Next he called one of the sailors to "boost" him, and was soon perched on the flat slant of a huge rock which formed, as it were, the keystone to the blockade.

" The four girls were again on the broad highway that was splashed and spotted with the streaks of the early sun as it slanted through the elms and maples along the road.

This is supported by a king-post, with poles and lances slanting from it, and is rather more than twenty cubits high, having the shape of a tope.

Look how irregular the letters aresome slanting to the right and some to the left, and some are upright.

We were well hidden from view, and the wind blew slanting in our faces and across our front.

They watched the ship that tacked about, Now slant across the firth, and now Laid bare below the cliff's broad brow, And heaving on a billowy steep, Like to a monster of the deep That wallowed, labouring in pain And Conn stared back with cold disdain.

" "He made a slant on the wind until he had weathered yonder bit of a barn, and then he tacked and stretched away off here to the east-and-by-south, going large, and with studding sails alow and aloft, as I think, for he made a devil of a head-way.

All else slanted at an ever-changing angle; the swiveled lamps were still.

If the little slant towards the crag deceived you, it deceived me.

" XI The sun had finally broken through the clouds, and already its rays were slanting into the room, falling softly on the dusty furniture, and making the shadows of the vines outside dance fitfully on the wall by the fire; and the shadows of the elms were growing long and straight over the rain soaked leaves, and the rank, damp grass of our lawn.

Near the lake, which we were approaching with as much expectation as if it had been a university,for it is not often that the stream of our life opens into such expansions,were islands, and a low and meadowy shore with scattered trees, birches, white and yellow, slanted over the water, and maples,many of the white birches killed, apparently by inundations.

A ladder slanted against the wall, and a painter was giving a livelier hue to the plaster.

Handling his canoe with greatest care he slanted toward it.

The thread of the screw is made flat upon the one side and much slanted on the other, whereby a greater strength is secured, without creating any disposition to split the nut.

It is a terrible steep to climb, notwithstanding the road is formed slanting along it; however, we made it out.

" She opened her eyes and saw before her a steep slant between massive stones, leading down to a wide channel of running water.

Yet to those long slender ears of the bull moose, slanting beyond the heavy plates of his horns, there came a sound.

Babbling girlish voices waked him from his revery, and half a dozen young figures, disguised in handsomely embroidered Japanese costumes and headgear, their eyes given the typical almond-shaped and upward slant by means of paint and pencil, came down the stairs, followed a moment later by a taller figure in still richer robes, and so carefully made up by powder and paint that at a distance she looked but little older than the girls.

The afternoon sunshine slanted down the pillar, was broken by the mass of dark hair she rested against it, and ran down again along her firm and rounded arm to the sun-bonnet she dangled by its strings.

The nose was hooked like the nose of a bird of prey; the eyes were long and slanting like those of an Oriental.

Great wreaths and nodding masses of pampas grass were above the doors; a white heron and a rose-colored spoonbill stood together on a large bracket in one corner, and a huge gray owl was perched on what looked like a simple old apple-tree bough, over an inlaid writing-table which stood at an odd slant near one of the windows.

Through the bushes I could see the masts of the brig slanting out of water some rods away.

At eleven, my conveyance arrived; the steps were let down, and, when down, they slanted under the body of the carriage; my foot slipped from the lowest step, and I grazed my shin against the second; but at last I surmounted the difficulty, and seating myself, sank back upon the musty, fusty, ill-savoured squabs of the jarvey.

So marched the chasseurs by, but the wide applause persisted as yet other hosts, with deafening music and perfect step and with bayonets back-slanted like the porcupine's, came on and on, and passed and passed, ignoring in grand self-restraint their very loves who leaned from the banquettes' edges and from balustraded heights and laughed and boasted and worshipped.

Evening fell; the shadows slanted about them.