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Updated: May 21, 2025
Underneath the arms of the guide-post, which had been made by Mate Gushue, was a small, glass-covered, box-like arrangement, in which was encased the record of Peary's successful journey to the Pole, and the roster of the expedition, my name included. From the cross-bars, guys of galvanized wire were stretched and secured to heavy rocks, to help sustain the monument from the fury of the storms.
The lad was still visible from the hill up which they were riding, and Wayland, as he looked back, beheld him standing with his fingers in his hair as immovable as a guide-post, and his head turned in the direction in which they were escaping from him. At length, just as they topped the hill, he saw the clown stoop to lift up the silver groat which his benevolence had imparted.
However, I can be like a guide-post, which points the way which it does not travel. Can you show Harry Walton for that is his name where you propose to put him?" "I am afraid I must give you a room in the attic," said Mrs. Anderson. "Our house is small, and all the chambers on the second floor are occupied." "I am not at all particular," said Harry.
And the Egyptian loom shown in ancient pictures that is even more modern than Penelope's, although it was set up three thousand years before, a last guide-post on the backward way to the misty land called prehistoric.
On a level spot of grass at the foot of the guide-post appeared an object which, though locomotive on a different principle, reminded me of Gulliver's portable mansion among the Brobdignags. It was a huge covered wagon or, more properly, a small house on wheels with a door on one side and a window shaded by green blinds on the other.
Meredith who stood frowning with her eyes fixed on the floor. "I've known burros, and other contrary cusses, in my time," he said, slowly, "but this feller Presby has 'em all lookin' as simple, and plain, and understandable, as a cross-roads guide-post." And The Lily, contrite, agreed.
Churches and shops and all the paraphernalia of busy, bustling common life there may be, but we have no eyes for such. Yonder on the green high plain which we have already entered is a simple guide-post, guiding you, not on to Canada, to New York, to Boston, but back into the dead century that lived so fiercely and lies so still. We stand on ground over-fought by hosts of heroes.
It was not cold and the street was well lighted by the windows of the shops. Briskly moving people streamed across the bridge, as if the factory hands were going home from work, but nobody seemed interested in Foster and the policeman who stood by the guide-post paid him no attention.
"I have always held, as you know," he was saying one evening as he sat in the little study beyond the laboratory with his assistant and intimate, "that Vision should play a large part in the life of the awakened man not to be regarded as infallible, of course, but to be observed and made use of as a guide-post to possibilities "
Then he planted a stick in the ground as a guide-post. The challengers came rushing back, followed by the jeers and sticks of the hill boys. "So! they will not yield? Then will we conquer them," Napoleon cried. "In order! Charge!" And up the slope, brandishing their sticks, charged the town boys. The hill boys were ready for them.
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