"It sure got my goat, that little promenade of ours last night over into No Man's Land," he said.

The fashionable drive and promenade in Paris was Longchamps, now the Champs Élysées, and it was Madame Récamier's delight to drive in an open carriage on this beautiful avenue, especially on what are called the holy days,Wednesdays and Fridays,when her beauty extorted salutations from the crowd.

He reported that the gentleman in question had broken the bank at Monte Carlo, had staked and lost all his winnings next day, and had shot himself on the promenade on the evening following.

The streets are always kept clean and wet by sweepers and sprinklers, and the broad smooth pavements along the boulevards, free from dust and all manner of rubbish or obstructions, afford a suitable promenade for gayety, wealth and fashion to roam.

Barney cries, catching his breath at the edge of a muddy stream, "what sort of a place must the rebels be in if they let us promenade through such a jungle as this unopposed?" "I have been thinking of that," Jack replies.

Chuck led Old Pie Face for Skinny to ride in the parade and Bert took Red John, Old Heck's most showy saddle horsea long-legged, high-stepping, proud-headed, bay geldingfor Carolyn June to use, for she, too, had declared her intention of joining in the grand promenade with which the Rodeo would open.

and was she a woman when he called: "All promenade to seats!"

Two men struggled at the wheel, and there were times when LeVere paused in his promenade from rail to rail to give them a helping hand.

" "Thanks; it will be delightful, I dare say," politely responded the lion, with a secret shudder at the idea of a rural promenade at 8 A.M. in the winter.

Few cities have so naturally beautiful a drop-curtain, and, instead of spoiling it with gas-works' and grain-elevators as we should do, the Hungarians have been thoughtful enough to build a tree-covered promenade between the Danube and the string of hotels which line the river.

He promenaded about the room with his hands in his pockets, like a man.

Each story was originally enclosed by pierced stone screens; this, and the fact that the whole building overlooked the palace zanana, make it tolerably certain that it could only have been used as a promenade by Akbar and the ladies of the court.

From the number of fine trees here there is so much shade therefrom that it forms a very agreeable promenade during the heat of the day.

The ladies find a great resource in going to church, which serves to pass away the time that is not spent in bed, or at the Opera, or at the promenade en voiture.

The following morning the captain took up his usual watch in the promenade near the white Virgil.

The evening of our arrival we walked out past the massive and stately Hotel de Ville, and took a promenade along the Quais.

Clermont is a very ancient city and has an air of dullness; but the Place and promenades round the town are excellent.

First couple promenade inside figure, returning to places with their backs turned to opposite couple.

On the 10th of September, as he was taking his promenade under the close supervision of a guard of soldiers, the whole party were startled by the sound of guns upon Lake Erie, at no great distance below.

Jack studied the young man's back half amusedly to see if this, too, were like his own, and laughed at himself because he was sure that he would not know his own back if it were preceding him in a promenade up the Avenue.

Jeannie and Elinor and the Miss Thoresbys were doing the inevitable promenade after the dance,under difficulties.

Hetty's was a spring-tide beauty; it was the beauty of young frisking things, round-limbed, gambolling, circumventing you by a false air of innocencethe innocence of a young star-browed calf, for example, that, being inclined for a promenade out of bounds, leads you a severe steeple-chase over hedge and ditch, and only comes to a stand in the middle of a bog.

There are other very agreeable promenades outside the town, laid out as jardins anglais, the garden of Ostenwald for instance; and should you wish to extend your walk further, there is Nymphenburg, a royal Palace and gardens, just one league distant from the city.

Our guns banging away to the north were a reminder that there was to be no promenade over the Plain, and that we had yet to make good the formidable obstacle of the wadi Sukereir, when I passed a curious procession.

" "And so, because I preferred to ride a mile with him to see something real that had happened, and tried to be useful instead of looking in shop-windows in Main Street or promenading before the hotel" "And being ornamental," interrupted Cass.