Then, as I took my weight from off the parapet, a huge piece of the stone coping slid from under me, and fell with a crash among the disorganized throng beneath.

From shrines and cathedrals, from chapels, churches, tents, and caves, there arises, day after day, this incense of united prayer, from a vast and heaven-uplifted throng!

and I be numbered in that throng!

'Twixt here and Pentavalon city, folk do say the roads be a-throng with bows and lanceslords and barons, knights and esquires, their pennons flutter everywhere.

Fire!" From near and far men came runningmen affrighted and dazed with sleep, a pushing, jostling, unordered throng, and the air hummed with the babel of their voices.

The same full-moon that watched the white-robed throng busied with the rites of incremation in a grove of palms, beheld also the seven dragons contending for the body of Marcobad.

" I stood in the doorway again watching the busy throng passing outside towards Royal Oak.

"Trying to hang yourselves!" exclaims Mr. DIBBLE, as the throng gathers curiously around the two gentlemen of the rope.

Eagerly enough they escaped from the automobile where they had been shut in and entered the spacious lobby of the hotel, where a merry throng of tourists had gathered.

" All the while the foremost men were edging toward the stairs, while the densely packed throng at the back were struggling among themselves.

The result of this sort of "requisitioning," was that our band of recruits was followed by an increasing throng of farmersimploring, threatening, trying by hook or by crook to win back the stolen goods.

Though so remote, the hum of the moving throng, and the higher strains of the wind-instruments, came, from time to time, to the ears of its inmates, mellowed and thrilling by distance.

His character had, however, preceded him, and a few days of his awkward and, as they conceived, sullen deportment, drove them back to their former beaux, with the exception of one; and she was not only amongst the fairest of the throng, but decidedly of the highest pretensions on the score of birth and fortune.

No war, or battle's sound, Was heard the world around; The idle spear and shield were high uphung; The hookéd chariot stood Unstained with hostile blood; The trumpet spake not to the arméd throng; And kings sat still with awful eye, awe-filled.

God is good, is wise, is strong, Witness all the creature throng, Is confessed by every tongue; All things back from whence they sprung, go backa verb.

"When I reflect that to-night I shall form one of a band of devoted courtiers who will throng round you in the hopeless pangs of despair" She repeated the gesture of impatience.

When she left the terminus, she walked with a portion of the throng which turned up Bishopsgate Street, though any other direction would have suited her as wellor as little; for she had no idea where to go, or what to do, beyond seeking some inexpensive lodging.

" Andy consented to accompany the gleeful, expectant throng.

In the hot throng, where we become the spoil Of our infection, till too late and long We may deplore and struggle with the coil, In wretched interchange of wrong for wrong 'Midst a contentious world, striving where none are strong.

The various engines arrive, but no throng of distant citizens, men and boys, fearful of the destruction of their all.

The village was alive with a busy throng of women, few if any men being discovered; while children were seen at every point, adding still greater animation to the picture.

They wished to equal in renown the greatest warriors of the Osage nation; and it was a knowledge of the fact, that they were about to start on a marauding expedition, which created so great a sensation in the throng of maidens.

For around it All the Saints and Guardian Angels Throng in legions to protect it; They defeat us everywhere!

Across the ice in the vague moonlight a motley throng, a hundred strong, was charging down upon them.

For the malice of his nature makes him so informer-like-dangerous, in taking advantage of anything done or said, yea, even to the ruin of his makers, if he may have benefit, that such a creature in a society makes men as careful of their speeches and actions as the sight of a known cut-purse in a throng makes them watchful over their purses and pockets.