" Kate's exclamation was due to a sudden sinking in the mossy causeway until she was almost buried in the tall ferns.

By gradual sinking of the land, one would suppose.

So far as he could see, Ken was left alone on the fast sinking ship.

But now that his task was accomplished, he came suddenly back to himself to find the galleries of the galleon aflame with musket-shots, and to become aware with a most horrible sinking of the spirits that all the shots therefrom were intended for him.

And how long did this period of slow sinking go on?

I ascertained, afterwards, that he questioned the dear girl closely on the subject of my sister's malady; even desiring to know if her affections were any way connected with this extraordinary sinking of the vital powers; but not in the slightest degree inclining to the distrust of Rupert's being in any manner implicated in the affair.

When she awoke, what seemed that fatal sinking had passed.

It is customary to place heavy shot with a body to insure its immediate sinking, but in this instance, nothing else being available, a large lump of coal was substituted.

"We all of us must and will!" said Anna elatedly, though with shameful inward sinkings and with no sustaining word from any of the flock, while out under the far gray sky, emerging from a slight angle of the shore well down the water's long reach the battle line began to issue, each ship in its turn debouching into full relief from main-truck to water-line.

"Nature's self, By all varieties of human love Assisted, led me back through opening day To those sweet counsels between head and heart Whence grew that genuine knowledge, fraught with peace, Which, through the later sinkings of this cause, Hath still upheld me and upholds me now.

But no more in this strain!I will see what her behaviour will be on my returnyet already do I begin to apprehend some little sinkings, some little retrogradations: for I have just now a doubt arisen, whether, for her own sake, I should wish her to forgive me lightly, or with difficulty? ***

No studied rules,no elaborate complication of harmonies,it is the mere sinking and swelling of the wave of his thought as it moves onward to the shore of his purpose.

I left the office early, and on my way home managed to summon up sufficient courage to carry me through the discreetly curtained doors of Madame Marguerite's recherché establishment, devoutly hoping that the nervous sinking which I felt about my heart was not reflected in my outer demeanour.

Every crime Has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angeldark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.

And in this work, this anxiety to forget nothing, the painful sinking of the heart which they both felt was in some measure lessened.

The only well-marked effect which Dr. Davy could hear of, apart from damage to artificial structures, was the partial sinking of a causeway leading to Rat Island, in the harbour of St. John.

I cannot conceive how he could have expected to bring this about in view of the elation of the Allies at the dismissal of Count von Bernstorff and the seeming certainty that the United States would declare war against Germany if the latter persisted in her ruthless sinking of American merchant vessels.

The knowledge that I was free, perhaps in communication with the police, led to your night trip to the Seminole, and the secret sinking of the yacht.

"We all of us must and will!" said Anna elatedly, though with shameful inward sinkings and with no sustaining word from any of the flock, while out under the far gray sky, emerging from a slight angle of the shore well down the water's long reach the battle line began to issue, each ship in its turn debouching into full relief from main-truck to water-line.

I left the office with an uneasy sinking at the heart.

seventeen days and seventeen nights, toodo not let us forget thatof that deadly nausea, of that unspeakable sinking of all one's inside to the very depths of creationof the smell of boiling oil, and the hot, sick, throbbing of engines!

But it is the heart, left shaken, unsupported, wretchedly sinking, which reaches out its feelers for sympathy, catches at the first penetrable point, and clings like a helpless vine to the sunny-sided wall of the nearest consolation.

For now the treacherous turf Trembling gives way; and the unwieldy beast Self-sinking, drops into the dark profound.

I asked, with a curious sinking of the heart.

To this very day it brings with it the old, utter sinking of the heart, and the old, dull sense of mystery.