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In the meantime we find such a gulch and start down, but soon come to the "jumping-off place," where we can throw a stone and faintly hear it strike, away below. We fear that we shall have to stay here, clinging to the rocks until daylight. Our little Indian gathers a few dry stems, ties them into a bundle, lights one end, and holds it up.
Now they were pushing forward saps into No Man's Land, linking them across, and so continually creeping nearer to the enemy and a practicable jumping-off place for an attack.
The silence of the deep woods was broken only by the wind moving the branches of the trees, and by the songs of birds. "It looks like the jumping-off place. I guess Hello! What's that?" and he pointed to something up in a tree. "A hawk?" questioned Bart, raising his gun. "No, it looks like a telephone wire." "A telephone wire in these woods?" inquired Ned.
Tyrconnel now played the part of Strafford, and with the aid of French troops and French subsidies, and a sympathetic Irish Parliament, endeavoured to destroy the Ulster Plantation, and make Ireland a jumping-off place for the invasion of England.
You can't get in by Europe very easily, so you must try Asia. What about the coast of Asia Minor? 'It could be done, he said. 'You'd better leave that entirely to me. I'll find out the best way. I suppose the Foreign Office will help me to get to the jumping-off place? 'Remember, I said, 'it's no good getting too far east. The secret, so far as concerns us, is still west of Constantinople.
He had the offer of a congenial berth and a rising salary in the Cathedral city. He put the thing very kindly to the Canon Superintendent. He would help the Mission of course, wouldn't he just, when he should climb into the seats of the mighty? He would be a volunteer henceforward the Cause could count upon him with a sound commercial position for his jumping-off ground.
In these wonders of nature you behold the extremes, fire and ice, having it all their own way, and a world of adamant shall not prevail against them. Alaska's Capital. Sitka has always seemed to me the jumping-off place. I have vaguely imagined that somehow I know not just how it had a mysterious affinity with Moscow, and was in some way a dependence of that Muscovite municipality.
Surely he had not waited, shivering and hesitating, at the jumping-off place. The train was now out of sight. John slipped the uncle's tip into his purse, and walked out of the station and on to the road beyond, the road which led to the top of the Hill. The Hill. Presently, the boy reached some iron palings and a wicket-gate.
Suppose you were living in a jumping-off place, bored to death, and blowing yourself every fifth or sixth day to a brand new crop of prickly heat; and wanted to go away, and couldn't because you had to sit around until a fat Dutchman made up his mind about a concession; and suppose the only book in the place was on the uses of and manufacture and by-products of the royal palm, written in a beastly language called Tamil, which you only knew enough of to ask for tea and toast at four o'clock in the morning, and were usually understood to mean soda biscuits and a dish of buffalo milk.
"Then to-morrow I'll go over and say good-bye to my sister; and the next day I think I'll follow the wagons West. I've not much to put in a wagon, so I can go by rail. The road's away west of the Missouri now, and my letter comes from the very last station, at the head of the track." "So?" said the Judge. "Well, that ought to be far enough, sure, if you go clean to the jumping-off place.
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