For five seconds the three companions stood petrified with horror, not daring to move; then followed another scream, if anything more horrible than the last, and accompanied this time by the clanking rattle of a chain being dragged across the floor.

Self-indulgence had not petrified his feeling, but it had thrown wormwood into its springs.

The horror of this spectacle satisfied the resentment of the people and petrified them at once with terror and astonishment.

A glimpse of startled faces, the scream of a man who had strayed incautiously into the roadway and stopped there, apparently petrified by the peril that bore down upon him without lights or any other warning, until one of the forward fenders struck and hurled him aside like a strawand only the night of the open road lay before them.

A crocodile truly, there's no one could doubt, On taking a look at my skin: It's as dry and as tough as a petrified clout, Though, alas!

[Illustration] X THE LID OFF An Alliance, Offensive, Defensive, and Back-Fensive Smith, petrified, looked blankly at the paw.

" He stood petrified for an instant, then with a wild look began to gather up his tools.

"The servants have next to nothing to do," Lady Mary had said; and young John had actually laughed, and explained that he had had a conversation with Ash which had almost petrified that tyrant of the household.

She stood petrified in dread till the voices fell and she heard stairs creak under an ascending tread.

Dick Varley and his dog remained rooted to the rock, as they gazed at the sickening sight, as if petrified.

She was petrified at my answering her!

A piece of one of our common coal plants is conjured into a petrified rattlesnake, and one of the most familiar fossils solemnly announced all the way from Canada, under a name exploded, and long forgotten by naturalists.

On the shore are to be found large numbers of carnelians or crystallized quartz, agates, specimens of petrified wood, and lava pebbles or globules.

It is the Oriental story of the petrified city made real to our eyes.

When I say Art, I mean that spirit of Art which has made us rather imitative than creative, has made us hold a too faithful mirror up to Nature, and has been content to let the great Ideal remain petrified in the marbles of Greece.

Long ago she had petrified into a character which nothing under heaven could change, and which, if death is to take us as it finds us, and the future life to keep us as it takes us, promised anything but eternal felicity to those with whom she might associate after this life.

For the latter, he remained for the present motionless and petrified.

During the winter of 1825, in examining a piece of petrified wood, which I had picked up on the shore, we discovered a very minute aperture, barely the size of a pin-hole, and on breaking the substance by means of a large hammer, to our surprise and regret we crushed a small reptile that was concealed inside, and which, in consequence, we were unfortunately prevented from restoring to its original shape.

Corallines much resemble fossil or petrified wood; and we recollect to have received from the landlady of an inn at Portsmouth a small branch of fossil wood, which she asserted to be coral, and

Briggs was nicknamed the "Stoney," because his brains were petrified by the constant dropping of wisdom upon them.

my fair one stared, coloured, laughed; I was petrified; away flew my ecstatic dreams; and out of the house I flung myself without one 'au revoir,'

I have slept in the American Desert for a period of thirty nights, between the earth and the heavens, and found a better bed than was made by the ossified mattress and petrified pillows of the "Daphne."

With the chapadao of the Parecis plateau we came to a land of sand and clay, dotted with lumps of sandstone and pieces of petrified wood; this, according to Oliveira, is of Mesozoic age, possibly cretaceous and similar to the South African formation.

The petrified man.

A thought only really lives until it has reached the boundary line of words; it then becomes petrified and dies immediately; yet it is as everlasting as the fossilised animals and plants of former ages.