He felt he could not bear it another minute, sprang up, and stood there, tense, waiting for what might befall.

"Well, I can't carry you up," said the Boy; and after a second he began to rub Potts furiously, glancing over now and then to see if Kaviak was coming to, while Mac, dumb and tense, laboured on without success.

At that moment of tense nerves, no other purpose would have contented us.

She was very tender towards Grey's condition, and the sight gave me no jealousy, for in that tense hour all things were forgotten but life and death.

" Johnnie's tense, almost tragic manner relaxed.

No painter ever drew figure in such relief as the blacksmith presented in that wonderful light, with his glistening face, his tense muscles, and his upraised arm.

In view of the tense European situation (the beginning of the Hitler era in Germany, and the Italian plans of expansion), the Western powers did not want to fight Japan on China's behalf, and without that nothing more could be done.

" In tense silence he called the names, and to each one came a quick "Here!" until he said "Kittredge!"

The two women sat up, tense.

His gaze was fixed, tense.

There came into Blanche Devine's face a look that made slits of her eyes, and drew her mouth down into an ugly, narrow line, and that made the muscles of her jaw tense and hard.

There is a storyKipling, I thinkthat tells of a spirited horse galloping in the dark suddenly drawing up tense, hoofs bunched, slim flanks quivering, nostrils dilated, ears pricked.

At that instant the woman in the bed sat up again, tense, every nerve strained in an attitude of listening.

His hands clenched tense between his buckskin knees, his eyes glanced here and there restlessly, and an indefinable shadow of something which Virginia felt herself obtuse in labelling desperation, and yet to which she discovered it impossible to fit a name, descended on his features, darkening them.

Many were subdued with awe and joy at their deliverance; others broke the tense strain of the last hours in suffocating sobs.

"The past tense of these verbs, (should, would, might, could,) is very indefinite with respect to time.

"For sometimes the mood and tense are signified by the verb, sometimes they are signified of the verb by something else.

"For I know of nothing more important in the whole subject, than this doctrine of mood and tense.

Gething felt the back gather beneath him, the tense body flung into the air, the flight through space, then the landing well upon the firm bank.

Then he returned to the tense body, so strangely thin and wet, and removed saddle and bridle.

The excitement was tense, and everyone was breathing hard.

In the droop of her head and the tense curve of her neck I sensed her mad impulse which the dark water suggested.

Her voice was somewhat tense.

Deacon, leaning forward, felt his arms grow tense.

Deacon scowled at the tense little coxswain.

14 Calico Sheets for Tents, at 12 shillings : 8/8/0.

The tents were made of calico, each suited for the accommodation of two persons, and the several articles of camp equipage were of the lightest construction consistent with the service required.

The next day being Sunday, we remained at our camp, and the party of natives, consisting of seven or eight men, three or four women, and some children, approached us, and remained the greater part of the day near the tents.

Vathek would have followed the perfidious giaour had not an invisible agency arrested his progress and that of the multitude; and he was so much struck by the whole circumstance that he ordered his tents to be pitched on the very edge of the precipice.

[Lat.], to arms!, to your tents O Israel!, Phr.

" Scaliger calls the eyes, "Cupid's arrows; the tongue, the lightning of love; the paps, the tents:" Balthazar Castilio, the causes, the chariots, the lamps of love, "aemula lumina stellis, Lumina quae possent sollicitare deos.

When the numerous army of the Saracens saw that the Christians, thus reinforced, boldly faced them without the walls, they removed their tents, during the night, above a mile from the town, that they might consider whether to retreat to Ascalon, or to continue to harass the citizens of Joppa with frequent assaults.

The left wing of Albinus was beaten and sought refuge behind the rampart, whereupon Severus 's soldiers in their pursuit burst into the enclosure with them, slaughtered their opponents and plundered their tents.

They possessed neither tents nor waggons, but only their arms and some provisions.

Ranged round the court-yard are the tents of the priests, who always go about with bare, shaven heads, and whose costume consists of a light yellow upper garment, which nearly covers the whole body.

{287} At the same time, it must be remembered that these journeys are not made in a very simple manner: as mine has been, for instance; the missionary surrounds himself with numerous conveniences; he has palanquins carried by men, pack-horses, or camels, with tents, beds, culinary, and table utensils; servants and maids in sufficient number.

In the outer garden there were, besides meadows and fruit trees, nothing deserving of much notice, except a number of tents, in which the military were encamped.

We halted on a small knoll, where the tents were pitched, and the wagons unladen.

[Sidenote: Job 22:26, 27, 28] If you return to the Almighty and humble yourself, If you remove unrighteousness far from your tents.

A few days later found them established in a comfortable camp; with tents and furniture and hammocks and books and the delighted Yee Kee to take care of them.

Have I not sat swigging in tents with great nobles, and heard all the truth about it?

But to come back to the uses of the bark of the birch: "'In the settlements of the Hudson Bay Company tents are made of the bark of this tree, which for that purpose is cut into pieces twelve feet long and four feet wide.

Every traveler and hunter in Canada enjoys these "rind-tents," as they are called, which are used only during the hot summer months, when they are found particularly comfortable.'

"'Rind-tents'!

Likewise his pocket will benefit, as his expenses will surely be less, and he will still find neighbours dotted about in white tents under the pine trees.

A visit to Cockburn's agency resulted in the hire of the "boarded dounga" Cruiser, which the helpful Mr. Cockburn procured for us, in which to go down the river; also a couple of tents for ourselves with tent furniture, one for the servants, and a cooking tent.

I might even have a caravan pitch its tents alongside the Tombs.

From a hill just in rear of the hospital tents I could see northward and toward the east long lines of earthworks with tents and cannon, and rows of stacked muskets and all the appliances of war.

From a hill just in rear of the hospital tents I could see northward and toward the east long lines of earthworks with tents and cannon, and rows of stacked muskets and all the appliances of war.

"No; I do not," said I; "but you can find out down there at the hospital tents, I suppose.