Besides, look at that vast region, extending five thousand miles from the Mediterranean to the Cape of Good Hope, and four thousand from the Red Sea to the Atlantic.

Similar amendments were offered by the Orange River Colony in which the Dutch leader sympathized with the leader of the Afrikanderbond at the Cape in desiring to swamp out, rather than represent, minorities.

The English flags mark off the coast from that cape to what may be considered as Cape Hatteras.

The cavaliers, who had been sulking for years under the mild rule of the commonwealth, threw up their hats and cheered from Flower de Hundred to the capes on the ocean, as only a victorious political party can cheer.

So I put on my stiff shirt and Harriet came out in her best black cape with the silk fringes.

He was wearing an Inverness cape over his dress clothes and a Glengarry cap.

They had heard the dropping shots on the top of the Cape for nearly an hour and had been quick to notice the change to a regular hot fire.

There is a belt of territory, now sparsely populated, and inhabited chiefly by negroes, extending from the Dismal Swamp to the Capes of Florida, and from these Capes to the Brazos,generally level, and free from rocks and stones,of the average width of nearly one hundred miles,its area at least two hundred millions of acres,competent to sustain forty millions of negroes, or ten times the number which now exist within the United States.

Toward dawn, she snatched a little cape from the garments hanging in the closet, flung it over her shoulders and ran downstairs.

However," he said, smiling grimly, and pulling his cape about him, "there are other kindly disposed people in the world besides fathers.

We stood almost directly south for two-thirds of the way between the islands and the Cape, after which we changed our course somewhat more towards the east, or left-hand, that we might fall in with the land, lest we should have overpassed the Cape without seeing it because no land appears afterwards so far to the west for a considerable space.

Montgomery's column immediately struggled on again along the path leading round the foot of the Cape towards the Pres-de-Ville barricade.

On the 29th at eight a.m. the Mewstone was passed and the wind being fresh from South-West we rounded the South-East Cape at nine o'clock, and at sunset we were off Cape Frederick Hendrick, which is the northern head of Adventure Bay: between this and Quoin, or Sloping Island, we stood off and on during the night.

There is a belt of territory, now sparsely populated, and inhabited chiefly by negroes, extending from the Dismal Swamp to the Capes of Florida, and from these Capes to the Brazos,generally level, and free from rocks and stones,of the average width of nearly one hundred miles,its area at least two hundred millions of acres,competent to sustain forty millions of negroes, or ten times the number which now exist within the United States.

That night I lay for a long while stretched near the smoldering ashes of the camp fire, with my cape as a blanket, in a state of lassitude and somnolence, my soul filled with exaltation and happiness over the beauty around me.

We shot from beneath the great cliff into Flat-Rock Bay, rounding, at length, the breakers and the cape into the smoother waters of Torbay.

It was not until their backs had been for some time turned on the scene, and the cape near the valley of red snow had completely shut it out from view, that they could condescend to converse again in their ordinary tones on ordinary subjects.

Far off, a mere speck, could be seen a dim and indistinct object pointing upward from the cape like a finger.

Voyages to the North Cape by the tourist steamers are limited to a few weeks during the midsummer, when the sun is supposed to be visible at midnight in the arctic regions, but steamers run regularly all the year way around the Cape to Archangel, Vadsö, and Horningsvaag, the arctic ports of Russia.

The Loyall Bliss was a clumsy sailer, and made slow progress; so that August had come before she left the Cape behind her.

At daylight on the 31st, we had the island of Mindanao before us, but did not reach its western cape until 5 p.m. This island is high and broken, like those to the north of it, but, unlike them, its mountains are covered with forests to their very tops, and there were no distinct cones of minor dimensions, as we had observed on the others.

Butler himself was in command of the troops at the Cape before the great war.

Cape after cape jutted out over the abyss.

With another night the sloop will be far up the Bay, while now from where we are anchored, we could be beyond the Capes by daybreak, with the broad ocean before us.

Therefore she slipped on a skirt and blouse, and, throwing her golf-cape across her shoulders and a shawl over her head, she crept past the room wherein Elise was packing her belongings, and down the back-stairs to the lawn.