Now frantic to the kennel's utmost verge Raving he runs, and deals destruction round.

He is sometimes whimsical to the point of eccentricity, and his high spirits often verge on extravagance; but at his best he has the power of refreshing the reader with gentle irony, genial laughter, and love for human kind.

In The Countess Cathleen (rewritten in 1912), the poor peasants are driven by a famine to the verge of starvation.

Berlin was agitated by mobs to the verge of anarchy.

But he spoke of numerous distinct crises within forty years, when Prussia was on the verge of being drawn into a general European war, which diplomacy fortunately averted, and such as now must be warded off by being too strong for attack.

Sometimes one of these rival leaders was on the verge of victory and sometimes the other, and both equally gained the applause of the spectators.

An inkling of the true state of the case began to dawn upon him, and he was on the verge of enteringindeed, his hand already touched the door-knobwhen his eye, still glued to the spy-hole, detected a slight movement.

Cla. Ladies, my hart will breake if it be held Within the verge of this presumtuous chaire.

She knew she had been on the verge of disclosure, and she felt that she was still on the verge of disclosure, but the nervous strain she had undergone had tired her, and she passively waited for the thing, she knew not what, to happen.

She knew she had been on the verge of disclosure, and she felt that she was still on the verge of disclosure, but the nervous strain she had undergone had tired her, and she passively waited for the thing, she knew not what, to happen.

About two-thirds of the distance around the verge of the horizon a faint light appeared, resembling the scene when a dense curtain of clouds hangs overhead, and the rays of the morning sun steal under the edge of the thick vapor.

Ringwood and Jowler whined fearfully on the verge of the ditch for an instant, and then sprang in and crouched trembling at the feet of their master.

Others, in passing about, frequently trod on the very verge of the concealed pit.

A heavy and suffocating canopy, extending to the utmost verge of observation, and appearing mere terrific by the vivid flashes and blazes that darted irregularly through it, now hung over New Castle and Douglass in threatening suspension, while showers of flaming brands, calcined leaves, ashes, and cinders, seemed to scream through the growling noise that prevailed in the woods.

We stood on the verge, looking downward into a chasm which seemed to split its way to infinite depths, although in fact it was probably not nearly so deep as it appeared.

She was beyond middle age, plainly in poor health herself and everlastingly on the verge of collapse from weakness and exhaustion.

His conduct with them at last became unbearable, and when, after threatening two actors with his revolver and frightening the women to the verge of hysterics, he passed onward into another car, a hurried council of war was held in the coach be had just vacated, and every man who had a pistol got it in readiness, with the un

I'm not an emotional woman, but I'm on the verge of hysterics now, forfor several reasons.

With him a looke like the bright orient verge At the uprising of Auroraes shine.

They found Miss Prescott almost on the verge of hysterics.

Even since they had come to New York she had been on the verge of one or two perilous adventures, and there had been a moment during their first winter when she had actually engaged herself to the handsome Austrian riding-master who accompanied her in the Park.

Or else he saw her, closely, palpably before him, as she sat at her writing-table, frowning and a little flushed, her bent nape showing the light on her hair, her short lip pulled up by the effort of composition; and this picture had the violent reality of dream-images on the verge of waking.

By aiming at too much, by dismissing collateral aids, by extending itself to the farthest verge of the conceivable and possible, it loses its elasticity and vigour, its impulse and its direction.

Marko looked at it through the glass and found it to be mainly a provision train, for Medun was on the verge of starvation, the garrison having "shaken out the last grain of rice from their bags," to use the expression of the moment.

At length we drew near its farthest verge.