A stake was driven into the crest of the promontory, another could be seen a short distance back, andstraggling jack-pines and spruces followed the edge of the bank.
Blurred clumps of spruce marked the edge of the lower ground, but the river was hidden and the straggling junipers on the spurs were formless and indistinct.
He made fearful and wonderful detours to avoid a few straggling policemen, or any figure which in the distance looked remotely like a British seaman.
No amount of self-deception could persuade them, when the end of the straggling line of fellows going up the ridge was a clear half-mile ahead, that they were in it.
We spurred on, and indeed perceived a few straggling rails crowning a rising ground at no great distance.
The men shouted again and again in hope some straggling inhabitant of the village might be at hand with his canoe.
Said if the straggling got bad you and I might fall a long way behind and fire our pistols, so as to give the impression Kurds are in pursuit.
We had emerged out of the straggling outposts of the forest high above the plain, and to our right the whole panorama lay snoozing in haze.
His flat-topped bowler hat was pushed back over the fringe of straggling grey hair upon his neck.
Canadensis) is a low and straggling or prostrate bush, never forming an erect trunk.
The word was passed along, and in a few minutes we were all afoot and straggling out into the moonlight-flooded courtyard.
During this last week of the month a few straggling thrushes make their appearance--the hermit thrush with its russet tail, the veery, and the wood thrush.
The crows, that all through the winter filed away each evening in straggling lines of flight toward the distant roost, have broken ranks, and go rambling in small groups through the woods and over the fields of green winter wheat.
By and by I came to where eight of the straggling birds had come together and started off again in company.
From its position it consists of one long, straggling street, which runs parallel to the beach, and wherever a ravine comes down the houses are piled up on each side of it.
Presently a few straggling horsemen made their appearance, and, in a little time, the English officers could plainly see a body of cavalry winding down the pass.
We'll have to be straggling back to the chug-wagon.
What, fearful coward, stragglingfrom the camp, When kings themselves are present in the field?
They turned their backs on the straggling town and faced the peaks.
The people beganstraggling toward their trains, laughing their farewells.
Ushitza, instead of appearing a town, looked like a straggling assemblage of cottages and gardens.
Even the Christian barbers, in imitation of the Oriental fashion, shave the straggling edges of the eyebrows, and with pincers tug out the small hairs of the nostrils.
A gentle wind skimmed the white straggling clouds from the blue sky.
A couple of hours further on we reached Thomeyr, a straggling townlet, more abounding in broken walls than houses; close by was a tall white rock, crowned by the picturesque remains of an old outwork or fort, overlooking the place.
They eyed us curiously as we passed through their straggling ranks; one called out: "The forest-runners are with us!
I have often met straggling parties of Tories or British in this forest, or around the margin of the lake, and it is necessary, therefore, to proceed carefully while passing it.
During this conflict, which was over in ten minutes, my brave companions, Smith and Anstill, had been straggling with the current of the Alabama, endeavoring to reach me.
Klunk during the time the regiment wasstraggling about in the Cumberland Valley, sent in his resignation, upon the plea of sickness in his family, and while stationed at Martinsburg he received notice that it had been accepted.
They were given to straggling considerably, not being used marching, and besides many of them wore tightly fitting boots, which they had worn while in the fortifications, making the matter worse.
One day one of these soldiers who was straggling behind, as we marched somewhere, in the Valley, was accosted by an officer, doubtless with the intent to reprimand him, and asked to what command he belonged.
