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At last they were gone, somewhere into the flaming west, and now the red sunbeams slanted on eagle crests and tipped the sea of polished spiked helmets with fire, for a line regiment was coming, shaking the earth with its rhythmical tramp thud! thud! thud!
"Can you so take it, it is well." And the old lady turned aside with a sigh. "Ay," said the Lollard priest, "it was well with the Shunammite gentlewoman. And after all, it is but a little while ere our Lord is coming. 'Tis light gear to watch for the full day, when you see the sun gilding the crests of the mountains." "Yet when you see not the sun ?"
The lurid flames ascended to a great height, the smoke rolled upward in majestic volumes, while the light, red as the flames of Ætna, streamed across the lake, gilding the crumbling battlements of the old fort, flushing the face of the waters, and tinging the mountain sides to their very crests.
I have not yet expended the first thousand, although I had to pay pretty dearly for a good many things." Again there was silence. "Why did you come here?" asked the barrister. "Because I would be safe for some months with a few hospitable gentlemen whom I know up in the hills there." He nodded towards the window, through which they could see the blue crests of the distant mountains. "And then?"
He was king's-man and I was queen's-man during the Douglas wars young fellows both, that feared neither fire nor steel; and we had some old feudal quarrels besides, that had come down from father to son, with our seal-rings, two-harided broad-swords, and plate-coats, and the crests on our burgonets." "Too loud, my Lord of Huntinglen," whispered a gentleman of the chamber, "The King! the King!"
Nearly all the adults are tattooed upon the arms and legs, many upon the breasts, and occasionally one upon the face. The designs usually represent tribal and family crests and totem. The practice is being gradually discontinued.
The sun had, however, risen through a bank of orange clouds, tingeing with its cheerful rays the crests of the black waves. Watch was impatiently kept from the different look-outs. Towards eleven o'clock in the morning a ship, with sails full set, was signalled as in view; two others followed at the distance of about half a knot.
As the afternoon wore on the weather improved. The sun, soon to drop behind the cliff-summits on the left, asserted itself with a last effort and shot a red gleam through a chink low in the cloud-wrack. The shaft widened. The breakers indigo-backed till now and turbid with sand in solution began to arch themselves in glass-green hollows, with rainbows playing on the spray of their crests.
The Hadda Mullah had fled, directly the fight began; but the Suffi Mullah was seen constantly rallying his followers. On the following morning, General Westmacott's brigade marched to a village situated at the mouth of the Jarobi gorge a terrible defile, with precipitous cliffs on either side, the crests of which were well wooded.
Very early in the morning the siege guns on Stafford Heights, opposite the town, sent some shells screaming across the valley to the heights of Marye's Hill, giving the alarm to those in the town and to those who had so recently left it. Lines of rebels were seen all along the outskirts of the town and on the crests above.
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