Was she a consummate actress, or had he made a frightful mistake, and goaded an innocent girl to the verge of frenzy?
The military now fired with vigor, and the Regulators fell back to a ledge of rocks on the verge of a ravine, not, however, until their scanty supply of ammunition was exhausted.
The sun was disappearing behind the forest when I passed the gate, at the verge of a spacious lawn on the western front of the mansion, and departed for Occoquan, about twelve miles distant, where I purposed to spend the Sabbath.
This point, at the mouth of Will's Creek on the Potomac, was on the verge of civilization, and near the lofty Alleghanies, then covered with snow.
Jan 2]] It is on the verge of a cultivated field, of some six acres, half a mile northwest from the Salisbury road.
I left the Great Bridge at noon, and rode to Deep Creek, a small village on the northern verge of the Dismal Swamp, nine miles distant.
At eight o'clock I started for the Great Bridge, and the verge of the Dismal Swamp.
Maxwell was driven back to the verge of the stream at the ford, where he was re-enforced.
The house, at that time, was quite beyond the verge of city population; now the site is near the center of business.
Meanwhile another rumour was flying furiously round all the shops that Mr. Lovely was on the verge of making a hurried departure from Curtain Wells.
Miss Courteen wrung her hands and behaved quite as wildly as a grand married lady on the verge of discovery in an ambiguous situation below stairs.
For days on end they were on theverge of starvation.
Gently he leaned back till his back rested on the sloping ground--he raised one knee, and left the other foot over the verge where the tip of the tallest rushes touched it.
One of the keepers of Wolmer Forest sent me a peregrine-falcon, which he shot on the verge of that district as it was devouring a wood-pigeon.
The immediate location of the village was in a sort of valley, close within the verge of an immense forest, and surrounded by an intervening underwood, which Nature had fashioned as a sort of defensive barrier.
A man aware of his health is on the verge of malady.
She found her aunt in a deplorable state, unable to converse, looking as if on the verge of a serious illness.
She was on the verge of death, and her last moments were certainly due to her children.
I own I was disappointed, and turned away from the bookcase at last with a feeling of having been baffled on the verge of some very interesting discovery.
Furthermore, the marriage between daughter and father is permitted in the lower stage, and again in that higher stage, where the class organization of the Kamilaroi is on the verge of dissolution.
In Belgium, where the proletariat is now on the verge of gaining political supremacy, the battle cry is: "S.
The old conjugal system, now reduced to narrower limits by the gradual disappearance of the punaluan groups, still environed the advancing family, which it was to follow to the verge of civilization.
At the verge she paused; her brows grew thoughtful; what was it the woods recalled?
At the verge of the wood he looked back, stood for a moment with the reflection of light on his face, then plunged into the shadows of the sylvan labyrinth.
Near the vergeof the sand, Saladin greeted her with impatience, tossing his head toward the darkening heavens.
Turning, he left her, and walking to the verge of that open space, searched quickly the waste of darkness below, far out to sea.
With England on the vergeof war, the outcome of the negotiations was a matter of vital importance.
The perfume which had intoxicated him in the first days of his love of her, and steeped his senses in the sap of youth and Eden, smote them again, here on the verge of the desert before him.
With his servitors Henriet and Poitou, he remains on the verge of the wood into which the sorcerer penetrates.
One would have had to pass over the tops of the trees, growing to the very verge of the wall, to gain a porch on the other side, for there was now no drawbridge.
It was like circumambulating the sinuous verge of a canyon; and for the two miles they rode along its edge they saw no let-up in the steepness on one side or of the almost equally abrupt rise of towering rock on the other.
We shall not have to hurry now and perhaps if I had a few minutes in which to rest---" She was on the verge of fainting again.
I was on the verge of one of the most appalling adventures which could befall a man, and yet no premonition disturbed the ecstasy with which I knelt before the glimmering marble and unrolled my bundle of wet clay.
Yet her anxious glance stole ever and again to the dizzy verge towards which she now unconsciously urged her own horse till Mr. Black drew her aside.
Mrs. Wycherley, who a moment since had been on the verge of tears, gathered her shawl about her shoulders, and beamed upon Captain Crouch.
Indeed, had there been a doctor on board, he would have diagnosed the case at once, and pronounced the chief officer to be on the vergeof double pneumonia, aggravated by bronchial trouble.
We would all be chilled through and on the verge of pneumonia.
He has been on the verge of it a dozen times at least, and then he has seemed to hesitate.
Something, she knew not what, she was on the verge of replying, when Mr Cheviott anticipated her.
The people watched the boy as he rode half hidden in rolling smoke, his red plumes waving above the verge of the flaming sea.
The great moon rose at last, its disk hanging like a wheel of dead gold on the verge of the horizon in the smoky air.
The people secured raw hides by killing the poor cattle, and came out to the verge of the fiery sea and checked the progress of the flames in places.
The pupils went to the verge of the trees, and watched the billowy columns of smoke in the distance.
Richard, who appeared to love Guru even more than he loved tennis, was on the verge of purchasing a million-dollar house, which he planned to rent to the Centre at a bargain rate.
Despite my family's love for the outdoors, for our dog, and for one another, the emotional fabric that bound us together often seemed on the verge of ripping apart.
Sabi grew out of the Heian admiration for lovely things on the verge of extinction.
Nobunaga's armies of musket-wielding foot soldiers were on theverge of consolidating his authority over all Japan when he was unexpectedly murdered by one of his generals.
On the extreme verge of the horizon a large band of bright red, growing wider from minute to minute, spread over the scene a purple and gold glare, which gave it a fantastic appearance.
It was on the vergeof this gulf that the two men, with flashing eyes, heaving chests, and lips closed by fury, redoubled their efforts.
We had scarcely made our few preparations, when about 200 of them appeared on the verge of the bottom, mounted, painted, and armed for war.
Riding rapidly ahead to this spot, we found ourselves on the verge of a vertical and rocky wall of the mountain.
We had now entirely left the desert country, and were on the verge of a region which, extending westward to the shores of the Pacific, abounds in large game, and is covered with a singular luxuriance of vegetable life.
It is on the right bank, on the verge of the upland prairie, about forty feet above the river, of which the immediate valley is about six hundred yards wide.
We were now immediately on the verge of the forest land, in which we had been traveling so many days; and, looking forward to the east, scarce a tree was to be seen.
The valley had already become very narrow, shut up more closely in densely timbered mountains, the pines sweeping down the verge of the bottoms.
At the verge of this plain, they frequently commence in vertical precipices of basaltic rock, and which leave only casual places at which they can be entered by horses.
We were on the western verge of the Blue mountains, long spurs of which, very precipitous on either side extended down into the valley, the waters of the mountain roaring between them.
Goupil, he fully believed, was the only man capable of carrying a persecution to the very verge of the penal code without infringing a hair's-breadth upon it.
He is,' said my godfather, 'the cause of all the trouble which has brought you to the verge of the tomb; but God wills that you shall yet be happy.
We "poke fun" at everything in this country; to whatever approaches the verge of the ridiculous we give a push and topple it over.
He is deficient in humor, and hence, like the Biblical writers, is sometimes on the verge of the grotesque without knowing it.
The mouth had the expression at times, in talking and in repose, of one who might be upon the verge of tears.
She could play only moderately herself, and such variety as Mrs. Vance exercised bordered, for Carrie, upon the verge of great art.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "verge" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
