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She looked at the sun; it was still high up in the sky, so she had some hours before her. There was no other way to Malans but this one, unless by going back half-way to Seewis, to where a path led down to Pardisla, and thence into the Landquart valley, where the high-road went on to Malans, past the corner where the Landquart falls into the Rhine.
The island was getting wetter because it was also getting smaller!" "Ugh! How beastly!" "Did it tell the others?" "It retired half-way down its hole and shouted out the news to the others in the hut." "Did they hear it?" "It warned them solemnly. But its teeth obstructed the sound, and the windings of its hole made it difficult to hear.
Having meanwhile reflected that I was not in an English drawing-room, that this wretched woman could have me stripped whether I would or no, and that refusal to comply with her wishes might cost me my life, I asked Gondocori why the queen wanted me to undress. "Will it satisfy her if I meet her half-way strip to the waist?
Before they were half-way across the lake, however, a sudden and violent storm arose, tossing the boat so frightfully that Gessler and all with him were filled with mortal fear. "My lord," cried one of the trembling rowers to the governor, "we will all go to the bottom unless something is done, for there is not a man among us fit to manage a boat in this storm.
It snows pretty fast, and the air doesn't feel like a thaw or rain." Frank acknowledged this; and they walked along, talking about the exciting times they expected to have on the morrow, until they reached the "big elm" a large tree that stood leaning over the creek, just half-way between Captain Butler's and where Frank lived.
The house rang with the blows, but above them sounded the loud hoarse cries of human fear. Burleigh, half-way down to the hall, stopped with his hand on the balustrade and listened. The beating ceased, and a man's voice cried out loudly for God's sake to let him out. At once Burleigh saw what had happened and what it might mean for him.
In their centre was a pointed hill, at the foot of which stood their camp, with tents and waggons. Opposite our left was a small detached kopje, and beyond that a fairly flat plain, with a river running through it, and the railway beyond Elands Laagte Station. Their three guns stood on the rocky ridge to our right of their camp two together half-way down, one a little higher up.
I could stand straight out through that passage on a long tack to port, fetch Half-way Rock, and slide into Portland on the starboard tack, and stay in sight of 'em pretty nigh all day. It would keep 'em busy thinkin' if we stayed in sight." "Stand out," advised Hiram, eagerly. "We ain't in any hurry. Let's rub it into 'em. Stand out." "With them pea-bean pullers to work ship?"
From Hidvár to Gyula Fehervár is a good day's journey, even with the best horses and in the best weather; in the rainy season the mountain streams make the journey still longer. Fortunately, exactly half-way lies the Mikalai csárdá, in which dwells a good honest Wallachian gentleman who also follows the profession of innkeeper.
Not only were the Romans unable to expel him from his stronghold, but after the struggle had lasted awhile at Ercte, Hamilcar formed for himself another similar position at Eryx. This mountain, which bore half-way up the town of the same name and on its summit the temple of Aphrodite, had been hitherto in the hands of the Romans, who made it a basis for annoying Drepana.
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