Instead of "Sesame," he said "Open, Barley," and was much amazed to find that the door remained fast shut.

The door as sudden shut, and I, I, lost, was passing by, Lost doubly, but by contrast most, Enlightening misery.

Envisagement of the worst at its blackest being part of the holy duty of self-preservation, Victor sat fully dressed, with every other provision made for flight at the first flash of warning, only waiting to make sure, and with what impatience was apparent in the working of paste-coloured features, the wincing and shifting of slotted eyes, the incessant shutting and unclosing of tensed fingers.

Then, having stepped on to the platform, he goes below, the lid shuts with a bang, and the tug sinks out of sight, leaving a trail of bubbles behind it.

" "Well, I don't care to think that he may be driven mad shut up in the dark hold with the rats.

The spread perception of the Forest was focused on herself, and no mere shutting of the eyes could hide its scattered yet concentrated starethe all-inclusive vision of great woods.

Abraham had said when interceding with God for the righteous shut up in Sodom.

I look back an' see de do' swingin' shut, slow like, so I run back an' stick my foot in hit and shove hit back open.

The Christian kept them in a stable shut, And like a squad of soldiers took them out.

A tall flight of wooden steps, wet in the rain, reached to a small, enclosed porch or vestibule, whence a door, now tight shut, gave ingress into the second story of the church.

Then the black hour of homesickness, vain regrets, foolish promises, and weak despair shuts down with the smell of strange earth and the cadence of strange tongues.

We passed along the south side of Rottnest, and by keeping its south-western extreme shut in with the south point, cleared the northern end of the foul ground extending North-North-West from a cluster of high rocks called the Stragglers.

We passed along the south side of Rottnest, and by keeping its south-western extreme shut in with the south point, cleared the northern end of the foul ground extending North-North-West from a cluster of high rocks called the Stragglers.

These tongs, set up against the side of the fireplace had been jarred down by the forcible shutting of the large front door, and no man other than myself was in the house, or had been in the house; only the two women.