United States or Malta ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Only one little knot of four Germans and perhaps a dozen Asiatics remained fighting about the Hohenzollern and the Prince as he circled in a last attempt to save Niagara. Round they swooped once again over the Canadian Fall, over the waste of waters eastward, until they were distant and small, and then round and back, hurrying, bounding, swooping towards the one gaping spectator.
No time save for confidence in the stout mechanism and in the skill of hand and brain that was driving the great planes, with a roaring rush like a gigantic gull, a swooping rise and fall in long arcs over the hills of air, across the vast enigma of that space! Stern's whole attention was fixed on driving, just on the manipulation of the swift machine.
Such a king when injured falls upon the injurer like the hawk swooping down upon its prey, in moments of heedlessness. A king whose power has been consolidated and who is confident of his own strength, should assail a neighbour who is weaker than himself but never one that is stronger.
The boy had a vision of a winged figure, sword in hand, swooping wrathfully down upon them. Surely he knew it that swoop, that sword, that splendid rage. It was St. Michael, the Archangel, in the famous picture by Guido Reni, a copy of which hung in the drawing-room at home. "Remember the crew o the Curlew, men!" roared a mighty voice. The arms about the boy loosened.
Following some ingenious idea of his own regarding fitness, the beautiful Filgee had induced Uncle Ben to seat himself on the floor before one of the smallest desks, presumably his brother's, in an attitude which, while it certainly gave him considerable elbow-room for those contortions common to immature penmanship, offered his youthful instructor a superior eminence, from which he hovered, occasionally swooping down upon his grown-up pupil like a mischievous but graceful jay.
The launch was about twenty feet long with a small cabin and a fresh coat of brown paint. It shot lightly over the smooth water, and Gwynne sat on top of the cabin above Isabel swinging his long legs, and looked with some envy at the hundreds of yachts that skimmed the bay. They appeared and vanished about the corners of the Islands and promontories like birds swooping after prey.
She remembered the car flying up the ascents, swooping down long slopes and skimming like a bird across the levels, that morning when she had driven it. "They'll go almost as fast as a railroad train, Uncle Pros," she told him, "but we must get there as soon as we can." After that scarcely a word was spoken, while the two, still hand in hand, made what speed they could. The morning waxed.
And she was talking so well swooping with swift wing this way and that. Wonderful how she had learned an art which he found so disgustingly difficult. She must think him hopeless indeed!
He went high again, until he had a wide view of the pleasant upland country of western New York State, and then made a long coast down, and so up again, and then a coast. Then as he came swooping a quarter of a mile above a village he saw people running about, running away evidently in relation to his hawk-like passage. He got an idea that he had been shot at.
Perhaps she knew she did not deserve politeness; anyhow she took Clare's for impudence, and came swooping upon him. He stopped and waited her approach, perplexed as to the cause of it; and was so unprepared for the box on the ear she dealt him, that it almost threw him down. Her ankle was instantly in Abdiel's sharp teeth.
Word Of The Day