Douglass, on dismounting, had picketed the horses and thrown himself at full length on the grass with his head in Constance's lap.
But his head was thrown well back and his reply was almost a challenge in its curt incisiveness: "Then I reckon I wouldn't have to baig what ribbons I took a fancy to.
He had labored servilely in the vineyard of the Lord and been paid by the contemptuously-thrown lees of the vintage.
He had thrown his whole heart and soul into his work and the effect was already visible to the most casual observer.
From the head of the waterfall where she washed the jagged wound in his head, Douglass looking down to where she hadthrown the dynamite, noted that the whole hillside was changed in appearance.
She was therefore thrown a great deal on her own resources for amusement, and it must be admitted that she made the most of the many opportunities accorded to every beautiful woman in her sphere.
There may be some statements which are hard to understand at first, but which may become perfectly clear when proper light is thrown upon them.
Well,' said the deacon, 'he has thrown a damper on your meetings.
When all earthly hopes are gone, and one isthrown out alone on the merits of Jesus Christ, it is then that faith takes hold and the victory comes.
We have actually seen a row of palms which had been burnt, and yet they had pushed out of their dismal darkness, and thrown out fresh foliage.
Or, perhaps it was a wet blanket suddenly thrown over them and their testimony, but the fire within only burnt its way through and turned the wet into steam and proved the possessor to be practically invulnerable.
It was only the principle involved; that the young man must be very changeable, and that Peggy might run a risk in the future if Harry were thrown in much with other women.
The engagement of these two young people has been like a stone thrown into a pond, and it takes only a very little pebble to ruffle the water farther than one would believe it possible.
By pursuing them, the guards were throwninto the rear of the first regiment, from which they were concealed by the unevenness of the ground, and by a skirt of wood.
On the voyage he was captured by a British frigate; and his papers, which he hadthrown overboard, were rescued from the waves by a British sailor.
While this manoeuvre was performing in the face of the detachment under Grant, a small party was thrown into the church yard, on the road towards General Gray, which also gave the appearance of an intention to attack in that quarter.
With a view to these various circumstances, the army was thrown into two great divisions.
A British post was established upon the main land at this ferry, and works were thrown up in front for its defence.
Inside it, some thousand or so of labouring people were swarming restlessly round a single large block of stone, some relic of Druid times, on which a tall man stood, his dark figure thrown out in bold relief against the dreary sky.
Had I been thrown under the influence of the more educated Independents in former years, I might have thought differently.
I was now thrown again utterly on my own resources.
He is even liable to be thrown out of his work for refusing to work on Sunday.
Perhaps she had thrown them away--the condemned rioter's poems!
Ay, thank God, indeed; but poor Lord Ellerton was thrown from his horse last night and brought home dead.
It was an even thing, and since we are thrown together again, we will not quarrel about the past.
Mea had scarcely thrown the lighted, smoking branches into the lower one when immediately out of the upper one big bats began to fly; squeaking and blinded by the luster of the sun, they flew aimlessly about the tree.
The local animals understand the danger which threatens them, for it happens that whole herds of oxen, when they hear its hum near a waterfall, are thrown into a wild stampede and scamper in all directions.
It never occurred to him that one single word that he had thrown to a little child had betrayed him.
South Sea Islands could have guessed what fruit his light-thrown seed would yield to us and to the world!
Much of this belt was covered with ancient forest ending in mud flats that appeared to have been thrown up recently, perhaps at the time of the tidal wave which bore us to Orofena.
All he knew was that during the convulsion of Nature which resulted in the tidal wave that had thrown our ship upon the island, the mountain had been seen to quiver like a tree in the wind as though within it great forces were at work.
That is, either the flat rock had sunk or the volcano had been thrown upwards.
Yes, then the world shook, and the blue globes of fire went out, while I was thrown to the ground.
He also has been thrown to the ground by the strength of the prisoned forces which he gathered and loosed upon their unholy errand, but, as I rejoiced to observe, had suffered from them much more than ourselves.
