So within this narrow gap, where shapeless things stirred and whimpered in the dark, Beltane leaned breathless upon his sword and looked down upon the watch-fires of Duke Ivo's great camp.

On that spot there"he pointed to a little gap in the hedge, not twenty feet away, where the grass was pressed flat"I saw three dead men lying in a heap.

The 2/19th Londons, the right battalion of the 180th Brigade, had not got far when it became the target of concentrated machine-gun fire and was unable to move, with the result that a considerable gap existed between it and the 179th Brigade.

Where this simple precaution is neglected, many a tiger will sneak through the opening left by the pad elephant, and so silently and cautiously can they steal through the dense cover, and so cunning are they and acute, that they will take advantage of the slightest gap, and the keenest and best trained eye will fail to detect them.

The shifting of Jack's company to the regimental camp in Warchester left a broad gap in the lines of the social life of Acredale.

Whether Lamb had ideas of remaining, or whether he merely filled a temporary gap in the Examiners' Office, we cannot tell.

There are other apparent gaps in the diary which raise the suspicion that it was only fragments that Mr. Strahan obtained.

To the north this valley widened; to the south it narrowed until it became a mere gap leading out into the desert.

Long before we caught sight of the water again, through a ragged gap between high limestone rocks, I could smell a village.

Mont Blanc was before us, but it was covered with cloud; its base, furrowed with dreadful gaps, was seen above.

In these eight days Sally had discovered, with sorrow, that Leopoldy was unusually silly, and Sally was glad that the enormous gap that lies between the fifth and third class, made easier the rupture of this friendship which could not continue, for nothing could be done with Leopoldy.

The hideous small boy, on the contrary, whenever he hits Durdles, blows a whistle of triumph through a jagged gap in the front of his mouth, where half his teeth are wanting; and whenever he misses him, yelps out, "Mulled agin!" and tries to atone for the failure by taking a more correct and vicious aim.

At last I found a tiny gap between two of the boards.

Dressed in a pair of baggy Turkish pants, with a red sash round his middle, knotted loosely over a woollen jersey that had wide horizontal black and yellow strips, with a grey woollen shawl over the lot, and a new tarboosh a size or two too small for him perched at an angle on his head, he stood shifting from one bare foot to the other and moved a toothless gap in his lower face in what was presumably a smile.

an evident gap of a few words exists.]

Great and small had been uprooted or wrenched off by sheer force, making a clean gap, like that made by a snow avalanche.

During three days journey we saw frequent gaps in the earth, which had been cleft by the convulsion, and great heaps of earth which had tumbled down from the mountains into the vallies.

The wider the ancient glacier, the wider the corresponding gap in the Sequoia belt.

Their flight was marked by instant gaps in our ranks, by dead men and horses, by steeds flying wounded or riderless across the plain.

His eyes were fixed on the slightly lighter gap in a dark wall that was the garden gate but looked more like a dim hole leading into a cave.

There is a manifest gap between the reality and the story of it.

Beckoning Texas to follow him, he marched out of the plaza through the nearest gap, faced about upon his foe with an imperious stare, and said abruptly, "My man, do you want to be shot?" Texas Smith had his revolver and long hunting-knife in his waist-belt.

It got on my nervesthat little gap in the circle; that little space of white linen, bare of anything but two unfilled glasses.

This is the point at which the Medicean manuscript (see Introduction) now begins, and between what goes before and what follows there is an obvious gap of some kind.

It was also virtually accepted by Stiefel in his review of Rossi, since he confined his criticism to pointing out and attempting to fill occasional gaps in the sequence of development, and to insisting on the influence of the regular drama, and more particularly of the Intronati comedy.