Now, high above the bed of the gorge, the darkness had thinned about them; more than once the girl saw the clear-cut silhouette of man and beast in front of her or swerving off to right or left.
Heaven only knows what passed us in those few minutes when a broken stream of terrified creatures dashed by, hardly swerving to avoid us.
Lion's head, but swerving to avoid the big paw that darted out at him, he struck in passing at the Jackal, and took off part of his ear.
And because a miscarriage in this great truth is the most dangerous and damning miscarriage, therefore should professors be the more fearful of swerving aside therefrom.
Now having showed you the law, I will also show you how God takes swerving therefrom.
Now, this their swerving from the gospel ariseth, 1.
It always acteth according to God; nor is there at any time the least shadow of swerving as to this.
There had been a cattle fair earlier in the morning, so troops of cattle were roving down the road, some with bells tang-tanging, all with soft faces and startled eyes and a sudden swerving of horns.
Does it sound strange to say that God is seen more in the latter than the former, that the outer form that contains the universe is less divine than the perfect steadfast nature, swerving neither to the right hand nor the left?
There may beswerving neither to the right hand nor to the left.
And as he did so, he remembered Gudrun's last words to him, and her face lifted up to him as he sat on the swerving horse.
Dropping to her hands and knees, for the craft was now swerving and rocking, she crept to him.
The first impulse of the officer was to seize the helm, with a view to right the vessel, already swerving from her course, the second, to awaken the crew, who were buried in sleep on the forecastle.
But, swerving from the mark, his lord's life did assure.
The goggled driver bore straight down upon the little figure, then swerving sharply to one side jammed on the brakes and came to a sudden halt.
He explained, as sarcastically as he could, that war was not a social diversion, and bade us make a quick return to Brussels, swerving neither to the right nor left as we went.
He spoke of himself often under the figure of a gymnastic artist, who had continued for nearly fourscore years to support his balance upon the slack-rope of life, without once swerving to the right or to the left.
And by self-restoration he understands a renewal of that state in which he was when first swerving from temperance.
Chris tried his best to break free, swerving and racing.
Chris hit the highway running, swervinginto the lane at high speed.
But the sight of the latter made him slip the paddle-blade into the sliding water, and send the canoe swerving out for a better view.
That tap, tapping he had heard had been from the dead feet seeking vainly to pass through the chink of the sluice, swerving with the side current, coming back, again and again.
The next instant she was swerving to avoid an orientalism, which would have made it too unworldly.
It is this silent swerving from accuracy by an inch that is the uncanny element in everything.
Then he pointed toward a spot where hoards of fireflies clustered around one tree, twinkling and swerving to and fro.
The stream, swerving to the left, flows on to the apex of the Big Bend.
It trusts to its truly marvellous power of timing the onslaught of the merlin and swerving at the critical moment, so that the merlin misses it by a hair's breadth.
The Indians circled closer, swervingin and out, firing.
The Cheyennes swiftly approached, swerving through the winding ravine, intent upon striking their unconscious prey.
With many misgivings, he led the way directly towards it, swerving out across the path of a vast but straggling horde of sambur deer which seemed almost exhausted.
The trail, swerving opportunely, appeared to lead directly towards its foot, and they raced on, the girl now laughing softly with excitement, and forgetting her fear of the unknown because of the known peril behind her.
Paddles raised, rigid as statues, scarcely daring to breathe, the two lads remained motionless until the slackening and swerving of their craft made it necessary for Blaise to dip his blade cautiously.
Swerving in to shore, the canoe was brought to a stop, its prow just touching a bit of beach.
And continuousswerving from aisle to aisle between the brush, and leaping little washes and mounds of the pack-rats, and breaking through sage, made rough riding.
He had come straight up without mishap or swerving off his course, and his shut teeth unlocked.
In this he was charged with swerving as much from the right line on one side as Baius had been supposed to do on the other.
McKibben, peering sharply at the Mexican, and then swerving his gaze to Matt and the unconscious form in his arms.
And coming this way," added Matt, swerving his eyes up the slope.
This way and that, swerving and dodging, went the chase.
Cameron's sudden appearance gave the final and necessary touch to the swerving movement.