Of course, I understand that the blood you have shed has thrown you off your balance.
I found that a minstrel show had been thrown out of its regular route by a flood and was playing our town unexpectedly.
To pay for a ticket was money thrown away; so thought the upper classes and the lower classes.
If he gets in he can't increase and is soon thrown out again.
They must be thrown aside and not used in building the state, or the state will fall.
Men are ground down to scrap and are thrownout as wreckage.
A bridge of rafts was thrown across the Panjkora River; the Guides Cavalry and Infantry were passed over on the afternoon of April 15, with orders to reconnoitre certain villages early the next morning.
To General Gatacre the thanks of His Excellency the Governor in Council are in a special degree due, both for the offer of assistance and for the energy he has thrown into the undertaking.
The other man, together with the two comrades who had been thrown off in the wild descent, were hopelessly lost.
The cheers that greeted him as he appeared in the prize-winners' parade were significant of the public appreciation of the energy that, as chairman of the committee, he had thrown into the undertaking.
She started in her saddle as if she had received a blow, and would have fallen from her seat had not her husband thrown his powerful arm around her, and supported her frame on the back of her palfrey.
A moment afterward, the bolts were withdrawn and the gate thrown open, and the lady, with her conductors, entered the ruined rancho.
If we cannot settle the disputed point, it is very evident that, in future, ingenuity and learning will be thrown away in attempting further elucidation.
PUNCH lays hold around the neck, but is ultimately thrown upon the platform.
An enemy, a man who has good reason to hate me, Elias, has helped me out of the prison into which my friends had thrown me.
In any other time than the present, he would have beenthrown down stairs in the same way as the religious corporations treated the sacrilegious governor Bustamente in his time.
Here is where your father's body was thrown into the water!
When the light of day isthrown on their monstrous forms, you will see a frightful reaction.
He had scarcely set foot on shore, however, before he was arrested and thrown in prison.
The old lieutenant paused for a few minutes and then continued: "About this time there came to the province a man who had been in the artillery, but had been thrown out of the ranks on account of his brutality and ignorance.
But Miss Hazel, divining nothing of comedies or plots, was thrown into a pleasant flutter by the news.
What if the gentleman in a sudden fit of melancholia had thrown himself into the lake?
It was the opportunity of a lifetime and he had wantonly thrown it away.
He had at once thrown himself ardently into Johnson's undertaking, and put all his power of traditional knowledge, of criticism, and of original composition at Johnson's disposal.
Neither could he have so seized on the redeeming virtues of rude and half-barbarous times, and invested them with that halo of romance which Scott has thrown over them.
The franchise had become very close--in the counties restricted to a few of the chief families--in the boroughs thrown into the hands of the Baillies, who were venal beyond conception.
Then they ran together to the wall, and Jean was climbing up a ladder, when a heavy stone thrown by the English struck her helmet, and she fell.
So Joan caused the gate to be thrown open, and the town's people, who were very eager, rushed to the river bank, and crossed in boats.
But the Duke of Alencon was having a bridge of wood thrown across the river Seine, at a new place, and they meant to cross by that bridge next day, and attack Paris again.
As he stood panting like a wild beast at bay, suddenly a filmy substance was thrown over his head from behind.
Startled for an instant, Dick quickly realized that it was Von Kettler in his plane, with his hood thrown back.
Dick was vaguely aware that the silence switch had been thrown in the room, for his feet made no sound, but the knowledge was latent in his mind.
They had thrown over him one of the invisible garments.
From this projector goes out a beam of invisible light and the reflections are gathered and thrown through a prism of the eye-piece.
It had thrown England into the convulsions of a succession of general strikes, using the communist movement as a cloak for its activities.
You werethrown unconscious, but none of my tough old bones were hurt.
Mad with rage at the prospective escape of his prey, and infuriated by his half-sister's appearance in the plane, Von Kettler had thrown all caution to the winds.
