His two friends, however, weighed down with anxiety, and with dismal forebodings as to the result of the coming conflict, were obliged to seek support by informing "Rats" of what was about to take place, and begging him to give them the benefit of his cheering company.

The sounds I have mentionedthe crackling of twigs, the roll of a pebble, the sound of some rustle in the dead leaves, or creeping creature on the grasswere audible when you listened, all mysterious enough when your mind is disengaged, but to me cheering now as signs of the livingness of nature, even in the death of the frost.

The distance from Louvain to Brussels is in the neighbourhood of twenty miles, and our car with its fluttering flags sped between lines of cheering people all the way.

and from the woods which screened the railway- embankment burst a long line of grey figures, hoarsely cheering.

At 5.30 to the minute the whistles of the officers sounded shrilly and the mile-long line of men swept forward cheering.

The bait took; the grabs drew up on the Ockham's quarter, with their crews cheering and sounding trumpets.

It is cheering to find that there was at least one man who was prepared to do his duty.

He remembered who alone had never failed, once a year, to visit a certain prisoner, at the cost of a long and tiresome journey, and who had written to that homesick prisoner kind and cheering letters, and had sent him baskets of simple dainties for holidays.

And I took her into the sleeper, and the madam, God bless her!she knew Sally before and was good to hershe took care of her, and is cheering her up.

Stop it!' "I rushed at 'im as he sent another piece over, and for the next two or three minutes 'e was dodging me and chucking coke at the empties, with the fool of a skipper standing by laughing, and two or three of the crew leaning over the side and cheering 'im on.

'You shall not suffer if I can help you,' was his cheering reply to the boy.

Keohane says 'Come on, lad, you'll be getting to the Pole' by way of cheering his animalall the party is cheerful, there never were a better set of people.

After supper we have an hour or so of smoking and conversationa cheering, pleasant hourin which reminiscences are exchanged by a company which has very literally had world-wide experience.

There was lively cheering when they reappeared in this condition, such is the sympathy which is here displayed for affliction; but with Wilson much of the amusement arises from his peculiarly scant headgear and the confessed jealousy of those of us who cannot face the weather with so little face protection.

On such days the light is quite good for three to four hours at midday and has a cheering effect on man and beast.

I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in; glittering like the morning star, full of life and splendor and joy.

The sporting fever of the weeks during which a general election even now lasts, with the ladder-climbing figures outside the newspaper offices, the flash-lights at night, and the cheering or groaning crowds in the party clubs, are not only waste of energy but an actual hindrance to effective political reasoning.

Yet I am not prepared to say that I would consent to his banishment, for he is one of the most cheering tenants of the groves, at a season when they have but few inhabitants; and I never listen to his voice without recalling a crowd of charming reminiscences of pleasant winter excursions and adventures at an early period of my life.

To me the cawing of the Crow is cheering and delightful, and it is heard long before the majority of birds have left their perch.

CHAPTER XXVIII THE CONSPIRACY PROCLAIMED To a great majority of the people the hopes and chances of a successful compromise seemed still cheering and propitious.

D'ri and I rode on behind them, the village folk cheering and waving their hats, "Ye done it skilful," said D'ri, smiling.

they cry, and we all begin cheering.

My spirits quickly responded to the cheering influence of the great library.

My spirit lightened under the influences of the crisp air and cheering sunshine.

One o’clock in the morning is not the most cheering hour for exploring the dark recesses of a strange house, but I had resolved to have a look at the ravine-opening and determine, if possible, whether it bore any relation to “The Door of Bewilderment.”