Long before the supper hour some enterprising spirits had discovered that the royalties were to sup in that room, and finding the secretaries quite inaccessible to any suggestions of "people who had a right to come in"presidents of commissions and various other distinctionshad recourse to the servants, and various gold pieces circulated, which, however, did not accomplish their object.

The left rested at Demotika, to the south of Adrianople, in a rough country inaccessible to prompt action by a large force.

The rolling plateau country sloping toward the Little Colorado is heavily scored with deep box canyons often hundreds of feet deep and frequently inaccessible for long distances.

Above is inaccessible altitude, below is horrible profundity.

Even the Icelandic colony in Greenland has disappeared, and the eastern coast, on which especially it was settled, has become long inaccessible, in consequence of the immense accumulation of ice in the straits between it and Iceland.

This was very nice of them, for very soon I had a complete list of the garrison of each sangar, and from where I was could see the sort of gun they were armed with,a few rifles among the lower sangars, and nearly all matchlocks among the higher and more inaccessible ones.

It was built on a high promontory, whose sides were in some places quite inaccessible, in others very difficult, except where it faced the narrow edge of the hill.

From that avenue you had a view of the cottages; from this, of the inaccessible summit of the mountain.

"Although the pile of rocks behind us appears almost perpendicular, those green platforms which separate their summits are so many stages by means of which you may reach, through some difficult paths, that cone of hanging and inaccessible rocks, called the Thumb.

And there would be dreary days on which the weather would keep her a prisoner in her luxurious gaol, when the mountains, and the rugged paths beside the mountain streams, would be inaccessible, when she would be restricted to Fräulein's phlegmatic society, that lady being stout and lazy, fond of her meals, and given to afternoon slumbers.

Next day the world was all white, and Mary's beloved hills were inaccessible.

The more inaccessible or forbidding the island the more it was in request as a penitential retreat.

As a boy at the sea-side, Ralph, between tides, had once come on a cavea secret inaccessible place with glaucous lights, mysterious murmurs, and a single shaft of communication with the sky.

When she returned perhaps their lives would readjust themselvesbut for the moment he longed for some kind of benumbing influence, something that should give relief to the dull daily ache of feeling her so near and yet so inaccessible.

Where the little tongue of land joined the main shore the ground rose abruptly into a shoulder of rocks inaccessible to a horse; the entrance and exit to the house must be on either side of this shoulder hugging closely the edge of the water.

" On making inquiries we learn that this phenomenon will be invisible at Greenwich, but may be viewed from the North of Scotland, a region happily less inaccessible than many to which scientific expeditions have in the past been made.

This is not the first time my feet have tried ladder-bars; in the country-spent vacations of my school-days, how many times have I alertly scaled the highest leading to granaries, to barn-lofts, to bird-houses, to all quasi-inaccessible places, whither my daring ignorancereckless, because unconscious of dangerhad tempted me!

This was what it seemed to Leslie Goldthwaite, riding, that golden June morning, over the road that threaded along, always climbing, the chain of hills that could be climbed, into the nearer and nearer presence of those mountain majesties, penetrating farther and father into the grand solitudes sentineled forever by their inaccessible pride.

And at the reply, Violet would look down from her post on the picketed fence, shake her long curls triumphantly, and climb to some place inaccessible to the enemy, to show how useful her agility could be to her own party.

The more inaccessible or forbidding the island the more it was in request as a penitential retreat.

My enemy has shown himself inaccessible to entreaties, and untired in persecution.

But she took no notice of it until a loud voice said: "You need not think you are paddling in golden seas and inaccessible to your relations, because you are here, and I can see you through the window.

He sees the little shell-like swelling at the foot of the glacier crawling down the steep slope above, and knows that it means an almost inaccessible wall of ice; and the steep snowfields that rise towards the summit are suggestive of something very different from the picture which might have existed in the mind of a German student, who once asked me whether it was possible to make the ascent on a mule.

no one can doubt that they do, whatever may be the explanation of the fact that people like to look at big, steep, inaccessible objectsthe advantages of the mountaineer are obvious.

How came you to find your way to this inaccessible spot?" "We are going to the Achenseeto the Hotel Rhiner, to hear Fräulein Therese" "You have heard of my little friend Therese, and you have comehow many thousand miles?to hear her sing and play on her zither?" "To do all that, but mostly to see if she will tell me her love story.