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Dart rubbed himself and brightened. But his face fell again as she went on to inform him that the creatures were so numerous that in his walk home he might encounter a dozen. So it was that Mr. Willie Dart changed his mind and decided to ride the three miles across the valley. "Now, my erstwhile Noble Benefactor, brighten up and look happy. I've got some red, white and blue news for you.
These little insects the ticks were quick and moved with lightning-like rapidity, but they were not so quick as the birds, for, almost before they realized their danger, the sharp red beaks opened simultaneously with a quick dart forward of their heads, and the next instant the insects were out of sight.
The town was five or six miles away; the best plan was to take the soldiers by surprise, before reveille. The sky was cloudy, with here and there a star shining. From time to time a flash of lightning crossed the sky with a red dart, illumining the far horizon.
Scouting parties of the savages prowled beneath the very walls of fort Amsterdam, ready at a moment's warning, to dart into the wilderness, where even the bravest of the Dutch could not venture to pursue.
The chorus now began to sing the praises of a good sovereign, and the happiness of his subjects. All this, dear Chamisso, took place in the sun: she was kneeling two steps from me, and I, without a shadow, could not dart through the air, nor fall on my knees before the angelic being. Oh, what would I not now have given for a shadow!
In such a state the human brain is an infernal machine and its workings can only be conquered if the mortal thing which lives with it day and night, night and day has learned to separate its controllable from its seemingly uncontrollable atoms, and can silence its clamor on its way to madness. Antony Dart had not learned this thing and the clamor had had its hideous way with him.
In good truth, it is a beautiful brook, and one that Walton himself might have sitten by and loved, for trout are there; we see them as they dart up the stream, and hear and start at the sudden plunge when they spring to the surface for the summer flies.
Thereupon, Arjuna's son, jumping up, caught hold of that dart, like Garuda catching a mighty snake falling from above. And having seized it thus, Abhimanyu unsheathed his sword. Witnessing the great activity and might of that warrior of immeasurable energy, all the kings together uttered a leonine shout.
In the very hour of triumph, when his strong right hand had hewn down his enemy on the field in that moment has he fallen! "The hearts of his warriors are sad, the hearts of his people will long be sad! "Wacoes! our chief has not fallen unrevenged. His slayer lies at his feet pierced with the deadly dart, and weltering in his blood. Who of you hath done this?"
At intervals it stops an instant to dab its eyes with its dingy little rag of a handkerchief, to rearrange the bundle under its arm, its chief anxiety to keep well out of sight of chance wanderers, to dodge farmhouses, to dart across highroads when nobody is looking.
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