I accordingly embarked at Calcutta, in a coasting vessel that was bound to Madras.

I asked my father what they were and where they were going; he explained to me that they were emigrant wagons bound for Utah and California.

You will find in this book," he added, presenting me with a small volume, bound in green parchment, and fastened with silver clasps, "a minute detail of the apparatus to be provided, and the directions to be pursued in making this wonderful voyage.

There, immediately in front, loomed the majestic mass of Mount Ritter, with a glacier swooping down its face nearly to my feet, then curving westward and pouring its frozen flood into a dark blue lake, whose shores were bound with precipices of crystalline snow; while a deep chasm drawn between the divide and the glacier separated the massive picture from everything else.

Contending with myself, the season is too far spent, I said, and even should I be successful, I might be storm-bound on the mountain; and in the cloud-darkness, with the cliffs and crevasses covered with snow, how could I escape?

On the night of the 5th September, 1838, the steamer Forfarshire, bound from Hull to Dundee, was caught in a terrific storm off the Farne Islands.

When we sacrifice principle upon the altar of expediency, truth and honor, like twin victims, stand bound at its foot.

I would try white; and so I materialized the suggestion, and stood looking the least bit in the world like a nun, bound about with my white vestments, and had obtained only one very unsatisfactory glimpse of the effect produced upon the sensitive heart of quicksilver, when I found that that subtile heart responded to influences other than mine.

What was the reason for this binding of things together?

The stranger flew across the field, and the ploughman saw him bound over the hedge, take Lucy into his arms, and drag her, bewildered and enraptured, into the cottage.

Mary struggled in her sleep to tell her benefactress how she loved her, and approved of all she had done, and wanted nothing,but felt herself bound as by a nightmare, so that she could not move or speak, or even put out a hand to dry those tears which it was intolerable to her to see; and woke with the struggle, and the miserable sensation of seeing her dearest friend weep and being unable to comfort her.

Once a van of knitted stuffs, always the gray, corded and bound into bales, rumbled by, close enough to graze and send her stumbling back.

The arms of the three men were bound behind them, and then Jack retired with his aide to hold a council of war.

But a priest travelling (peregrinus) should recite the office according to the calendar of the church to which he is attached regularly, but the obligation of following the calendar of his home church was not binding by a grave precept.

Falls in his fits of folly, he binds round His figure with a cord and does not lie Inert and stiff.

He had no hat on, and a bloody cloth bound around his head confined the straggling gray locks quaintly.

He'll gallop so fierce, he'll gallop so fast, So high he'll rear, and so swift he'll bound Like the lightning flash he'll go prancing past, Like the thunder-roll will his hoofs resound

But why did that bound of pleasure change instantaneously into a convulsion of agony?

Again, while we stood dream-bound before the window of the corner drug store, he had sent me a low whistle from across the street, following this with another puzzling arm wave; whereat he had started toward us.

We have seen its articles, which could then only be written by tradition and use, as perfect and binding as those, which are now committed to letters.

Every cleric in holy orders is bound under pain of mortal sin to recite daily the Divine Office.

The magistrate may write the marriage lines, but the marriage becomes what the husband and wife make ita thing far deeper and more binding than any legal contract.

It sounds almost like a dreama man trying to kill with a pistol that shoots bullets that either stop after striking soft flesh or bound out of the body into which they are fired.

We heard his snort at every bound across the island, and his plunge into the lake on the other side.

He now felt that he was accepted by God, a vessel of election to work the work of God, and bound through gratitude "to put himself forth in the cause of the Lord."