What so easily explained as that I should have strayed from the path in the darkness?

Persons straying into the church, as they often did, attracted by the sound of music, would declare the performer to be an experienced masculine musician.

I found some of my friends, and settled my business with them, but my eyes were always straying to the green awning where I knew that Elspeth sat.

I told him I was a hunter who had strayed in the hills.

Pardon me, Madam, if my Passion stray Beyond the limits of my high respect; [He kneels.

AUTUMN Shorter and shorter now the twilight clips The days, as through the sunset gates they crowd, And Summer from her golden collar slips And strays through stubble-fields and moans aloud.

I trow when, that she saw, within a crack She came with a right thieveless errand back: Misca'd me first; then bade me hound my dog, To wear up three waff ewes strayed on the bog.

I had seen her in silk and lace, a queen among the gallants, but she never looked so fair as on that misty morning, her hair straying over her brow, her plain kirtle soiled and sodden, but her eyes bright with her young courage.

My foot strayed out of the path in my confusion and the gloom together, and I brought myself up with a cry as I felt myself knock against something solid.

One day he was straying about a rath called "Cashel Nore."

Unfortunately for others who might stray across our borders, the smell overpowers them in seconds, rendering any potential invader helpless.

He Strays among Sharpers, and "Sees the Elephant.

For twenty minutes or more odd waifs and strays of humanity crawled in through the trap-door, obtained their message of good or ill, and departed into the shadows as silently as they had come.

OSWALD No, no, my Friend, you may pursue your business 'Tis a poor wretch of an unsettled mind, Who has a trick of straying from his keepers; We must be gentle.

Thus it was with the first floor of the house, through which Patricia strayed with uniform discomfort.

Of all the winged inhabitants of air, These only make their young the public care; In well-disposed societies they live, And laws and statutes regulate their hive; Nor stray like others unconfined abroad, But know set stations, and a fixed abode: 190 Each provident of cold in summer flies Through fields and woods, to seek for new supplies, And in the common stock unlades his thighs.

The larger walls were probably intended as corrals, to keep alpacas and llamas from straying at night and to guard against wolves or coyotes.

" A cricket match needs to be very narrowly watched, or the spectator whose eye has strayed for a moment from the game misses some fine piece of play.

Then the pagan intoxications of the Catholic rites were no more surrounding him to over-excite him and betray the trouble of his heart and the straying of his thoughts, and if he felt affected before the smiles of these marriageable girls, he armed himself with force sufficient to thrust back carefully to his inmost being his boldness and his desires.

He took this virgin straying in the field For all the nuns and every covent fled The dangers that attended on our troops:

It shook again through the heavy, oppressive night, merely accentuated by the candlea faint ululation barely detaching itself from silence, straying after a time into the silence again.

The others strayed toward the house.

She has grown up to be a maiden of more than human beauty, when one day she is seen by the king, who, while hunting, has strayed within the sacred precincts while the saint is away on a holy errand.

Above all things, I would have you know that the report that I was drowned while bathing is not true, for a report to this effect will certainly find its way into the local papers, and in these days, once a piece of news gets reported, it flies along from newspaper to newspaper, and newspapers have a knack of straying into our hands when they contain a disagreeable item of news.

"One day, an old man and his wife, taking two or three of their young children with them, for the purpose of picking up wood, strayed near the cave where Hatim was concealed; and began to gather fuel in that same forest.