Having put the volume away safely, I turned-to and gave Tonnison a hand with his self-imposed task of excavating; yet, though we put in over an hour's hard work, turning over the whole of the upheaped stones and rubbish, we came upon nothing more than some fragments of broken wood, that might have been parts of a desk or table; and so we gave up searching, and went back along the rock, once more to the safety of the land.

Just before daylight, Frank McCarthy crawled out over the bank and discovered that we were only five miles from Fort Kearney, which post we reached in safety in about two hours,shortly after reveillebringing the wounded man with us.

Ere long, in spite of the fury of wind and wave, they had got all aboard, and rowed back in safety to the lighthouse.

Sir, 'tis no time to talk in, come with me, For here's no safety for a Murderer.

No! Her woman's heart sternly reiterated the pitilessly negative; and, as the Ritualistic organist had plainly evinced an earnest intention to let no foreign military complications prevent her marriage with him, she felt that her only safety from his matrimonial violence must be sought in flight.

She also suspected the two recent arrivals to be detectives, and the town was so small and so absolutely without police protection that she would not risk her personal safety by remaining longer in it.

Mnesitheus and Rufus accordingly travelled with the embassy to India, and arrived in safety at the metropolis of Palimbothra.

The king forgot not a single day to visit the mountain that contained his beloved treasure, and to be satisfied of his safety with his own eyes.

They got so far as Burgundy when they found that it was impossible to go on in safety on account of the war between the Pope and the Emperor.

Out of six throats came six yells of fear; there was a noise of chairs being pushed back and a wild scramble to find safety under the table.

And as he looked thither he saw the great drawbridge fall, the portcullis raised, and the gates flung wide to admit the fugitives; even at that distance he thought to recognise the Abbess, who paused to turn and gaze towards him, as, last of all, she rode to safety into the city.

He can point out the fords of a hundred rivers; he can guide you in safety through a hundred trackless woods.

Wives have two eyes created, not like birds To roam about at pleasure, but for sentinels, To watch their husbands' safety as their own.

Men and women cannot live together in peace and safety without observing certain conditions, which may be ranked with virtues even among savages and barbarians,much more so in cultivated and refined communities.

The Burgomaster, M. De Vos, had in one of his several proclamations made many suggestions for safety during the bombardment, for the benefit of those who took refuge in cellars.

A scholastick and academical life is very uniform; and has, indeed, more safety than pleasure.

Darrow remained with him by way of safety against the men, whose measure, I believe, he had taken.

Caesar, by forced marches, came up with them everywhere and obliged each tribe to think of its own safety before that of others.

Then, snatching up the precious parchment on which the Declaration of Independence was written, and which contained the names of the fifty-six signers of that document, she entered the carriage with her sister and two others, and the four were driven away to a place of safety beyond the Potomac.

They had destroyed what ought to have been the bond of union and safety among them; they had introduced discord and anarchy among them; they had set kings against their subjects, and subjects against each other; they had rendered every private family wretched; they had, in short, given birth to scenes of injustice and misery not to be found in any other quarter of the globe.

But now quick!where lodgeth Sir Gui?" "Within the keepthere is a stair doth mount within the thickness of the wallnay, I will be thy guide if go indeed thou must" "Not so, good friar, be it thy duty to lead these prisoners to freedom and to safety within Bourne.

Kurugsar was grateful for this change of conduct to him, and again acknowledging the deception he had been guilty of, hoped for pardon, engaging at the same time to take the party in safety across the great river which had impeded their progress.

But hope was strong in the hearts of these exiles; and the faith that had led them to seek these untrodden shores, had not deserted them during their long and tempestuous voyage; and they looked upward through the gloom and dreariness that surrounded them, and fixed their trusting eyes on Him who had guided them in safety over the great deep, and brought them at length to a resting-place.

With a leap that would have done credit to a cave-woman, Miss Giddings landed in safety behind the table.

Yet there was safety after suffering, if they could abstain from slaughtering the oxen of the Sun after they landed in the Triangular island.