Above this ledge, and between it and the rocky point, was a narrow path, only three or four feet wide, that turned short around the end of the hill.

That this pet toy of the modern millionaire should be set to work out the crude vengeance of wild men in these primitive surroundings, crowded up on a little rocky path of these savage mountains, at the door of a cave spring-housesuch a food-cache as a nomad Indian might have utilized, in the gray bluff against the sky-lineit took the breath with its sinister strangeness.

I used to find her every morning when I went to her room, sitting at the window, her books and knitting on a table nearlooking down on the lawn and the steep winding path that came up from the garden,where she had seen three generations of her dear ones pass every dayfirst her husband, then her sonsnow her grandsons.

The garden was on a steep slope, along the bottom of which ran the brick wall bounding one side of the playground; a straight, steep path lay between this and the house, and the youthful dux, with his usual disregard of life and limb, insisted on choosing this as the scene of operations.

There's a little girl on the hills of Maine Looking out through the fading light, She looks down the winding path, and says, "He will surely come to-night!"

Here a broad, beaten path stretched along beside the banks, on which path labored the horses that tugged at the slow-moving barges, laden with barley meal or what not, from the countryside to the many-towered town.

A glaze had formed on the hard-trodden path, and one must needs walk warily.

That this pet toy of the modern millionaire should be set to work out the crude vengeance of wild men in these primitive surroundings, crowded up on a little rocky path of these savage mountains, at the door of a cave spring-housesuch a food-cache as a nomad Indian might have utilized, in the gray bluff against the sky-lineit took the breath with its sinister strangeness.

"History shows that such sentiments as these, far from guiding nations upward, lead them along the downward path.

The road they made was a crooked path through the white, unbroken forest.

"You've walked sunny paths, haven't you?

The two travellers perceived a woman who came out of a house all lit with lamps and firelight, and took the lonely path towards the sea.

Yet, from the outset, nothing was more unlikely than that these two should advance by smooth paths to a clear and utter understanding.

The practice of his profession had given him keen eyes in the dark; he discovered Beaumaroy's tall figure stealing very cautiously down the narrow, flagged path.

To negotiate these dangerous paths in the dark the driver had to put on all possible speed and make a dash for it, and he usually got to the other side before a skid became serious.

To know nothing of the pleasant paths beneath the spreading branches of old primeval trees; no soft grass for their little feet to press; never to wander along the streams or the little brooks; to be strangers always to the beautiful things spread out everywhere in the country in the summer time.

'Down, my good fellow; your joy is too boisterous for this narrow, thorny path.

Fifty miles uphill and down and mostly over districts where there was only a rough cow path in lieu of a road made a prodigious day's work; and certainly it was an almost incredible feat for one who professed to hate work with a consuming passion and who had looked upon an eight-mile jaunt the night before as an insuperable burden.

Not by the road Pap Himes pointed out; not by the devious path Mandy Meacham suggested; but by the rugged road of good, honest toil, to heights where was the power and the glory, she would certainly strive.

To the mountaineer these almost numberless summits offer attractions of all kinds, from the wooded slope with its broad mule-path, to the ice-wall only to be scaled by the use of the rope and the hatchet.

There was no tendency of this shifting and changeful age which he did not observe, no new discovery made, no new theory started, no untrodden path of speculation opened to human thought, which did not immediately engage his attention, and of which he had not something instructive to say.

And now adown the well-known path, a secret path and sure, Led by the noble lady, hurried the gallant Moor.

On my way home by a woodland path leading to the Hall grounds, I, to my great annoyance, came upon Clement Henshaw.

From the high ground we stood upon, from the plain path which invited our footsteps, to be so fallen, so lost, is mortifying; but everything of virtue has, in a degree, taken its departure from our land....

Mothers will no longer be subject to pain and danger during their pregnancy and child-birth: their progeny will be more robust and brave; the now rugged and difficult path of education will be rendered smooth and easy; and hereditary complaints and diseases will be for ever banished from the future auspicious race.