Anything seemed better than this silence, with the ever-present feeling that the creature might be lurking in every bush I passed.

My husband lurked about the neighbourhood; 605 Now he had fled, and whither none could say, And he had done the deed in the dark wood Near his own home!but he was mild and good; Never on earth was

Bad characters lurked behind the fences, from which they would sometimes take a sneak shot at the Showman as he passed.

And Eurymachus, a suitor, taking occasion from some words which were spoken before, scoffed and said, "Now I know for a certainty that some god lurks under the poor and beggarly appearance of this man, for as he stands by the lamps, his sleek head throws beams around it, like as it were a glory."

Just in that instant, anxious Ariel sought The close recesses of the virgin's thought; As on the nosegay in her breast reclined, He watched th' ideas rising in her mind, Sudden he viewed, in spite of all her art, An earthly lover lurking at her heart.

His performances, since the Lyrical Ballads, are miserably inadequate to the ability that lurks within him.

Nothing could be descried thereon but the most imperturbable solemnity, or, if perchance anything like an expression of irony lurked beneath this, it was not such irony as they wished to see.

Then let us hope there is no ogre lurking on these back stairs, for the trail is plain.

One could imagine things lurking among the tangled bushes; while, in the very air of the place, there seemed something uncanny.

they said; and a one-eyed fellow, dirty and drunk, was fetched from the public-house at the end, where it seem he lurks for the sake of picking up water-practice, having formerly had a medal from the Humane Society for some rescue.

I had reason to be glad of my silence; for the next day an agent from the slave-trader arrived, saying that Jim had escaped, and that they thought he might be lurking near where his wife was.

" CHAPTER VIII THE CAPITAL CHARGE "The police, it appears, instinctively feeling that some mystery lurked round the death of the bookmaker and his supposed murderer's quiet protestations of innocence, had taken a very considerable amount of trouble in collecting all the evidence they could for the inquest which might throw some light upon Charles Lavender's life, previous to his tragic end.

I wondered if some fiend were lurking by my side, who kept saying the words over and over in my ear.

From what they found afterwards, they had good reason to believe that the blacks had been lurking around meditating an attack.

In the case of those early voyagers, savages lurked along the wooded shores and greater dangers lay in the unknown, treacherous currents and hidden bars of the stream itself.

And I could flee As far as thee the evening brings: Ev'n led to west he would me catch, Nor should I lurk with western things.

Big lights hung from the room of the long shed, but did not pierce the gloom that lurked between the piles of cargo.

Sometimes it was from some schooner which had seen a great flame upon the horizon, and approaching to offer help to the burning ship, had fled away at the sight of the sleek, black barque, lurking like a wolf near a mangled sheep.

Around the coast rough blasts began to blow, And toss the seas about in giant sport, Lurking without to catch unwary sails, And snap their bellying seams against the mast.

As his father put it, "Frank had turned up at home again like a bad penny, and was now lurking after the manner of louts."

However it is but justice to say that they have frequently risked, and even sacrificed, their own lives in endeavouring to preserve those of others; though some recent instances, especially in Wales, prove that the old disposition still lurks amongst the people, and sometimes breaks out with unabated violence.

This emotion is so single and absorbing that there is some gleam of it in each varying view, and every sentiment is warm with it, however the flame may lurk as beneath a crust of lava.

Entirely unencumbered by baggage or by impediments of any kind, such a band lurked through the woods, leaving no trail, camping wherever night happened to overtake it, and travelling whithersoever it wished.

And they lurk and they tremble and cower, and stab as they lurk from behind, Like shapes from a pit Acherontic by hatred and horror made blind.

In event of an ambush being prepared for our reception, and I confidently expected that such would be the case after the sentinel had seen Indians lurking nearabout the camp, we two would be in a most dangerous position, and I made mention of that which was in my mind to the sergeant.