During the afternoon, I made a partial search of the gardens, accompanied by Pepper; but, without coming upon anything to indicate the presence of the creatures.

Always, I saw around me the breadth of that enormous plain; and, always, I searched for some new thing to break its monotony; but there was no changeonly loneliness, silence, and desert.

Not a bit of paper or cloth blew along the turnpike but he eagerly picked it up, searched in it with the most anxious care, and finally placed it in his hat.

A court for watching, searching after, and punishing prisoners was at length established in 1697, under the title of chambre de poison, or chambre ardente.

I ran back into the house, and, getting my gun, sallied out to search through the gardens.

' One fair morning while she turned over these thoughts in her mind there suddenly came towards her one whom she knew as a sage, of the number of those who know many mysteries and search into the deep things of the Father.

It was after three days' fruitless searching among the records of the department and among the men of the Caribee regiment, now returned to Washington en route to the front, that Kate bethought herself of her father's probable presence in the city.

I came to myself after a time, and heard the press-gang searching about.

It was more likely that Henshaw was bound upon some search with the police.

" "Then that confines the search to our own lines.

I had not, if I remember rightly, been into them since my hasty search on the evening of the attack.

No sooner was I fully awake than, being still alarmed by the things I had seen, I felt with my right hand for the wound in my breast, searching at the present moment for that which was already being prepared for my future misery.

Three weeks later Admiral Bartram died, and though Magdalen instructed her solicitors to set up the secret trust, and though the house was searched from top to bottom, the letter could not be found.

" Dropping his load of cartridges carelessly upon a flat rock which projected from the water, he busied himself in a search along the face of the cliff.

They are making a thorough search over every verst of it.

"He has been twice waylaid, as if by footpads, and his person rigidly searched under my own inspection.

May I advise that commissioners be despatched to search throughout the empire for all of whatever rank that is most beautiful between the ages of fifteen and twenty, for the peopling of the inner palace.

When I had almost resolved to give up the search as fruitless, I perceived a volume lying in an obscure corner of the room.

He pulled out his pocket-book, and began searching amongst its papers.

I began my search by stirring up the mass of scattered papers on the floor, and in spite of the horror which gripped me by the throat, I cried "hurrah!"

Please search around the camp!" pleaded Bluff.

O Taleb, search within thy book and find The letters that give birth to friendship sweet.

"They will search like hounds," the girl continued.

My first care was to make thorough search of the Minister's hotel; and here my chief embarrassment lay in the necessity of searching without his knowledge.

1070 And now is Peter taught to feel That man's heart is a holy thing; And Nature, through a world of death, Breathes into him a second breath, More searching than the breath of spring.