He took the stool in leap-frog fashion, and struck a droll simultaneous discord.

He determined that the secular year must begin on 1st January, that three leap years should be omitted in every four centuries, e.g., 1700, 1800, 1900, 2100, and his arrangement has been observed throughout nearly the whole world.

As there were yet several hours of light remaining, Roswell, still attended by Stimson, each armed with a sealing spear or lance, not only as a weapon of defence but as a leaping-staff, set out to climb as high up the central acclivity of the island as circumstances would allow him to go.

Dave took plenty of time, within his rights, about leaping to his feet, and in each instance got away from Treadwell's leaping assault.

As he spoke, he confronted the iron door, like a fine horse brought up to the leaping-bar.

The entire coast, so far as the eye could reach, looked like another seaa sea, though, of flame and smoke, which shot up its leaping billows in long tongues of fire far against the sky.

Others are at work with a spring-board and leaping-cord; higher and higher the cord is moved, one by one the competitors step aside defeated, till the field is left to a single champion, who, like an India-rubber ball, goes on rebounding till he seems likely to disappear through the chimney, like a Ravel.

I'll warrant ye full many a fair white dove hath beat her tender pinions" "Come!" said Beltane, and speaking, reached out his torch to bed-alcove and tapestried wall; and immediately silk and arras went up in a puff of flamea leaping fire, yellow-tongued, that licked at gilded roof-beam and carven screen and panel.

As they were now regaining the level of the plateau, their advance was a constant and difficult ascent, sometimes struggling through labyrinths of detached rocks, and sometimes climbing steep shelves which had once been the leaping-places of cataracts.

A set of weights and pulleys, a pair of parallel bars, two suspended rings, and a leaping-pole are all the necessary permanent fixtures.

Together they swung down the valley, dodging the low brushand leaping rocks at top speed.

The blurred, dark figures of men who sat upon the load cut against the fan-shaped beam, and in the background he saw a shower of leaping sparks.

Mr. Downing, rising from his place, was just in time to see Sammy with a last leap spring on his prey and begin worrying it.