Here we were, fifty miles from a house, away in the forest beyond the sound of anything savoring of human agency, and yet we heard distinctly what was for all the world like the blows of an axe or hammer upon a stake, driving it into the earth.

All the same, he was not quite master of his wits, and had some fear of a blow from the fool.

In answer to his peremptory knock, the door was opened by a man slighter and shorter than himself, but sufficiently like him to be known as his brother, and the travellers staggered inthe door, with a heavy crash, blowing to behind them.

I felt dazed, as though I had received a blow on the head.

I struck an old, bleached specimen on Mount Ritter a dozen blows with my ice-ax without breaking it.

" "Nor is that all," said the Brahmin, "as the judges assign the victory according to certain rules and precedents, the reasons of which are known only to themselves, if known at all, and which are often sufficiently whimsicalas sometimes a small scratch in the head avails more than a disabling blow in the body.

This was a blow at the national life, and he thought the punishment of treason was imperatively demanded.

[The best thing an "Unhappy Father" can do, under the circumstances, is to learn to play upon the bass horn, and then, should the brazen serenaders again make their appearance, he can give them blow for blow.

It served, also, to conduct the smoke upward, and prevented it from being blown into our faces, as we sat in front, at once, of our sleeping-place and our camp-fire.

Airit is as fresh as the air that blew over the Pharaohs.

" She lay for a long time wakeful, revelling in the strange sense of peace which seemed to enfold her, while the evening breeze blew through the room and the twilight threw weird shadows among the dainty draperies.

The water was cold, and there was a good deal of puffing and blowing about the time his head came above the surface.

The weather had cleared somewhat, though scudding wrack still blew across them to the westward.

As much as Philadelphia desired that New York should be beaten, for there was no love lost between the teams in a ball playing way, the fighting spirit and the predominant desire to add to the column of victories as many games as possible brought forth the best efforts of the team of ill fortune against Chicago and struck telling blows against Chicago's success at the most timely moments.

It was a day in June, filled with a rich, thick, amber light, with a fragrant warm wind blowing out of the west.

" They shook their feet ontil exhausted natur, from necessity, ceased to be virtous, when suddenly they both tumbled over onto their backs, and blowed like porpoises.

He plunged in, heavily and blindly, blocking one of Darrin's blows by wrapping both arms around him.

The ungenerous Edward, insensible to pity, struck him on the face with his gauntlet; and the Dukes of Clarence and Gloucester, Lord Hastings, and Sir Thomas Gray, taking the blow as a signal for further violence, hurried the Prince into the next apartment and there despatched him with their daggers.

The word struck him like a blow between the eyes.

With bold right hand Zulema drew his keen and mighty blade; Blow after blow 'mid blood and dust upon his foe he laid; The startled beast retired before such onslaught of his foe, And the people shouted loud applause and the King himself bowed low.

The moon shone, but she made no shadow in it; the rain fell upon her, but did not hurt her; the little night breeze blew without finding any resistance in her.

The navy man straightened up as from a blow under the jaw.

What has become of the English steamer no one knows, but the wind blows off shore, so she will not come any nearer to us.

The Sahara and the southwest of Africa are deserts because the prevailing winds, the carriers of moisture, blow towards the sea instead of away from it, and consequently are always dry.

" I held up my scout scarf to show him how it blew toward the valley.