United States or Brazil ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
But first I passed two jagged slits in a stone wall; the lions' mouths now toothless where, in the distempered horror of my sleep, I thought denunciations of innocent men to the old wicked Council, had been dropped through, many a time, when the night was dark.
He lit the gas-ring and made the tea and brought it to her with cake and bread and butter on a little tray. He set it down beside her on the window-seat. But Anne could neither eat nor drink. She cried out to him. "Oh, Jerry, look at him. Do you think he's dying now?" He knelt down and looked. Nicky's eyes were two slits of glaze between half-shut lids.
Through the opening she could see the farmhouse, three ball-topped gables, the middle one advancing, the front built out there in a huge door-place that carried a cross windowed room under its roof. Low heavy-browed mullions; the panes, black shining slits in the grey and gold of the stone. All their rooms. Hers and Gwinnie's under the near gable by the fir-trees, Mr. and Mrs.
Nanna, huddled up in a corner of the room whither she had been flung, answered not a word, but watched him steadily, unwinkingly, her eyes narrowed to two gleaming slits. Esmay went over and assisted her to her feet. "You will give us time to get a few things together," said the girl, turning to Quinton Edge. "A woman cannot be moved about like a piece of furniture." "Ten minutes."
His brow knitted, and his small crafty eyes became like two narrow slits. "I am afraid I can't do anything for you," he at length replied. "It's utterly impossible for me to undertake your case." "And why not?" "Oh, there are personal reasons which I do not care to explain." "Fear of the Stubbles, eh?" "They are good customers of mine. I would not like to offend them."
At her words Bill Carmody's face darkened, and his great fists clenched until the nails bit deep into his palms. The steel-gray eyes narrowed to slits and, as the girl finished, he arose and gently lifted one of the little hands between his own.
"You will hear some shouts directly. The water won't begin to come in through the slits till they put their weight in the canoes." Godfrey lifted his head for a moment and saw five or six of the natives on the bank abreast of him, standing in readiness to shoot. Quickly as he withdrew it again two arrows struck the boat within a few inches of the point where he had looked over.
Still borne in the litters we went on, winding, ascending until at last they were set down in a great hall carpeted with soft fragrant rushes and into which from high narrow slits streamed the crimson light from without. I jumped over to Larry, there had been no change in his condition; still the terrifying limpness, the slow, infrequent pulsation.
It was of the same dimensions in all save height, in which respect it was much inferior. The room had also a gloomier character, for the high stonewalls, as they rose and arched overhead, had the aspect of some cathedral crypt or burial-place. The windows here were narrow slits, as above, through which the different court-yards might be seen.
The wind rose higher and higher, cutting long slits in the tent, through which the rain poured incessantly. To complete the sum of our miseries, the night was at hand. It came down suddenly, at last, like a curtain, shutting in Sandpeep island from all the world. It was a dirty night, as the sailors say.
Word Of The Day