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"Won't ye halt a while?" said another uttering a curse then, suddenly changing his tone, he implored them to halt. "We cannot halt. It is death to halt," said the guide, in a tone so resolute and callous that those who were enfeebled lost heart altogether, and began to lag behind.
Accordingly, they sailed. The frigate was commissioned to drop dispatches at Gibraltar, and arriving off that place she was obliged to lag some miles behind, to fulfil her orders. After having done so, and made all sail to rejoin the convoy, she was attacked by a Barbary rover of superior strength, was beaten, most of the crew captured, and conveyed into port.
All one side of her hair came down, in a way to be remembered, upon the left and fairest part of my favourite otter-skin waistcoat; and her head as well would have lain there doubtless, but for the danger of walking so. I, for my part, was too far gone to lag behind in the matter; but carried my love bravely, fearing neither death nor hell, while she abode beside me.
That development, however, proceeded for something more than a century before anything like a practical airship was constructed. But for the moment the attack on the forces which had kept the air virgin territory to man was not allowed to lag. In Paris public subscriptions were opened to defray the cost of a new and greater balloon.
He was urging his horse to top speed, bent upon reaching the ranch and getting in his work before The Kid could catch him. Blizzard had reached his limit. His pace was faltering. Little by little he began to lag behind. He was nearly spent. Only an expert rider could have done what The Kid did then. Without slackening Blizzard's speed, he slipped his saddle.
And before she went away she would be telling me: 'Never be offering her boots or claes when the snaw comes, Sandy, for the Broonie o' Lag 'a bheithe left in sore anger for that they pitied her in the snaw.
As we have seen, a painful sense of responsibility lay heavily upon her heart. The winter that followed was a gay one, and many lag entertainments were given. The Birtwells always had a party, and this party was generally the event of the season, for Mr. Birtwell liked eclat and would get it if possible. Time passed, and Mrs.
The Sultan stared from his window at the retreating ships in a silence like the silence of the grave. At last he turned: "So be it," he answered briefly; "but see to it that reinforcements do not lag upon the road." If there had been activity in the dockyards before it was as nothing to the strenuous work that was to be done henceforward.
In days not so long gone by, Greatorix Castle had been the hold of the wearers of the White Cockade, rough riders after Lag and Sir James Dalzyell, and rebels after that, who had held with Derwentwater and the prince. Now there was quiet there.
It is hard to forget old shibboleths and loyalties. And yet precisely that must be done with every advance in liberality. Admiration and passion lag behind reason; are forever backsliding and debauching themselves among the companions of their youth.
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