United States or France ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Barton was perhaps better mounted than either, but both horse and rider were heavier, and lost in the moist fields, while they gained rapidly where the turf was firm. After a mile and a half of rather toilsome riding, all three were nearly abreast.
West came over to the room with me and stayed until I put him out, which was hard work because he's heavier than I am, and I got my books out and studied until half an hour ago. It is now just ten o'clock, and as soon as I finish this I shall tumble into bed and sleep like a top. "I can't answer your question about Mr.
All assert that elephants' tusks from that country are heavier and of greater length than any others. It is evident, from all the information I could collect both here and elsewhere, that the drainage of Londa falls to the north and then runs westward.
It is the position of the grizzly, hopeless for the weaker man. The two had taken practically the same hold, except that Malan locked his fingers, while Jud gripped his left wrist with his right hand. Jud was perhaps four inches taller, but Malan was heavier by at least twenty pounds. We came back and stood by the floor of the bridge, Woodford holding the lantern with Lem Marks and I beside him.
"Go around to the back, Roberts, and see if you can get in." Roberts departed. Marchmont picked up some pieces of gravel from the path and threw them against the window panes, to no effect. Roberts came back. "That's an awful heavy door, sir, heavier than this. And the windows are high up." "Very good," said the captain. "This one looks stronger than it really is. Stand back, you two."
After taking it up they were fain to escape from the spot, for the effluvium arising from a mass of other fish that lay in a decomposed state around the tree was more than any delicate pair of nostrils could endure. The one they had secured proved to be a very fine salmon of not less than six pounds weight, and therefore much heavier than the bird itself!
Finally, he pictures Descartes coming along and saying: "This actor is able to rise from the floor because he hangs by a cord, at the other end of which is a counterpoise, heavier than he, which is descending."
Seems to me this bag keeps on growing heavier all the time; and yet when I started out this morning I thought it as light as a feather." "It's always that way," he was told by Frank, consolingly; "even your feet often begin to drag as though weighted down with lead, when once you find yourself growing tired. But, Will, say the word and I'll tote your bag for you."
The Baltimore did even heavier firing, being called upon to reduce the forts after the first engagement, and sent no less than thirty-five tons of metal into the Spanish ships and the land batteries. The remainder of the fleet shot a total of eighty tons of metal, making a grand total of 140 tons.
"Now I recollect there was a letter from the captain to my father, stating that he had put me on the books." "Upon my honour, I'm sorry very sorry indeed," replied the midshipman; and he quitted the room, looking as grave as if the misfortune had happened to himself. I got up with a heavy head, and heavier heart, and as soon as I was dressed, I asked the way to the George Inn.
Word Of The Day