Till the fires began to dwindle, And the shots grew faint and few, And we heard the foeman's challenge Only in a far halloo; Till the silence once more settled O'er the gorges of the glen, Broken only by the Cona Plunging through its naked den.

But with an impersonal air she gave Kate permission, dismissing the past as represented by the Hilliard incident, and plunging into the joy of arranging future motor-cars and trainsa future which was to concern her, and Kate, and Kate's cat alone, not Mr. Hilliard.

"It's like a perpendicular road of marble going up to heaven," she thought; and as she gazed, down that precipice of snow came tumbling a white shape as of a giant bear, striving desperately to save itself, hanging for an instant on the brink of the vast gulf, then letting go hopelessly and plunging over.

Such a scuttling and rushing, such a whisking and a whacking, flying and plunging, I for one never saw before.

Hundreds of these fine creatures were, indeed, galloping over the plain, kicking and plunging, apparently mad with pain, whilst the poor wounded wretches who saw them coming, and could not get out of their way, shrieked in agony, and tried to shrink back to escape from them, but in vain.

It rushed snorting and plunging past the Frenchman, and I shall never forget his piercing cry as it approached.

"So John Hornby has been plunging in mines, eh?" he said, when I had finished.

She decided within the first twenty-four hours to wait for some sort of lead from Paula before plunging into a discussion of her father's affairs.

The candidate was tired, very tired, and was trying to gain a few hours' rest before plunging again and for the last time into the whirlpool of vote-getting; and as he sat enjoying a few moments of blissful ease behind the close-drawn portieres of his library there came the much-dreaded sound of heavy feet upon the porch without, and the door-bell rang.

The knife comes to the rescue, and, plunging fearlessly into the dark abyss, the victory is won.

Under the forecastle fifteen ponies close side by side, seven one side, eight the other, heads together and groom betweenswaying, swaying continually to the plunging, irregular motion.

Soon we were plunging heavily and taking much water over the lee rail.

The night wore on, the sea and wind ever rising, and the ship ever plunging more distractedly; we shortened sail to main topsail and staysail, stopped engines and hove to, but to little purpose.

At 6 A.M. we were obliged to furl everything, and throughout the day we have been plunging against a stiff breeze and moderate sea.

O lady, a crisis hath come in the history of Bharatas for plunging them into calamity!

He was overjoyed at the news of Burgoyne's surrender; and with a light heart he returned to his father's house, to get a glimpse of his people before again plunging into the wilds.

"You are undoubtedly acquainted with the modern theories of matter," he began, plunging into the explanation of his process.

But at this point he was claimed by an acquaintance some ten paces off; and, plunging among his guests, was lost to me.

Captain Marryat, in Snarleyow, created an almost perfect horror in the attempted slaughter of the boy Smallbones by the hag mother of Vanslyperken; the lad's reversal of the situation and his plunging a bayonet into the wrinkled throat, makes the chapter an accomplishment difficult to displace.

he said, slowly, after a minute, his eyes plunging into hers'twelve years!

After traversing its whole length, just before plunging into the mountain-depths the traveler rarely meets with a finer picture than that which, on looking back, he seems framed between the hills at the other end.

In practise the plunging fire from platforms at the height of some eighty feet above the level of the parapets of the town wall can hardly have been capable of producing any great effect, more especially if the besieging force succeeded in establishing itself on the crest of the counterscarp of the ditches, since from that point the swell of the bastions masked the towers.

"I dunno," said the maiden, with one eye upon him and the other plunging into the future.

The shouting men, the plunging horses, the stream of water roaring on rock and road, woke the village.

The horses were rearing and plunging, the men striking with their hats.