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At that word came Hallblithe's own sister out from the hall; and she bore weapons with her, to wit Hallblithe's sword and shield and helm and hauberk. As for him he turned back silently to his work, and set the steel of the spear on the new ashen shaft, and took the hammer and smote the nail in, and laid the weapon on a round pebble that was thereby, and clenched the nail on the other side.
Another illustration of this kind of illusion recently occurred in my own experience. Nearly opposite to my window came a narrow space between two detached houses. This was, of course, darker than the front of the houses, and the receding parallel lines of the bricks appeared to cross this marrow vertical shaft obliquely.
But the sage only answered, 'Who's to know miles hereabout aren't measured, and went on swearing in an undertone at the shaft horse for 'kicking with her head-piece, that is, shaking with her head down. 'Yes, yes, began Bazarov; 'it's a lesson to you, my young friend, an instructive example. God knows, what rot it is?
"No," he answered with gravity, "I have only the mistaken temerity to say the truth." She regarded him with a mocking light in her deep, velvety eyes. "And is it the truth that you have given up your religion because you have seen me?" Maurice wondered afterward how he looked when she sped this shaft, for he saw her shrink and pale.
She was busy with preparations for her departure, trying to see as much of Kitty Palliser as possible, and thinking a great deal of that adorable father whom she would meet on the twenty-seventh. Lucia's room, as Mr. Rickman knew, was in the west wing, over the south-west end of the library, and from her window she could see the pale yellow green shaft of light that Mr.
I was set to work on one of these tunnels, and using pick and shovel seemed mighty hard at first; what made it harder to stand was the lack of fresh air there was no place for the air to get in excepting through the main shaft, and that was about four hundred yards away.
Its lamps swung a shaft of light over the low garden wall. At the garden gate the car made a shuddering pause. Gwenda's face and all her body listened. A little unborn, undying hope quivered in her heart always at that pausing of the car at her gate. It hardly gave her time for one heart-beat before she heard the grinding of the gear as the car took the steep hill to Upthorne.
No shaft had been pierced in this part, and the gallery, bored into the bowels of the earth, had no direct communication with the surface of the earth. James Starr, with intense interest, examined the place in which they were standing. On the walls of the cavern the marks of the pick could still be seen, and even holes in which the rock had been blasted, near the termination of the working.
The Duke of Richmond bade his companion send a shaft after them; but the latter was so overcome by terror that he could scarcely fix an arrow on the string, and when he bent the bow, the shaft glanced from the branches of an adjoining tree.
People, however, now go down sometimes through a shaft made near the well by which the first discovery was made, and ramble about, by the light of torches, which they carry with them, among the rubbish in the subterranean chambers. The site of Pompeii was discovered in the same way with Herculaneum, namely, by the digging of a well.
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