Eleanor, leaning against the wall for support--so weak was she, and so startling was this sudden apparition of the man whom she had last seen on the threshold of the glass passage at Marinata, barely a fortnight before.
She stood on the threshold a moment, looking at Eleanor with a sweet and piteous appeal.
Fortunately the run was brief, but when he reached the threshold he was in the last stage of exhaustion.
The firelight fell upon the figure of an Indian warrior, who stopped on the threshold as if he doubted whether he would be welcome when those within saw him.
And by the time I had got all this done, and had made my pack and bound it on the pack-saddle, the day was tiptoe on the threshold of the east.
She turned to go upstairs, and Betty crossing the threshold stood a moment irresolute.
It was all absorbed by the gentle girl whom between them they had brought to the threshold of the grim portal.
On the threshold the Colonel, catching sight of Gustav, stopped abruptly, with a very stern look, and would not have entered the room had I not gone to him and urged him.
But Serge, in spite of himself, stood rooted to the ground, on the threshold of the breach through which he gazed.
Albine was now laughing on thethreshold of the vestibule.
When she reached the threshold of the pavilion, she turned round and gave a last look at the Paradou.
Mary went out then, but on the threshold of her own room she paused to snuff her candle.
On the threshold of the library she wrested her thoughts back to the present, and paused a moment, considering what she should say to her uncle.
But she was sure that she would always remember his appearance on the threshold of her new life, that she would always recall with gratitude this crossing and the kindness which had lapped her about and saved her from loneliness.
Leaving Ben Bosham on the threshold she lost not a moment, but with her story on her lips, hurried up the stairs, and on the landing came plump upon Lord Audley.
At any rate the effect was good, and a guest who came late, and paused a moment on the threshold to observe the scene, thought that he had never before done the room full justice.
I knew she had prayed and wept over me; and that even on thethreshold of the grave, her anxiety for my welfare had caused her spirit to linger, that she might pray once more for me.
Were they indeed birds, or the glad, winged inhabitants of a mystic region, resembling earth, but sweeter than earth and never entered by death, upon whose threshold I had stumbled by chance?
Moore opened the door that Sir Percival might pass out and found himself face to face with Bessie Dyke, who had paused on the threshold preparatory to knocking.
He halted on the threshold and looked inquiringly at his teacher.
Bessie," said Moore, persuasively, and she halted on the threshold in haughty response.
At the threshold of this discussion of the problem of mind and spirit we have that of life.
As Newton, when he gave the law of gravitation mathematical form, penetrated not a step toward its cause, so the biologist has not passed the threshold of the domain of life.
The most thoughtful and profound acknowledge that at the threshold of life all physical theories utterly fail, and that the problem does not admit of solution.
Until the threshold of the functional activity of the brain and the nervous system have been passed, conclusions should be modestly expressed.
Leave him to the law--do not repay my hospitality by shedding men's blood on the threshold of my doors!
There's nae mark on their threshold for a signal that the destroying angel should pass by.
On the threshold of a successful career, he has ever moved in the right direction toward fame, and a distinguished future may be prophesied for him, a future which will bring new luster to the old family name which he bears.
Crossing the threshold of business life, he became bookkeeper for P.
Thou that canst never avail threshold of owner to quit, Neither canst listen to folk since here fast fixt to the side-posts Only one office thou hast, shutting or opening the house.
Lift o'er the threshold with good omen thy glistening feet, and go through the polished gates.
Only as he crossed the threshold one word of unutterable contempt fell from between his teeth.
None of the children had yet seen the stout personage on the threshold of the room.
She found herself unexpectedly on the threshold of the day-nursery.
The motions and words of command were twenty at the very least; and until they were regularly brought to an end, the corporal did not permit Wildrake either to sit down or move forward beyond the threshold of the guard-house.
For me, I will never cross the threshold again--but where to rest for a night?
I had heard enough of the foul abominations of that refuge for the imprisoned destitute, to make me determined never to cross the thresholdunless under actual coercion.
Shortly after, twelve young ladies, the prettiest they could find in the town, tripped up to the threshold where the Queen held out her arms to them.
It is altogether too strong in us to be left behind as we cross the threshold of this region; it is too much connected with all our thinking and experience.
On the threshold of Christian morality there lies that by which all its subsequent stages may be tested, and which is the measure of advance or retrogression.
They met on thethreshold of the child's room, she coming out, he going in.
On the threshold stood the young actress, Mademoiselle Ricci, a Marseillaise, half French, half Italian, who was at the moment the talk of Venice.
Pentaur had crossed the threshold of the man he despised with aversion; the man himself, sitting at the feet of the suffering girl, had exclaimed as he saw the priest approaching the hovel: "Yet another white robe!
He had hardly crossed the thresholdwhen he felt a hand laid upon his shoulder.
But on the threshold of the door, Ameni, in full pontifical robes, stood before her in the way, his crozier extended as though to forbid her entrance.
He had crossed the threshold of the paraschites most reluctantly, and the thought that he, of all men, had been selected to censure a deed of the noblest humanity, and to bring her who had done it to judgment, weighed upon him as a calamity.
On the right side of this plot of ground rose the one-storied dwelling house, its length stretching into distant perspective, as it consisted of a single row of living and bedrooms.
The priests on the other bank of the Nile were Bent-Anat's counsellors, and he had heard the princess spoken of as a devout and gifted maiden.
