Indeed, such are the obscurities and dim turnings of the place, that, were the legend of the Minotaur but English, you might fancy that the creature still lived in this labyrinth, to nip you between his toothless gumsfor the beast grows oldat some darker corner.

"You don't believe it?" drawled the assistant turning to him.

"Why, we came up to have a joke with you," answered Vance; "but just when we got up to the landing, itit made that noise!" There was the sound of the key turning in the lock of Mr. Blake's door.

"Say, Joe, if you think you could be a doctor, why not a missionary doctor?" Joe's answer was a swift turning on his heel, and he strode away with never a word.

It is a turning from a delight in sin, or an indifference to sin, or merely a moral aversion to it, to a deep-rooted hatred of every thought and act of sin, to penitence, and to an earnest desire to pattern after God. 4.

But what I do say is that we are so variously composed that circumstance does play a powerful part in giving rein to this or that element in us and making the scale go down for good or bad, and that often the best of us only miss the wrong turning by a hair's breadth.

An indescribable sound rose from the funeral train; the transition noise of anguished wailing turning into uncontrollable laughter; then such a shout went up that the birds dozing in the trees overhead flew out in startled circles and went darting away with loud squawks of alarm.

So, sonny,for my satisfaction,will you promise me not to take a wrong turning over this?" He spoke very earnestly, with a pleading that could not give offence.

We will therefore take a turning out of the Guisborough road, and go down the hill to Egton village, where there is a church with some Norman pillars and arches preserved from the rebuilding craze that despoiled Yorkshire of half its ecclesiastical antiquities.

She could hear a water-wheel turning with a soft splash in the stream below.

But the long lane of disappointment had its turning at length, and he hurried home to Dick, paper in hand.

The main route continues amid surroundings of much beauty, with the well-named White Sheet Hill to the right and the wooded and hummocky outline of Ansty Hill to the left, until the turning for the latter makes a good excuse for leaving the high road once more.

He lives in chambers in the next turning past Claridge's premisescan, in fact, look into Claridge's back windows if he likes.

Descending the steep stairs he guided her by devious turnings through dingy offices and servants' quarters until they stood in safety before an outer door.

But it was enough to make Piggy Pennington feel the core of a music-box turning inside him, while outside the company saw the King of Boyville transformed into a very red and very sweaty youth holding madly to the back of his cuffs and chuckling deliriously.

Rather in poetic it is a turning toward the essential images of realization, as metaphor in poetic is direct, not indirect, because in poetic a word that suggests the salient parts or qualities of things will always stand out over the general names of things.[70]

Is our whole instinctive belief in higher presences, our persistent inner turning towards divine companionship, to count for nothing?

And, later, when I had eat at the sixth and the twelfth hours, and gone on awhile, I came to a place where the Gorge made a quick turning unto my left, and at the end of the turning was a red and glowing light that was very great and wonderful; so that I was utter keen to come to that place, that I should discover what made the shining.

"I know nothing to swear that would injure you; I have always known you as an honest, upright man, and you need not fear my turning against an innocent person, for the benefit of one I know to be guilty.