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Further, a few hundred thousand tons of ice had grounded upon the spit and upreared a glittering ridge. "We'll have to portage," Corliss said, as Frona turned the canoe from the bank. La Bijou darted across the narrower channel to the sand-spit and slipped up a little ice ravine, where the walls were less precipitous.
Upreared by Francis the First, on his return from Spain, after the humiliating treaty of Madrid , it is the monument of a pride that sought to dazzle itself in order to forget defeat.
The head of horror mounted and in the shield's centre, full ten feet across, glowing, flickering, shining out coldly, was a rose of white flame, a "flower of cold fire" even as Rador had said. Now swiftly the Thing upreared, standing like a scaled tower a hundred feet above the rift, its eyes scanning that movement I had seen along the course of its lair.
All awaited anxiously the commencement of a religious "mystery," which was about to be presented. We took up a position near the verandah. Almost immediately, the musicians drew from their long trumpets soft and monotonous tones, marking the time by measured beats upon an odd-looking drum, broad and shallow, upreared upon a stick planted in the ground.
"As I approached the balcony, I perceived one of the well-known agents of the Duc d'Orleans, whom I had noticed some time before in the throng, menacing me, the moment I made my appearance, with his upreared hand in fury.
My intention was to have jumped into the boat with a rope's-end, as she came alongside, taking a turn anywhere for the moment; but as, with main-topsail aback, we crept slowly down upon the poor, forlorn-looking waif, a gaunt, unkempt scarecrow suddenly upreared itself in the stern-sheets and, uttering queer, gibbering sounds the while, scrambled forward into the eyes of the boat, with movements that somehow were equally suggestive of the very opposite qualities of agility and exhaustion, and held out its lean, talon-like hands for the rope which I was waiting to heave.
Mary, it's a game, a plot, a dickens of a game." "Well, tell me," she said, beaming. "It wants your help." "Well, tell me, tell me, stupid." "You will help?" "Of course, if I can. Oh, do tell me, Georgie!" "I'll show you, that's quicker." He sprang to the basket; unstrapped the lid; threw it back. A most exquisite orange head upreared. A queenly back arched. A beautiful figure stepped forth.
For how we spent that last night in delusive gladness thou knowest, and must needs remember too well. When the fated horse leapt down on the steep towers of Troy, bearing armed infantry for the burden of its womb, she, in feigned procession, led round our Phrygian women with Bacchic cries; herself she upreared a mighty flame amid them, and called the Grecians out of the fortress height.
In an instant the tables were deserted and the whole company had clustered in front of the King's chair. Those who had sat on either side of him crowded inward so that his tall dark figure upreared itself amid the dense circle of his guests.
He now tried to pretend that everything was over. He gathered boards, excelsior and the crate and piled them in the kitchenette, which they approximately filled. But inevitably he was brought back. He stood with hands upon the cover of the upreared case, drew a long shivering breath and gently lifted it off.
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