Gradually, the suspended matter sank, and hung in a panoply over the mouth of the Pit.

I could hear the sharp intake of the men's breathing as they hung on the reply.

I wouldn't for worlds that she should have the impression of sadness and gloom that must hang over the palace as long as the President is lying there.

Here and there curtains, hanging from a slight frame of wood-work, veiled a small square from the eyes of all, except those who paid a nail for admittance.

The little end salon, which I made my boudoir, was hung with blue satin; my piano, screens, and little things were very well placedplenty of palms and flowers, bright fires everywherethe bedrooms, nursery, and lingeries clean and bright.

A brace of Colt's revolvers swung from his belt, the tatters of his blood-stained garments hung about him.

Before I had reached the deck, however, Selover was afoot again, the four hanging to him like dogs.

The murderer, Jack McCall, was tried and hung at Yankton, Dakotah, for the crime.

On Long Street, within sight of my windowjust where the street gets into its most tangled trafficthere has hung for many years the painted signboard of a veterinary surgeon.

I was glad enough to see them leave, as my life had undoubtedly hung by a thread during their presence.

From the first evening that I joined the party which I saw clambering up the path that led to the Hermit's cell, I found myself strongly attached to this venerable man, and the more so, from the mystery which hung around his history.

His arms hung like a gorilla's, palms turned slightly outwards.

It fell upon a quaintly modelled ship, hung above the door.

That's when you've got the hang of things up here, when you've learned not to stay in your cabin all the time, and how to take care of yourself on the trail.

So Beltane crossed the plank and gave his hand to Walkyn's iron grip and thereafter followed him along winding, low-roofed passage-ways hollowed within the rock, until they came to a cavern where a fire blazed, whose red light danced upon battered bascinets and polished blades that hung against the wall, while in one corner, upon a bed of fern, Giles o' the Bow lay snoring right blissfully.

"What special brand of fool am I to be here?" Down below, Nig, with hot tongue hanging out of the side of his mouth, now followed, now led, his master, coming briskly up the slope.

With a generous feeling, which was possibly due to the fact that he was entitled to none of the credit of collecting the evidence against the prisoner, Inspector Chippenfield allowed Detective Rolfe a subordinate share in the glory that hung round the arrest by volunteering the information in the witness-box that when making the arrest he was accompanied by that officer.

"And now for my lady," said my lord, going up the stairs, and passing alone under the tapestry curtain that hung before the drawing-room door.

The thing was hung as a target in a leafless cherry tree at twenty paces, and the cockade was to be the centre mark.

Demodocus came and reached his harp, where it hung between two pillars of silver: and then the blind singer, to whom, in recompense of his lost sight, the muses had given an inward discernment, a soul and a voice to excite the hearts of men and gods to delight, began in grave and solemn strains to sing the glories of men highliest famed.

The rose has taken off her 'tire of red The mullein-stalk its yellow stars have lost, And the proud meadow-pink hangs down her head Against earth's chilly bosom, witched with frost.

They kept on swinging, swinging, They flung themselves so high They caught upon the pointed moon And hung across the sky; And when I woke next morning There still were crowds and crowds In beautiful bright bunches All sleeping on the clouds.

His broad shield hung behind his shoulder, balanced by a long lance whose gay banderol fluttered wanton to the soft-breathing air; above his mail-coif he wore a small bright-polished bascinet, while, at his high-peaked saddle-bow his ponderous war-helm swung, together with broad-bladed battle-axe.

How do you think a girl feels to have gramaw keep hanging onto that old black wig of hers and not letting me take the crayons or wreaths down off the wall?

When I first saw the outline of the mountains through the mist and clouds that hung near the horizon, it stood out so clear and bold that I felt surprised at not having been able to see it long before, as some others had.