His gaze followed my finger, and his eyes lighted up with a sudden flash of excitement, as the object came within his field of view.

She and her ladies arrived on the field in an open break.

Thus, in the present instance, the controversy turns upon the mode in which the separation was effected, which affords the widest field for conjecture, while they both agree that such separation has taken place.

We drove about a great dealthe country at the back of Deauville, going away from the sea, is lovelyvery like Englandcharming narrow roads with high banks and hedges on each sidebig trees with spreading branches meeting overheadstretches of green fields with cows grazing placidly and horses and colts gambolling about.

He was also sorry that Dufaure would not remain, but he was an old man, had had enough of political life and party strugglesleft the field to younger men.

In Egypt they are taken far up the Nile, and floated slowly home again, gathering the honey-harvest of the various fields on the way, timing their movements in accord with the seasons.

One of them was very active on the rebel side in Montreal and was soon to take the field at the head of the American 'patriots' in Canada.

He has had a fertile field from which to produce this volume, and has frequently found it necessary to condense the facts in order to embody the most interesting events of his life.

The long political strife in England, the gross mismanagement of colonial affairs under Germain, and the shameful blunders that made Saratoga possible, all combined to encourage foreign powers to take the field against the king's incompetent and distracted ministry.

We see that they have been "firing cannon in the fields near Paris, to bring on a rain."

The sketches of Bret Harte, Hayes, and Miller have not exhausted this field by any means.

To leave a field like Okoyong without a worker and go to one like Duke Town with ten or a dozen workers where the people have the Bible and plenty of privilegesthat's foolish.

Though thy clime Be fickle, and thy year, most part, deformed With dripping rains, or withered by a frost, I would not yet exchange thy sullen skies And fields without a flower, for warmer France With all her vines; nor for Ausonia's groves Of golden fruitage, and her myrtle bowers.

He was carrying somethingsomething extended at arms' length before himand he crossed the lane and ran far into the field before stooping to set down his burden.

THE THIRD PUNIC WAR The third war with Africa was both short in its durationfor it was finished in four yearsand, compared with those that preceded it, of much less difficulty; as we had to fight not so much against troops in the field as against the city itself; but it was far the greatest of the three in its consequences, for in it Carthage was at last destroyed.

After that I got round through two other fields into the lane, and here I am.

His object was not to defend himself, but to call attention to the splendid services that India had rendered to the Empire during the War in other fields than Mesopotamia.

Young madcaps were often known to let off steam by careering wildly round the field after dark, and if this had really been the case in the present instance, it would be folly to say anything that should awaken suspicion.

"Did you see that fine athletic field beyond the campus?" returned Sam.

It was at this time that old Polete, crazed, perhaps, by working in the tobacco fields under the blazing sun, had suddenly developed into a witch man, and proclaimed that he could see the French army marching, and urged the negroes to strike a blow at once in order to merit their freedom when the French should come.

" Suddenly a man with a lantern discovered a great pit in the field behind the lane and the crowd quickly surrounded it.

Palmer put on his hat, and made his way out of a side-door into the snow-covered field about the church, glancing at his watch as he went.

1915 I've watched the Seasons passing slow, so slow, In the fields between La Bassée and Bethune; Primroses and the first warm day of Spring, Red poppy floods of June, August, and yellowing Autumn, so To Winter nights knee-deep in mud or snow, And you've been everything.

The operations of an army in the field during a season.

Whereupon Roger trudged across the fields towards the church.