Yet signs which he dared not heed lest he be confounded told him that every eye so fixed on his was aware of some droll distraction.

Pleasant to see on either hand the flat landscape with all its signs of safety and plenty; its orange groves, its greening fields of young sugar-cane, its pillared and magnolia-shaded plantation houses, its white lines of slave cabins in rows of banana trees, and its wide wet plains swarming with wild birds; pleasant to see it swing slowly, majestically back and melt into a skyline as low and level as the ocean's.

We camped in rather a moist-looking place, where the wood begins to show signs of finishing, and the slopes fall steep and bare to the river.

In structure they show apparently signs of Greek influence in the doorways, and the triangular pediments above them.

" In the afternoon the weather showed signs of a desire to amend its ways.

After a warm five miles' march we came upon signs of a block.

Hesketh was reduced to despair; after two months in bed, this could not but be a trying journey under the most favourable circumstances, and the prospect as held out by his pessimistic bearer was pretty gloomyno boats available, and no signs of our doungas.

Some four or five miles we accomplished successfully, although there were ominous signs of a gradual lack of water, until we came upon a hopeless shallow, where the river, instead of concentrating its energies on one deep and narrow channel, had run to waste over a wide bed, where the wrinkling wavelets showed the golden brown of the gravel just below the surface.

The only member of the party showing signs of collapse was the unfortunate Freddie, who, shaken up in his small cage for three days in an ekka, seemed in piteous plight, feathers (what there were of them) ruffled and unkempt, and eyes dim and half closed.

" The first signs of dawn were beginning to show by this time, and as the sky brightened I told Miss Cullen that I was going to look for the trail of the fugitives.

I had heard of blankets laid down to conceal a trail, of swathed feet, even of leathern horse-boots with cattle-hoofs on the bottom, but none of these could have been used for such a distance, let alone the entire absence of any signs of a place where the horses had been hobbled.

" Most of the passengers had long since returned to their seats or berths, and Mr. Cullen's party had apparently done the same, for 218 showed no signs of life.

Miss Drewitt, reading these signs aright, was justly incensed.

" Nobody manifesting any signs of accepting this offer, he turned away and took a seat by the side of the indignant Tredgold.

"To the student of history, or to him who can read the signs of the times, there was such a profound significance in this occasion as makes one shrink from dwelling too much upon the external details.

But there are signs of clearing up, and, on the whole, less acrimony in discussion, for which both Oxford and Harvard are partly to be thanked.

But now there are signs of its giving way to a wave of revised empiricism.

Not to demand intimate relations with the universe, and not to wish them satisfactory, should be accounted signs of something wrong.

The strike was more than two months old when the Cooper Union meeting was held, and the employers showed no signs of giving in.

An honest indignation gleamed in his eyes as he spoke; but still there were the signs of that vacillation about his mouth which Florence had been able to read, but not to interpret.

From one point of view they looked like actors, bearing about them signs of fatigue, as if from heavy night work.

Yet there were, about these young gentlemen, signs of business, which an intelligent observer might have easily interpreted.

The keen eyes of the coroner caught these signs, and he immediately brought in a mental verdict of "guilty."

Some of the jury observed the same signs, and thought them suspicious.

The driver handed him a hoe; he examined it with silent interestuntil by signs he was requested to join the pastime.