Rich bosses of willow flame in front of it, and from the base of these the brown meadow comes forward to the water's edge, the whole being relieved against the unyielding green of the coniferae, while thick sun-gold is poured over all.

Thousands of square miles are plowed so deep with shot and shell and trench that the fertile soil lies buried beneath unyielding clay.

"Salo, his brother, never became angry, but he had a very unyielding nature just the same.

Now with her returning strength she recommenced her unyielding purpose of "Russianizing" them.

So he pressed on; abating not one jot of his swiftness, falling not one hair's breadth from his height of resolution, on and on, foot-sore, thirsty, in deep distress; but with a heart unyielding as the flint, with a purpose strong as steel, with a heroism more magnificent than that which meets the points of glittering bayonets or the mouths of belching cannon.

To him may be traced the unyielding devotion of the Jews, after the Captivity, for the rites and forms and ceremonies which are found in the books of the Law.

Seeing his face through the deepening gloom, it seemed to her to be set in stern, unyielding lines.

But that which adds the softer, more beautiful element to a picture otherwise almost overpowering in its grandeur, and withal stern and unyielding, is seen through a break or portal off to the south.

owever, on account of the unyielding opposition of the free Negroes and abolitionists.

Why hold with an unyielding grasp, so miserable and useless a piece of property?

While I would not that you depend on any human agency, save your own unyielding exertion, in the elevation of our race; still, I would not have you unmindful of, nor ungrateful for, the noble exertions of those kind white friends, who have plead the cause of the bondman, and have done all in their power to aid you, for which, may the God of the oppressed abundantly bless them.

" Suppose not, my brethren, that your task is a light one, or one that can be performed without years of patient toil and unyielding perseverance.

He put his cheek against the mate's arm, and they lay silent, the man very stiff and unyielding.

His face shadowed as his hands came against the unyielding door of the house.

The details of the day are vividly sketched, and as they must be familiar to all our readers, the following excellent general observations will be appreciated: "No situation could be more trying to the unyielding courage of the British army than their disposition in square at Waterloo.

"But although the French army had ceased to exist as such, and now (to use the phrase of a Prussian officer) exhibited rather the flight of a scattered horde of barbarians, than the retreat of a disciplined bodynever had it, in the proudest days of its glory, shown greater devotion to its leader, or displayed more desperate and unyielding bravery, than during the long and sanguine battle of the 18th.

Ruth, gentle and yielding, was ever most timidly fearful of being at fault; William, hard and unyielding, was always perfectly certain of being in the right.

Henry, on his part, was equally unyielding; and it was, as we have already shown, several hours before the bewildered minister of finance could succeed in restoring even a semblance of peace.

At this period, however, Madame de Verneuil was too deeply involved in the conspiracy of her brother to prove a willing agent in her own defeat, and she accordingly received the monarch with an unyielding insolence for which he was totally unprepared; violently declaring that the promise had been freely given, and that the birth of her son had rendered it valid.

She is harsh and unyielding, alike in manner and in speech, and makes no concession either to my humour or my tastes.

It looks out at you impassive, penetrating, as though it would hear all and tell nothing,a strong, self-continent, completely balanced character,unshrinking, unyielding, yet without being unsensitive,concentrated, justly poised, and intense, without being passionate.

The eager hunter frowns with impatience, knowing that though the eaves of the house may drip in the middle of the day, yet, while those white patches show in the shelter of the bramble bushes the earth will be hard and unyielding.

Or in any case you must conform your common sense not to the imagination that in the past peopled the dream world of humanity with good and evil spirits, but to the carefully won insight that has shown us that our world is one where natural law reigns unyielding, defying equally our magic arts and our prayerful desires for divine aid.

Little feeling of pride was there in me just then, but only a despairful feeling that in this rigid, unyielding dogmatism there was no comprehension of my difficulties, no help for me in my strugglings.

The eyes were dried, the sobs checked, and soon Elleney emerged from her garret, and came clattering down the corkscrew stairs in her unyielding little best boots, clad all in her Sunday finery, every sunshiny hair in its place, and her blooming face a vision of wonder and delight to any chance beholder.