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The horse looked blooming and bright; his eye was clear and cheerful, and there was a sort of springy graceful action that looked like easy going. One always fancies a horse most with another man on him. We see all his good points without feeling his imperfections his trippings, or startings, or snatchings, or borings, or roughness of action, and Mr.
Twenty paces farther on it came to playing blind man's buff with the rocky walls again, and measured by the trippings and stumblings 'twas a long Sabbath day's journey to that final turn in the great earth-burrow whence we could see the glimmering of the enemy's camp-fires in the sunken valley. "Now God be praised!" quoth Richard most fervently.
My boy distinctly remembered that under one of these trees his elder brother first broached to him that awful scheme of reform about fibbing, and applied to their own lives the moral of The Trippings of Tom Pepper; he remembered how a conviction of the righteousness of the scheme sank into his soul, and he could not withhold his consent.
Five or six years after, when his brother and he had begun to read stories, they found one in the old New York Mirror which had a great influence upon their daily conduct. It was called "The Trippings of Tom Pepper; or, the Effects of Romancing," and it showed how at many important moments the hero had been baulked of fortune by his habit of fibbing.
Indeed, the various trippings on, and endeavors to encircle, this physical stone, raise many phantom stones, and the severity of the fall is just as great when one trips over a stone that is not there. Don Quixote was quite exhausted when he had been fighting the windmills.
My boy distinctly remembered that under one of these trees his elder brother first broached to him that awful scheme of reform about fibbing, and applied to their own lives the moral of "The Trippings of Tom Pepper;" he remembered how a conviction of the righteousness of the scheme sank into his soul, and he could not withhold his consent.
They were all there, with tiny little pink-lined shells, and pebbles of marvellous transparency which must surely, surely, be worth taking to a lapidary to examine! What cries of delight followed the landing, what hasty summoning of the whole party to witness some fresh discovery; what trippings on slippery stones, and splashing of fresh white dresses!
We already know enough to be very sure that the art is founded upon laws, although they are not thoroughly understood. Principles of masses, spaces, and gradations underlie all accidental harmonies of colour; just as in music, the simple, strong, under-chords of the bass must be the ground for all the changes and trippings of the upper melodies.
The water in the cask beside the fire froze nightly, and the ice was broken every morning with hatchets. By day, Le Jeune and his companion practised with snow-shoes, with all the mishaps which attend beginners, the trippings, the falls, and headlong dives into the soft drifts, amid the laughter of the Indians. Their seclusion was by no means a solitude.
Although it requires a vast deal of knowledge to know that there is any road here at all." We will go back by the Scarbend road, and Heartsease can trot behind us." "Heartsease, uneasy you have kept my heart by your shufflings and trippings perpetual. Philippa, I want a better-stepping pony. Pet has ruined Heartsease." "Pet ruins everything and everybody; and you are ruining him, Eliza.
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