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To avoid observation, it was necessary to hug the beach until I had gained cover from the higher sand hills on the little headland, when I might strike across, through the hollows, for the margin of the wood.
Be more careful, for Lorraine's sake." "But I will but did the note reach her?" His aunt smiled. "Yes. I took the responsibility upon myself, and there will be no gossip." Jack leaned over and kissed the amused mouth, and the old lady gave him a little hug and told him to go and walk on the terrace. The groom was already there, holding a note in one hand, gilt-banded cap in the other.
How should he have heard the Chevalier? Nay, you might hug your own belief, but it is hard that we should both be in durance for your mere dream that she lives. 'Come, Phil, it will be the devil indeed that sows dissension between us, said Berenger.
Me and my friends not a big bunch, but every man-jack of 'em to be a regular person are goin' to start from Tucson, or Douglas, and hug the Mexican border west across the desert, ridin' light and fast; you're to go south with water; and Cobre is to be none the wiser. Here, I'll make you a map." He traced the map in the sand. "Here's the railroad, and Mohawk; here's your camp on the Gila.
It seemed that the bitterest thoughts of her life must have centred about the wooded reaches and the bright green meadows around Goring; but women strangely hug the knife that stabs them, and, perhaps, amidst the gall, there may have mingled also sunny memories of sweetest hours, spent upon those shadowed deeps over which the great trees bend their branches down so low.
Yes, there was something between them, something hard and impalpable, the ghost of these high walls. How old he was, how unlike! She shook off this impression, amazed and frightened by it of course. And remorseful too. Naturally. She threw her arms round his neck. He returned that hug awkwardly, as if not in perfect control of his arms, with a fumbling and uncertain pressure.
The air was so still by times that you can hear the rustle of the stars and the shifting of the northern lights; but the cold at night caught you by the heart and clamp it Mon Dieu, how it clamp! We crawl under the snow and lay in our bags of fur and wool, and the dogs hug close to us.
But it so happened was it an accident or was it a Providence that a she-bear had made her bed directly in the path which the Indian with almost blind eagerness was pursuing. Here the ferocious beast was suckling her cubs. The bear sprang from her lair, and instantly with a terrific hug grasped the savage in her paws.
Before Brice could dodge out of his close-quarters position, the other clasped him tight in his bulgingly powerful arms, gripping the lighter man to his chest in a hug which had the gruesome force of a boa-constrictor's, and increasing the pressure with all his weight and mighty strength. There was no space for maneuvering or for wriggling free. Clear from the ground Brice's feet were swung.
When he had cooled a little he told me that the easy water was close ashore and the current outside, and therefore we must hug the bank, up-stream, to get the benefit of the former, and stay well out, down-stream, to take advantage of the latter. In my own mind I resolved to be a down-stream pilot and leave the up-streaming to people dead to prudence. Now and then Mr.
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