Better to die, than open to the Terror, that is on the other side of the door.

And there seated in the opening of our little tent, I began the strange tale of The House on the Borderland (for such was the title of the MS.); this is told in the following pages.

He started the 10th of June in the best conditions possiblenot an instruction of any kind from his chief, M. Dufaure, President du Conseilvery complimentary to him certainly, but the ministers taking no responsibility themselvesleaving the door open in case he made any mistakes.

Another man reads with his heart open for new impressions, new insight, new fancies and ideals.

she exclaimed, as she came dashing into the parlor, her beautiful curls floating wildly over her shoulders, and her bright eyes wide open with wonder; "Mother I mother! come out here, quick!

We were shown into a pretty drawing-room, opening on a garden, where the princess was waiting, standing at one end of the room.

Here all was neatness and propriety: every thing was either in place, or only enough out of it to indicate the recent occupation of the room, or to show the taste or talent of the occupant; such as a book left half open at one end of an ottoman, and a piece of embroidery at the other.

They consisted of openings in the wall, sloping so much upwards, that while they freely admitted the light and air, the sun was completely excluded: and although those who were within could readily see what was passing in the streets, they were concealed from the gaze of the curious.

Then, the course of my journey was altered, and I began to move along their bases, until, all at once, I saw that I had come opposite to a vast rift, opening into the mountains.

Presently, I saw the great rift, open before me, and I drifted into it; without volition on my part.

Still, however, I have taken precautions; for I have driven stout nails in at the back of each of the three bolts, that secure the door, opening from the study into the gardens.

The Church fails to see openings for aggressive work; it fails to seize strategic points; it does not carry a well-knit local organization, with a husbanding of economic force; it does not front the world in dead-earnest; it is not proud and honorable in meeting its local debts; it loses progressive force, from lack of knowledge as to how to judge men, and train them, and set them to work.

The hotel of the British embassy is one of the best in Parisfine reception-rooms opening on a very large garden, and a large courtyard and side exitso there was no confusion of carriages.

There were three doors in the playgroundone the entrance from the garden, another opening into the lane, and a third into the field, the two latter being usually kept locked.

The scientific vista opening to the eye of man is impressive and appalling.

The lid would stand open of itself until tipped at a considerable angle, when it would fall and lock.

" "Opening at the top, too," said Trendon.

All was open as the day.

Then the front door opened without knocking, and there was a rustle in the hallway, and then, with a simultaneous scream, three agitated females, to wit, Mrs. Sprague, Merry, and Olympia, in a confused mass.

The essences of the pressed leaves seem to fill every pore of one's body, the sounds of falling water make a soothing hush, while the spaces between the grand spires afford noble openings through which to gaze dreamily into the starry sky.

One old trout seemed to have made up his mind for a fight, and he chased us more than two miles with his jaws open like a great pair of clamps, as if he'd a mind to swallow us boat and all, and from the size of the openin', I'm bold to say he'd a done it too, if he'd have caught us; but as we rounded an island, he run head foremost, jam against a rock.

A door is open between them with a wooden screen standing before it.

He will see, as he rounds some rocky point, half a dozen of these gigantic boulders piled together, leaning against each other with great cavernous openings between, through which he can walk erect, and he involuntarily looks around him for the armor of the ancient giants who piled up these stupendous rocks and walled in the lake with these massive boulders.

There's a path over there just in front of you; you can see the opening from where you are lying.

If the river is not open by the middle of May, your Sour-dough may go to bedonly he doesn't.