He would never quite forget them, and always there would stand out certain memories from among the rest, like fires cutting the blackness of night.

It now seemed to Vasco da Gama that the time was come for making another tack, and he comforted himself very angrily, swearing that if they did not double the cape he would stand out to sea again as many times until the cape was doubled, or there should happen whatever should please God.

After that King did not again climb up where his body would stand out against the sky which was filling so brightly with the new morning.

Is it likely one face would stand out in my memory more than another?" "Quite, if you ask me," said Lanyard dryly"quite likely, if any circumstance connected with that face were at all memorable.

Many of our men fell at this period of the fight; despising the enemy and refusing to take cover, our soldiers would stand out exposed and deliver their fire, offering a sure aim to the enemy's marksmen.

If a large park surrounded the castle, it would stand out more prominently, and the beauty and magnificence of its architecture would be better shown.

"Why should not I call you child?" "BecausebecauseI don't know;but I wish you would stand out of my light, Cecilia, for you are trampling upon all my strawberries."

We are glad he came and enjoyed a day, which, as he said, would stand out like a mountain in his life; but we feel that he could never have followed his friends hither,Coleridge and Wordsworth,and have made himself at home.

Then I'd stand out of the background better, too."

Sometimes a fine rain would drizzle for hours on end, and when it would clear, the saw-toothed ranges flanking the lake would stand out all freshly robed in white,a mantle that crept lower on the fir-clad slopes after each storm.

We would hear the hounds baying after them and old lady Eford would stand out in the yard and cuss themcuss the hounds I mean.

Mrs. Harper, Bell and Whitman would stand out if only for the reason that each of them attempted sustained work.

These gentlemen assembled were they who had advanced money to Captain Scarborough, and this was the meeting of the captain's creditors, at which they were to decide whether they were to give up their bonds on payment of the sums they had actually advanced, or whether they would stand out till the old squire's death, and then go to law with the owner of the estate.