He was keeping at her side; she could not outstrip his strides with her flying little steps.
He was walking on beside her, so close that his arm brushed hers, his long stridesfalling in with her little steps.
With rapid strides he quickly passed down that street to the Occidental Hotel.
We are over three thousand miles from Washington, and I very much doubt your ability to overcome that distance by to-morrow morning, though you may have made great strides toward its achievement.
He paces with long strides through the chamber, then stands still again, and at last throws himself into a chair, staring vacantly at the object directly before him).
Some threestrides up the hill, a mountain ash Stretches its lower boughs and scarlet clusters O'er the old thatch.
Strides towards the Arbor, EARL HENRY rushes out of it.
Before 136] Butler (strides up and down in excessive agitation, then steps up to Octavio with resolved countenance).
The darkness, When ten strides off we know 'tis cheerful moonlight, 95 Collects the guilt, and crowds it round the heart.
The commodore, a remarkably small man with a fiery countenance, overshadowed by a prodigious cocked hat, was walking the deck with hasty strides as Murray came up the side.
He was making immense strides in civilisation, having taken to sleeping in a hammock under bedclothes, and learned to drink tea in a teacup, when he was lost at sea in a gale of wind rounding the Cape.
In view of the enormous strides contemplated by Russia, they now asked for certain rights in connection with Servia and Montenegro, and commercial privileges that would open a way to Salonica[168].
The Christians of the Balkan Peninsula made greater strides towards liberty than they had taken in the previous century.
After taking these strides in the Levant, Germany ought not to have shown jealousy of French progress in Morocco, where her commerce was small.
The captain paced up and down the room with giantstrides and struck his forehead with his fist.
The Zouave made two long strides in getting downstairs, and in a moment he had reached and climbed the garden-wall.
Little Lizay pleaded in a frantic way for silence as she saw Alston coming with long strides up between the cotton-rows toward them.
He had occasionally seen Mr Keswick come out on the porch, and with long strides pace backward and forward, and he knew by that sign that he had yet no message to bring him.
Colonel Macon made five strides towards him, and seized his hand.
In a dozen strides he was in their midst, and before either of the two seconds, equally astonished, could interfere, he had caught Santander by the throat, and tore open the breast of his shirt!
Art seems at first to have taken rapid strides in Egypt, but after reaching a certain point, it was prevented by established laws, enforced by the priesthood, from going farther.
The enormous strides which the organization has made is shown in its ever-increasing revenue and membership from year to year.
The advent of the Municipality saw great strides in city improvements, especially in laying out of public places, such as markets and parks.
He took three strides and touched the curtains, discovering now for the first time that there were two of them, divided down the middle.
They inspected the moraine matter over which we walked, and at length one of them exclaimed, 'Da sind die Spuren,' lengthening his strides at the same moment.
It was a while before the day-sky, and I was just beginning to turn drowsy, when I thought I saw something white on the muir, about two hundred strides from me.
The air seemed, however, to have a surprising effect on the old reprobate, for the simple reason that to simulate drunkenness and at the same time keep pace with the lady's rapid strides was out of the question.
The more Brett thought out the complexities of the affair, the more excited he became, and the longer and more rapid were his strides up and down the length of his spacious sitting-room.
Alone in his sumptuous room, with its lordly bed all hung with purple silks, the Nabob is still awake, turning over his own black thoughts as he strides to and fro.
Wolfe turned rapidly, and made but two strides before he was once more by the side of his defeated opponent.
Almayer stepped homewards with long strides and mind uneasy.
He stepped on it with a quick but steady motion, and in two strides found himself at the outer end, with the rush and swirl of the foaming water at his feet.
It is truly making rapid strides among these keen-minded and receptive people.
In the North Pacific Ocean area great strides have been made in the advancement of the Cause since that historic Asia Regional Teaching Conference in Nikko just sixteen years ago.
He feels great strides forward have been made, and trusts still greater progress lies ahead.
Seldom has a people made such rapidstrides forward as the Russian Jews.
He flung from him the piece of stick remaining in his grasp, and went off with great hasty strides without looking back once.
He sprang to his feet, saying aloud, "I am intolerably anxious," and in a few headlong strides stood by the side of the bed.
It brings philosophy down from the air, like a peaceful thunderbolt, to shatter the vain illusions we entertain of our material success and our civilised strides forward.
But when a man like my brother-in-law Spenworth strides in here a few hours before the anæsthetic is administered and says 'What is the matter with you?
Leaving the old woman aghast, he went with long strides to the iron railing which surrounded a little garden in front of the convent.
But to be mounted on good horses, which in a few galloping strides could have carried us behind the rampart of houses, and to be obliged to hold them back instead of spurring them on, was very unpleasant, and made us feel foolish.
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