The purposeful deliberation with which the woman finished her work; the dead silence about us, broken only by an occasional faint lapping of the river against its bank; the knowledge that this was a deed of revengeall these things produced a mental state in me which was as near to the awful as ever I approached it.

They set off arm in arm along the deserted Quai, and to the accompaniment of the faint lapping of the water against the retaining walls, told each other the history of their pastwhich was succinct enough, their present ideas, and their hopes for the futurewhich were boundless.

Above the gentle lapping of the river he had suddenly heard a sharp clear "Hist!"

The slow lapping of blood broke in on the stillness.

But nothing came upwards from that mighty abyss save the now more distinct lapping of the billows round the boulders, for the tide was rapidly setting in.

And pigeons, too, with their soft sunny coo all the summer afternoon, or the sudden lapping of sleepy wings round the chimneyshow can any one trap or shoot them with blood-curdling rapidity, and not expect to see ghosts!" "Of course, there is this difference about the fox," I said, "that it is really in a sense born to be hunted.

To reach that country from the campoodie, one goes south and south, within hearing of the lip-lip-lapping of the great tideless lake, and south by east over a high rolling district, miles and miles of sage and nothing else.

" The three walked up and down, listening to the mournful lapping of the waves on the beach, and the sigh of the dripping rain.