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I hurt my foot cruelly on a frozen clod of earth, slid down the washed bank of a run into the Wabash, picked myself up, scrambled to the top of the far side, and had gotten away again when my pursuer shattered the ice behind me. A hundred yards more, two figures loomed up in front, and I was pulled up choking. "Hang to him, Fletcher!" said a voice. "Great God!" cried Fletcher, "it's Davy.
Now Marlowe turned, futile and shabby-looking, just where Pevensey had loomed resplendent a while since. Again she saw the poet's queer, twisted, jeering smile. "What do you care for my ideals? What do you care for the ideals of that tall earl whom you have held from his proper business for a fortnight? or for the ideals of any man alive?
An event that, never talked about, and thought of as little, I suppose, as such a one ever was in any family like ours, had yet always loomed vaguely afar, as what should come some time, and would bring changes when it came, was suddenly impending. Grandfather might be going to die. And yet what was there for us to do but to go quietly back into the brown room and sit down?
According to Torlos, they were the first friendly strangers they had ever seen. They had explored all the planets of this system without finding friendly life. The buildings sloped up toward the center of the city, and the mass of the great central building loomed before them. The fleet that was leading the Earth ship settled down to a wide courtyard that surrounded the building.
He dimly suggested some association to the Dictator; after a few seconds he found that the association was with the Knave of Hearts in an ordinary pack of playing-cards. 'This is a friend of mine, a neighbour who often pays me a visit, said the old lady hurriedly, as the white figure loomed along towards them.
William had a contempt for the awkward young countryman who suddenly loomed up before him that summer's morning across the counter. But a moment before the clerk had been in a place where he would fain have lingered a city where blue waters flow swiftly between white palaces toward the sunrise.
What was the probable fate of beings whose sun had suddenly collapsed to a tiny, relatively cold point in the sky? Suddenly, there loomed before them the dim bulk of the star, a disc already, and Arcot snapped the ship over to the molecular motion drive at once. He knew they must be close. Before them was the angry disc of the flaming white star.
The vague shapes of mummy-cases standing erect in the wall-cases, loomed out dim and gigantic, silent watchers keeping their vigil with the memories of untold centuries locked in their shadowy breasts. They were an awesome company.
As the island loomed across their track, Dickie directed a change of course. "Cut in close to that big cliff on the northeast corner and we'll work our way along close in to the shore." Bronson complied. Then the girl turned to Gregory. "Get my idea?" she asked. "You want to see if Mascola has fallen for our scheme," Gregory replied. "Exactly. We'll cruise by his fleet and lay to by the Pelican.
The rock face of the Porcupine glistened white in the moonlight as if it were encrusted with salt, the waves beat in a continuous roar against its base, which is honeycombed by the action of the water, and when the boat glided into its shadow it loomed up vast and wonderful.
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