The distant howls of roaming beasts of prey entirely deprived the holy man of his rest, but nothing worse befell him, and when in the morning the small boy, instead of providing the tiger with a breakfast, was heard crying for his own, the besiegers mustered up courage to enter the cavern.

Here our boat floated along over gardens of coral, swarming with magnificently colored fishes; and after two hours we reached a cavern in the limestone, Suminabang, so low that one could stir in it only by creeping; which contained a few swallows and bats.

At the same moment, I became conscious of a murmurous roar, that grew louder, and filled the whole cavern with deafening sound.

Going on still to the west for five or six li, on the north of the hill, in the shade, they found the cavern called Srataparna, the place where, after the nirvâna of Buddha, five hundred Arhats collected the Sûtras.

This circumstance induced them to examine the cavern narrowly, and the happy result of their search is already known.

Although Beowulf knew that this dragon breathed flames of fire and that mortal man could not long withstand such weapons, he sought the cavern which sheltered the destroyer and fought the most terrible battle of his life.

It is said that he feeds mostly on the Cuttle-fish, that giant cousin of the Octopus, who haunts the dim caverns of the deep.

Desmond had been raised, as we have stated, near the mountains, and probably had explored many rock caverns, and it is because of this fact probably that he was not surprised when led to the cave where he first beheld the girl Amy Brooks.

He had held out bravely, but he could hold out no longer; slowly and laboriously he climbed down the dark face of the precipice, and reached the narrow strip of shingle below, just as the moon got clear from a cloud and lighted up the cavern.

Pan at that time inhabited a cavern hard by the maiden's dwelling, which the judicious reader will have divined could only have been situated in Arcadia.

It has been said that the fragments of ice, some of which were more than a hundred feet in diameter, and all of which were eight or ten feet in thickness, had been left on their edges, inclining in a way to form caverns that extended a great distance.

From Libmánan I visited the mountain, Yamtik (Amtik, Hantu), which consists of lime, and contains many caverns.

And that sacred assembly of Kings, graced by those tigers among men, resembled the Bhogavati swarming with the Nagas, or a mountain cavern with tigers.

" So saying, he quitted the cavern.

" This word of a scientific language used in conversation with a simple hospital attendant surprises me, I admit, and I merely reply: "I should have no reason to complain, Mr. Serko, if, after having had the pleasure of visiting this cavern, I were at liberty to quit it.

In the midst of fire and blood he ordered the soldiers to search the caverns of the hills, and they dragged forth many prisoners, among whom was the Bishop Procopio.

She glanced forward, through the window, and saw the cavern of the station.

One of her most important pictures is inscribed with these lines: "Dark is the valley of shadows, Empty the power of kings; Blind is the favor of fortune, Hungry the caverns of death.

I will suddenly illuminate this cavern of night with the broad daylight of truth!

They broke out of the circular formation, and in a long glistening line moved up the cavern toward the three approaching.

Mr. Cunningham observed a singularly curious cavern upon the rock, of which he gave me a description in the following account of the island: "The south and south-eastern extremes of Clack's Island presented a steep, rocky bluff, thinly covered with small trees.

Landscape occupies the main part of his compositions, made up by a strange amalgam of the most eccentric detailsrocks toppling over blue bays, sea-caverns, and fantastic mountain ranges.

Thus hath Sylvanus left his leafy bowers, Drawn by the sound of Echo's sad reports, That with shrill notes and high resounding voice Doth pierce the very caverns of the earth, And rings through hills and dales the sad laments Of virtue's loss and Sophos' mournful plaints.

They ought properly to be divided into two classes; in the first of which may be placed the subterraneous cavern and passage near Tangiers; the ruins of the amphitheatres, triumphal arches, temples, &c. erected by the Carthaginians, Romans, and Arabs, at Fez and the several other towns of Barbary.

Hushed are those mysterious sighsthose groansso much more awful, while we knew not from what caverns of vast hidden suffering they proceeded.