Clearly they were moving slowly, and from the frequent halts and turnings I gathered that the rider had not much purpose about the road.

The pony halts with wooden legs.

Beside a cluster of low bushes the woman halts.

Afar, below, in airy music ring The bugles of my host; the column halts, A wearied serpent glittering in the vale, Where rising mist-like gleam the tented camps.

Walks its length, halts, looks up.)

The train halts at Lob Nor at four o'clock and departs at six.

But, in these frequent-halts, no evidence of the particular interest he took in any one of the ships escaped him.

There the mind halts, blinded by the too dazzling vistas of an unimaginative millennium

We got our whole load through till 7 P.M., camping time, but only with repeated halts and labour which was altogether too strenuous.

The western side has not been clear enough to photograph at the halts.

Still sweating horribly on the march and very thirsty at the halts.

We lost a good deal over a mile by these halts, in which we unharnessed and went on the search for signs.

In the Hut, large quarto MS. books were used for the journals, and some of the rough notes of the earlier expeditions were recast and written out again in them; the little books were carried on the sledge journeys, and contain the day's notes entered very regularly at the lunch halts and in the night camps.

Without that explanation all these roadside halts, all these stationary lorries and forage carts would have seemed like a temporary stagnation in the business of war, with nothing doing.

As soon as he could muster a couple of hundred men he left the fort and advanced towards the Indians, making continual halts, so as to allow the numerous volunteers that were flocking to his standard to reach him.

"Archbishop Turpin looks around, Then forward pricks to higher ground He halts, he speaks; the French give ear: 'Lords barons, Charles hath left us here, And for our king we're bound to die; For him maintain the Christian cause; Behold!

"Then Roland takes his horn once more; His blast is feebler than before, But still it reaches the emperor He hears it, and he halts to shout, 'Let clarions, one and all, ring out!'

It need not be said that, during the marches, as during the halts, the prisoners were very carefully guarded.

Rare halts to breathe the animals; then the steady, tearing gallop again; no walking or other leisurely gait.

Taking it for granted that the Rio Grande was passed, that halts were made, meals cooked and eaten, nights passed in sleep, days in pleasant and picturesque travelling, we will leap into the desert land beyond San Isidoro.

[EVERSMANN looks the PRINCE over from head to foot, moves forward a few paces, then halts again.

Can any one have seen me? EVERSMANN (goes to the door, halts again, looks at the PRINCE impudently).

[Rises PRINCE opens the centre door, then halts on the threshold as if in despair.

Or as a traveller, who has gained the brow Of some aerial Down, while there he halts 10 For breathing-time, is tempted to review The region left behind him; and, if aught Deserving notice have escaped regard, Or been regarded with too careless eye, Strives, from that height, with one and yet one more 15 Last look, to make the best amends he may: So have we lingered.

Miraculously I came to a halt before a huge desk, much as a bar of glowing iron, after gliding like a living thing along the floor of a rolling mill, halts suddenly at the bidding of a distant hand.