It was only on the skirts of a sloping shoal, and I was off again before I had time to think; but the distance twixt pursuer and pursued had grown painfully less in that moment.
This heightened the general anxiety; and there was no time lost in following Baizley to 'the Ridge,' a patch of sloping forest where a lot of fine timber lay waiting to be hauled out.
From the sloping shoulder of the rock lying nearest to the left-hand bank a strong cross-current took a slant sharply over toward the middle channel.
Back from the houses is the lake, on the green slopingbanks of which, with broken windows and tombs, the ruins stand.
Dreamthorp is silent as a picture, the voices of the children are mute; and the smoke from the houses, the blue pillars all sloping in one angle, float upward as if in sleep.
The roof of dried palm-leaves is a high sloping one, and comes down to within about foot and a half of the floor, throwing the interior of the building into almost total darkness, even in broad daylight.
This fissure was about four feet wide at the bottom, the walls sloping inwards, like a roof, until they met at a height of seven or eight feet from the ground.
Now will I pour new light upon that lid, Full-sloping like the breasts beneath.
Oranges, lemons, and bananas were seen growing down to its very shores, while its sloping sides were covered with palms, cocoanuts, and various tropical trees flourishing side by side with those of hardier climes.
Thirty-five miles inland from this city, the author has seen by moonlight a whole sloping hillside which seemed to be moving, so completely was it covered by these little furry quadrupeds.
First they decided to turn the water into the river by sloping all the streets towards it.
Ground was hauled in from the surrounding country, streets and lots were filled in, the buildings were gradually raised, and sewers were built sloping toward the river.
Well, she was a long, wide boat, with sloping sides and a flat roof, and was covered with iron two and a half inches thick.
What did the Confederates do but lift the Merrimac out of the mud, and put her in the dry dock, and cut away the burnt part, and build over her a sloping roof of timbers two feet thick, until she looked something like Noah's ark.
Down came the iron-clad ship, with her sloping roof black in the sunlight.
It would be curious to sit there to-day in the shadow, and to see the warm sunbeams only outside through a distant window, resting on sloping roofs.
It is a sort of little office partitioned off from the shop it has a sloping table, with three or four huge books bound in parchment.
The rock on which it stands rises to a sharp point, sloping southward, and commanding the valleys of the Golo and the Tavignano.
From the topmost peaks of the Sabine Apennines, gradual tender sloping lines descend to find their quiet in the valley of Clitumnus.
But their advanced guard, Orvieto, stands up definite and solid, an almost perfect cube, with walls precipitous to north and south and east, but slightly sloping to the westward.
On all sides, lit by the peaceful light of the moon, were sloping lawns, broken now by groups of forest-trees forming islands of black shade, now disappearing in the blue mist of distance.
The two men, their figures indistinct in the darkening day, turned to skirt the grassy edge of the vineyard, then descended the slopingfields that led towards the farm.
Mathurin descended the sloping meadow; the darkness was so dense that he had to turn back twice before he found the landing-stage.
A few growers have orchards sloping in all directions, and their opinion on the influence of slope on hardiness and retardation of the blooming period should be valuable.
This room is cooled by eight inch pipes of galvanized iron, extending from the attic above to troughs near the floor, that are slopingso as to carry off the melted ice.
If possible it should be sloping toward the south, although we have had good success on level land well drained.
Directly south of this building are the football grounds, originally a marshy tract, now filled in and leveled off, with hillsides sloping upwards some thirty to forty feet on either side, well shaded.
As a brief summary of the reports on orchard sites, it may be stated that high ground, rolling or sloping to the north, is preferred by the majority of growers who filled out these orchard survey blanks.
On a sloping hillside under the pines they lay upon the mossy bed, the children listening for the things that lived in these shadowy depths.
The road ran through another forest similar to that which separated Tura from Rubuga, the country rapidly sloping as we proceeded westward.
For long miles we trudged over smooth sloping sward, with a vision of forest and park-land beauty on our right and left, and in front of us such as is rarely seen.
We soon sighted Cape Luvumba--a sloping projection of a mountain ridge which shot far into the lake.
The ridge enfolding these hills shoots out, at intervals, promontorial projections of gradual sloping outlines, which on the map I have designated capes, or points.
The palace of the Sultan is after the style of those on the coast, with long sloping roof, wide eaves, and veranda in front.
Her house is after the model of the town houses, with long sloping roof and projecting eaves, affording a cool shade, under which the pagazis love to loiter.
In the morning he could have walked forth on the sloping sward, enjoyed its freshness, and performed his ablutions in one of the many small streams flowing at its foot.
After it was placed properly in its narrow bed, a sloping roof of sticks, covered over with matting and old canvas, was made, to prevent the earth from falling over the body.
Those distant mountains formed a not unfit background to this magnificent picture of open plain, forest patches, and sloping lawns--there was enough of picturesqueness and sublimity in the blue mountains to render it one complete whole.
It contained a sloping passage cut into the hill itself, and an oblong low-roofed cell devoid of ornament.
Open this, and you will see just inside a lever sloping upward to the right.
They are collections of huts of unbaked brick cemented with mud, with flat roofs occasionally topped with a sort of whitewashed turret for pigeons, the sloping walls of which faintly recall the outline of a truncated Egyptian pylon.
Between them, and sloping away till lost in the meadows beyond, was a wide expanse of soft velvety lawn.
It was entirely coated with cement of two qualities, the upper coat being the finest, in which all round the walls at intervals of two feet were holes sloping inwards and downward.
Amongst all these date-groves are the curious Arab wells, with sloping runs, and worked by donkeys.
In the top there is a depression sloping towards a spout, which is now broken off all but an inch.
I there found a practice, I had never seen before, of drying a case of types (which are wet in distribution) by placing it slopingbefore the fire.
