Between the two fires was the fast narrowing strip of dry grass from which we must soon move.

not and cannot any longer form part of the impulse creating the long-sustained conflicts between large groups which a European war implies, partly because such allied moral differences as now exist do not in any way coincide with the political divisions, but intersect them, and partly because in the changing character of men's ideals there is a distinct narrowing of the gulf which is supposed to separate ideal and material aims.

So Anna looks, and when she turns again to Charlie she finds him sending a glance rife with conquestnot his firstup to Victorine, who, without meeting it, repliesas she has done to each one before itwith a dreamy smile into vacancy, and a faint narrowing of her almond eyes.

Not to be outdone, Lanyard gave a fleeting smile, a bare curving of lips together with an almost imperceptible narrowing of amused eyesgoading the other to the last stage of exasperationthen calmly ignored the fellow, returning indifferent attention to the progress of the sale.

We fought with fingers, fists, clubbed revolvers, paving the floor with bodies, yet inch by inch were compelled to give way, our little circle narrowing, and wedged tighter against the wall.

And when one contemplates the band of recruits added each year to the army of investigators, and the choice of ever minuter fieldsnot to say lanes and alleysof research, one is led to doubt whether research is not one of the disintegrating forces of society, and whether ever increasing specialisation must not mean a perpetual narrowing of human sympathies in the intellectual leaders of mankind.

If no great inventions in machinery took place, we might therefore expect a constant narrowing of the activity of each worker, which would make his work constantly more simple, and more monotonous, and himself more and more dependent on the regular co- operation of an increasing number of other persons over whom he had no direct control.

" Shade wheeled in his tracks with a swift narrowing of the slate-gray eyes.