Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: July 13, 2025
There were the prominences of the forehead, nose, and chin, dimly shown as under a veil there, the round outline of the chest and the hollow below it there, the points of the knees, and the stiff, ghastly, upturned feet. I looked again, yet more attentively.
Our eyes all followed the direction of his, that were staring down upon a flat open space, clear from brush-wood, down in the hollow on our right. Our search was ended, and we knew it. The moon, that flickered and quivered elsewhere through bough and brake, settled there steadily on a single white spot.
"Let us hear these orders, aunt," replied Adrienne as, seated on the other side of the table, opposite to the princess, she leaned her small, dimpled chin in the hollow of her pretty hand, with an air of graceful mockery, charming to behold.
The ladies persuaded me Adam's old excuse; I can deny nothing to the sex. . . . But what have we yonder? A race?" "It would appear so." "A very hollow one, if I may criticise. That youngster moves like a deer. . . . And what is his reward to be? another glance of these bright eyes? Ah, Miss Josselin, you make fools and heroes of us all!"
"All right," he shouted. "Go and put on the others." There was another silence after they had fled out on the stage again, clad tins time in the evening gowns a hollow heart-constricting silence, almost literally sickening. But it lasted only a moment. Then, "Will you come down here, Miss Dane?" called Galbraith.
But Cleopatra sank in a heap upon the floor, and, covering her head with her arms, she shrieked till the hollow passages rang with the echoes of her cries, that seemed to grow and double and rush along the depths in volumes of shrill sound. "Rise!" I cried, "rise and let us hence before the Spirit shall return to haunt us!
As to herself, she had fully made up her mind never again to enter the doors of Sleepy Hollow, for it would be impossible for her, she felt, to associate with any people who had sat down to dinner with the kitchen-maid. Holding the baby firmly in her arms, Flower stood and hesitated. The warm fleecy white shawl sheltered little Pearl from all cold, and for the present she slept peacefully.
And in the convenient hollow formed by the circle of branches the caranchos had built their huge nest, composed of sticks, lumps of turf, dry bones of sheep and other animals, pieces of rope and raw hide, and any other object they could carry.
"Stay in the cabin, girl, put out the light, and don't open the door until I come," he said and he was gone. As Sammy turned back into the house, from away down in Mutton Hollow, on the night wind, came the sound of guns. It was after midnight when Mr. Howitt was rudely awakened.
It was only when in the course of instruction Mac's hand lingered too long on hers, or his gay, careless face leaned too close, that she had her misgivings. "Say! this is great!" she cried rapturously, with her feet braced and her eyes on the long road ahead. "When it don't get the hic-cups, it beats a horse all hollow!"
Word Of The Day
Others Looking