Count Wolfegg, and several others who are very enthusiastic for Beecke, said lately at a public concert that I had thrown Beecke quite into the shade," writes Wolfgang in confirmation of his own opinion.
The parts combine to express and dilate upon a well-defined idea, the separate features of which are not thrown together arbitrarily or by chance.
Miserere, which had thrown him into ecstasies in Rome, made no impression at all in Vienna, performed by singers who were secondo il corrente stilo eccellentissimi.
But wonderful as were Wolfgang's accomplishments as a clavier-player, violinist, and vocalist, they were thrown into the shade by his talents as a composer.
In 1759 they went together to Naples; here, it is said, his singing made so deep an impression on the Princess Belmonte-Pignatelli as to cure her of a deep melancholy into which she had been thrown by the death of her husband.
The complicity of her brother and the two Italians was discovered by a letter; Count Sedlizky was placed under arrest, Guerrieri thrown into prison, and Tozi took refuge with the Theatin monks.
Wolfgang's performances on the clavier, organ, and violin, extraordinary as they were, were thrown into the shade by the proofs he gave of almost incredible musical genius.
Before Rosie had fairly finished what she had to say, warm-hearted, impulsive Lulu had risen to her feet, run hastily to her and thrown her arms round her neck.
Lulu went on with her work, but her thoughts were busy with that parting piece of advice, or rather the suggestion thrown out by Mrs. Leland.
The passion itself is wholly there, but this man of one volition is thrown out of the common brotherhood of man; an individual so artificially constructed as to include a whole species.
Some conceive that this bishop has suffered ill-treatment merely for having thrownout some remarkable, or abominable, invectives.
Their mythic legends have thrown confusion into their national annals, often accepted by historians as authentic records.
Tyrwhit, the able commentator of Chaucer, has thrown out an incidental remark, which seems equally refined and true.
It seems a language thrown into confusion, struggling to adapt itself to a new state of things; it has no Norman-French, it is saturated with Saxon, but the sentences are freed from inversions.
But fortunately it is a superior kind of eggs and milk and sugar that can't be hurt by being thrown together wrong.
She nestled her head close to him, her arm thrown about him.
It was a windy day, and her hair was a little disarranged, which made her look very young, and her veil was thrown back from her face just right to make a frame for it.
The temptation for a priest who has thrown up the Church to become a democrat is very strong, beyond doubt, for by so doing he regains colleagues and friends, and in reality merely exchanges one sect for another.
No sooner had I thrown the little shift on to the surface than it lifted itself up.
I crossed the courtyard as quickly as I could, and went to the hotel which then stood at the north-west corner of the esplanade, not at that time thrown open, as it is now.
Thanks to the remarkable good luck which has attended me all my life, and always thrown me into communication with very worthy men, I have never had to make sudden changes in my attitudes.
I might even be tempted to think that nature has more than once thrown down cushions to break the fall for me.
In Cincinnati, Birney's printing-press and types were thrown into the Ohio, and the negroes for days were hunted like beasts.
Where we suppose we have the Constitutional right, we restrain ourselves in reference to the actual existence of the institution and the difficulties thrown about it.
This was done; the bold squad fired so fast from their repeating carbines that the rebels, startled and perplexed, could not estimate on the probable number attacking them, and were thrown into confusion.
His brother, who studied with him, had already become an unbeliever, and thrown up the design of preaching, and he could not bear to think of adding to his father's trials by deserting the standard.
The train on which he left home for the East, was to have beenthrown off the track.
We have a due regard to the actual presence of it amongst us and the difficulties of getting rid of it in any satisfactory way, and all the Constitutional obligations thrown about it.
Night's black sheet drawn off the other half of the world is thrown over us; the dark side of the lantern is turned towards us.
Esther has thrown herself into an American rocking chair, and is rocking violently backwards and forwards, trying her best to tip herself over.
She looks as if she had been thrown there, an inert, passive mass, by some spiteful giant.
