In one of the small, sweet, exquisitely fresh hours before dawn they were set down and left alone on the wide and empty veld.
It was fringed with trees, thick and tall, and the banks were high, but she had no difficulty in clambering down into the riverbed which was wide as Piccadilly Circus, and mostly composed of pure white sand and flat rocks.
She sat unsmiling, her head resting against the back of the sofa, her arms stretched wide on either side of her.
She would stare for a moment with her large slate-coloured eyes, then they would fill up and brim over with tears, even while they remained wide open and observant, and she lamented like a banshee.
The rock rabbits and mountain buck came scudding down to the safety of the bush, but the men, deployed in a wide circle round the base of the berg, never raised a gun to them so intent were they on their grim vigil.
The stranger slightly indicated the wide and dusty main track fifty yards off.
He followed the trails of her strange gown through the wide dim-lit verandahs, and found her a chair in a far corner where the light from above fell palely into her eyes, and restless shadows of maidenhair fern played about her drooping mouth.
But presently we came on an aviation camp spreading its sheds over a wide plateau.
When we drove up, the regiment "au repos" was assembled in the wide sandy space between the principal hotels, and in the centre of the jolly crowd the band was playing.
Planning should include a wideswing of days; wise planning must.
But I can live a life that tells on other lives, And makes this world less full of anguish and of pain; A life that like the pebble dropped upon the sea Sends its wide circles to a hundred shores.
Janet, and her eyes openedwide with wonder and surprise.
Teddy, quickly sitting up in bed, and wide awake all at once.
The baby birds, which had only just begun to grow feathers, opened their mouths as wide as they could, thinking, I suppose, that Jan and Ted had worms or bugs for them.
The bell was ringing, the big doors wide open, sending out a glow of warmth and colour, and the carpet of white untrodden country snow was quite intact, except a little pathway made by the feet of the men who had brought up the harmonium.
Some of the guests were strolling about and from almost all the windows--wide open to let in the warm morning sun--there came cheerful greetings.
The big doors of the church were wide open, the organ playing, and a good many people standing about.
The dining-room was large and light, high, wide windows and beautiful trees wherever one looked.
The rush of the soldiers over the wide plains and the drawbridge looked irresistible--the men swarmed down the bank and over the ditch--one saw a confused mass of red trousers and kepis.
There was a widemoat of running water, the banks covered with shrubs and flowers--the flowers were principally salvias and chrysanthemums, as it was late in the season, but they made a warm bit of colour.
The big doors were wide open, a great many people already inside.
The hall doors were wide open as the carriage drove up, Monsieur A.
The hall doors were wide open; a flood of light streaming out over the steps--Baron de L.
It was shut in on three sides, wide open in front, a bright fire burning and a most appetizing table spread.
I was glad to get out into the sunshine and to the top of the hill, where the cemetery gates stoodwide open and the sun was streaming down on all the green graves with their fresh flowers and plants.
On the wide divan under the cabin windows of the stern I noticed a delicate man of refined features, much in contrast with the body of the voyagers.
I gently laid my tired head On thy soft bosom wide outspread, With naught but Heaven over head, Michigan, my Michigan.
Now, the city of White Towers was at that time attracting from far and wideevery one who wanted to make his fortune.
But Pei-Hang threw a red seed into the waves which were lapping the shore, and in a moment, instead of the wide blue river, a little brook lay at his feet.
They took money enough for a long journey and went out into thewide world to seek their sisters.
When, however, he came up to that light all he saw was an opening just wide enough for him to creep into.
When she came back she found the door wide open and no one standing there.
For a long time he went up and down through the wide world, until at last he reached a third city.
And they laughed until the snow-peaks shook beneath them; for the mortar made of jade was six feet high and four feet wide and the pestle was so heavy no mortal could lift it.
Over his left shoulder Jack threw it, and all at once a lough sprung up between them and the Giant that was one hundred miles wide every way and one hundred miles deep.
The loaded vehicles were to be drawn by hand across a wide distance of plain without track or guide of any sort, except that which the trapper furnished by communicating his knowledge of the cardinal points of the compass.
Mahtoree and his party slowly retired from the thicket, the moment they caught a view of the strangers, until they halted on a swell that commanded a wide and unobstructed view of the naked fields on which they stood.
Ishmael stood sullen and thoughtful; while his companion stole a furtive and involuntary glance at the placid sky, which spread so wide and blue above his head, as if he expected to see the Almighty eye itself beaming from the heavenly vault.
