Arina Petrovna rose and watched them stride over the front yard to the counting-house without exchanging a word.
Stepan threw off his dressing-gown, and began to stride back and forth in the overheated room, with nothing but a shirt on his back.
Yet he was glad to turn away from the face of the storm and stride on down-wind.
Fear, and yet with it there was a thrill of happiness, for every swinging stride of the tall, wild roan carried him deeper into freedom, the unutterable fierce freedom of the hunted.
At the end of the first week one had to stride or jump over half a dozen chasms to get from one side to another.
With a stride Conan reached him and bent slightly to stare full into his hairy face.
Conan took a swift stride toward the open doorway, and then halted short, baffled.
His immense stride carried him yards at every bound.
In his alarm he made a stride to the door, with the intention of locking it.
The buffalo in his stride is a most singular looking animal, pitching to and fro in heavy lumbering fashion, and yet gets over the ground much faster than he appears.
He made a long stride and dropped both his hands on the Malay's shoulders.
He walked with a freer stride and swung his stick with a jauntier air than he had yesterday.
For several days she had watched the entrance of every arrival, half-expecting to see him stride in.
With a snort the horse bolted and then settled into his stride until the gentle breeze in the rider's face became a rushing gale.
His countenance in repose was frank and cheerful, and he walked with the free, swinging stride of an out-door man in full enjoyment of bodily health and vigor.
The cattleman was getting into his stride now that the first moments of his embarrassment were passed.
Plug the Hole The players form in a circle with their legs in a stride position, their toes touching those of the next player.
Channel Tag The group forms a circle, faces to the right and assumes a stride position.
Such promotion was phenomenal even in the Mexican war, and none of his West Point comrades made so great a stride in rank.
I'll to the duke; ere yet this day is ended Will I demand of him that he do save His good name from the world, and with one stride Break through and rend this fine-spun web of yours.
Tom, who led off, faltered in his stride when leaving the spring-board.
With an even, measured, and springy stride they raced down the board, which was wide enough to admit of this manoeuvre.
Judy took her hand from my arm, and with an almost martial stride the little creature walked up to the speaker, and stood before her defiantly.
But eager of knowledge, under whatever form it offered itself, he made, after discarding botany, a new stride towards erudition.
I know the time when this great Scotch baronet did not stride in the high path into which he has now scrambled, and I will show you something to the effect.
He showed Yan how much may be gained at times by patient waiting, and that it is better to tread like an Indian with foot set straight, for thereby one gains an inch or two at each stride and can come back in one's own track through deep snow.
Frank Pratt had no sooner gone than Richard began to stride hastily up and down the little room, to the great endangering of Mrs Fiddison's furniture.
Being a friend to an unsuspicious man is about the most unpleasant post on the face of the earth," said Pratt, moralising, as he saw his friend stride away.
Also there was a tendency to step higher than was at all in good form, and to shorten the strideby so doing, losing the smooth easy forward roll from the hips.
There isn't a man in the woods who could take that stride and hold it but Jim Everly.
The chief thing to remember," said he, "is to take a long stride with the toes pointed straight ahead.
As he and Columbine halted in the trail, Belllounds's hurried stride lengthened until he almost ran.
Her downcast eyes had seen the stride he had made closer to her, and she wanted to run.
The Czar hailed it as a breathing space wherein he could reorganize his army, conquer Finland, and stridetowards the Balkans.
With one leg planted at the mouth of the Danube, the Colossus now prepared to stride over Central Europe.
With what concert does one's heart beat to the free strideof a mettled charger!
The Turk's horse, however, was wounded, and could not gain even on the tired animal before him, while mine was at every stride overtaking him.
Raise piece to high side perpendicular on the left, left hand up, and stride backward right, Fig.
But suppose the scale found on the map to be one inch = 100 strides (ground), then estimates could not be intelligently made by one unfamiliar with the length of the stride used.
Founding on which last two meanings, Rabbi Yehudah says, "Samson strode in one stride from Zoreah to Eshtaol," a giant stride of two miles or more.
