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It is forbidden," said the colonel dryly. Bodeyev shrugged his shoulders and remarked as he moved away: "I submit to brute strength." "To the law," the officer in the blue uniform corrected him sharply. The dead man's comrades, crowding near the grave, followed one another with handfuls of soil, which they threw on the coffin. The damp, heavy soil struck the coffin with a hollow sound.
Part 2 The next few weeks were a time of the very liveliest thought and growth for Ann Veronica. The crowding impressions of the previous weeks seemed to run together directly her mind left the chaotic search for employment and came into touch again with a coherent and systematic development of ideas.
"To be sure!" responded Jack. "How could we have had so little gumption as not to have thought of it?" "Oakum is hemp obtained from untwisting old ropes," continued Uncle Gerald. "In genuine ship-building, calking consists in crowding threads of this material with great force into the seams between the planks.
Toward Grôm who regarded him altogether impersonally as a means to an end, a pawn to be played prudently in a game of vast import his attitude was that of the submitted slave, his fate lying in the hollow of his master's hand. Toward the rest of the tribe who, till their curiosity was sated, kept crowding in to stare and jeer and curse he displayed the savage fear and hate of a lynx at bay.
In the Crimea, the English officers had to build round the spring-heads, and establish a regular order in getting supplied. Where there is crowding, dirt gets thrown in, the water is muddied, or animals are brought to drink at the source. This ruins everything; for animals will not drink below, when the mouth of horse, mule, or cow has touched the water above.
It can be used only in the library, and in only one place in the library, and by only one person at a time in the same spot, while a printed catalogue can be freely used anywhere, and by any numbers, copies being multiplied. It entails frequent crowding of readers around the catalogue drawers, who need to consult the same subjects or authors at the same time.
As she opened the outer door the children caught sight of her and came crowding round, large-eyed, their fingers in their mouths. She turned towards the chapel and the little cloister that she remembered. The children gave a shout and swooped back into the convent. And when she reached the chapel door, there they were on her skirts again, a big boy brandishing the key.
M'Catchley, stretching forth her parasol, exclaimed, "Dear me, Mr. Avenel, what can they be all crowding there for?" There are certain sounds and certain sights the one indistinct, the other vaguely conjecturable which, nevertheless, we know, by an instinct, bode some diabolical agency at work in our affairs.
We were too tired to notice the beauty of the country, and were glad to reach the canoes on Long Pine Lake. We passed parties of men returning from their work, some of whom took charge of our luggage; and all crowding into one canoe, we were soon at Ingolf, the most western station on Contract 15.
"Get out of here, I say!" cried Bertie, "I mean it now." "I won't! Let me be!" exclaimed the girl. "Hurrah!" shouted the others, crowding behind them. Young Holliday was dancing about, waving a bottle and yelling like a maniac, "Go it, Bertie! Give it to him, Belle!" "This is the end of it!" cried Bertie. "I'm through with you. And you get out of here!" "I won't!
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