The boat, which all through answered the helm beautifully, fell off the moment Lucy ported the helm, and thus they escaped the impending and terrible danger of her making sternway.
Before the words were even out of his mouth a howl broke from the terrible infant.
Before David could decide this point for him, the kaleidoscopic mind of the terrible infant had taken another turn.
But the next moment they were white, for a terrible event interrupted this chat.
When this terrible ally mingled in the game--on the Talboys nights--dismay fell upon the wretched males that abode in and visited the once cheerful, cozy Font Abbey.
THE man whom Mr. Bazalgette introduced so smoothly and off-hand to Lucy Fountain exercised a terrible influence over her life, as you will see by and by.
Unfortunately for Lucy, the hostile one was by far the stronger of the two; and even now it was preparing a terrible coup.
In this castle is a terrible prison for convict men.
A stone vault, with grated windows, and traces of the inner ditch, is supposed to have been the terrible prison alluded to, but very small remains exist in the present day.
I have come all this way, through all these terrible places, to help you, and now I am of no use at all.
Odd ran his goad into the horse of Grettir to make it let go;--this was against the rules; he did it to save his own horse from a terrible wound.
On reaching the door of the cow-house she heard a terrible sound from within, the bellowing of the cattle, and the deep bell-notes of an unearthly voice.
How long that terrible struggle continued no one can tell.
So terrible were the sounds that Tignonville leant half swooning against the door-post; and even the iron heart of Tavannes seemed moved for a moment.
I knew how terrible would be the change, how fearful his rage, when I should tell him the truth.
If so," with a look of terrible meaning, "you will be the less loss!
A woman crouching at the end of the chamber burst into hysterical weeping, but, at a glance from Tavannes' terrible eye, was mute again.
As Dave crouched by the plate-glass window staring down at that wonderful and terrible spectacle of an unknown land, he asked himself the question: "Was this land ever viewed by mortal man?
The right and left eyes are incessantly moved separately from each other and literally in every direction, up and down, forwards and straight backwards, producing the most terrible squinting.
The following year 1887, Le Roi malgre lui, an opera of a lighter description, was produced in Paris at the Opera Comique, its run being interrupted by the terrible fire by which this theatre was destroyed.
A light breeze from the north-east wafted this cloud towards the French, who, a few moments later, fell gasping for breath in terrible agony.
It was here that those terrible instruments of torture, the caschielawis, the lang irnis, the boot and the pilliewinkis, were used to wring confessions from the wretched victims.
These terrible words were still sounding Like trumpets and drums through my head, When the monster clutched tighter my shoulder, And dragged me half out of the bed.
All that was terriblein the future they described to me rose up vividly before my mind.
They tightened, bored in, held with terrible pressure.
He was conscious of a flash of unearthly light, of terrible heat which came with it.
Let us hope that they did so win him; let us hope that even in that unreal world the better nature of the man triumphed at last, and claimed its reward before the terrible reality broke upon him.
We passed our wagons in a terrible plight: some upset, some with balky mules, some stuck in the mud, and some broken down.
The passion of the man, the terrible pity for these people, came out of his soul now, whitening his face and dulling his eyes.
The burly black figure before her seemed to tower and strengthen; the man's face in the wan light showed a terrible life-purpose coming out bare.
It hung limply down, and the least motion of it produced terrible pain.
But old fishermen here have told me there are terrible storms, which come up quite unexpectedly, and that at times there are dreadful fogs.
Their instinct, their sense of smell, and, above all, hearing the rattling, told them the terrible danger that was in their path.
The men who could use and abuse this terrible power were many.
A system such as Nicolas loved could not exist in presence of free and powerful states; and Europe had to march upon the armies of Nicolas, even as Ivan the Terrible had to march upon the troops of Yediguer Khan.
On asking what ailed him, he heard to his alarm that Vanka could neither eat nor sleep while that terrible secret lay upon his soul.
Terrible he was; butterrible to the rich and great.
And thus their lives are passed in the shadow of a terrible doom.
More eagerly than ever, they demanded to know what he saw in his fixed and terrible stare.
Ivan the Terrible was quick to perceive how much his power might be increased by the arts and arms which these strangers could bring him in their ships.
Ivan the Terrible introduced, and Peter the Great extended, the personal system.
He probably foresaw that he must face a terrible ordeal.
That fatal night--the night of the 21st of September--was in many respects the most terrible that New York has ever passed through.
