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The star, however, was certainly so far "new" that its rays, until their sudden accession of strength, were too feeble to affect even our reinforced senses. Not one of the 1,283 small stars recorded in charts of the nebula could be identified with it; and a photograph taken by Dr.
Down they went, and down, till at length, panting, but safe, they stood at the bottom of the darksome gulf where only the starlight shone, for here the rays of the low moon could not reach. "Mount," said Masouda. "Princess, stay you on Flame; he is the surest and the swiftest. Sir Wulf, keep your own horse Smoke; your brother and I will ride those of the soldiers.
Just a little attention from a party with a skinning knife was all they needed after that. And so on, back to Homer Gale, who had gone to Red Gap for two days on a matter of life and death and of this the less repeated here the better. Now our narrow way spread to a valley where the sun's rays were more widely diffused and the dust less pervasive.
As the dampness of night fled from before the rays of the morning sun it revealed a cooler, calmer crowd around the big wigwam. In sight of the great waters, and almost deafened by its thundering, warning voice, Sachems, Chiefs and Warriors were quietly and orderly assembled.
I slowly ascended the Mont du Chat by the paths of the chamois-hunters; arrived at its summit, I perceived stretched out before me in the distance the valleys of Aix, Chambéry, and Annecy; and at my feet the lake, dappled with rosy tints by the floating rays of the setting sun.
Left to himself at the cross-roads, the prince glanced around him, quickly crossed the road towards the lighted window of a neighbouring house, and unfolded a tiny scrap of paper which he had held clasped in his right hand during the whole of his conversation with the general. He read the note in the uncertain rays that fell from the window.
He knew now that she would say whatever she pleased, and, with the pigeon clasped tightly in his arms, he waited for anything that might come. "You pretend that you don't know, that you didn't see!" she asked indignantly. As she looked at him he thought or it may have been the effect of the shifting light that her eyes diffused soft green rays beneath her black eyelashes.
But this was not all he saw, for there, about in the centre, was a mass of something something that showed white in the rays of the setting sun. "Bless my chimney!" cried Mr. Damon. "That's some sort of a building." "The ruined temple," said Tom softly. "We've found it at last," and he headed the balloon for it and put on full speed.
She could not see me because I was in the deep shadow, but I could see every gesture of hers. I saw her raise her face to the darkling skies, and I felt that some despairing prayer was on her lip, and the reason why I could see her so plainly was this, that she stood just where the rays of the lamps fell brightly.
With a slow, meditative step he went back to the curtained doorway and, pulling aside the hangings, went out on to the balcony. It was four o'clock, and already the heat of the day had broken. Long rays of sunlight struck eastward across the garden and touched with their faded golden fingers the topmost turrets of the temple.
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