles.
Then Emeline was left to put her house in order, and dress herself for the day--her corsets laced tight at the waist, her black hair crimped elaborately above her bang, her pleated skirts draped fashionably over her bustle.
Clearly my nerves were all to pieces, for I gathered up my skirts and fled through the door as though a whole army of ghosts and cousins were at my heels, nor did I stop till I had reached the remote corner where my garden was.
Without taking breath after running up the stairs, she sat down, spread her skirtsover my sofa, and without any circumlocution began to lecture me.
