On one of these occasions, soon after his mother's visit, a friend who went with him sank in the water, and James lost his own life by efforts to save him.

Then she sank down into a crouching attitude in the big arm-chair, her eyes-wide open and staring out at the red lights from the furnaces that flickered in the sky.

He clutched the chain by which the cone hung, and the thing sank an infinitesimal amount as he struck it.

I left the boat pitching, and all of them staring down into water after me, as my head sank down into the weeds and blackness that lay about the mast.

And now the helpless princess sprang up, and now she sank down in stupor; and now she shrank in terror, and now she wept and wailed aloud.

" He raised himself on one elbow, watching Celia's shocked white face for a moment or two, then wearily turned toward the window and sank back on his pillows.

" Celia sank down on the bed's edge, the candle trembling in her hand.

Berkley ran with them on foot, one hand grasping a friendly stirrup, until the horse he clung to halted abruptly, quivering all over; then sank down by the buttocks with a shuddering scream.

A startled whippoorwill flashed into shadowy night from the rail as he laid his hand upon it, and, searching for the seat which Letty's invalid had built for her, he sank down, burying his head in his hands.

But he heard nothing until she sank down on the flooring at his feet and dropped her head, face downward, on his knees.

The first mate and Ned were soon in the captain's gig, and shortly afterward the boat with the hole in her filled and sank.

ejaculated Bob, and his heart sank like a lump of lead in his bosom.

gasped Mr. Tarbill, and sank on his knees.

But as, believing herself alone, she sank back on the seatat the moment that the horses plunged forwardher hand, extended to save herself, touched another hand: and the sudden contact in the dark, conveying to her the certainty that she had a companion, with all the possibilities the fact conjured up, more than excused an involuntary cry.

Mrs. Masterson sobbed querulously, or now and again uttered a wailing complaint: the other two stood sank in bitter retrospect.

His lordship, led to the head of the table, sank without a word into the chair placed for him, and propping his elbow on the table and his head on his hand, groaned aloud.

" He stopped and sank wretchedly down in a chair and covered his face with his hands.

In debating this point, I suppose that I lost sight of my objective, for I sank to sleep.

" Then Mr. Grey left the room, boiling with anger in that he, with his legal knowledge and determination to do right, had been so utterly thrown aside; while Mr. Scarborough sank exhausted by the effort he had gone through.

We made a boat of one of the wagon beds, and had a regular ferry, and when they pulled the wagons over they sank below the surface but came out all right.

He sank down, shoulders under, in the snow.

The invalid's heart sank like lead.

And Raoul sank the artist and bridegroom in the historian, and told him.

Even thus the vision of the Aphrodite sank into the dream of a Venus.

Egypt was the land of a religion which had won a high conception of the Divine unity; a religion which was scientific in its forms of thought, and earnestly moral in its spirit; but which failed to keep distinct in mind the order of nature from the Being on whom it reposes, and thus sank into the dreamy pantheism of its cultured classes, and the poetic polytheisms of its people.