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As we went on, the canyon narrowed again, becoming wilder and grander than ever, and on the 28th, late in the day, we came to the first bad fall in this division, where a portage was necessary, and we made a camp. A short distance below this camp the granite ran up. To any one who has been in this chasm with a boat, the term "the granite runs up" has a deep significance.
In India, there had already grown to great power the caste system with its multiplying ramifications. Then, as now, it narrowed the sympathies of men, it arrayed one class against another, it cultivated pride and fostered mutual distrust and dissension.
"But if it's not jealousy, what is it? professional envy? You've been knocking him all the evening. You began it the day he came. What have you against him, anyway? He has never wronged you." Ashton's eyes narrowed, and one corner of his mouth drew up. "Hasn't he, though!" he retorted. "The big brute!
She was not steeped in that agony of remorse which many might consider becoming in a widow of five years’ standing at the discovery that her heart which had fitted well the holding of a treasure, was not narrowed to the holding of a memory, the treasure being gone.
The road narrowed, with deep ditches on either hand. Here was the place he sought. He set his brakes, shut off his power, and swung his car diagonally across the way, so that it would be impossible for Dulac to pass. Then he alighted, and stood waiting, holding on to his machine for support. The other car came to a stop and Dulac sprang out.
Suddenly she was walking all bathed in a ruddy light. She felt this light like something that causes pain, and she narrowed her eyes and bowed her head lower. Gradually the light became golden, there was a flaming radiance and flicker everywhere, and a humming began in the air, and a rustling in the moss.
The discovery, notwithstanding the light it had thrown on the first movements of the trappers, and much as it narrowed the range of her search for them, but little relieved her harrowing apprehensions; and she resolved to proceed up the lake with her observations, which might now as well be confined to this side of it, and the larger streams which should here be found entering it, and down some of which the company, if they came at all, would probably now soon come, on their way to the canoes.
The old man sat erect and stared into the face of his guest, whose eyes had narrowed and whose lips had curved into an icy smile. "First, I'll give him the damnedest licking with my two fists that he ever got in his life; then I'll turn him over to the authorities." Daddy Dunnigan leaned forward and, laying a gnarled hand upon his shoulder, shook him roughly in his excitement: "Yer name, b'y?
Definitely!" "Very well, we'll try you. Zeller will give you a list of things you'll need there special clothing and such. Uh ... got any money to buy those you don't have?" "I will have when you pay me Rellos' expense money for last night." The leader's eyes narrowed in sudden anger. "Don't try my patience too far, Hanlon." "Okay," Hanlon shrugged indifferently.
I want to holler 'Keno." "If you finds where they hangs out come away instanter," here his face hardened and his eyes narrowed, "for it'll take more than yu three to deal with them th' way I'm a-hankerin' for. Come right back to th' Double Arrow, send me word by one of their punchers an' get all the rest you can afore I gets there. It'll take me a day to get th' men together an' to reach yu.
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