Through broad glades deep-hid within the wild; by shady alleyway and leafy track they held their march south and by east, a close, well-ordered company striding long and free and waking the solitudes to a blithe babblement of laughing echoes.

For she stands there striding the boundary of my country, the greatest of our cities, the greatest even of our industrial citiesa negative to all the rest.

"Then we must bow to your decision," he went on, turning toward the tall man striding along at his side.

So saying, he turned and left them, striding away.

She imagined she saw him striding along through the big boles of the pines; passing swiftly, silent and stern, through a faint patch of light; standing in the shadows, listening, his keen eyes drilling the obscurity; passing on again, vigorous, forceful, determined, and "splendid."

As she spoke, the Sergeant wheeled suddenly right about face, and came striding down towards them, jingling imaginary spurs, and with his stick tucked up under his remaining arm, very much as if it had been a sabre.

" Hereupon, at a sign from Anthea, Bellew turned in at the gate, and striding up the path, entered the cottage.

" Burnham had risen again from his chair, and was striding up and down the floor.

Peter came striding across the terrace, and looked in at the open window.

I saw there was something the matter when you came striding up the hill without a word, but I thought it was only that you found the basket too heavy.

When I came to Little Pine Hill this morning the snow stopped whirling for a minute, and I caught a glimpse of her a-striding across the fields.

The orderer of chicken, striding away from the desk with a hastily obtained book of reference, stopped short and stared at him; then came close and touched the thin, shiny shoulder of the blue serge coat.

The good news soon got up to Major Buckley's, and he was seen striding up the path, leading the pony carrying his wife and child.

They separated at once, striding out with a measured step, and it was not until they moved that he caught the glint of metal at the side of one of them and knew that one was the man who had answered to the name of John Bard and the other was the grey man who had spoken to him at the Garden the night before.

And the flash of the tonguèd flames, Dreadful, threatening gods draw near; Wondrous figures, of giant mould, Onward striding through the weird Gloom of fire-luminous vapor.

" Strange as it may seem, the woods were clear of smoke except for a trifling belt that floated in the trees, and Jack went striding away in peace.

In the distance she saw a man approaching, striding briskly toward her.

As she came, tired, through the plantation, with the evening glow and the light wind, in which the branches were rustling and the leaves dropping, lulling her luxuriously, she heard some one striding swiftly along the path behind.

He was never beaten, never had a whip flourished over him, or felt the tickling of a spur; nor was he ever for a moment distressed by the speed or rate of a competitor; out-footing, out-striding, and out-lasting, (says Mr. Lawrence) every horse which started against him.

" How absurdly does practice limp along, far behind firm-striding theory!

425; rolling, iii. 294, 357; iv. 109; v. 40; shaking his head and body, i. 485; striding across a floor, i. 145; talking to himself, i. 483; iv. 236, 399, n. 6; v. 306-7; touching posts, i. 485, n. 1; Boswell tells him of some of them, iv.

When he behaved so charmingly about the gift she was almost sure he looked at her as he had looked in the old days before striding his legs and screaming out, "Oh, am I not a wonder?

He turned; to his horror he discerned Mr. Dunborough striding towards him, a whip in one hand, and in the other a note; probably the note was for this very room.

What luck!" Without a second's hesitation she started off briskly into the woodland road, striding along with the splendid swing of the healthy Englishwoman who has not been trained to dawdle.

" "Here I am," said Bronson, striding out and shaking hands with the supervisor.