" "Verily, youth, methinks dost lie, for I have heard this outlaw is beyond all men wild and fierce and weaveth him demoniac spells and enchantments most accurst, whereby he maketh gate and door and mighty portcullis to ope and yield before his pointed finger, and bolt and bar and massy wall to give him passage when he will, as witness the great keep of Garthlaxton that he did burn with hellish fire.

he said, "and then tell me he isn't a genius!" I followed the direction of his pointing finger and saw that, just opposite the opening in the shutter, a little hole had been cut in the window-pane.

Some of the persons assembled in that room remembered the pointing finger long afterward.

"Excellency," he stammered in Russian, "the castle is surroundedthey will kill usthey will burn us out" He stopped abashed before Paul's pointing finger and stony face.

In the lines of his Roman nose, That turned in the true patrician curve In the curl of his princely lips, In his slightly insolent eyelids, In his pointed finger-tips.

Since I came to live by the field one of these has tiptoed above the gully of the creek, beckoning the procession from the hills, as if in fact they would make back toward that skyward-pointing finger of granite on the opposite range, from which, according to the legend, when they were bad Indians and it a great chief, they ran away.

Allerdyke, following the pointing finger, noted that the box was a very ordinary-looking affaira tiny square chest of polished wood, fitted with a brass swing handle.

Oh, lookit, lookit!" CHAPTER X THE BACK PORCH Racey's gaze casually and uninterestedly followed Swing's pointing finger.

The inner door stood ajar, and peered into that leaguer of shadows with a long slit of daylight like a pointing finger.

His slender, pointed fingers held, as if from mere habit, a lifeless cigarette.

The cards slipped from his fragile, pointed fingers.

Against the crimson plush of an enormous chair-back her small figure looked extravagantly delicate and her little pointed fingers on the arms, startlingly white and fine.

"Dive thirty," ordered the captain, at the same time giving his wheel a twist to direct the vessel's course according to the pointing finger of the compass.

So quiet and motionless did she seem, that one, who had never been instructed in the matter, might readily have believed her a fixture in the sea, some symmetrical and enormous excrescence thrown up by the waves, with its mazes of lines and pointed fingers, or one of those fantastic monsters that are believed to exist in the bottom of the ocean, darkened by the fogs and tempests of ages.

and following with our eyes his upward-pointing finger, we saw, soaring slow in majestic poise above the highest summit, the bird of Jove.

As to the distributing and cleaning of the type, I find a little assistance is gratefully accepted, even by patient Richard, whose dear little pointed fingers by this time have become tired, and fumble.

Something we had in the garden at home when I was little.... Are you afraid to go across in the parkwith me?" "Sailors are never afraid," he said, following her pointed finger to the open gate.

I had fancied it was down nearer the Circus, or round the corner in Oxford Street, or even in Holborn; always over the way and a little inaccessible it had been, with something of the mirage in its position; but here it was now quite indisputably, and the fat end of Gip's pointing finger made a noise upon the glass.

The inner door stood ajar, and peered into that leaguer of shadows with a long slit of daylight like a pointing finger.

A foreigner can do little good by talking of these things; for the same lean dry blood that breeds the fever of unrest breeds also the savage parochial pride that squeals under a steady stare or a pointed finger.

I say, Bessie, if you won't go over to the hotel, will you walk just a little way over to the other side, and see what that funny looking place is where those big wagons are all spread out?" Bessie followed Dolly's pointing finger, and saw, on the side of Loon Pond opposite the hotel, several wagons, among which smoke was rising.

It was accounted for, however, by the golden crosses of the kingdom of Jerusalem waving above the watch-tower, that rose like a pointing finger above the keep, in company with a lesser ensign bearing a couchant hound, sable.

" "Ah, I see," murmured the doctor, "a man so near the brute that his enormities pass beyond" "Get this straight," said Buck, interrupting with a sternly pointed finger: "There ain't a kinder or a gentler man in the mountain-desert than him.

One would think you were tempting me to run away," said Harold, smiling, as he followed her pointing finger with his eyes.

Before many hours, it was destined to ride the waves in a shape that was certainly never intended by those who chose it among many otherstaper and stately in its group of firsto be the chief adornment of a gallant ship, and lift a pointing finger to the stars themselves, as an index of its might, and, with this exception, the hope of those it servedthat of a charred and blackened life raft.