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Updated: June 12, 2025
We must look sharp to their journey; if they once get to prison, their only chances are the file and the bribe. Unhappily, neither of them is so lucky as myself at that trade!" "No, indeed, there is not a stone-wall in England that the great Captain Lovett could not creep through, I'll swear!" said the admiring satellite. "Saddle the horses and load the pistols! I will join you in ten minutes.
A little farther on, was a strong stone-wall, not high, but very thick, extending in the same manner. On the outside of it were the ruins of two houses, one on each side of the entry or gate to it. The wall is built all along of uncemented stones, but of so large a size as to make a very firm and durable rampart.
Scobel cheerily those binoculars of his could never have seen through a stone-wall, and were not much good at seeing things under his nose "for it is quite a settled thing that Mr. Vawdrey and Lady Mabel are to be married. It will be a splendid match for him, and will make him the largest landowner in the Forest, for Ashbourne is settled on Lady Mabel.
The Filipinos know what that means. In Tagalog they call it timbain. We do not know who could have been the inventor of this method of punishment, but we are of the opinion that he must have lived long ago. In the middle of the tribunal yard there was a picturesque stone-wall, roughly made out of cobble stones, around a well.
There has been but one flower found in this vicinity, and that was an anemone, a poor, pale, shivering little flower, that had crept under a stone-wall for shelter. Mr. Farley found it, while taking a walk with me. . . . . This is May-day! Alas, what a difference between the ideal and the real!
Here the Ridgley team made a stand that the newspaper reporters later described as a "stone-wall defense"; after three tries Jefferson had succeeded in advancing the ball only five yards.
"How can you expect him to think of thirst when such perfumed billets as that come showering upon him?" said the adjutant, alluding to a rose-colored epistle a servant had placed within my hands. "Eight miles of a stone-wall country in fifteen minutes, devil a lie in it!" said O'Shaughnessy, striking the table with, his clinched fist; "show me the man would deny it." "Why, my dear fellow "
"M m moo moo," replied the person, as if a cow in distress. "I'm hic here hic!" "Drank as a fool," thought Will. "Where?" "Hic here hic!" "Hie haec hoc, more likely," said Will, recalling his Latin. "Stay right where you are." "I'll stay hic." "Let me feel for you. O, here you are." Will now felt of some one crouching against the stone-wall of the dock, "How did you come here?"
There was hardly a tree she had not climbed, or a fence or stone-wall provided, of course, that it was away from the main road and people's eyes that she had not walked. Gypsy could row and skate and swim, and play ball and make kites, and coast and race, and drive, and chop wood.
But dear old Bradshaw is an axiom in Euclid for stone-wall obviousness, compared with a through Continental time-table. Every morning B. has sat down with the book before him, and, grasping his head between his hands, has tried to understand it without going mad. "Here we are," he has said. "This is the train that will do for us.
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