For quite a minute we stood in silence, staring in bewilderment at the sight; then my friend went forward cautiously to the edge of the abyss.

Cover with the top crust; press in the edges with a beaten egg, and rub the top with butter.

vapour drawn from edge to edge of the vale.

An alarm-clock on a small shelf edged in scalloped white oilcloth ticked with spick-and-span precision into a kitchen so correspondingly spick and span that even its silence smelled scoured, rows of tins shining into it.

Propping the edge on my knee, I reached for the candle, and held it in the opening, moving it to right and left; but could see nothing.

Of course, we went wrong again in our next day's experiments; but Darrow was down two or three times a week, and gradually we edged toward a practical result.

"Well, they already had an idea that something was seriously wrong, and that took the edge off the announcement.

Nicholas edged towards the Shamán, presenting something in a birch-bark dish.

The "Port Vieux" is triangular in shape, with the apex inland, along the sides of which the boxes are erected, reaching to the water's edge at high tide.

On one side of this inlet is a beautiful dark grove; on the opposite side the land rises abruptly from the water's edge into a high ridge, on which grow a few scattered oaks of great age and immense size.

But the tear on the shoulder of your coatah, that is too smooth edged for a tear, too long for the bite of a scissors.

The sunbeams came streaming gloriously through the jagged openings of the col, glancing on the burnished pavements and lighting the silvery lakes, while every sun-touched rock burned white on its edges like melting iron in a furnace.

That day he had a good edge from a bottle of rye he was trying for a friend.

But he knew what his duty was, and as soon as he could move he began to edge along the short beat.

I'm all on edge over this thing nowa little more, and I'll be capable of doing something" A tap at the door interrupted him, and he disappeared between two curtains into the inner room, where an invalid chair, buried in wraps, stood by the window.

He was back in the street, edging through the crowd, his head up, searching for the eager face of Steve Kennedy, late his sergeant.

The moon was now riding high in the heavens, and every mountain top, seen from below, was outlined with a sharp-cut edge against the sky.

There was a very certain danger that the mere change of persons might bring in the whole machinery of hereditary magistracies, and that king and people might be edged out of the administration of justice, taxation, and other functions of supreme or local independence.

To discern likeness amidst diversity, it is well known, does not require so fine a mental edge as the discerning of diversity amidst general sameness.

In her admiration of Betty, Bobby had unconsciously edged after her to keep her in sight, and the startled audience saw the heroine being persistently pursued by a pretty boxwood tree.

"What's that?" asked Gregson, edging around him curiously.

And so I faced outwards, looking to see if any vile face showed above the edge before me, or to my right or left.

One edge of the beam breaks by extension, and the other edge by compression; and the upper and lower edges may be regarded as pillars, one of which is extended by the strain, and the other is compressed.

a, The dotted lines in this diagram represent the expansion of the solar edge of the hoof at the moment of over-extension of the fetlock-joint; b, the dotted line represents the change in form of the coronary edge under similar circumstances.

Lay the other sole plate alongside at the right distance, and strike a line at the cylinder or crank centre of it also, shifting either sole plate a little endways until these two transverse lines come into the same line, which may be ascertained by applying a straight edge across the two sole plates.