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"Her troubles are over, Cora, and ours are but just begun." "What do you mean?" "This cloud of superstition which is settling about us may engulf us in ruin." She made no answer. Cora was very pretty as she sat on the embankment, her eyes upon the crystal stream, gliding onward like a gushing, gleesome child, and he could not but declare her the most beautiful being he had ever seen.
In this case," Alicia went on, with immense courage, "I didn't believe them." "Why?" he asked enjoyingly. Anything to handle his delight he would even submit it to analysis. She hesitated her business was in great waters, the next instant might engulf her. "It's so curiously unlike you," she faltered.
Then they saw the bay, stretching out wide arms to engulf the sea. It could have harbored a whole fleet. And marching down to its waters were broad levels of buildings, a giant's staircase leading from sea to cliff tops. "They had it here !" Raf saw what Soriki meant by that outburst. Destruction had struck.
She reached backward for the reassuring hand: it was not there, and the next instant the hungry pool rose up to engulf her. In all his years Thomas Jefferson had never had such a stab as that which an instantly awakened conscience gave him when she slipped and fell. Now he was her murderer, beyond any hope of future mercies. For a moment the horror of it held him vise-like.
They must be kept going, as it required but a short stop for the treacherous sands to engulf team and wagon alike. Men wading on either side of the string of oxen kept them moving, and soon all were safely on the north side of the Platte river. We soon began to see great herds of buffalo.
Clap clap clap was the only sound that reached me and with failing heart I knew the noise to be that of waves of the lake beating upon the wall within a few inches of my window, the dark waters which in due time would no doubt rise through my uneven floor and engulf me. Big grey rats ran about in search of fragments of food of which there was none.
Then a change would come over me, and I would think to myself: Well, I'm very glad I'm not a fish; for just as I would be watching some lovely mackerel-like fellow with a flashing back of mottled blue and purple, some monster ten times his size would make a dart at him and engulf him in his capacious throat.
Then followed a wild running and trampling and hoarse shouting, but the forms of the men were lost in the darkness and the sounds were distorted and confused by the roaring of the wind through the shingle-bundles. By this time the sea was running inches high, and threatening every moment to engulf the frail bark.
If the image of passion should float over this motionless sleeping little world, the picture would glow with the enchanting colour of life. Where was he to find the passion, the colour? "Passion!" he repeated to himself. If her burning fire could but be poured out upon him, and engulf the artist in her destroying waves. As he moved forward he remembered that his stroll had an aim.
It is fearful to look on—so black and motionless: a sluggish pool, thick and treacherous, which seemingly would engulf us without so much as a wave or a bubble; and we are within a foot of its surface! We draw involuntarily back, and creep up the steep stair to the first level above us.
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