On the long tide.

On the long tide.

High tide at noon.

The City and the cathedral: a reflection of the glory of the Gothic and the Middle Ages at their high tide in the city by the Seine.

And greater still was our comfort when we found fresh water in the creek where we were when the tide was out, without going so far up into the country.

Early one morning we came to an anchor under a little point of land, but pretty high; and the tide beginning to flow, we lay ready to go further inBut Xury, whose youthful and penetrating eyes were sharper then mine, in a soft tone, desired me to keep far from land, lest we should be devoured, "For look yonder, mayter," said he, "and see de dreadful monster fast asleep on de side of de hill."

"See how the tide is coming in," said Rap, when they returned to the beach.

CHAPTER XXIX UP THE RIVER The thunder-clouds thickened until the whole sky was black; the tide rose in great waves, and the children were glad to be in the house.

Rap, by rolling over and over on the sand, was in the water as soon as Nat; but they did not venture out far, even though the tide was low, contenting themselves by splashing about in shallow places.

The storm has driven some of them into the bay, where they do not usually come until later in the year; but in winter great flocks of Gulls live about our beach, clamming on the bar at every low tide.

"To-morrow, when the tide begins to come in, we are going to fish for bluefish!"

When the right day came, without a sign of ugly squalls or of an equally unfortunate calm, Olaf borrowed a largo cat-boat, and after stowing away the lunch hamper, that was always a 'must be' for an all-day trip, the boat almost flew out of the little bay and up the sound before the breeze that came with the morning tide.

They belong to a guild of water birds that I think we might call Sea Sweepers; for they clear from the surface of the water the refuse that the tide would otherwise throw upon the beaches.

And, once off their feet, she saw how the tide had swept them togetherswept them irrevocably beyond reason and recall.

"Dear, never before did I so completely know myself, never so absolutely trust myself to the imperious, almost ungovernable tide which has taken my destiny from the quiet harbour where it lay, and which is driving it headlong toward yours.

The regular cavalry of the Provost Guard had turned the tide of stragglers now, letting through only the wounded and the teams.

The beach gradually shelved at this point and they could wade out nearly a quarter of a mile at low tide.

The tide was about half in.

"It's shallow here and at low tide we may be able to get her.

When the tide went out late that afternoon they saw that it would be possible to get most of the things from the wrecked boat.

Promotion arrives from no point of the compass; nothing but a little tide of homely life ebbs and flows in these elm-girt villages above the fen.

It was nine and after, and the tide of life was roaring through the channels of the city when he roused himself, and to divert his suspense and fend off his growing stiffness went out to look about him.

1. "There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.

And the brethen looked for it nowe at thys Bartlemewe tide last passed, and yet looke euery day, except it be come all redy, and secretly runne among them.

In this as in other branches of study it is the fate of theories to be washed away like children's castles of sand by the rising tide of knowledge, and I am not so presumptuous as to expect or desire for mine an exemption from the common lot.

Did you see a sonnet to this purpose in the Examiner? "Who first invented Workand tied the free And holy-day rejoycing spirit down To the ever-haunting importunity Of business, in the green fields, and the town To ploughloomanvilspade

He had a red scarf tied round his waist, and when at his work by-and-by, he wore a little red silk cap, just stuck lightly on his dark hair.

At length beaten and bruised they were tied with ropes and thrown into one of the tents and a man set to guard it.

The monk thereupon showed him his sides which were torn by a twig tied fast around them.

A monk behind me saw this and cutting a twig tied it so tightly around my sides that it has caused my flesh to mortify."

The monk replied"Because my body in not my own and he who tied it (the withe) has never loosed it."

I feel it my duty, as patron of the bark, to recall to your honors that many poor travellers, far from their homes and pining families, are waiting our leisure, not to speak of foot-sore pilgrims and other worthy adventurers, who are impatient in their hearts, though respect for their superiors keeps them tongue-tied, while we are losing the best of the breeze.

" So saying, they hurried to the spot where they had tied up their ponies, and, leading them by the reins, descended into the valley.

The costumes of the period seem odd, as we look back upon them, for the men wore pointed shoes with toes tied to the girdle, and trousers and coat each of different colors: for instance, sometimes one sleeve was black and the other white, while the ladies wore tall hats, sometimes two feet high, and long trains.

"First," said Jonas, "have you got a string?" Rollo felt in his pockets in vain, but he recollected his little parcel, which was tied with a piece of twine, and held it up to ask Jonas if that would do.

Now, as the marker was tied to the middle stake by the string, the mark was equally distant from the middle stake in every part, and that made it exactly round.

"O, we hid him behind a stone, down at the foot of the mountain, where our horses are tied.

"O," said Rollo, "we know; it was behind the corner of a stone, just in the bushes, where we tied the horse.

Jonas kept hold of Rollo's hand, and went on running and walking alternately, until they got down to the end of the trees and bushes, and then they came out in sight of the place where the horses were tied.

The hotel coach was waiting, and they hastened to secure their seats, giving their checks to the driver, who disappeared with a handful of these and others, leaving his horses with the reins tied to the dash-board, and a boy ten years old upon the box.

'I have often,' she said, 'when my women have displeased me, snatched their baby from their bosom, and running with it to a well, have tied my shawl round its shoulders and pretended to be drowning it:

He says: "When I was quite a child, I recollect it grieved me very much to see one tied up to be whipped, and I used to intercede with tears in their behalf, and mingle my cries with theirs, and feel almost willing to take part of the punishment.

My father stripped and tied him, and took him into the orchard, where switches were plenty, and directed me to whip him; when one switch wore out he supplied me with others.

after describing the flogging of a slave, in which his hands were tied together, and the slave hoisted by a rope, so that his feet could not touch the ground; in which condition one hundred lashes were inflicted, says: "I stood by and witnessed the whole without feeling the least compassion; so hardening is the influence of slavery that it very much destroys feeling for the slave.

Still I can recollect but one instance of corporal punishment, whether the subject were male or female, in which the infliction was not on the bare back with the raw hide, or a similar instrument, the subject being tied during the operation to a post or tree.

the ligaments, which tongue-tied him, were loosened, and the stammerer proceeded a statist!"

The carotid was tied, but the operation failed to stop the hemorrhage, and I found the surgeons relieving each other every quarter of an hour in holding a pledget of lint on the wound, in a determined effort to save the man's life if it were physically possible.

"You might have been born an old woman," he said as he tied the strings.

Underneath that there were rude swathings of flannel; five or six yards of flannel are tied comforter-fashion about his neck.

The attendant switched it around in the back and tied it firmly in place, and when we demanded to know the reason, she said, in German, "It is for the swift descent.