My pursuers seemed to be gaining on me a little, and I let Brigham shoot ahead again; when we had run about three miles farther, some eight or nine of the Indians were not over two hundred yards behind, and five or six of these seemed to be shortening the gap at every jump.

Now, suppose Beauregard finds that there is a gap somewhere between the forces stretching back, and he happens to have ten or fifteen thousand men handy?

He entered it by the big, sliding door, which stood open; he looked up, and saw the stars shining through a gap in the roof.

Let us hope that the Union armies which now possess Nashville, Memphis, and Cumberland Gap may soon occupy Knoxville.

I saw it slowly swing to its full width, and disclose my sister standing in the gap, with a look and in an attitude which terrified me more than the fire had done.

" He sat watching me, and the gap between us seemed to widen.

This made a huge gap in the Persian array, and into this space Alexander instantly charged with his guard and all the cavalry of his wing; and then, pressing toward his left, he soon began to make havoc in the left flank of the Persian centre.

By so doing, Simmias had unavoidably opened a gap in the Macedonian left centre; and a large column of Indian and Persian horse, from the Persian right centre, had galloped forward through this interval, and right through the troops of the Macedonian second line.

Call Evolution a law and the popular mind will soon vaguely conceive it as a rule or uniformity resulting from some kind of unconscious will-power at the back of everything; and this Will-Power stops the gap created in our thought by the exclusion of theism and finality.

Not, of course, that this bundle of words really explains anything, but that like other formulae of the kind, it prescinds from the question of ends and origins, by making a statement of what happens serve as a cause of what happens, and calling it a Law or a Tendency, or a Latent Potentialitythus filling the gap which mere agnosticism creates in our thought.

But their forces were like the sands of the sea and every gap in the ranks of the onrushing host was promptly filled by more Germans.

I had intended that the corps should come further west so as to fill up the gap between Le Cateau and Landrecies, but the men were exhausted and could not get further in without a rest.

" CHAPTER XIV OFF DUTY The last of the sunlight streamed level through a gap in the western ridges.

To the east was a wide gap in the investing lines.

She had made the good old stock assertion, as in duty bound; but she could not help recollecting that there were several Popish books of devotion at that moment on her table, which seemed to her to patch a gap or two in the Prayer-book.

He may understand the end of the way of sensuality by looking at any old pleasure-seeker, "Gray, and gap-toothed, and lean as death," mumbling the dainties that he can no longer enjoy, and glowering with bleared eyes at the indulgences which now mock him even while they tempt him.

A seam was here, held together by hook and ring clear to the gap at the centre pole.

He came to the open gap around the centre pole, seized the bound edge of the canvas, and gazed down.

The visitors entered the interior through a gap, and found themselves in the midst of enormous ruins, enclosed on two sides by walls, raised on arches, and by piles of ponderous fragments.

At the same time she closed a gap in the fastening of the blouse itself.

The howling, leaping crew swerved away to the right, and dashed on into the gap which had already been made for them.

There was a Struggle, a screaming, a mule rolled over, a wounded man sprang up in a cacolet with a spear through him, and then through the narrow gap surged a stream of naked savages, mad with battle, drunk with slaughter, spotted and splashed with bloodblood dripping from their spears, their arms, their faces.

On came the pursuers, with an eagerness which hatred and the desire of revenge rendered blind, and, as they leaped headlong down through the narrow gap between the water and the cliff, the wounded Indian felt that, with a firm arm and a good supply of powder and lead, he might have driven back his enemies in confusion.

Even now the gap was too wide for him to leap.

Old Shaw filled the gap, and he filled it to the complete satisfaction of the sheriff.