No, she was not here in the room, of course, but outside, in the street, at the corner below, where the letterbox stood.

"Stand forth that I may see these friends o' thine!"

So saying she sprang lightly to her feet and stood above him straight and tall: and though she trembled, yet he saw her eyes were fearless and his dagger gleamed steady in her hands.

I looked at once for Handy Solomon, and was surprised to see him still alive, standing upright on a ledge the other side of the herd.

Then he stood silently watching as with swift skilfulness John swathed the horse's limbs in flannel.

So motionless he stood, and so motionless I myself became at this unexpected and significant sight, that I presently imagined I could hear his sighs in the dread quiet into which the whole scene had sunk.

Every man was first a Frenchman in the face of a foreign foe, and if they could have stood firmly together in those first days after the war the strength of the country would have been wonderful.

Awhile, I stood, trying to adjust my thoughts to this new problem.

But afar on the lofty exposed peaks of the range standing so high in the sky, the storm was expressing itself in still grander characters, which I was soon to see in all their glory.

Well," added the Colonel after a bit, as the Boy stood speechless studying the team, "what do you say?" "Me?"

There was an immense crag there which stood boldly up on the hillside, and on to this he managed to climb, and standing on it he looked down upon that vast moving sea of grey mist that covered the earth, and saw the sun, a large crimson disc, rising from it.

" "No hurry," Grady assured him, and then, when his breath was coming easier, "What did you do then?" "I was so scared I couldn't scarcely stand, sir; but I managed to get to the foot of the stairs and yell for Parks, and he come running downand that's all I remember, sir.

[They all draw, and Bellmour stands foremost, and fights with Charles; the Women run squeaking out, Sir Tim. Sham, and Sharp sneak behind; Trusty interposes.

merely standing in a bath-tub and letting somebody pull the string!

You have your Lessons, stand to it bravely, and the Town's our own, Madam.

Across the way La Roque-Sainte-Marguerite stood out prominently and with such definition in that clear air that Duchemin identified the figure of the landlord, standing in the door of the auberge with arms raised and elbows thrust out on a level with his eyes: the pose of a man using field-glasses.

On the outside of the church, within a niche and pediment at the south-west end, over the clock, are two figures of savages or wild men, carved in wood, and painted natural colour, as big as the life, standing erect, with each a knotty club in his hand, with which they alternately strike the quarters, not only their arms, but even their heads, moving at every blow.

Lady Mary stood by her patiently, with more and more of that wistful desire to be recognized.

Eastwards the country falls away and there are several ragged narrow valleys between some tree-topped ridges till the eye meets a sheikh's tomb on the Zeitun ridge, standing midway between Foka and Beitunia, which rears a proud and picturesque head to bar the way to Bireh.

the while standing conspicuously before uswe reached the small hut that is intended as a shelter, near the fall.

Deep wounded to the gory ground, where he had stoutly stood, The hornèd warrior sank at last, bathed in his own heart's blood.

Commanders and officers, however, realizing that there was no hope of life even in the sea, so swiftly were the ships sinking, stood calmly on the bridges and awaited the end.

All your vexations were but my trials of your love, and you have nobly stood the test.

His smooth, hard, trim muscles stood out distinctly.

"Emerald Isle" (the green island) is a very appropriate name for Ireland, We saw many light-houses and beautiful castles hanging upon the rocky shores or standing proudly upon commanding eminences.