On one occasion she bade me go and challenge the famous giantess of Seville, La Giralda by name, who is as mighty and strong as if made of brass, and though never stirring from one spot, is the most restless and changeable woman in the world.
Here, in "The Winds of Deal," he tells another tale quite as stirring as its predecessors.
Uncle Tom Andy Bill By Charles Major "A stirring story full of bears, Indians and hidden treasures.
Assembling all his men at Chempoalla, he made a stirring speech to his army, telling them of the glory that was before them.
Accordingly, he called his little band around him, told them of his design, and made a stirringspeech to them.
Again the clatter of the whips; but now a mist is gathering in the room, and a strange enchantment comes over her, for are not the lions breathing on the coat of arms above the door, and are not the portraits stirring in their frames?
Tall and invincible he comes among his people, boasting of his victories, Indian fashion, and stirring the scalps that hang at his breast.
So excited had the young man become by all the incidents of the stirring scene, that the bullet sped from his rifle as he spoke, but uselessly, as it would seem, for both the fugitives tossed their arms in disdain.
Certainly; it is the only thing stirringwith life in it, besides ourselves, that is to be seen in this vast solitude.
I am no laggard, Uncle; for I have been stirring nearly an hour, and exploring our island.
If you were in a latitude where the air was so still that you found a difficulty in stirring it to draw it in in breathing, you might fancy it a calm.
Many a time they overwhelmed him with agony and a dread of the future, mingling with his slavish terrors of a material Gehenna, and stirring up his turbid thoughts until they drove him to the verge of madness.
The stirring narration of how the Newmarket cadets had charged the Northern guns was to have been his cue, carrying him with the momentum of its intrinsic heroism over the ramparts of tongue-tied shyness.
She rose abruptly and went down to the water's edge where she stood with the breeze whipping the silk draperies of her blue bathing skirt against her knees and stirring her hair into a dark nimbus about her head.
The warm breeze kept stirring her hair caressingly and, against the glare, she lowered her long lashes, half veiling her eyes.
Captain McDonald, stirring the punch, filled all glasses, crying out that we should drink to our sweethearts in bumpers.
I folded the paper and placed it in my beaded pouch, then descended the stairs, to find Mount stirring the corn-bread and Sir George laying a cloth over the kitchen table, while Beacraft sat moodily by the window, watching everybody askance.
Now traversing a ferny space edged in with sweetbrier, a breeze accompanied me, caressing neck and hair, stirring a sudden warmth upon my cheek like a breathless maid close beside me, whispering.
How could we know of that hidden fire within us, stirring its chilled embers in all innocence until the flames flashed out and clothed us both in glory, cousin?
The wooden flap-hoods of these were open; through them poured the fresh night air, stirring the clustered flowers and the jewelled aigrets in the ladies' hair.
The first priest to join man and woman together was no benign being with lawn sleeves and soul-stirring words.
Editorial writers, don't you know that stirring up dissatisfaction is the greatest work you can do?
Suppose you stop spouting platitudes, editorial gentlemen, and try your hand at stirring up plain, everyday antagonism to existing false conditions.
E) which was immersed in the luciferin solution and connected with a small motor so that it could be slowly but constantly rotated, thus stirring the solutions.
The light becomes much brighter on stirring a mass of crystals which exhibit crystalloluminescence.
When every growing thing was stirringinto life, happy in its blindness to the rigors of seed-time and harvest and the burdens incident to its later family life, Mary found that her battle was nearing the end.
Of all the old human emotions stirring the ten long bitter years of his short life, fear had been the most exercised; and it was fear that troubled him now--fear of his father.
I seem to feel something strange stirring within me every time I think of how these brave Belgians are trying to hold the Kaiser’s terrible military machine in check, and somehow I imagine it may be hero-worship that ails me.
In a town they came to, however, there were morestirring sights awaiting them.
They knew full well they were bound to be haunted by much of what had fallen to their observation during those blood-stirring days and nights spent so close to the battle lines in France.
There was no time to elaborate, and make a stirring story of their late adventures, nor was Bumpus especially gifted in that way.
Like thestirring of a child in sleep, the panic lasted only a little while, and gave way to an apathetic peace.
Those were stirring times, when the sons of Arabia Felix, the first disciples of the Prophet, spread out over all the Mediterranean and the neighbouring countries.
It is to be doubted whether any city walls have such a stirring history to relate as those of Constantinople, except perhaps the walls of Rome.
Surely those were stirring times, when Justinian and Theodora sat side by side upon the throne, when circus and streets rang with the cries of factions, Blue and Green.
The wall that Manuel Comnenus built stands high, and from its lofty battlements the sentries who held their watch here must have seen many strange and stirring sights.
Hilo is a lively place for such a mere village; so many natives are stirring about, and dashing along the narrow roads on horseback.
The warm sun baked his back comfortably, the soft-stirring wind caressed his cheeks.
But when the awesome darkness of the West settled over the country, and deep, stirring thoughts came to her on her pillow, she found herself thinking of the rider of the river.
Every chapter teems with wholesome, stirring adventures, replete with the dashing spirit of the border, told with dramatic dash and absorbing fascination of style and plot.
An hour after I went to bed I heard some one stirring in the house,--it seemed to me there was a voice, too.
I waved his question aside,--I had no mind to show him my uncovered coffin with its tenant who only slept, or to expose to him the feelings which the erect and fearless figure of Scarborough had set to stirring in me.
There is certainly more chance of your seeing stirring service, in the field, than in here.
First he put a little white powder in a glass, then he poured a few drops of something over it, and filled it up with water, stirring it with a little bit of glass rod before kneeling down by me.
He had been a real buck in his day among those of his own class, and though the storm of his romances had become but a faint stirring of leaves which had tinges of days that are sear, he still had an eye unmatched for female beauty.
Ingolby, feeling the bandage on his eyes feverishly, and stirring in his bed with a sense of weariness.
