Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 29, 2025
A mile or so farther on they came to another crossroad, and there Mr. Westall drew rein and held out his hand to Rodney. "Our course lies off that way," said he, "and we must bid you good-by. You've got money and letters, and know as much about the road ahead of you and the people who live on it as we know ourselves. Is there anything we can do for you that you think of?"
They had passed the village and come to a crossroad, when the steward, telling his companion that their paths now diverged, turned off to the left towards Carriford.
Now it's for you to take it over. That's the house all alone at the Iron Dike crossroad, same as you see here on the map without another within earshot. It's no good by day. He's armed and shoots quick and straight, with no questions asked. But at night well, there he is with his wife, three children, and a hired help. You can't pick or choose. It's all or none.
Pointed leaves, rather long and delicate, and the most splendid color you ever saw. There is just this one little tree, near the crossroad by the old stone house. I haven't seen anything like it about here. I found it yesterday, and just stood and looked at it, it was so beautiful. Yes, I shall be October; I'll decide on that. What's that rustling in the wood? aren't we all here?
He drove past the crossroad, the speed to the last notch. Pauline tried to stand up in the seat and seize the wheel. He thrust her back with one hand, not even looking at her. He was leaning far over the wheel now, his eyes blazing. She could see the beat of blood in his temple. "Stop! Stop! You are on the wrong road. You will kill us both!" she screamed in his deaf ears.
Then, when the road came to a point opposite the station, it came also to a crossroad, and, about a hundred yards down this crossroad was the station itself. Bessie reached that point without anything to alarm her or upset her plans, and there she was lucky enough to find a big billboard at the corner, which happened to be a vacant lot.
Shells were falling fast by now and as the tenth truck went under the bridge a big one landed near with a crash and wounded the two drivers, killed two Marines and wounded five more. "We did not know it at the time and did not notice anything wrong till we came to a crossroad, when we found we had only eleven cars all told.
One gets a picture of the scene: The thin and deficient shadows stretching themselves across the parched bottom lands as the sun slid down behind the trees of Eden's swamp lot; the heat waves of a blistering hot day still dancing their devil's dance down the road like wriggling circumflexes to accent a false promise of coolness off there in the distance; the ominous emptiness of the landscape; the brooding quiet, cut through only by the frogs and the dry flies tuning up for their evening concert; the bandannaed negress wrangling at the weeds with her hoe blade inside the rail fence; and, half sheltered within the lintels of the office doorway of his mill, Dudley Stackpole, a slim, still figure, watching up the crossroad for the coming of his adversaries.
"Do you remember if there is a bridge on the road across to Gadara?" James pointed to a white strip below them. "The road is just ahead." Jesus walked past the crossroad without turning. "Surely he is not going through Samaria!" exclaimed James. "Has he forgotten how these people treated our messengers?" asked John.
The sound of his horse's feet had been heard and, before he could even draw his sword, he was seized and taken prisoner. A French officer rode down the line. "What is the matter?" he asked. "We have taken a prisoner, sir," the sergeant answered. "We heard him coming by this crossroad, and seized him as he rode in among us. He is a soldier an officer, I should think, from what I can see of him."
Word Of The Day
Others Looking