At that, she gave a loud scream, and, scrambling to her feet, ran from the room.

What makes the confusion and fatigue of life is, that men are everywhere scrambling for themselves, and trying to manage their own undertakings, instead of falling into harmony with God, and through Him, with all that is.

We scrambled over the outer fence, and ran some dozen rods or more in the open field, without either of us looking back.

We were always late, and just had time to scramble into the last carriage.

Toward midday, after a long, tingling scramble through copses of hazel and ceanothus, I gained the summit of the highest ridge in the neighborhood; and then it occurred to me that it would be a fine thing to climb one of the trees to obtain a wider outlook and get my ear close to the Aeolian music of its topmost needles.

We scrambled out of the thicket and put our weary beasts to a gallop.

When I had crossed this more by luck than good guidance, I had another scramble on the steeps where the long, tough heather clogged my footsteps.

What is the ruling principle of the interior and domestic conduct of each nation to-dayeven within its own bordersbut an indecent scramble of class against class, of individual against individual?

But the master had heard them scrambling about, and he walked in the dark up the aisle between the beds, saying, 'Who's been out of bed here?'

As we approached, they scrambled from their elevations, and, diving to the bottom, scurried to the entrance of the cave.

Expecting this, and knowing that the gallows lay behind him, the fugitive had adopted every expedient for baffling his pursuers: he had walked long distances upon tiptoe; had scrambled along walls; had walked backwards, crawled, doubled, leaped; but all in vain!

The stump stood some thirty feet high, crumbling into tinder and dust, though its death was so recent that the creepers and parasites had not yet had time to lay hold of it, and around its great spur-roots lay what had been its trunk and head, piled in stacks of rotten wood, over which I scrambled with some caution, for fear my leg, on breaking through, might be saluted from the inside by some deadly snake.

Scrambling among the slippery rocks, we quickly fill a bucket with curious things.

The jostling lines scrambled in some kind of order to the door and then broke into joyous riot.

Without turning, he heard a man scramble down the bank; without looking up, he felt some one pause and stoop close.

I scramble across a broken gateway and an old bit of trench, and close behind come to a deep cutting into which I jump.

"The swallows are gone," I said; "the wild geese will soon be here," and I remembered their doleful cry as I scrambled under some blackthorn bushes, glad to get out of the wood into the fields.

[Footnote 46: From "Scrambles Amongst the Alps."

The guide tells you to pause in your scrambling over loose stones and muddy soil,which you are always willing to do,and to put your head through a circular aperture, and to look up while he lights the Bengal light; you obey, and look up upon columns of fluted, snowy whiteness; he tells you to look down, and you follow the same pillars downup to heights which the light cannot climb, down to depths on which it cannot fall.

He could make people, even people like these two and whom there were still other people to envy, he could make them push and snatch and scramble like thatand then remain as incapable of taking her from the hands of such patrons as of receiving her straight, say, from those of Mrs. Drack.

We're apt to have a wild scramble at the last if you aren't ready beforehand.

" There was a scrambling of feet in the passage outside, and then a repetition of the onslaught on the door.

In the scramble toward the peak many fall by the wayside; others deceive themselves by imagining they have attained the apex when they are far from it.

The man shouted after them to stop, and seeing that they paid no attention to his commands, promptly gave chase, rushing down the narrow pathway from the hut, and scrambling after them up the opposite slope.

I didn't turn in till late that night, as I was on duty, and had to go scrambling round the pickets; even at that late hour I saw many men still cooking, probably preparing food for the next day.