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In the distance, perhaps a quarter of a mile away, Hans Mueller was still in sight, skirting the base of a sharp incline. Through the trembling heat waves he seemed a mere moving dark spot; like an ant or a spider on its zigzag journey. The grass at the base of the rise was rank and heavy, reaching almost to the waist of the moving figure.
'Oh, d n me! that man in the lane's headed the fox, puffed one. 'Who is it? gasped another. 'Tom Washball! exclaimed a third. 'Heads more foxes than any man in the country, puffed a fourth. 'Always nicking and skirting, exclaimed a fifth. 'Never comes to the meet, added a sixth. 'Come on a cow to-day, observed another.
I followed the path under the apple-trees, passed the daisy field, white from fence to fence with beauty, despair of the farmer, but delight of the cottagers, hurried across the pasture beyond, skirting the little knoll on which the cow happened this morning to be feeding, crossed the brook on a plank, and reached my daily walk.
We paused at the new Frijoles and the box-car town of Monte Lirio and, skirting on a higher level with a wide detour on the flanks of thick jungled and forested hills what is some day to be Gatun Lake, drew up at 7:30 at Gatun. I wandered and inquired for some time in a black night for the moon was on the graveyard shift that week before I found Gatun police station on the nose of a breezy knoll.
Along the edge of the plain, skirting the belt of woods, the grass was short and the traveling was easy; but off to the left the growth was ranker, and interspersed with thickets such as Grôm always regarded with suspicion. He had learned by experience that these dense thickets in the grass-land were a favorite lurking-place of the unexpected and that the unexpected was almost always perilous.
They were riding the "run out," and he knew that Moncrossen would wait for the river to become comparatively free of drift before breaking out his rollways. The rain ceased, but the sky remained heavily overcast and darkness overtook them while yet some distance above the log camp and skirting the opposite shore.
And they both have Guy Dillon's coat." She moved her subdued steed on, skirting the flank of the herd quietly in order not to alarm it; but a number of colts took flight. "Look at them!" she cried. "Five, there, are hackneys. Look at the lift of their fore-legs as they run."
Skirting the sea, it afforded a double line of communications, by land and by water; for the various detachments of their army, posted along it, could in great degree be supplied by the small coasting-vessels of the Mediterranean.
Skirting the west end of the Minster, and having a close view of its two towers built in late Perpendicular times, which are not so beautiful as those at Beverley, we come to what is in many ways the most romantic of all the medieval survivals of York.
We had better inspect all of our shootin'-irons, fer we may want 'em badly." The frontiersman was right, the Comanches were organising an attack, to be divided into three parts, one party to come from the timber skirting the burn, the second to come up behind the cabin, and the third to make a dash from behind the cattle shed.
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