Presently the time came for me to leave the road and take the short-cut over the moors; but in the deluge, where the eyes could see no more than a yard or two into a grey wall of rain, I began to misdoubt my knowledge of the way.

Shalah would avoid short-cuts for no reason that I could see, and make long circuits in places where I had to go on hands and feet.

One day that Tom Walker had been to a distant part of the neighborhood, he took what he considered a short-cut homeward, through the swamp.

Like most short-cuts, it was an ill-chosen route.

Just because the demands of religion and morality are so burdensome to men, they will ever seek short-cuts to salvation; and the intercession of presumably corruptible courtiers will be secured to win the favour, or avert the displeasure, of the rigorously incorruptible and inexorable King, who is "no respecter of persons."

As at Rellano, at Conejos, and at other places in the campaign where the railroad swept in big bends around the hills, no attempt was made on the Federal side to cut off the rebels' retreat by short-cut flanking movements of cavalry, of which Huerta had more than he could conveniently use, or chose to use.

Some time after, a tinker, making a short-cut from Stapleton by way of the old Indian road, had a view of a similar but a much more remarkable manifestation.

I know a short-cut that will allow us to avoid the Gilligoggs.

Honesty is doubtless the best policy in the long run; but somehow the run here seems so very long, and a short-cut opens such allurements to impatient desire.

It requires a firm calm insight, or a noble habit of thought, to steady the wavering mind, and direct it away from delusive short-cuts: to make belief practice, and forego immediate triumph.

Nay, in his haste, taking a short-cut towards the signpost, he plunged his wooden leg deep in the marsh, and tumbled helpless, overwhelmed with shame.

"I saw him dodge out of the lane and take to the woods," he remarked, "as though he knew of a short-cut across lots to the place where his friend and the biplane were hidden.

But before he had gone five miles Benoit's leaven worked, and he turned into a short-cut lane he knew which led to the mill.

They're up against what we agreed to call Potterismthe Potterism, that is, of second-rate sentimentalism and cheap short-cuts and mediocrity; they stand for brain and clear thinking against muddle and cant; but they're fighting it with Potterite weaponsself-interest, following things for what they bring them rather than for the things in themselves.

Being within a mile or so of the Puit de Padiracthat gloomy hole in the earth which was supposed to be one of the devil's short-cuts between this world and his own, until M. Martel proved almost conclusively that it was not the way to the infernal city, but to a subterranean river, and a chain of lakes that could be followed for two milesI set out the next morning to find it.

Is it a curious short-cut sometimes to the heights? "David, I went into the Forest, too, this morning, soon after you I went.

All are well served by the "short-cut" line of the Great Western, over which the Devon and Cornwall expresses now run.

Near this trackfor path it could hardly be calledstood a slender lad waiting and watching, a little round cap covering his short-cut brown hair, a crimson tunic reaching to his knee, leggings and shoes of deerhide, and a sword at his side, fastened by a belt of the like skin, guarded and clasped with silver.

We have left the broad and safe high-road; Mr. Parker having, in an evil moment, bethought himself of a short-cut.

Mr. Parker cannot be persuaded to abandon the idea of the short-cut.

"Short-cuts to fortune ain't in your line, an' it's about time you know it.

I will try," she continued, "to reach the Oberhof, whither I was bound on this short-cut when I had to go and meet with this accident.

They flooded towns and villages, and when we tried short-cuts we found them in every by-lane.

They came back by a short-cut, which made it necessary to cross a certain brook, or rivulet, called the Lyn.

Now that he knew the way, Casey had in mind a certain short-cut that would subtract two days from the round trip.