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They could hear the roar of the wild mountain stream pouring a maelstrom down from the glare ice and snow of the upper meadows. The next plunge of the pole missed bottom. There was a yielding creak of logs. The raft poised, and spun round. "Let her go, man! We'll wriggle her in below!" "Then loose your halter ropes, they're pulling us round." They tossed the ropes free.
Here and there a neem, its delicate branches dusted with tiny white star blossoms, cast a sensuous elusive perfume to the vagrant breeze. Once a gigantic jamon stretched its gnarled arms across the roadway as if a devilfish held poised his tentacles to snatch from the brake its occupants.
Your honesty must be based, as the sun is, in vacant heaven; poised, as the lights in the firmament, which have rule over the day and over the night If you ask why you are to be honest you are, in the question itself, dishonored 'Because you are a man, is the only answer; and therefore I said in a former letter that to make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
"I'll taste it before I sleep, if you will. The air is close here. Let us go and fill our lungs with mountain breezes." The boy sprang to his feet at once, careful to take his wine flask with him, and followed Ellerey on to the plateau. There were stars in the clear sky, and a crescent moon that seemed to be poised on a sharp edge of the higher mountains.
"Nothing easier, Miss Marsh. Let us go and see it after luncheon. The Gosways have gone, you may take my word for that, and only a caretaker is in possession. Will you come with me this afternoon?" The prospect was not displeasing. Miss Marsh poised it in her mind for a few moments. There was Chesney's education to be thought of as well.
"Ye men who would learn to fly, take the humming bird for instructor; and be taught that the most powerful flight is not given to breadth of wing but to swiftness of motion or vibration; and in watching Sir Knight poised above a flower you may solve the mystery of a suspended flight.
"We start at three o'clock." "I'll be on hand," I promised, desperately. "All right, and don't fail," he cautioned me. "You would not believe it, Smith, but I have got so that I can line 'em out from one hundred and " I turned and left him with those unknown yards poised on his lips. When at a safe distance I looked back and saw him gazing at me with an attitude and expression of dumb wonder.
He turned, saw it, dropped the oar and made for the boat. She had seized the remaining scull and stood with it poised, then she hurled it blade foremost at the form in the water, now fully visible, and close on its prey. She could not throw a stone straight, yet the scull went like an arrow to the mark, balking the pursuer and saving the pursued.
He jerked his head backward to imply the storm. "It's sharp. Mighty sharp," replied his brother. "Say " He broke off and bent his head in an attitude of keen attention. He held his pipe poised in his right hand, whilst his eyes focused themselves on a side of bacon which hung upon the wall. Nick had turned towards the door. His attitude was intent also; he, too, was listening acutely.
For a brief space of time the ultimate development of the venture was doubtfully poised, but recognising in each other's features the overhanging cloud of an allied pang, the one before me expressed a becoming contrition for the jest, together with a proffered cup.
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