I suppose they were afraid that a stormy sitting might lead to disturbances.

I had come opposite to that part, where the outer door, leading into the study, is situated.

The one leading from my study into the gardens, was the last to which I went.

If he is to lead in intellectual and spiritual matters, he must be given fewer errands to run, the financial burden of his church must be taken absolutely from his shoulders, he must have a suitable salary, and his time must be at least as carefully guarded as that of the average man.

the Kearsarge, Mono, and Virginia Creek; the tracks leading through the others being only obscure Indian trails, not graded in the least, and scarcely traceable by white men; for much of the way is over solid rock and earthquake avalanche taluses, where the unshod ponies of the Indians leave no appreciable sign.

I must confess I had the honour, Sir, To lead on twenty thousand fighting Men, Whom Fortune gave the Glory of the Day to.

And if we got it despite his lead of aces, how gravely he squinted on the cards against deception, with his glasses forward on his nose!

He had always been a Protestant, with an English name, educated in England, so the reiteration of these facts, very much exaggerated and leading up to the conclusion that on account of his birth and education he couldn't be a convinced French Republican, didn't affect him very much.

[Footnote: The fact is still remembered in the name of St Thomas Street, leading out of the Borough High Street on the east.]

"This main juju, called the Long Juju, was reached by a winding road that goes through a dense jungle and leads at last to a lake.

Some ingenious tar, whose name deserves a better fate than the oblivion into which it has fallen, attained this object by "arming" the bottom of the lead with a lump of grease, to which more or less of the sand or mud, or broken shells, as the case might be, adhered, and was brought to the surface.

Our dogs had penned a small band at the head of a narrow barranca, from which a single steep trail led over the hill.

With this slight clue they were led towards a vineyard.

The Missouri horse took the lead for the first quarter of a mile; at the half-mile, however, he began to weaken.

A well-trodden path led across the church-yard, and the gate being on the latch, we entered, and walked round among the graves and monuments.

And the second (and longer) tunnel could still have been dispensed with, if, south of Taurus, the track had been led along the Syrian coast.

The individual and team fielding averages show Boston leading by a slight margin of .958 to .951.

Troops of all arms were moving forward in unending streams along every road leading toward the Piave.

We marched down the Tongue river for two days, thence in a westerly direction over to the Rosebud, where we struck the main Indian trail, leading down this stream.

" "But yonder is a very good trail leading past it.

Demand to be led before the king.

We had been punishing so severely those who were working in the trenches, and had kept the savages such close prisoners in their own encampment, that it seemed only natural the more soldierly of the men in St. Leger's army should insist on being led against us.

Lighting his pipe, he watched the path that led between the pines to the water.

In Paris, the famous poudre de succession (also a secret poison) was at one time supposed to consist of diamond dust, powdered exceedingly fine; and at another time, to contain sugar of lead as the principal ingredient.

" "I don't care an ounce of lead about the rest of the town.