Things beyond my imagination peered into my frightened mind.

The sky was now grown very much darker, and there was in the blue of it a heavy gloom, as though a vast blackness peered through it upon the earth.

All I had to concern myself with was the fact that he was a peer of ancient lineage, of large property, and there wasn't another girl in the kingdom who wouldn't jump at him.

Trendon smoothed it out, peered at it and passed it to the captain.

They tower so far above the surrounding highlands, that they seem always to be peering over the intervening ranges, as if holding an everlasting watch over the broad wilderness beneath them.

Let us see what there is in here," he added, stepping into the adjoining small room into which I had simply peered in my own investigation of the place.

Later, I turned, and peered about me, into the room.

He turned and ran back faster than he had come, swung into the lane where the crowd was cautiously peering from the shelter of the buildings, and waving his pistol in a reckless way that made Bob West shudder, he cried out: "Where is he?

On the bank of a small brook that comes gurgling down the side of the left lateral moraine, I found a camp-fire still burning, which no doubt belonged to the gray Indians I had met on the summit, and I listened instinctively and moved cautiously forward, half expecting to see some of their grim faces peering out of the bushes.

He stood like a stag, sniffing the night air, and peering with his deep eyes into the gloom.

At first I thought it merely a gorge in the rock, but even while peering for the end wall we slipped under the archway and found ourselves in a vast room.

" He peered around the bush and saw what I had seen, a dozen Indians in full war paint busily engaged in setting fire to a log cabin which stood in the middle of the clearing.

Keeping my eyes fixed in that direction, I whispered to Nikolai, who was standing a few feet in front of me, intently peering to the right.

"Aha," growled the man Perkyn, peering under his matted hair, "I like not the looks o' these friends o' thine" "Nor we thine, foul fellow," quoth Giles, and spat again whole-heartedly.

XXVII "It was indeed a miserable hour 235 When, from the last hill-top, my sire surveyed, Peering above the trees, the steeple tower That on his marriage day sweet music made!

With the perspiration starting from my forehead, I peered among the trees and asked myself what mysterious and terrible disaster threatened us.

Three Earls, Pembroke, Powis, and Carnarvon, represented the cultured family of Herbert, and, as a counterpoise to the Duke of Northumberland, we see six Peers of the doughty Douglas blood.

And we may assert this without implying that, if the single act of empowering Lord Temple to influence the peers by the declaration of the King's private feeling had been submitted by itself to the electors, they would have justified that.

And this, also, is but a small matter; yet doth it bear upon the inwardness of my feelings; for the memories of all my youth and of the many Beasts that I had seen to peer across the Light, did come upwards in my mind in that moment; so that I did give back a little, unthinking of what I did; but having upon me the sudden imagining of that which might come out of the Dark, beyond.

Perverse opposition to the influence of Peers in Ayrshire.

"I have called to see the house," I heard him say, as I ran up the stairs to Frances, who was peering like an inquisitive child over the banisters....

Then he went cautiously down the road, peering on the ground for a dark form.

Her dress she knew to be perfect, and when she perceived the craning pale face of the inevitable lady-journalist, peering between the balusters of a gallery, she thoughtfully took up a prominent position immediately beneath that gallery, and slowly turned round like a beautifully garnished joint before the fire of cheap publicity.

Presently he got over, and then he divided his time between searching in the wheat and peering after the strange car that was drawing far away.

Hilda peered within the narrowing, unshuttered slit, but she could see no more of Edwin Clayhanger.