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Thus speaking, my lord Duke rode on up the lists, where stood certain noble lords to hold his stirrup and aid him to earth; so mounted he to his place 'neath broidered canopy, and many a fair cheek blanched, and many a stout knight faltered in his speech, beholding that slow-creeping, stealthy smile and the twitch of those thin nostrils.
The slow-creeping waters of the Nile washed patches of dull crimson against the oozy mud-banks, tipping palms and swaying reeds with colour as though touched with vermilion, and here and there long stretches of wet sand gleamed with a tawny gold.
Later it saw the slow-creeping boats of hardy pioneers, Loyalists, who came to make for themselves homes in the wilderness. Its shores re-echoed to the shouts and songs of sturdy raftsmen in the days when acres of great logs were floated down to the sea. It had cradled upon its bosom fleets of boats, their white sails swelling to every wind that blew.
The citizens, used to the slow-creeping floods of other years, were entirely mystified and distracted by this sudden, hurtling, seething flood that seemed to spring by night from the clouds that hovered low over the city and plunged their seas of water into the rivers that converge in the very heart of Dayton. Railroad and wagon bridges over the Miami River were swept away.
Only the sea was occasionally flecked with racing sails that outstripped the old, slow-creeping trader, or was at times streaked and blurred with the trailing smoke of a steamer. There were a few strange footprints on those virgin sands, and a fresh track, that led from the beach over the rounded hills, dropped into the bosky recesses of a hidden valley beyond the coast range.
A light sheeted fog, of varying thickness and density in the different portions of the wide expanse, here thin and spray-like, as if formed of the breath of some marine monster, and there thickening to the appearance of the stratiform cloud, lay low stretched, in long, slow-creeping undulations, over the bosom of the waveless lake. "The first on the ground, after all," exclaimed Mr.
You jingled in sleighs, you snowballed, you lived in snow like a snowbird, and your blood coursed and tingled, in full tide of good, merry, real life, through your veins, none of the slow-creeping, black blood which clogs the brain and lies like a weight on the vital wheels! "Mercy upon us, papa!" said Jenny, "I hope we need not go back to such houses?" "No, my dear," I replied.
Cleek clamped his jaws together like a bloodhound snapping, and over his hardened face there came a slow-creeping, unnatural pallor. "Has that been lost?" he said in a low, bleak voice. "Has he, this precious royal master of yours, this usurper has he parted with that thing; the wondrous Rainbow Pearl?" "Monsieur knows of the gem then?" "Know of it? Who does not? Its fame is world-wide.
Cleek clamped his jaws together like a bloodhound snapping and over his hardening face there came a slow-creeping, unnatural pallor. "Has that been lost?" he said in a low, bleak voice. "Has he, this precious royal master of yours, this usurper has he parted with that thing the wondrous Rainbow Pearl?" "Monsieur knows of the gem, then?" "Know of it? Who does not? Its fame is world-wide.
You jingled in sleighs, you snow-balled, you lived in snow like a snow-bird, and your blood coursed and tingled, in full tide of good, merry, real life, through your veins none of the slow-creeping, black blood which clogs the brain and lies like a weight on the vital wheels!"
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