I made a sudden spring at him, when he vanished in a moment, amid a volley of laughter from all hands.
The grape had missed, from a wrong elevation of the gun; not so the small arms--one of our party was shot dead and three wounded; but the spring was nevertheless made.
Naturally, there was no bait in it and the spring wasn't set, but the trap was still there.
The janitor no longer put cheese in it, and he didn't set the spring any more, but he still followed his orders and so, every morning, moved it back by the door of the little mousehouse.
A teaspoonful before meals is the dose--for the spring of the year.
Alone, Paula read this Spring greeting from Quentin Charter: I look away this morning into the brilliant East.
With a muscular spasm one knows in a dream, Charter's whole body united in a spring to the side--escaping the rock.
The place seemed still tired from the all-night struggle to spring a paper to the streets.
By the golden glory of this wondrous Spring morning which spreads before my eyes a world of work and heroism blessed of the Most High God, I only ask to know that you are there--that you are there.
Yet, the strength he had felt was hers, and those were hours of ecstasy--while the gray of the Spring afternoon thickened into dark.
He looked at me first as if he were afraid I would spring at him.
Two scouts were first dispatched, in the spring of 1845, with instructions to find a climate, a soil, and general characteristics as nearly like Switzerland as possible.
Marquette prepared his report at leisure during the winter, while at De Pere, and in the spring sent it down to Quebec, by an Indian who was going thither to trade with the whites.
In the following spring (1660) the Frenchmen went with their Hurons on a long search for provisions, getting as far west as the Sioux camps in northern Minnesota.
In the spring of 1686, the same year in which he gave the silver ostensorium to the Jesuit chapel at De Pere, the commandant proceeded up the Mississippi to the broadening which was, about this time, named Lake Pepin by the French.
During the first few years, these missionaries spent their winters in Quebec, ministering to the colonists, and each spring went out to meet the Indians in their summer camps.
In the spring of 1661, while at Keweenaw Bay, Menard received an invitation to visit a band of poor, starving Hurons at the headwaters of the Black River.
When the Indians returned each spring from the winter's hunt, they found their village more of a wreck than when they had left it in the fall.
As early as the spring of 1662, these same traders had gone across country to the mouth of the Fox River.
When the spring came, and the traders returned to Chequamegon, they inquired for Joseph and his family.
It hibernates during the winter, coming abroad again the following springto lay its eggs.
It occurs in spring as late as November, and as the pupae emerge during the latter end of January the insect is about for most of the year.
The larvae of the autumnal brood remain in this condition during the winter, but in the case of the spring and summer broods the pupa state only occupies a few weeks.
I, resolute to have the last word, as I spring up and fly past him, with more speed than dignity, lest he should change his mind, and again detain me.
Barbara and I crawl away with no more spring or backbone in us than a couple of torpid, wintery flies.
Henceforth it must mean blue as steel: it must mean clear as a glass of spring water; keen as a well-tempered knife; kindly as the early sunshine.
Isn't it funny what farmering instincts the budding spring awakens in even the most urban souls?
My dear Judy: Spring must be lurking about somewhere; the birds are arriving from the South.
They spring up and into their shoes, snatch the top blanket from their beds, wrap it around their imaginary nightclothes, fall into line, and trot to the hall and stairs.
These good homes appear with great frequency just as the spring planting is coming on.
Even his seizures of joy, which came as he strolled in the smooth spring air and sniffed the wild, vigorous aroma of the woodland earth, were troublesome because he did not know why he was so glad.
Morality, theology, and everything really worth while, as I understand it, spring from the subconscious.
He longed to lunge out of the dark andspring upon that fat, flabby lieutenant, and throttle him.
I thought, of course, he got off at Spring Heights.
He led them away from the throng to the quiet hillside above the camp where spring had set her dainty foot-print.
XIII It was a clear, crisp day in March with just a smell of Spring in the air, when Cameron finally united with the church.
On one side the portrait of the true Bill Dobbs looked out from the center of a congenial group, and a tiny plush case kept the file made from a watch-spring with which the famous Barney Pease had cut his way to liberty.
It seems there was a street vender named Hotaling, who added to his revenue in summer time by hiring young men to exploit the outlying suburbs with spring produce.
Max Glucos was so sure spring was here that he got usin the Sibly stove for a laundry bag.
He says one thing that starts "In the spring a young mans fancy vests and socks come into view.
I 'm certain they 've smashed the spring at my side!
Like her, Destiny in giving us the works of ancient art does not give us their world, not the spring and summer of the ethical life in which they blossomed and ripened, but solely a memory and a suggestion of this actuality.