I find it is a wide tract of clearing, this, into which I have fallen.
His appearance was greeted by a yell, that spread far and wideover the plain, and in a moment a hundred savages were seen riding madly to the spot.
A few pelagic South Pacific and South Atlantic petrels and other birds have reached Europe from time to time, but theirs is an error of too wide nomadic wandering.
After crossing the Channel the coast of Wexford was reached and the stream divided, some going north along the east coast and others westward along the south coast, but changing their direction when they reached the wide mouth of the Barrow.
The same careful observations prove that both narrow and wide river valleys are followed by migrating birds in greater numbers than are ever observed passing beyond the limits of these valleys.
The idea of a route may be narrowed down to the extent of a wide river valley, or to a fly-line represented on a map by a ruled line, which passes over certain ascertained places.
In one only of my ideal portraits had I been verywide of the likeness.
Previously to the demolition of the houses, which, till 1786, stood on each side of this bridge, the passage was sufficiently wide for three carriages.
When they stopped at the widestone porch, and the doctor got out, she uttered a sigh of relief.
The little room in question was at the right-hand side of a very wide and cheerful hall, which was decorated in pale tints of green, and had a handsome encaustic-tiled floor.
He rang a bell which hung by the entrance of a deep porch, and the next moment the wide hall door was flung open by a neat maid-servant, and Hester stepped within.
They went down some broad carpetless stairs, along a wide stone hall, and then paused for an instant at a half-open door from which a stream of eager voices issued.
Cecil went slowly out of her governess's presence, and, wandering across the wide stone hall, she entered the play-room.
She opened her feverish eyes wide and began to call out piteously; but her cry now was, not for Hester, but for Annie.
It is just as I told you," she said, and her sleepy voice was quite wide awake and animated.
The whole of one side of the wide street was lined by Malays and natives offering flowers for sale.
She had been false: that was why he had sought thewide world of the veld and renounced women.
The moon had become obscured, but she could see that his eyes were wide open with torn lids.
Her eyes, dark and wide with suffering, looked unseeingly at Harlenden at first, but gradually a ray of recognition dawned in them and she put out her hand with a faint cry.
Too much explanation was not necessary with a person of Clive's wide understanding.
But the cave itself looked out beyond into the wide and fruitful Val d'Arno, with the stream of silver coiling through it, and on the other side the wooded mountains of Valombrosa and Pratomagno.
A wood fire burned in the wide chimney-place, and before it a rug was spread.
He came last night outside my window, which was wide open for the moon, and shot an arrow into my breast--a little baby arrow, but it hurt.
But among the withered foliage on the ground a vine trailed far andwide with verdant leaves, thick and heavy, and under the leaves were clusters of rosy stars, breathing a wonderful sweetness, so that the travellers could not but smell it.
When they came into the little sitting-room above the garden, the windows were wideand the room was cool and dim and fragrant.
Good-night," repeated Ester; but she still kept her eyes wide open.
After both heads were resting on their pillows, and quiet reigned in the room, Ester's eyes were wide open.
And she proceeded to wrap her tiny self in the long, wide apron.
Cat-Fish are a round blackish Fish, with a great flat Head, a wide Mouth, and no Scales; they something resemble Eels in Taste.
Jenny was carefully holding her friend's hand and leading her to a wide boulder against which the waves had crashed in many a storm until they had cut out a hollow resembling a canopy-covered chair wide enough for two to sit comfortably.
How pretty the girl looked in her simple yellow muslin frock, with her wide drooping hat, buttercup wreathed, and on her arm a basket, golden with field poppies.
Gwynette had resumed the seat she had occupied formerly, a deep softly upholstered leather chair drawn close to the wide hearth on which a drift log was burning with flames of many colors.
A carriage bearing the Poindexter-Jones coat-of-arms and drawn by two white horses was waiting under the wide portico in front of the seminary when Gwynette emerged.
Together they went up the wide stone steps and Charles lifted the iron knocker.
A wide divan in front of the blazing fire on the hearth invited Charles, and he threw himself full length, his hands clasped under his head.
It was a rustic affair with wide verandas on three sides.
A very old adobe house surrounded on three sides by wide verandas, the pillars of which were eucalyptus logs, stood about two hundred feet back from the point.
Now if only we had a couple of widestraw hats with torn brims, we'd look the part.
