But immediately I declared myself willing to act as he thought best, the old man threw down his rifle, and, with upraised hands, stepped out from amid the screen of foliage into the very arms of those who were coming up the slope.
Illustration: "With upraised hands, stepped out from amid the screen of foliage"] Chapter X.
At intervals of about ten or fifteen seconds the wasp would quickly back out of the burrow, bringing a load of sand, which it held between the back of the jaws and its thorax, sustained at the sides by the two upraised fore legs.
With head and fore feet upraised and open jaws he seems "spoiling for a fight," and ready to make war upon the first comer.
His nose was upraised sniffing the air, for he smelled the fresh meat.
Bob leaned as far over as he could, without falling, and tried to reach the upraised hands of his companion.
The half-startled look of the disciples is very cleverly presented, and the glow of the ethereal light upon their faces, partially warded off by St. John with his upraised hand, is beautifully depicted.
High above in the curve of the archway is the Eternal Father holding the globe in one hand and with the other upraised in benediction.
Jerome, and as Dave opened the gates another arrow hurtled between the boy's upraised arm and his body and stuck quivering in one of its upright bars.
He heard a cry of surprise and horror from Hugh and a huge hand caught his upraised wrist.
Erskine fled after her, overtook her with her hands upraised for the plunge on the very edge of the cliff, and half carried her, struggling and sobbing, back to the tent.
Grizel made a feint of unrolling the calico under cover of an upraised arm.
Oberstein, while Fabricius with upraised finger reprovingly asked, 'have you brought with you a maiden in man's attire?
Then you rushed into the tent and valiantly stayed the monster's upraised arm, although he was your superior, and commanded him and gave him hard words, and compelled him to spare their lives and take them with him prisoners to Munster.
Maxillae with two large spines on the upper angle, beneath which there is a large depression, bearing one rather long and thick, and four short and thick, spines; inferior upraised part with a double row of longer and thinner spines.
The maxillae have two or three large upper spines, the others being very thin; I believe the lower part is upraised and step-like, as in the hermaphrodite.
Maxillae, with three great upper spines, beneath which there is a deep notch bearing some delicate spines; inferior upraised part, as in P.
The chief, with upraised hands, called down the curses of the Great Spirit on the head of the white man and all his kind.
The object in doing this was that Hazel might land on the upraised blanket and thus break her fall.
She faced him boldly and with eyes that never flinched; the lamp in her upraised hand burnt on steadily, no tremble of weakness made its flame flicker, or grow dim.
He rose to his feet, quivering, and sought to lick the Boy's face, thrusting one upraised white forepaw at him in appeal for a handshake.
Ten seconds later the two heard the collie's voice upraised once more, this time in a quavering wolf-howl of anguish.
He saw her in a long, black dress, with upraised arm, putting back a crepe veil from her merry eyes, and smiling as his father struck her.
He shook his head, patted her affectionately upon the shoulder, and smiled down into her upraised face.
A catbird was singing in one of the silver poplars, and he waited, with upraised head, for the song to end.
At the same time the Andes Mountains throughout South America were notably upraised and the rocks folded.
Early in the succeeding Cenozoic era, the broad peneplain was notably upraised to nearly the present altitudes of the ridge tops.
The great compressive force which folded and upraised the Taconic Mountains did not accomplish its work rapidly in the ordinary human history sense of the word.
They are far less important as geological agencies than the mighty interior forces which cause parts of continents to be slowly upraised and the rocks folded, or even than the incessant action of streams whereby the lands are cut down.
The great delta deposit of late Devonian time, already described as being thousands of feet thick in New York and Pennsylvania, was formed by one or more streams which carved much sediment from the newly upraised lands.
Any low-lying area, regardless of the character of its rocks, structure, or previous history, may be notably upraised and simply subjected to erosion.
All or nearly all of New York and New England, as well as much of southeastern Canada, were similarly upraised at the same time.
There rose at once a roar of anger and disapproval, and Crailey became a mere storm centre amid the upraised hands gestulating madly at him as he stood, smiling again, upon his chair.
She ran toward the door with a frightened cry; but he got between it and her, menacing her with his upraised open hands, shaking them over her.
Sire, those upon whom your anger would be prepared to fall, would force you to draw back your hand upraised to punish.
Hal caught a descending lance on his upraised sword, and raising his revolver took a snap shot at his opponent.
His upraised sword would have split the head of the German, had not Hal, stepping forward quickly, caught the blow upon his own weapon.
Brice patted the silken head so confidinglyupraised to him.
He lowered his upraised arms, folding them melodramatically on his breast, while he sought, through the gloom, to note the effect of his solemnly uttered speech.
I sprang to my feet, and with back-thrown shoulders and upraised sword took a solemn vow to reach, rescue, and revenge my Princess.
Another bullet passed through his upraised hands as he did it.
So the public thought, and yet they consented to the upraised sword being stayed.
Then the partners clasp hands and all run forward in eight quick steps in the same rhythm as the dialogue that has been repeated, each couple passing under the upraised hands of the opposite couple, which represent the city gates.
Each stands on one leg; they then grasp right hands and each tries to make the other lower his upraised foot to the ground, or touch the floor with his free hand.
The outer player of each couple holds the upraised hand of the kneeling partner and circles around her, asking the following questions.
