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"She had by this time approached a small gate, which communicated with the apartments on the ground-floor of the Zenana; when, turning to me, she said, "You can return the way you came, but I must leave you here;" and, making a slight bow, she sprung like a young fawn through the gate, and was out of sight in a moment.
She just sat down on the floor with the terrible portrait in her lap, and rocked herself backwards and forwards.
At the rate at which it was rising, it would be level with the floor in less than another week; and I realized that, unless I carried out my investigations soon, I should probably never do so at all; as the water would rise and rise, until the opening, itself, was submerged.
They are lined entirely from floor to ceiling with mahogany; the furniture, which is massive, antique, and beautifully carved, being also of mahogany and tulip wood.
" The Colonel bent his head, and stared at the smooth-trodden floor at the edge of the buffalo-skin.
One was an old pedlar, with his well-filled pack on the floor beside him.
The tobacco seemed to refresh him; he walked the floor for a while, and then sat in his chair.
They stretch all over the window and even round the corners of that unfinished brickwork on the first floor by the side of the library window.
Tired bombazine procession, wrapped in the greasy odors of years of carpet-sweeping and emptying slops, airing the gassy slit of room after the coroner; and padding from floor to floor on a mission of towels and towels and towels!
" He adjusted the steel gauntlet carefully to his right hand and sat down on the floor before the cabinet.
The room is in darkness: on the floor under the window is found the insensible body of the woman Cibras.
Yes; there on the floor near the spot where Henshaw had first fallen, lay a narrow blood-stained chisel.
It was lying on its right side, half on its stomach, with its right arm doubled under it, and its left hand clutching at the floor above its head.
"I wish it had been on deck," he remarked, "instead of a place with damned gold chairs and gold on the ceiling, and cloth on the walls, and velvets such as respectable folks use for dress and not for ornament, and candles in gold sticks, and the floor like a sheet of ice.
On the floor between the window and an old oak table which had practically hidden it from the doorway, lay the body of a man in evening clothes, one side of his shirt-front stained a dark colour.
he said in a breathless whisper, pointing to the floor beneath the window through which the deep orange light of the declining sun was streaming.
"It was wrong of you, mon ami" she said, in gentle reproof, "to select a room upon the same floor as mine, it was a proceeding bold and not a little indelicate, which might have compromised my precious reputation had I not been secure in the honour of my poor lost Captain Guilbert."
" The other yielded and began to cross the floor behind the impetuous Maggie.
Then he walked slowly back across the garden in the direction of the garage, keeping his eye on the library window on the first floor from which Kemp, according to his evidence, had seen Sir Horace leaning out after Holymead had left the house.
There was no place left them from which the materials for their mound could be fetched, in consequence of all the timber, far and wide, in the territories of the Massilians, having been cut down and carried away; they began therefore to make an agger of a new construction, never heard of before, of two walls of brick, each six feet thick, and to lay floors over them of almost the same breadth with the agger, made of timber.
"I've felt wretched enough about it to become a contributor to the first-class American comic paper on the next floor below me," he continued, gloomily.
But we completed the circuit of the ground floor without his apparently discovering anything out of the way.
In the middle of the floor stood the Boule cabinet, and before it, with his back to the door, stood a man ripping savagely away the strips of burlap in which it had been wrapped, talking to himself the while in a sort of savage sing-song, and pausing from moment to moment to glance at a huddled bundle lying on the floor against the opposite wall.
From this well a stone pipe or tunnel, two feet nine inches in diameter, led up to the very roof, access to it being given on each of the four floors into which the keep was divided within.
His bed was higher from the floor than usual and, moreover, the floor was different.