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There is not a tinge of gray in the ample folds of his hair, and his voice is resonant and strong. His story of the Custer fight, told for me at the cross marking the spot where Custer fell, to be found in the Indians’ story of that battle, is both thrilling and informing. Here Custer Fell
He could see the dark waters, and the gloomy folds of the enclosing mist became apparent. He gave a heavy sigh, partly of terror at the thought of all that he had gone through, and partly of relief at the approach of light. Well might he sigh, for this light was the dawn of a new day, and showed him that he had been a whole night upon the waters. And now he could no longer struggle against sleep.
She had her long dress wound around her, holding it up with one hand, and the other hand and arm hung whitely at her side in the folds. She stood perfectly still and looked at the man in the porch, on whose face the moon was shining. He looked more than ever to her like something wonderful beyond common. The man had really a wonderful beauty.
So saying, and before I could summon presence of mind to ask another question, Don Miguel wrapped himself in the broad folds of his Spanish cloak, and strode from the room with the air of an hidalgo.
"It has about the Illingworth family in one part, and about the May folds in the other," Polly explained; but it is to be doubted if Dr. Dudley heard her, so eagerly was he scanning those lists of names. He clutched at one forlorn thread of hope, and as he read, the feeble thread waxed into a cord of strength. "Polly " he began brightly, and then stopped.
The narrative of that voyage, and the story of the discovery of the North Pole, follow. The ages of the wild, misgiving mystery of the North Pole are over, to-day, and forever it stands under the folds of Old Glory. July 6, 1908: We're off! For a year and a half I have waited for this order, and now we have cast off.
Everyone you know is in the drawing-room at the Court that is, everyone except Dulce. But presently the door opens, and that stormy young person enters, with her sleeves tucked up and a huge apron over her pretty cashmere gown, that simply envelops her in its folds. "I am going to make jam" she says, unmistakable pride in her tone.
She broke into a joyous laugh at her own confusion, gaining more self-possession as I lost mine; and out she slipped from the plaid. "I wish it were a thousand times farther," and I gazed ruefully at the folds that trailed empty. What other absurd things I might have said, I cannot tell; but we were at the fort and I had to wrap the tartan disguise about myself.
Here and there a rusty nail had given way, and the stuff fell in downward folds. Nobili paused. His head was hot and dizzy. He had dined well, and he had drunk freely. Something in the face and figure of the girl recalled Nera to him, or he fancied it his mind being full of her.
One ball is rather lighter than the others, and when used, this is held in the hand, while the heavier ones are swung in a circle round the head. When the Indian is about twenty paces from the object he wishes to strike, he lets go the lighter ball, and the weapon flies off, and the strings encircle in many folds the neck or legs of the animal.
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