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Gabriel felt an intense delight in this wandering life, with its continual alarms owing to the proximity of the troops.
If the thousand or more savages, who had spent nearly half the night in accomplishing the engirdlement of the Flying Fish, could have heard and understood the airy way in which the fact of their close proximity was dismissed by the baronet as a matter of the most trivial importance, they would have been intensely disgusted.
The horse apparently shunned any near proximity to the fire, and performed prodigious efforts to escape. "He'll be ridin' an avalanche pretty soon," muttered Slone. Long sheets of sand and gravel slid down to spill thinly over the low bank.
There was quite a pleasurable excitement among the stay-at-homes at the tea table, when the incipient breaking up of the ice was declared; for on the proximity of narrow feeding-grounds to the ice-houses depended the hopes of good sport of our adventurers.
And with it ends the story of those first foundations which completed the recivilisation of the Valley. Reading was not the only Cluniac establishment upon the Thames. Another, and earlier one, was to be found at Bermondsey; but its proximity to London and its distance down river forbid it having any place in these pages.
In 1269 the new church was ready for service, and the chapel was prepared for the shrine. The shrine, and within it the Confessor's coffin, still stands in the centre of this royal chapel of St. Edward a battered wreck, yet bearing traces of its former beauty and round it is a circle of royal tombs, drawn as by a magnet to the proximity of the royal saint.
After I rested awhile, reading my Bible and guide-book, I walked out to the point where the sea on three sides, the beautiful little plain at the base of the mountain, Haifa, and Acre across the bay, all made up one of the prettiest views of the whole trip. Owing to its proximity to the sea and the heavy dews, Carmel was not so dry and brown as much of the country I had seen before.
Miss Bowen's frank gaiety died slowly away, and she fell into more than one long reverie, which did not escape the benign notice of her guardian. He grew serious, and made an attempt to remove from her his own dangerous proximity. "Come, N. L., it is time we vanished. You have never told me the least fragment of news from home that is, from Kingcombe." "You were too much engaged, brother.
One of its streets is lined for a mile with specimens of the fan palm, fifteen feet in height; and I realized the prodigality of Nature here when my guide pointed out a heliotrope sixteen feet in height, covering the whole porch of a house; while, in driving through a private estate, I saw, in close proximity, sago and date palms, and lemon, orange, camphor, pepper, pomegranate, fig, quince, and walnut trees.
He was an incomparable accompanist, and Diana, feeling herself supported, and upborne, sang with a beauty of interpretation, an intensity of feeling, that had been impossible before. And through it all she was acutely conscious of Max Errington's proximity knew instinctively that the passion of the song was shaking him equally with herself.
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