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Just as Maurice had figured, it was two in the afternoon when they could really and truly say they were afloat on the big river.
Some other examples of the KERIP KWE design are given on Pl. 90, and of the SONG SEPIT on Pl. 91; some of the SONG SEPIT designs recall the KALANG KOWIT designs of the Baloi Kayans. A; it appears to be a composition of four heads, and in appearance is not unlike SILONG LEJAU of the Uma Lekan, figured by us.
Just as they were about to pass beyond the castle wall, behold you where a knight cometh forth of a privy postern of the castle, and he was sitting upon a tall horse, his spear in his fist, and at his neck had he a red shield whereon was figured a golden eagle. "Sir knight," saith he to Messire Gawain, "I pray you bide." "What is your pleasure?"
"The Russians must have sent a vessel to take off the killers after the last drive of the season a day or two before, for the holluschackie were quite fresh, and perhaps it was blowing hard and the surf getting steep, for they'd left quite a few of their things behind them. Anyway, that was how we figured it. We found the shacks the killers lived in, and we made out that winter in one of them."
"It was for David he wanted to read something to Phoebe," she answered in ravishing confusion, and pointed to the open page. Thus Andrew Sevier was forced by old Fate to come near her and bend with her over the book. The tip of her exquisite finger ran along the lines that have figured in the woman question for many an age. "'For her price is far above rubies.
They still linked me with a woman, whereas she had figured only as a transient occasion. Then she herself, My Lady, appeared, running in breathless and appealing. "Is Mr. Beeson hurt? Badly? Where is he? Let me help." She knelt beside me, her hand grasped mine, she gazed wide-eyed and imploring. "No, he's all right, ma'am."
We again encounter this same base with its opposing curves in a curious monument discovered at Kouyundjik by Mr. George Smith. This is a small and carefully executed model, in yellowstone, of a winged human-headed bull, supporting on his back a vase or base similar in design to that figured above. This little object must have served as a model for the carvers engaged upon the palace walls.
"I know it's kind of unexpected," Old Heck interrupted nervously, " perhaps I had ought to have said something about it first, but, well, I figured I'd go on and get the license and show that my intentions was good and and sort of risk the whole thing on one throw!
A portrait of his Britannic majesty figured on the walls of one part of the chamber; and over the mantel was another portrait, which immediately engaged the attention of the traveller, and, indeed, monopolised his observation. He had a very ample opportunity of studying it, for nearly a quarter of an hour elapsed before he was disturbed. It was the full-length portrait of a young lady.
She still appeared in her Marquise costume and danced a minuet with Monsieur de Truffigny, Monsieur Le Duc de la Jabotiere's attache; and the Duke, who had all the traditions of the ancient court, pronounced that Madame Crawley was worthy to have been a pupil of Vestris, or to have figured at Versailles.
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