They were compassed with numerous fierce and cruel tribes of wild and savage men who could have swallowed up parents and children at pleasure, in their feeble and distressed condition.
Sometimes the boats are whirled round in the vortex with such awful rapidity that renders all management of the vessel impossible, and the boat and its hapless crew are swallowed up in the abyss.
She saw by the broad light which made even the distant prairie like noonday, the tops of the trees that fringed the creek but for a few moments, and then they were swallowed up in that crimson furnace.
But as the night swallowed them up, she still looked back, and through the gloom she saw a shadow coming swiftly.
Quickly he was swallowed up in the starlit chaos of the night.
A tiny square of pale light appeared, grew into a huge bay door that swallowed us.
I swallowed hard, got a firm grip on my pistol, and went in.
The voice of the weir had swelled into a roar by now, yet I paid little heed; for me, all fear was swallowed up in a great wondering happiness.
Yet scarcely had he swallowed the last mouthful when he heard Mr. Selwyn's voice close by.
I stood stock-still despite the Imp's frantic tugs at my coat, all other feelings swallowed up in one of half-amused resentment.
And in that moment Doubt and Fear were swallowed up in a great joy, and I forgot all things save that Lisbeth was before me and that I loved her.
Men in Canada would have swallowed cask-washings to get a single waltz with her.
Giles, "so needs must I come also, since I have twelve shafts yet unsped," and heswallowed the morsel of venison with mighty relish and gusto.
This simplicity of the physician furnished excellent diversion for the company, who, in their turns, sneered at him in ironical compliments, which his vanity swallowed as the genuine sentiments of their hearts.
But I had no soonerswallowed a mouthful, than I thought my entrails were scorched, and endeavoured with a deluge of small-beer to allay the heat it occasioned.
And when he had eaten one up, she threw him another, till he had swallowed all.
I flung myself on the ground, gnawed the earth and swallowed it; and then I looked round; it was almost total darkness in the dingle, and the darkness added to my horror.
Truly tremendous was the roar of the descending waters, and the bellow of the tremendous gulfs, which swallowed them for a time, and then cast them forth, foaming and frothing from their horrid wombs.
The little creature suddenly swallowed its rage, and continued more sweetly: 'Now, as to the Flamp.
If badly cooked food is swallowed in silence, such neglect will speedily become a habit.
The ruler of the powerful State of Ch'in, after gradually vanquishing and absorbing such of the other rival States as had not already been swallowed up by his own State, found himself in B.
Nor did Othomar speak again; he swallowedhis last moments of relaxation and repose in careful draughts, each draught a pure joy that would never return.
They have swallowed up my property, and that of my wife.
Yes, you'll be bolted down like one of your own pills: and I should like to see the whole ship swallowed down in the Norway maelstrom, like a box on 'em.
I see nothing so great in Proteus's just jumping in and being swallowed by the flames.
The same fate, it seems to me, awaits the orator who exhibits his skill amid these wondrous works of art: his praises are obscured, quite swallowed up, in the splendour of the things he praises.
I dreamed that I was endeavoring to do my hair and every time I put my hand on a hairpin that horrible parrot of yours snapped it up and swallowed it.
Spence had fallen in with her humor, and had come indeed to love this place where even the sun paused lingeringly before the mountainsswallowed it up.
She asked the question generally but her eye fell upon the one male member who swallowed his Sunday gum-drop with a gulp.
His brief anger was swallowed up in something else.
Murphy had his mouth half filled with potatoes as he spoke, and swallowed a large draught of milk as the stranger swallowed Murphy's lie.
Not as much as would physic a snipe," said Dick, who swallowed a glass of claret to conceal a smile.
Murphy handed him a tumbler full of water, and the doctor gave it to M'Garry, and desired him to try and drink it; he put it to his lips and swallowed a little drop.
O'Grady swallowed a curse when he remembered he was a clergyman.
The boys' answer, if indeed they made any, was swallowed up by the tumultuous booming of the church bell, which began at that moment with the unexpectedness of a thunderclap.
Sube swallowed once or twice, and then managed to say, "Oh, that's all right!
The atheling of Geatmen uttered these words and 20 Heroic did hasten, not any rejoinder Was willing to wait for; the wave-current swallowed {He is a whole day reaching the bottom of the sea.
I do not know if what they say is true, but you have yourself seen what is left of such a great town as Babil, and I know of many another which has been levelled, and swallowed up by the sand.
I do not know what Edwards's feelings were, but I, at that moment, would have been quite pleased if the earth had suddenly opened and swallowed me up.
Slag swallowed the mouthful on which he was engaged, thrust after it the morsel that was ready to follow, wiped the clasp-knife on his thigh, and went forward to "take a squint.
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