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The man evinced no recognition of Marcus, and, an instant after, his sharp glance wandered to some other person in the large group waiting for the boat. Here the boat came into the slip, and, after bumping in an uncertain way against the piles on either side, neared almost within leaping distance of the wharf.
"We forgot to thank you for your goodness to us," they exclaimed when within speaking distance; "and we ran back to tell you." "That is all right," he answered heartily. "We were glad to entertain you, and hope that you will come to see us again." "Thank you; we will if we can," replied Paul, then all said good-bye, touched their hats and set out again for the road. Presently Mr.
I can't be perfectly certain at this distance of time, but her sea- speed could not have been more than fourteen at the outside. Both these facts made for safety.
Intelligence operations may be the most costly due to the importance of these targets to the enemy. Alternatively, the human intelligence associated with these attacks may be the most inexpensive since their national importance makes them vulnerable to knowl-edgeable dissidents. Stand-off Deep Strike is defined by distance, albeit relative distance.
But the two capitals, Antioch and Constantinople, were separated by the distance of eight hundred miles; and, notwithstanding the diligence of the Imperial posts, the guilty city was severely punished by a long and dreadful interval of suspense.
"The audience," observed Lord Rockminster, who, at a little distance, was lying back in a garden-chair, smoking a cigarette "the audience would distinctly prefer to have the song sung."
"Au revoir, my love, but not farewell," he said, lightly, "until we meet to be parted nevermore," and, with a quick, springy step Lester Stanwick walked rapidly down the clover-bordered path on his fatal errand. In the distance the little babbling brook sung to her of peace and rest beneath its curling, limpid waters.
The timbers were between me and the body for I viewed it from behind and at such a distance, I could not have told who was the crucified man, even had he been facing me. Wingrove or Sure-shot one or the other. Of that much I was certain. I could make out that the man was naked just as I had been myself: I saw his white skin glistening along each side of the upright post.
In this hopeless condition, we continued to steer sometimes to the right and sometimes to the left, until the sun arose, and at last showed us the east. On the morning of the 7th of July, we again saw the shores of the Desert, notwithstanding we were a great distance from it.
He had seen her, though, at a distance nearly every day, for the girl had taken up her studies again, and spent most of her time out on the hills with the shepherd. That day he saw her as she turned into the mill road at the lower corner of the field, on her way to the Forks.
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