Like one in a dream went Beltane, heedless of his going; by silent street and lane where none stirred at this early hour, thus he wandered on until he was stayed by a high wall wherein was set a small, green door.

In a moment, the reserves came tumbling out, struggling into their coats; there was a clatter of hoofs in the street as the wagon dashed up; the reserves piled into it, permitting me to crowd in beside them, Grady jumped to the seat beside the driver, and we were off at a gallop, our gong waking the echoes of the silent street.

They were quite alone in the one silent street of the stricken village.

But tell me, my white brother,' he continuedwhile he looked inquiringly at Bradford'tell me why your village is deserted this evening, and why no sounds of labor met our ears as we passed through the silent street?

Now, in order to clearly understand what is about to follow, the reader must picture to himself in this silent street, in this darkness of the night, at from sixty to eighty yards apart, within speaking distance, these two redoubts facing each other, and able as in an Iliad to address each other.

It was a dark and silent street by night, little used, a mere link between two main thoroughfares.

Before she was able to forget those qualms many more minutes of frantic driving had flung to the rear many a mile of silent streets.

Hurrying down the silent street, I proceeded to the quays along the banks of the Loire, and, on reaching them, threw my burden into the river.

The one who walked last lifted his rifle and fired carelessly in the direction of the windows; the report sounded very loudly in the silent street, and a pane of glass fell in fragments to the ground.

Hastening along the silent street, it was easy for her to imagine that she and Ignacio were the only sentient beings, abroad in a world that had stopped breathing.

We heard its roar far away, and the sound stole into that silent street like the murmur of the ocean into an inland dell.

He turned down the silent street, and turned up over stone stairs, through quaint stone galleries and balconies such as are often huddled together on the cliff sides in fishing towns; into a stifling cottage, the door of which had been set wide open in the vain hope of fresh air.

We shall have good company, too, in our walk; for here comes Campbell fresh from his morning's swim, swinging up the silent street toward Frank Headley's lodging.

A few hundred yards away they pulled down to a walk, and slowly, peering sharply out from under their helmets, entered the silent street.

And the Three Kings rode through the gate and the guard, Through the silent street, till their horses turned And neighed as they entered the great inn-yard; But the windows were closed, and the doors were barred, And only a light in the stable burned.

As they were passing through a dark and silent street they suddenly heard a sound of shouting and the clash of weapons, the fall of heavy bodies, and the tramping of feet.

I. Through the silent streets of the city, In the night's unbusy noon, Up and down in the pallor Of the languid summer moon, I wander and think of the village, And the house in the maple-gloom, And the porch with the honeysuckles And the sweet-brier all abloom.

With what result was seen, when, on the morning of the of April, 17, the prison-doors were opened for the last time for his passage, and Cyril Wilde was led forth to the execution of an iniquitous sentence, though, even while the sad cart was moving slowly, very slowly, through the crowded, strangely silent street, some of the very men who had pronounced it were imploring the Governor almost on their knees that it might be stayed.

Then another swift drive through the silent streets, scarcely any lighter than they had been before, and they were back at Carver House, which suddenly seemed empty and dreary with Nyoda gone.

Our steps sounded along some silent streets, the doors of the little houses were shut and dark.

And he went home drunk through silent streets made silver by the moon.

Except for one window the neighbouring houses were in darkness, and the lamps shone tip a silent street.

But we will remain here in this smoke-enveloped town, with the silent street's dark houses.

But the stranger laughed long and loud at the suggestion, so that his voice woke queer echoes in the silent street.

BOUND I leave behind me the elm-shadowed square And carven portals of the silent street, And wander on with listless, vagrant feet Through seaward-leading alleys, till the air Smells of the sea, and straightway then the care Slips from my heart, and life once more is sweet.