With a lithe, effortless grace he rose from his chair and faced me, and his smile, half amused, half tolerant, curved his lips again.

he'll let you!" As she approached the stallion he raised his head and looked at her with a queer mixture of curiosity and antagonism, curving his neck in a challenging way.

Have you met any of our troops?" "I have seen them," said the stranger briefly, with a half smile curving his handsome mouth, "but they are not near this point"and beneath his breath he added, "I devoutly hope not.

Besides, in Clayton's fern the fronds are broader, blunter and thinner in texture, and the segments more rounded; the fronds are also more inclined to curve outwards.

" A long, straggling, boulder-strewn plateau lay on the summit of the red hills, sloping very precipitously to the plain, save at one point, where a winding gully curved downwards, its mouth choked with sand-mounds and olive-hued scrub.

But, as if with a pitying spirit of hospitality, old Cape Cod, breaking from the iron line of the coast, like a generous-hearted sailor intent on helpfulness, stretches an hundred miles outward, and, curving his sheltering arms in a protective circle, gives a noble harborage.

he asked, with amusement curving the corners of his mouth. "Do!

This species is very distinct on account of its long form, and curved lower face, as well as its outer surface.

Leaving Depuch Island, we examined the coast to the eastward as far as the Turtle Isles, a distance of eighty-five miles, the first twenty-seven of which trended North 55 degrees East, and the remainder North 67 degrees East curving slightly inwards.

Prague with its spires and towers lies in the valleys below, through which curves the Moldau with its green islands, disappearing among the hills which enclose the city on every side.

Keeping to the right where the road forks, the "abattoir" was soon left behind and the Villa Marbella reached; we then curved round "Lac Chabiague," and ascending slightly between fields gay with the "fleur des frontières"

At the foot of the hill runs the rivera beautiful sinuous stream, which curves its course between the Down hillsides out through the plains to the sea.

The road curved a good deal, and ran over viaducts and through tunnelsas we could tell by the noise.

They went up the long, curving driveway like a whirlwind, and drew up under the porte-cochère of a very large brick-and-stone house with another abrupt jerk which upset those in the sleigh who had succeeded in regaining their seats.

It marked the last homicidal effort of the Germans before their advance in this region curved eastwards into a retreat.

This species is very distinct on account of its long form, and curved lower face, as well as its outer surface.

Ah, could ye know how she hath humbled me, Ye would arm your tiny hands, curve into claws Those little, weakling fingers, rend and tear That soft and tender form, whereto ye cling So lovingly!Wouldst hold my children back From coming to me?

The discharge of a signal rocket, however, that curved its flight over the island, instantaneously quieted the uproar, and a death-like silence succeeded.

Sitting as he always did with his right knee over his left, whenever the words touched him he moved the pendant leg twice or three times, then curved his foot upwards.

There were many palms, both the burity with its stiff fronds like enormous fans, and a handsome species of bacaba, with very long, gracefully curving fronds.

but well curved out, the eye orbit arched and deep, a frown fixed between thick eyebrows, and few words in his firm, rather grim-looking mouth.

He pulled up her skirt and curved his right hand between her legs.

Down rejoicing to the strand, Where the sea-waves shore-ward lean, Curve their graceful heads, and stand Gleaming with ethereal green, Then in foam fall heavily

The stem, like that of the Coconut, usually curves the height of a man ere it rises in a shaft for fifty or sixty feet more.

The road led away from Croxley, between curving green hills, gashed and polluted by the searchers for coal and iron.