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For you must not transplant any of these annuals, that only live to see their sun father for one brief season, into the shade of any tree or overhanging roof, but at most in the travelling umbra of a distant object, such as a tall spruce, the northeastern side of a hedge, or such like.

The surrounding plain, as well as the eastern flank of this hill, has been worn into steep precipices, overhanging the sea.

An examination, however, of the tomb itself, by competent authorities, has proved this objection to be unfounded inasmuch as there can exist no doubt, we hear, from the difference of workmanship, material, &c., that the altar tomb is the original tomb of Geoffrey Chaucer, and that instead of Nicholas Brigham having erected an entirely new monument, he only added to that which then existed the overhanging canopy, &c.

Along the shores, steep cut-banks alternated with muddy shoals; and a new set of problems faced Garth. These chiefly took the form of stout willow bushes overhanging the cut-banks diabolically malicious, sentient beings, they became to Garth.

Below the sign, and heavily framed by the dark overhanging eave, the room within was clearly visible from the street.

Where a cliff stood up precipitous or overhanging, and in its face gaped caverns, those who sought refuge in time of danger naturally looked to them, and contrived means of reaching them, therein to ensconce their goods and secure their persons. They might have to contemplate the devastation of their fields, and their farms burning, from their eyries, but they knew that their persons were safe.

It stood overlooking the road on the summit of a steep slope, and planted close against a range of overhanging bluffs. Nature, you would say, had here desired to imitate the works of man; for the slope was even, like the glacis of a fort, and the cliffs of a constant height, like the ramparts of a city.

Confusion and dismay seized upon all, and at midnight they marched out of Edinburgh, pursued by voices of reproach and execration from the overhanging roofs. Next night they gathered helplessly at Stirling. But on the following day Knox entered the pulpit there, and preached a memorable sermon. It recalled the despairing Congregation to a mood of resolute trust and hope.

The Simplon at its finest sang a pæan to civilisation; it glorified the science of engineering, and told you that it was a triumph of modernity. But this strange, unkempt Pass, with its inadequate road, now overhanging a sheer precipice, now dipping down steeply towards the wild bed of its sombre river, this Great St. Bernard, seemed a secret way back into other centuries, savage and remote.

Each slip is some six inches in length, and its sharp, fire-hardened point projects upwards and a little outwards. If the attacking party is likely to approach by the river, a trap may be arranged at some point where, by reason of rapids or rocks, the boats are likely to be delayed. Here a large tree overhanging the river is chosen for the trap.