Old pines and spruces, their branches shaved away in the tumult of the slide, were picked up and hurled like javelins over the cliff; a shower of fragments beat on the body of Bull; and then the main mass of snow washed up over the edge of the cliff in a great mound, and the slide was ended.

The first thing we came to was an earthen mound, or dyke, extending from the one precipice to the other.

At 2.20 p.m. passed a large mound spring; at 2.45 crossed the Hill River of Captain Grey; the land on its banks, with the exception of a few grassy hills on the northern side, was very scrubby and indifferent.

So he stepped up out of the water and stretched himself on a mound of silvery moss near by.

At last we struck hosses and wagon, Snowed under a soft white mound, Upsot, dead beat,but of little Gabe No hide nor hair was found.

And so, presently, the dark came down upon the island, at which the bo'sun waked the men, and bade them throw more fuel on to the fire, which had burned down to a mound of glowing embers much shrouded in ash.

Immediately after this, I discovered something to be crossing the dark space that lay between the dull mound of the nearest fire, and that which lay further along the hill-top, and so, wasting no moment of time, I ran towards the thing, and cut it twice across the head before ever it could get upon its hind parts, in which position I had learned greatly to dread them.

The trunk of the body was buried in a mound at Stien, Ringerike, where a little hill is still called Halfdan's Mound.

The trunk of the body was buried in a mound at Stien, Ringerike, where a little hill is still called Halfdan's Mound.

The worn-out garment of her soul was laid away under a flowery mound in Florence, and her son returned alone.

The corpses were forming heaps in that place, and soon the shells would strike into nothing more than a mound of mangled flesh; shreds of limbs flew about at each fresh discharge.

The struggle must have been horrible: the mound was covered with hacked and disfigured bodies; blood had flowed so abundantly that the dust seemed like a large red carpet.

I perceived one who was endeavoring to get rid of a comrade, wounded as he was, whose body was crushing his chest; and, as this wounded man struggled and complained, the soldier pushed him brutally away, and made him roll down the slope of the mound, whilst the wretched creature yelled with pain.

This cutting appeared to be quite recent, for a mound of debris and some trenching tools were still lying in the passage.

Near the wall of his palace, there is an artificial mound of gold and silver, having turrets and steeples, and other magnificent ornaments, contrived for the solace and recreation of this great man.[l] I was further informed, that there are four such great men in the kingdom of Mangi.

I found my joss-house so gloomy and low, that I have returned to my first quarter in the garden, on a mound overlooking the river.

The spot where the gallant Charette was shot, with several other leaders of the Vendean army, is shown; and in the cemetery, a large mound of earth marks the place where the bodies were thrown in, at the time of the "Fuzillades" when the infamous Carrier presided at the execution of the brave Royalists.

Mog, the mound builder.

"Certainly that great mound must be part of a fort.

AT THE GRAVE OF N.M.D. Forsaken am I now anew, Night's sombre wings o'er me descending, As tearless, meditating, dumb Above thy grave's low mound I'm bending.

We were absolutely in doubt whether a seemingly inoffensive knot of rustics, on a mound without the inclosure, might not, at tap of drum, unmask a battery of giant columbiads, and belch blazes at us, raking our line.

The site is marked by a mound on a neighbouring estate.

in the meadow sweet was the grave of a little child, With a crumbling stone at the feet and the ivy running wild Tangled ivy and clover folding it over and over: Close to my sweetheart's feet was the little mound up-piled.

In the tranquil spring evenings, the priest was seen sitting by the mound, his finger closed in the unread breviary.

One morning he observed a delicate stem, with two curiously shaped emerald leaves, springing up from the centre of the mound.