It passed, with a swift, steady swing to its highest altitude, and fell thence, Westward.

Yet, even then, the speed of its swing was inconceivably swift.

He began to swing it around his head.

Even the waiting women, Iseult and Penelope, learned, as they sat sorrowing and watching, to sing to the swing of the sea.

The gangway began its slow swing round preparatory to lowering into place.

He would starve, he said, if he had to cook for himself as well as swing a shovel; and the Boy, acting on pure instinct, pretended that he believed this was so.

"What's goin' to happen?" "Oh, he'll swing to-morrow instead o' me.

Again the Boy was delaying the upward swing of the gangway: the nun's trunk must come on board.

Besides the nursery rhymes, we have Stevenson, with his "Wind," "Shadow," and "Swing," Christina Rossetti's "Wrens and Robins," her "Rainbow Verses" and "Brownie, Brownie, let down your milk, White as swansdown, smooth as silk."

" "Why, of course you will," said Billie, stopping the swing short and looking at her chum in amazement.

Billie was swinging back and forth in the porch swing, grasping a cushion in each hand to keep her from jumping out, while Chet walked restlessly up and down.

But now that the great moment had come, they sat decorously in Billie's porch swing and tried to appear not at all curious as to whether Billie had gathered in a fortune since they last had seen her or not.

Then Violet, who was always thinking up some happy way out of a difficulty, gave a little bounce in the swing.

exclaimed Laura, jumping out of the swing and holding out a hand to each of them.

Came a cry, muffled in a mighty hand, a grappling, fierce yet silent, and Beda, cowering back, beheld Beltane swing a writhing body high in air and hurl it far out over the battlements.

"What news, Walkyn?" "Death!" panted Walkyn, "there be five dead men a-swing from the bartizan tower above Garthlaxton Keep, and one that dieth under the torture e'en now, for I heard grievous outcry, and all by reason of thy escape, lord.

Now Beltane smiled upon this red-haired knave and, smiling, drew a slow pace nearer, the great axe a-swing in his mailed hand.

Thus blithely sang Giles the Archer, above the tramp and jingle of the many pack-horses, until, being come to the top of a hill, he stood aside to let the ragged files swing by and stayed to look back at Garthlaxton Keep.

CHAPTER X VERNON'S CURIOSITY Silky blue lines streaked the long undulations that ran back to the horizon and the Flaminian rolled with a measured swing.

She had a swing put up in the garden for us, and a room cleared of the furniture that we might play at blindman's-buff.

Finally we began to swing backward, getting lower and lower.

" "Acquaintedtogether" cried his companion, in a little surprise, "what better way is there to bring them together, than to have them up before a priest, or to make them acquainted by letting them swing in the same hammock?"

The door closed behind her; she heard it softly swing on its hinges, and then came his light footfall close to her.

The door was closed, and pretty soon, by the roar of the wheels under me and the swing of the floor of the car, I knew that an engine had picked up the empty cars.

His other beast, Imperiousness, is yet more proudly laden; it carrieth a burden that no cords of authority, spiritual nor temporal, should bind if it might have the full swing.