And here, too, dozens of children were sporting on the beach, or paddling about in their light bark canoes.

He stood on a narrow beach by a fair-sized lake.

Behind them was only a strip of beach, the sea, and the more or less uncertain support of their ships.

Meanwhile the hostages had been marched to an empty frame house on the beach, from the upper windows of which, while gendarmes guarded the street-door, they were gloomily peering when we returned to the launch.

We led him all over town, he toiling devotedly behind, and when we returned to the beach, he sat himself down on a wood-pile behind us, as might some dismal buzzard awaiting our demise.

The shadow blandly took coffee also, which he consumed silently, as we had no common tongue, rose as I rose, and followed me back to the beach.

Over the hills to the south, toward Maidos and the Dardanelles, rolled the distant thunderthe cannon the hapless fifty, looking out of their house on the beach, had been sent down to stopand all about us, in the dazzling Turkish sunshine, were soldiers and supply-trains, landing, disembarking, pushing toward the front.

Heraldry Herbs Herons Hicks-Beach, Right Hon.

He was led down to the beach, and seated in a chair at the water's edge.

Who ever dreamed, till one of our sleepless neighbors told us of it, of that Walpurgis gathering of birds and beasts of prey,foxes, and owls, and crows, and eagles, that come from all the country round on moonshiny nights to crunch the clams and muscles, and pick out the eyes of dead fishes that the storm has thrown on Chelsea Beach?

The beach was wonderful, and all summer long it attracted bathers and children at play.

There, as in most British towns, women bathed at one part of the beach, men at the other, and all in the most decorous and modest of costumes.

But at Folkestone, in the old days of peace, about a mile from the town limits, there was another stretch of beach where all the gay folk bathedmen and women together.

Sea bathing should just have been beginning to be attractive, as the sun warmed the sea and the beach.

Rottenest Island is the largest in this quarter, being about eight miles in length; it contains several saline lagoons, separated from the sea, on the north-east side, by a beach composed mostly of a single species of bivalve shell.

But see him again in gentler mood; stand upon the beach and listen to the rippling of his more frequent waves: he will teach you short quantity, as well as long.

SEE Beach, Rex E. CAPET, LUCIEN. Die Höhere bogentechnik; Deutsche, vom verfasser autorisierte übertragung von Rudolph Hegetschweiler.

To the gregarious individual who seeks and misses his kind, the place is loneliness itself after the flight of the gay birds who for a time strutted about in gorgeous plumage twittering the time away; to the man who loves to be in close and undisturbed contact with nature, who enjoys communing with the sea, who would be alone on the beach and silent by the waves, the flight of the throng is a relief.

The beach is perfect,hard, firm sand, sloping so gradually into deep water, and with so little undertow and so few dangers, that children can play in the water without attendants.

All attractions the place hasthe ocean, the beach, the drives, the countryremain the same; but no one dares come before the appointed time, no one dares stay after the flight begins; no one?

Later in the afternoon, while wheeling along at twenty miles an hour, we caught a glimpse of a signpost pointing to the left and reading, "To Sound Beach."

Through the beach The winds go, With a long speech, Loud and slow.

In a sudden revulsion at his weakness he pulled himself together, crumpled the dirty missive into a ball, and flung it out upon the white rim of beach.

When he had done, he walked out upon the rim of beach and stretched himself until his arm-bones cracked.

For an instant he paused, listening for returning footsteps, and then with startling agility darted to the beach and seized the crumpled letter.