On the way down the wide circling flight of stairs Charles said softly, "Your mother seems to like Jenny Warner.
Skipping to the side porch, she found Grandma Sue looking very sweet in her lavender muslin, and tiny black bonnet with lavender ribbons, already up on the wide seat of the buggy.
No vehicle was in sight as she carefully crossed the wide Coast Highway.
She did indeed look pretty in the ruffled white muslin with the pink sprig embroidery, and tender brown eyes looked out from under a wide white hat, pink wreathed.
Jenny threw open a pantry door, and there, on a wide shelf, stood a mountain of a chocolate cake.
And when the sun was well risen, the beggar threw wide open the door of the house, and called aloud to the horsemen far off, and Cumner's Son waved with his hand; and McDermot came galloping to them.
Here was a wide natural corridor overhung with stalactites, and it led on into an artificial passage which inclined gradually upwards till it came into a mound above the level by which they entered.
All day the people watched from afar, and all day long soldiers and hillsmen drew a wide cordon of quarantine round the house.
Milwaukee, in the colonial style with wide porticoes, contains one of the State's best exhibits in its interior finish of fine Wisconsin hardwoods.
This outline of games and exhibitions includes nearly every branch of sport familiar to the American public, and its wide appeal has attracted many thousands to the athletic fields and gymnasiums of the Exposition.
The feet are set wide apart, the space between and behind the legs is deeply hollowed out, and the rope which hangs from the hands curves in over the feet to add to the illusion.
It is distinguished by a square tower at one corner, a wide portico, roof of Spanish tile, and a central patio, designed for receptions.
Particularly impressive is the array of farm machinery and the wide application to it of the gasoline motor.
Give me life strong and full as the brimming ocean; give me thoughts wide as its plain; give me a soul beyond these.
The great sun shone above, the wide sea was before me, the wind came sweet and strong from the waves.
Many labourers now wander far and wide as navvies, etc.
Over the rim of the horizon waves are flowing as high and wide as those that break upon the beach.
But Iden was so still it was evident he was really wide awake and restraining his breath, and exercising conscious command over his muscles, that this scene might proceed undisturbed.
A journalist ofwide experience, Mr. Kauffman proves that our industrial system leaves most women no alternative except prostitution.
Lydia's eyes, blue and wide like those of a frightened child, met his with an anguished question.
Mrs. Daggett stopped in the middle of the wide hall and looked about her wonderingly.
Evening, Judge," responded the man, giving the other a wide margin.
She walked past the maid, who held the door wide for her exit.
Her blue eyes were wide and strange, but she tried to smile.
She glanced suspiciously at the fresh striped muslin, which was further enhanced by a widecrocheted collar and a light blue satin bow.
Her thoughts were rangingwide over an unknown country whither, for the moment, he could not follow.
The wooden armchairs, which in summer made a forum of the tavern's side piazza, had been brought in and ranged in a wide semicircle about the stove, marking the formal opening of the winter session.
It is the life history of one thousand men and women of world-wide fame and reputation, in letters, art, science an' public life.
Mrs. Daggett gazed at it with wide blue eyes, like those of a child.
Wesley Elliot, who had by now reached the wide opening into the hall in the course of his progress among the guests, glanced up as Fanny Dodge swept the last step of the stair with her unfashionable white gown.
A clergyman, he reflected, must always be on friendly--even confidential terms with a wide variety of women.
Harold, in great agitation; "and my sister, whom these monks have demented, leagues herself with the King against the law of the wide welkin and the grand religion of the human heart.
But even the time, short as it was, that had sufficed to bring William in view of the enemy, had sufficed also, under the orders of his generals, to give to the wide plain of his encampment all the order of a host prepared.
A small wooden chapel, half decayed, stood a little behind, with its doors wide open, a sanctuary in case of need; and the interior was thronged with kneeling suppliants.
The old Earl's eyes were wide open, and the red colour had gone from his cheeks, so that he was pale as death.
The foot column advanced to the appointed spot, and after a short, close, and terrible conflict, succeeded in making a wide breach in the breastworks.
Lives there any other man in the wide world whose arm could have wrought that feat?
Or if she doth, remember thy plighted promise under the wide cope of blue heaven, the old nor least holy temple of our common Father.
These were wide open; whether to admit the Saxon Earls, or vomit forth their allies, the Londoners.
I have not brought you over the wide seas for my cause alone; what I gain, ye gain.