The well-known nobility of her life, and her lovely character, at once convinced all who knew the circumstances that some terrible mistake had been made by her accuser.
He refused, and upon him is the responsibility of the terrible loss of life which ensued.
Well was it that two out of the three divisions were armed with Minies, for these created terrible havoc among the Russians, whose smooth-bores were no match for these newly-invented weapons.
The sixteen rescued men had, as they gained the top, been at once taken down into Balaklava, the sole survivors of the crews of over twenty ships which had gone to pieces in that terrible hurricane.
Yes, if we get a storm, and they say in the Black Sea they do have terrific gales during the winter, I fear we shall have a terrible business here.
Two lanes were literally mown through the ranks of the Russian infantry, the shot which flew high doing terrible execution among the artillery behind them.
Ammunition is evidently failing, and it is impossible for our fellows to hold out much longer against suchterrible odds.
The Russians replied but seldom, and occasionally when the smoke blew aside, it could be seen that terribledamage was being inflicted on the Russian batteries.
But now as the diminished regiments paraded, mere skeletons of the fine corps which had marched gayly from their camping-ground of the night before, the terrible extent of their losses was manifest.
So great was the crowd that they could not pass the river in time, and 200 prisoners were taken, while the French and Sardinian artillery swept the remains of the column, as it retreated, with a terrible cross fire.
Papa was never in favor, because mamma was a Pole, but these terrible opinions finished it.
But as they reached the plateau so terrible a storm of grape and musket-balls swept upon them, that the bead of the column melted away as it surmounted the crest.
Terrible was the buffeting they received as they ascended, and time after time they were dashed with immense force against the face of the cliff.
I hear that the English newspapers are full of accounts of the terrible sufferings of their troops.
More than half of the advance guard fell under that terrible discharge, and the artillery crowded behind them fell into confusion.
Sir George Cathcart led his men down a ravine in front of him, but the Russians were already on the hillside above, and poured a terrible fire into the 63d.
The French, however, were now thoroughly prepared, and the attack was, like the preceding one, beaten back with terrible slaughter.
And with much coolness and a sort of secret impatience, as if another thought were devouring his attention, he told me briefly of a certain unwilling and terrible murderer.
No comparisons can make clear to you thatterrible gulf whose bottom even I do not see as yet.
And that the scrap heap was terrible when one becomes a puppet himself and that the broken fragments reeked with blood.
But he said: 'Better for me to take this terrible sin and punishment upon myself than to surrender into the arms of hell these innocent fools.
Thus does man struggle with himself for thousands of years and the sorrow of his soul is boundless and the suffering of his mind is terrible and horrible, while the final judge is slow about his coming.
I thought of how painful and terrible it was for it to remain firm and erect and of how much pain and suffering had already fallen to the lot of this human creature, no matter how proud it might appear or dejected.
The whole mass of seamen in the Persian fleet, during this terrible night, were panic-stricken and filled with horror.
In fact, he had special and personal reason for his solicitude, for he had himself, some years before, met with a terrible disaster at this very spot.
Of course there was perpetual jealousy and dissension, and often open and terrible conflicts, between these two rival lines.
On one of the expeditions which Darius had intrusted to his charge, he was conducting a very large fleet along the coast, when a sudden storm arose just as he was approaching this terrible promontory.
With all this, however, they were the most ferocious and terrible soldiers in the world.
The truth is, that the Greeks, always terrible as combatants, are rendered desperate now by the straits to which they are reduced and the losses that they have sustained.
Atossa escaped the dangers of this stormy and terrible reign, and returned safely to Susa after Cambyses's death.
It would enable them, when the terribleconflict should come on, to drive back any wretched refugees who might attempt to escape from destruction by seeking the shore.
Her dreams changed into terrible visions, which exhausted her life.
Antea, the wife of a Roman patrician, ill with terrible visions, is advised by a physician to seek the air of Jerusalem.
Finally, death should not be terrible to that Nazarene, for he declares that he will rise from the dead.
A terrible battle ensued, the rat several times freeing itself from the ermine, which returned again and again, until at length the rat was stretched lifeless and bleeding on the floor of the cage.
When threatened by hawks, they squat closely to the earth, and present their beaks somewhat as the French soldiers did their bayonets when assailed by the terrible Mamelukes in Egypt.
It means that the "poilu" knows he will have another winter in the trenches, with all the terrible discomforts that soldiers dread so much more than they dread danger.
