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Only a few sentinels were at their posts, along the bastions built of logs and clay, behind a fringe of brushwood which screened them from the first line of German trenches outside this boundary of the wood. "Don't show your head round that corner," said an officer, touching me on the sleeve, as I caught a glimpse of bare fields and, a thousand yards away, a red-roofed house.
This job will never be blotted from my memory: although I am now an old man, I remember it as if it had been yesterday. I had not been there more than a quarter of an hour when a cannon-shot came and took the captain's head clean off. This was again close to me, for my left side was touching the poor captain's right, and I was spattered all over with his blood.
I have not shown it to anybody, but here it is " And still sobbing, and with tears running down her cheeks, she reached to a drawer by the bedside, and dragged out this further testimony to her claim it was wrapped in layers of tissue-paper, like her father's valentine and displayed it with a touching pride.
Off, off, Watch! as the dog was about to resent anyone's touching his master. 'Holy sir, thanks, great thanks, as a long fair hand helped him to his feet, and brushed his soiled garment. 'Unhurt, I see, said that sweet voice. 'Hast thou lost thy way? Good dog, thou lovest thy master! Art thou astray? 'No, sir, thank you, I know my way home.
The scene is laid in Jutland, and the story, which is quite out of the common, is full of an intense romantic interest and charm." Review of Reviews. "Excellent entertainment for a fireside audience." Richard Henry Stoddard. "It is a pleasure of the simplest and purest sort to turn from the high-pressure novels of the day and read a tender and touching romance like this story of the Far North."
Round the pillars wound large blue clematis, and white passion-flowers. Lady Mary stood full in the sunshine, which lent once more the golden glory of her vanished youth to her brown hair, and the dazzle of new-fallen snow to her summer gown. Close to her side, touching her, stood the young soldier; straight and tall, with uncovered head, towering above the little group.
We value them not for their beauty or worth, but for the frequency with which we have seen them touched or used by them; and our eye runs over the collection, and perhaps lights most lovingly on the homeliest thing which may have been oftenest touched or worn by them. It is a touching ceremony to divide among a circle of friends the memorials of the lost.
When the carriage had stopped, Roland opened the door, sprang out without touching the steps, and tugged at the bell-handle. Five minutes elapsed, and, after each peal, Roland turned to the carriage, saying: "Don't be impatient, Sir John." At last a window opened and a childish but firm voice cried out: "Who is ringing that way?" "Ah, is that you, little Edouard?" said Roland.
The sun shone through a faint haze, touching to glowing color the maples in the swamp and the golden birches on the knolls. Now and then a leaf drifted to the ground with a faint rustle.
The air was keen and at the same time hot. There was not a cloud in the intense blue sky, and the rays of the sun came down with great force, and blistered our skin and peeled our noses till we were afraid of touching them; but we did not think much about that trifle while the guanacoes were in sight.
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