Illustration] THE MAGIC RING NED followed the beautiful princess and her brother into the castle, while the giant, who had to stoop nearly to the floor in order to enter the doorway, brought up the rear.
France was pleased to hide the stoop in his shoulders and the thickness of his neck.
Stoop as low as you can or, if they look back, they will see that great figure of yours, and be off like hares.
He himself, clad in a grayish-brown suit of foreign manufacture, was looking thin and old, the slight stoop in his shoulders showing perceptibly.
He was not willing to believe her a spy, that she could ever stoop to such an act; and here in the darkness with her by his side, with only purity and truth in her eyes, he could not believe her one.
Then he saw her stoop and, raising his supply of manna in both her hands, unfold the wrappings of brown paper.
Methinks, my boys, I see the store Of precious gems and golden ore; Arabian silks and sables pure Would make an haggard stoopto th' lure.
No briers, no squash bugs, no back-breaking stoopor arm-rending stretch to reach them.
Shall Peace be still a sunk stream long unmet,-- Or may the soul at once in a green plain Stoop through the spray of some sweet life-fountain And cull the dew-drenched flowering amulet?
But on the door-stoop she checked, a trifle dashed by apprehension of the impending storm, which she had quite forgotten.
Not until he had reached the platform of the stoop did he notice the woman in the doorway.
Now, lis'n: I'm going down on the stoop and smoke a cigarette while you girls colour your maps for artificial light.
The daughter of any of the electoral houses of Germany was not considered an eligible match, and the pride of the house of Bourbon could not stoop to so ignoble an alliance.
Why, youstoop like an old goose coming out of a barn, Tavvy," cried Kenneth, laughing.
I am too much stained: But, God or no God, yet I do not live And have to bear my own soul company, To have itstoop so low.
He is an eagle will not stoop for less Than kingly prey.
No one would be likely to be near the corner of the balcony opposite Valeria's room or in the obscure fernery on the stoop below.
The innocence of strangers is only presumed as long as they keep a roving look out of their eyes and do not stoop down to pick interesting things from the dust.
I would not have deemed it worth the trouble to stoopfor them, if I had not seen among these trifles his heart.
But the true habit of virtue is to stoop graciously, to lift inferiors towards itself, and to look reverentially on the merits of superiors, lifting itself with aspiring docility towards them.
Is it not touchingly instructive thus to trace the religious ascent of the soul of this noble woman in her friendships, as they successively stoop from the Czarina Marie to the deaf mute Parisse?
Hereupon there was another laugh; and even Mr. Bulliwell himself was compelled to stoop down and pretend to examine his brief in order to conceal the mobility of his risible muscles.
His form was as erect as when in the prime of life; and his military coat, all frogged and braided, was buttoned over an ample chest that no stoop had contracted.
It had come when she saw the young man stoop and lift her mother so tenderly and bear her out to the car.
My handsome boy must stoop his head To clear her door whom he would wed.
The skies in the darkness stoop nearer and nearer, A cluster of stars hangs like fruit in the tree, The fall of the water comes sweeter, comes clearer: To what art thou listening, and what dost thou see?
Only in front could you recognise it as a cabin by the low doorway, where we had always to stoop on entering.
You will see me steep myself in shame, then when I am a hundred shades blacker than you can ever hope to be, my angel, you will stoop and pity me.
Cleaving the cloud with firm and dauntless breast, Hast deigned to stoopthee from thy proud dominion, To circle in thy flight my lowly nest.
She knew that a passage had been opened before her by the sudden sweeping of a current of air on her face; and a few moments afterward, she was again led forward, being caused to stoop as she advanced.
They had turned squarely to the left, and, as he spoke, Tryon placed his hand on Cordelia’s head, causing her to stoop considerably lower than before.
He said he would stoop down and that one of us was to cut off his head, and afterwards one of us, or whoever had a mind for the game, was to stoop down and have his head whipped off.
I demand that some man shallstoop down that I may cut his head off as my head was cut off.
The girls had to stoop almost double to enter the tiny door, but once inside they were surprised to find that they could stand upright.
The latter was hardly more than four feet high, and the girls would have tostoop considerably to get through it.
