Their attacks were not nearly so spirited, and several times the Birchite forwards appeared in front of their goal.

While he waited he scrutinised keenly a sheet of paper which lay on the desk in front of him.

And he walked over to the window, taking care, I noticed, not to stand in front of it.

When done, place them on a dish, which should be kept hot in front of the fire during the time the eggs are being poached.

And he stood in their path, holding his staff in front of them, to stop them.

When Mathieu and Marianne alighted from their cab on the Quai d'Orsay, in front of the Beauchenes' residence, they recognized the Seguins' brougham drawn up beside the foot pavement.

And their work of human creation was assembled in front of them and within them, in the same way as the oak's huge dome spread out above it; and all around they were likewise encompassed by the fruitfulness of their other work, the fertility and growth of nature which had increased even as they themselves multiplied.

On this day, however, as the crowd was waiting for me on the little platform of a country station, my fox terrier jumped out in front of me while I was holding him by the string.

He wore neat, worn clothes; and his horse stood tied in front of the store.

" Suddenly he saw the priest climb the ladder on to the high wooden platform in front of the central arch of the mosque and bow his forehead to the floor.

This time I hadn't so long to wait before I saw a room again; but it was quite different, a big desk ran along in front of a window, and there were two tall office-stools.

As he stood in front of the board Joel felt a hand laid on his shoulder, and turned to find Outfield West by his side.

"Maclaren," said the other, as he stopped in front of the garage, "if everyone was as good a passenger as you I'd enjoy motoring; but after all, a car can't act up like a horse."

Peters' corps of Tories were entrenched on the other side of the stream, in lower ground, and nearly in front of the German Battery.

At the same time a flame of blue fire of intense brilliancy seemed to fall like a meteor a few yards in front of our eyes.

I persisted, and the next "masterpiece" was the figure of a soldier (afterwards Private Blobs, of "Fragments") sitting up a tree staring straight in front of him into the future, whilst a party of corpulent Boches are stalking towards him through the long grass and barbed wire.

The grounds are tastefully laid out in gravel-walks, lawns, and parterres, and form a public promenade, to which a fine pool in front of the buildings adds considerable beauty.

Then we can transplant any plants we have now that ought to go in some other color bed, and we can have the tall plants at the back of the right colors to match the bed in front of them?" "There can be pink hollyhocks at the back of the pink bed and we already have pinks and bleeding heart and a pink peony.

A rifle cracked in front of them and a bullet cut the air over the broken stick.

These two men, who so unexpectedly appeared at the side of the prophetic weaver, were none else than the two editors, Kretschmer and Krause, who came to support him in his exhortations in favor of peace, and to use their eloquence on the multitude assembled in front of the town-hall.

That smiling young person working away on the floor in front of the table is a West Coast Brahman, sent on a stipend from the Hindu state of Travancore.

In front of the town hall I halted, first of all to rest my steed, secondly to await George and Leon, who had remained behind to shut the entrance doors and bolt the gate, and finally because I was astonished to see all the windows illuminated.

In the edge of the corn a rabbit jumped up and ran along in front of the line; a few shots were fired at it by some excited men on our left.

In front of him under the altar there was a blaze of light, and figures moved in the blaze uncertainly, indistinctly.

Ample accommodation for the knightly company and their attendants, as well as for the multitudes congregated to behold them was afforded by the broad area in front of Westminster Hall; nevertheless, as those in the rear could not see as well as those in front, every chance elevation offering a better view was eagerly seized upon.