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With difficulty I can make out, along our trampled platform, a dark flock, the buzz of voices, the smell of tobacco. Here and there a match flame or the red point of a cigarette makes some face phosphorescent. And we wait, unoccupied, and weary of waiting, until we sit down, close-pressed against each other, in the dark and the desert.
Tight muscles, alert eyes, stealthy steps, stalk and run and crawl and climb, breathlessness, a hot close-pressed chest, thrill on thrill, and sheer bursting riot of nerve and vein these are the ordinary sensations and actions of a hunter. No ascent too lofty no descent too perilous for him then, if he is a man as well as a hunter! Take the Brazilian hunter of the jungle. He is solitary.
While she leaned over the railing and stared curiously at that part of the street which was another country, from the hills away to the west, where were camped soldiers, the American soldiers, who prevented the war from slopping over the line now and then into Arizona, came the clear notes of a bugle held close-pressed against the lips of a United States soldier in snug-fitting khaki.
Echo, indeed, they have found in these later days of new battlefields, of a nobler cause and of bravery no less than of old. At last this close-pressed summer was over, and Sir Wilfrid Laurier returned to a country that for a brief time knew no party.
Accustomed as Rachel was to lean upon her husband's strength, at this moment his strength seemed harshness. The night was long. A hundred horrid visions passed before her sleepless eyes. The sun rose upon the Ghetto, striving to slip its rays between the high, close-pressed tops of opposite houses. The five Ghetto gates were thrown open, but Joseph did not come through any.
Hearsay had it that he was close-pressed by the spies of the Holy Office, and perhaps for this reason he remained withdrawn in the Duke's private apartments and rarely showed himself abroad. The little prince, his patient, was as seldom seen, and the accounts of the German's treatment were as conflicting as the other rumours of the court.
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