There she sat, she knew not how long, listening, listening, like a hunted hare; her whole faculties concentrated in the one sense of hearing; her eyes wandering vacantly over the black saws of rock, and glistening oar-weed beds, and bright phosphoric sea.

Katherine slipped one loop of rope over his shoulders, put the other looped rope into his hand, then laid an oar on the mud.

With light, cautious movements Phil stepped out on to the oar, balancing himself like a tightrope dancer, and because he was so small and light he passed in safety where a heavier person would have been quickly submerged.

" "Phil, can you reach the oar?"

"Please throw me that oar," she said.

Phil took up the oar, and pitched it with great dexterity, so that it fell close to the boat.

And now he is pulling an oar and coaching the freshmen crew at the same timesomething never attempted beforesomething said to be impossible.

No man can coach a crew and pull an oar at the same time.

" "Well, what are his innovations?" "The Oxford oar, in the first place.

" "What is that?" "Two to four inches longer than our oar, with a blade five and one-half inches wide, instead of seven inches.

" "For goodness' sake, what is the advantage of such an oar?" "I'll tell you.

With a short course and high stroke no set of men are strong enough to use the old oar and go the distance without weakening.

" "Well?" "With the narrow blades a longer oar can be used and the leverage increased.

"But that is not enough to enable the freshmen to win, even admitting the English oar to be better, which has not been proven," said Emery.

I am rather inclined to believe the English oar is superior, don't yer know," put in Willis Paulding.

It takes nerve to pull an oar in a race.

With brawny arm and trusty oar, Each man is up and ready; I see our colors dancing Where sunlit waves are glancing; A fond adieu I'll say to you, My lady true and fair.

"He is all right when he is talking to men who use his style of oar and the regular American stroke, but you will be broke up sure as fate if you think of what he has said that disagrees with my instructions.

" "And look at the stroke oar," urged another.

Easy Street leaped on another box and yelled: "Three cheers for Frank Merriwell, the winning oar!"

Learn of the little Nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.

Reef the t'gallant sails of your temper, boy, and don't run foul of an old man who has been all but a wet-nurse to yetaught ye to walk, and swim, and pull an oar, and build ships, and has hauled ye out o' the sea when ye fell infrom the time ye could barely stump along on two legs, lookin' like as if ye was more nor half-seas-over.

'It gives me more pleasure to row them than any persons who ever hired us.' 'Ay, ay!' said his comrade, 'It was a lucky day when we first put an oar in the lake for them, heretics though they be.'

HEXHAMTHE NORTH TYNEBORDER-LAND AND ITS SUGGESTIONSHAWICK TEVIOTDALEBIRTH-PLACE OF LEYDENMELROSE AND DRYBURGH ABBEYS ABBOTSFORD: SIR WALTER SCOTT; HOMAGE TO HIS GENIUSTHE FERRY AND THE OAR-GIRLNEW FARM STEDDINGSSCENERY OF THE TWEED VALLEY EDINBURGH AND ITS CHARACTERISTICS.

Even now it is chiefly a city accomplishment, and you rarely find at rural or sea-side places a village damsel who has ever handled an oar.

But it was made to many besides her, and women came home from dinings or from operas and balls for the aid of this or that new distress of military need, and went up into the dark and knelt in all their jewels and wept long.

But it was made to many besides her, and women came home from dinings or from operas and balls for the aid of this or that new distress of military need, and went up into the dark and knelt in all their jewels and wept long.

" "But, Mr. Geth, he's just been standing in his box or the paddock for four weeks now.

She could not have been more than twenty-six or -seven, but I got an unmistakable impression of weariness or balked purpose emanating from her in spite of her youth and glorious physique.

She could not have been more than twenty-six or -seven, but I got an unmistakable impression of weariness or balked purpose emanating from her in spite of her youth and glorious physique.

I hazarded to my companion the notion that a woman like Miss Stanleigh could have but one of two purposes in this lonely part of the worldshe was fleeing from a lover or seeking one.

He had various names for the smoking cone that towered a mile or more above his head: "Old Flame-eater," or "Lava-spitter," he would at times familiarly and irreverently call it; or, again, "The Maiden Who Never Sleeps," or "The Single-breasted Virgin"these last, however, always in the musical Malay equivalent.

He prattles to it or storms at it as if it were a living creature.

At the sound of a footfall or the soft creak of a plank I felt that I might lose all control and leap up and brain him with the heavy bottle in my grasp.

With intent or not, he was again fingering the fringe of the scarf that hung over the arm of the chair.

He would never know whether it had been his car or another!

Julian evidently thought so for he arranged to be in the West for three or four weeks.

But to stand deliberately face to face with a fellow-humanalive, pulsing, breathing, fearing, hoping, loving, living,point a weapon at him that would take his life, blot him from the earth, negate twenty or thirty years of childhood, youth, maturity, and make of him in an instantnothing!

Inwardly Deacon cursed his natural inability to converse easily, partly fearing that Doane would mistake his reticence for embarrassment in his presence, or on the other hand set him down as churlish and ill bred.

There were many such pictures, pictures not only relating to boyhood, but to his own struggle at Baliol, to the placid little home in Philadelphia and all that it had meant, all that it still meant, to his father, to his mother, to him, Any act of his that would bring sorrow or dismay or the burden of defeated hope to that home!

But on the other hand, the morrow was to bring him the crown of toilsome years, was to make his name one to conjure with wherever Baliol was loved or known.

When she hailed him from the house she called him "Jay-eems"the "eems" an octave higher than the "Jay." He would drop the grease-can or the monkey-wrench to rush to her side.

Travelers describe the movements as slow, and consisting more in bending and swaying the body than in motions of the feet; while the songs chanted either refer to some saint or biblical character, or are erotic and pave the way to orgies.

From what he could learn about them some two centuries or more after the Conquest, the antiquary Boturini classified all the ancient songs under two general heads, the one treating mainly of historical themes, while the other was devoted to purely fictitious, emotional or imaginative subjects.[10]

The expression seems to be figurative, referring to the beginning or early life of things.

Each verse or couplet of the song was repeated three or four times before proceeding to the next, and those songs which were of the slowest measure and least emotional in character were selected for the earlier hours of the festivals.

It was a solid block of wood, with a projecting ridge on its upper surface and another opposite, on its lower aspect; to the latter one or more gourds or vases were suspended, which increased and softened the sound when the upper ridge was struck with the ulli.[30] This was undoubtedly the origin of the marimba, which I have described elsewhere.

It was a solid block of wood, with a projecting ridge on its upper surface and another opposite, on its lower aspect; to the latter one or more gourds or vases were suspended, which increased and softened the sound when the upper ridge was struck with the ulli.[30] This was undoubtedly the origin of the marimba, which I have described elsewhere.

The tetzilacatl, the "vibrator" or "resounder," was a sheet of copper suspended by a cord, which was struck with sticks or with the hand.

Vowels are inordinately lengthened and syllables reduplicated, either for the purpose of emphasis or of meter.