During the hour before dinner the ground itself was a scene of brisk activity: the school colours flew at the summit of the flagstaff; the boundary flags fluttered in the breeze; a number of willing hands, under the direction of Allingford, put a finishing touch to the pitch with the big roller, while others assisted in rigging up the two screens of white canvas in line with the wickets.

And it was impossible he should have known that anyone was there, as the seventh terrace happens to be the only one that, being planted with beech-trees, is completely screened from observation.

On either side of the fireplace stand some crimson velvet screens in burnished frames, the crown and arms worked on the velvet in characters of gold.

They were at once a screen for defending troops and a barrier as impenetrable as the walls of a fortress.

"He knew the Rules of Propriety, I suppose?" "Judge:Seeing that the feudal lords planted a screen at their gates, he too would have one at his!

'Twas not them I feared, but that other force now screened behind the mountains, who had for their leader some white madman with a fire in his head and Bible words on his lips.

Cartwright mused about Oreana and pictured Davies sheltering behind the wind-screens on his bridge and trying to pierce the snow, and the look-out man half frozen in the spray that leaped about the forecastle.

I might have seen all at a glance as I came in, before the light of my last match was blown out by the wind, had not the door as I opened it formed a screen between me and the dead man on the floor.

The further use of yew trees might be as a screen to churches, by their thick foliage, from the violence of winds; perhaps also for the purpose of archery, the best long bows being made of that material, and we do not hear that they are planted in the churchyards of other parts of Europe, where long bows were not so much in use.

But, notwithstanding all this plant beauty, the general impression in looking across the lake is of stern, unflinching rockiness; the ferns and flowers are scarcely seen, and not one fiftieth of the whole surface is screened with plant life.

At the water gate, Rudolph, Heywood, and the padre, with a few forlorn Christians,driven in like sheep, at the last moment,were building a rough screen against the arrows that had flown in darkness, and that now lay scattered along the path.

The reason for this is, that the open barred outer shutters, or persiennes, form a capital screen through which aim maybe taken with a gun.

For weeks she lay in hourly peril of death; we arranged a screen round the fire like a tent, and kept it full of steam to ease the panting breath, and there I sat all through those weary weeks with her on my lap, day and night.

This church is as large as any other I have seen, and divided into two parts with a stone screen across the middle.

TRYING TO ENFILADE THE TRENCHES "Again, after a short interval, the enemy's gunners reopened with a burst, still further prolonging the smoke, which was by now merged into one solid screen above a considerable length of the trenches and again did our guns reply.

He caught her to his heart and drew her behind the screen under the enraptured eyes of her paralyzed maid.

The worker in wrought iron welds such screens as guard the chapel of the Sacra Cintola at Prato.

Once in the control center, Gene took his seat at the main console, glanced at the Starman and the other men in the large room, then stared at the screen before him.

With simple courtesy they invited Henrich and his companion to accompany them to their wigwams, which were situated in a beautiful glade close by, and were only concealed by the luxuriant growth of underwood, that formed a sort of verdant and flowering screen around them.

When Mathieu and Marianne had gone in, they perceived their daughter-in-law, Charlotte, behind a screen near the door.

Pauline had loved Raphael from the time when they first met; while he had been priding himself on living on twelve pounds a year, she had been painting screens up to two or three o'clock every night, in order to buy him food and firing.

she hung her shawl and petticoats as a screen over some lengths of cords.

Within, the church is divided by a screen into two parts, the choir for the Fathers, the nave for the lay-brothers.

The west wall of Salisbury is a screen without professing to be one.

She was rusty and dingy; the screens along her bridge were cracked and burned by the sun.