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Never once had he dreamed that the realization could come so near breaking a strong man's heart, that things seemingly of small import could stab with a thrust so knife-like. He felt the color leave his cheek at the thought that he had failed to provide a cloth for the table, not even a napkin. He fumbled at his bandana, then hopelessly replaced it in his pocket.
Their faces relaxed from wariness; they were no longer upon their guard. It seemed that an actual comradeship had sprung up between them. "There is a mountain called the Grépon," said Skinner. "I have seen pictures of it a strange and rather attractive pinnacle, with its knife-like slabs of rock, set on end one above the other black rock splashed with red and the overhanging boulder on the top.
The glasses were handed from person to person, and presently were passed to Colin, who noted with eager interest the little motor-boat and the big flag. Showing length of small specimen and its semi-transparency. By permission of Prof. Oarfish, thirty feet in length, with flaming red upstanding mane, and a knife-like body less than three inches in thickness. By permission of Prof.
It was another of those deep knife-like valleys; this one, however, challenging our passage, and justly, for it was more cañon than valley, and it took us nearly two hours to cross it. But it was worth the trouble and time. For imagine a cañon with forested sides and carpeted in green from the stream in its bed to the highest bounding ridge!
The knife-like tenderness which, principally, he had for her overwhelmed him; and he held Fanny against him in a silent and straining embrace. For that reason he was annoyed at himself when, sitting through an uneventful evening, his simile of the pig, enormously fat, sleepily contented, in its pen, returned to him.
Carve the sides of the leaves where necessary with flat gouges on the inside curves, and with chisels and corner-chisels on the outside ones. These should be used in a sliding or knife-like fashion, and not merely pushed forward.
A clipper barque, therefore, is merely a fast-sailing barque. The peculiar characteristics of the clipper build are, knife-like sharpness of the cut-water and bow, and exceeding correctness of cut in the sails, so that these may be drawn as tight and flat as possible. Too much bulge in a sail is a disadvantage in the way of sailing.
Triumphantly shone the deadly eye which glittered beneath the snowy cap; noiselessly swung the ashen oar, and as unerringly set as Destiny, and remorseless as Death, the knife-like bow slid through the black waters.
She was much slighter end far more ethereal than on that day when they stood the deck of the ship and turned their faces so hopefully to the New World. He felt a knife-like stab startle through his blood to his heart. His breath caught. Angela looked up at him, radiantly. He kissed her and with mock cheerfulness he said, laughingly: "Such news, me darlin'! Such wondherful news!"
Only now and then was a life lost there now, he said. At the mouth of the Chute there was a great, knife-like rock, like a dragon's tooth, that cut the Chute into two roaring channels. If a scow kept to the left-hand channel it was safe. There would be a mighty roaring and thundering as it swept on its passage, but that roaring of the Chute, he told her, was like the barking of a harmless dog.
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