And, again, though the power of the central state is indispensable, he is far from agreeing with the so-called bureaucratic view that "a state is a machine with a single spring which sets in motion all the rest of the machinery.
Its natural basis in land, language, blood, and the many ties which spring therefrom, has to be constantly raised into an intelligent unity through universal interests.
It was not vouchsafed to Plato to go on so far as to say that so long as true religion did not spring up in the world and hold sway in political life, so long the genuine principle of the state had not come into actuality.
Tell me now about your people, And the brave race that youspring from, Perhaps from mighty race descended, Offspring of a mighty father.
Broke across the wooden vessel, And to splinters it was broken; 130 In the lake the masts fell crashing, And the sails fell drooping downward, By the wind away were carried, And the spring wind all dispersed them.
His physical infirmity put him at odds with the world, while his striking beauty drew to him a crowd of admirers who helped to poison every spring of his genius.
They are the houses of the Grandes-Écuries of which I was speaking just now, and will one day give place to the great basilica of St. Anthony and its dependencies, a whole religious city that will spring up in the next fifteen years.
It’s a spring chicken,” said old Angélique as she placed the dish upon the table.
When the irritation and inflammation occur, a teaspoonful of cognac brandy in four ounces of spring water may be used three or four times in the course of the day as a strengthening lotion.
Fresh rain water is to be preferred, but spring water may be used if perfectly soft.
From six to ten drops of it in a wineglassful of spring water, taken immediately after the operations of the toilet are completed.
Put these between two pieces of glass (all the pieces should be of the same size) and with spring clothespins fasten them together.
It is a splendid spring medicine, cleansing the blood and purifying and toning up the system.
Boil these ingredients in a sufficient quantity of spring water.
Day after day since early spring the men had put to sea in their sloops and motor-dories, trawling and hand-lining from twenty miles out in the Atlantic to four and a half fathoms off Dutch Edge.
He was resigned to the worst if it came, but was ready, like a panther in a tree, to spring at the slightest false move of his enemies.
It was in full bloom, a veritable picture of spring loveliness.
He planted trees each year; and, moreover, he had deeded to the island government land which he turned into public squares and parks, and where each spring he set out shrubs and plants.
At noon we halted near a large public house, where there was a fine spring of water.
We passed through a fine farming section, and the crops mostly looked flourishing, but somewhat backward, owing to the late spring frosts, which had delayed planting.
All slept near their post of duty, and were ready to spring into action at sound of the bugle.
While here we suffered for the want of wholesome water--the only spring of good water being two miles from camp.
A little later the astrologer desired water to drink, and he applied to the huntsman, and the huntsman said, "There is a spring down in the valley where I drink.
Going to another corner of his hut, he took down a vial of oil which he himself had collected, and, going down to the spring with the vial of oil, he dropped the oil upon the waters.
When the first birds sing We can hear them, dear, And in early spring There are snowdrops here.
Ye have learnt the riddle of seas and sand, Of leaves in the spring uncurled; There is no room left for my wonderland In the whole of the great wide world.
HIC JACET Did you play here child The whole spring through And smiled and smiled And never knew?
In the spring of 718 the new army and the two new fleets arrived on the scene.
The spring of 1916 was an ebb point in Allied prospects.
On arriving at his station in the spring of 1780, he sought de Guichen.
The next spring Muaviah again landed his army on the European side and besieged the city for several months.
Before we leave the War of American Independence mention should be made of Commodore Suffren who, as we have seen, left de Grasse with five ships of the line to conduct a campaign in the Indian Ocean in the spring of 1781.
The following spring Agrippa made a feint to the south by capturing Methone at the southern tip of the Peloponnesus, thus threatening the wheat squadrons from Egypt on which Antony depended.
In the spring of 1782, Rodney was back in command of the West Indian station, succeeding Hood, who continued to serve as commander of a division.
In short, the naval policy of a nation should spring from its national policy.
Overwhelming as was the defeat of the Turks, Ali had another fleet ready the next spring and was soon ravaging the seas again.
Up to the spring of 1804 neither army nor flotilla was fully ready, and thereafter the crossing was always definitely conditioned upon a naval concentration.
But at least 20 inches of water were necessary to float the Dutch vessels, and it was not until October 3 that a spring tide and a heavy northwest gale made it possible to reach the city walls.
In the spring Barbarossa got out into the Archipelago and, raiding at will, swept up another batch of prisoners to serve as galley slaves for the new ships.
In the spring of 1918 Germany massed her troops on the western front and began her final effort to break the Allied lines and force a decision.
But in me the impulse is so original to frequent the haunts of men that it is irresistible, conversation is the breath of my nostrils, I watch the movement of life, and my ideas spring from it uncalled for, as buds from branches.
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