" As their eyes encountered, Hardwick caught his breath sharply; both felt that chill of the cuticle, that stirring at the roots of the hair, that marks the passing close to us of some sinister thingstark murder, or man's naked hatred walking in the dark beside our cheerful, commonplace path.

" Lorenzo was born January 1, 1449, when the second great period of the Renaissance was nearing its close.

The first intimation we had that our journey was approaching a close came when we suddenly saw, directly in our line of advance, a faint light amid the thicket in the distance, and Sergeant Corney, who had been leading the way, halted quickly.

And, of course," she added to Billie, putting an arm about her and drawing her close, "Debbie will help you with anything you want to know.

Avery held her close.

The Turk, the Greek, the Albanian, and the Moor Here mingled in their many-hued array, While the deep war-drum's sound announced the close of day.

Now that we have reached the close of this book of horrors, let us impanel the 93 Germans of light and learning, and confront them with the words of their own manifesto: "As representatives of German Science and Art, we the undersigned, declare that: "It is not true that Germany provoked this War....

The period covered in this volume includes the seven years immediately succeeding the close of the Revolutionary War.

" Phebe had her arms about her friend at once, clasping her close.

The figure which is here cut by St. John gives this remarkable satire a most remarkable close.

During the remainder of his life he was bitterly assailed by the envious and malignant, was seldom out of monetary difficulties, and very often in great pain from the disease which finally ended his career at Madrid on April 23, 1616the same day which saw the close of Shakespeare's.

By the end of July he had finished Marino Faliero, and ere the close of the year the fifth canto of Don Juan.

They could not see me, for I was in shadow, and presently they too entered the close.

Sir Harry could only see half the rose of one cheek, and the soft sweep of golden hair which lightly shaded it; and feasting his fancy on that bit of fluctuating color, entangled in the meshes of a tremulous screen of curls, he settled himself to await the close of the act.

Steele, in adapting the 'Menteur' as his 'Lying Lover', altered the close in sharp accordance with that 'just regard to a reforming age,' which caused him (adapting a line in his 'Procession' then unprinted) to write in his Prologue to it, 'Pleasure must still have something that's severe.'

Vonck, also an advocate of Brussels, took the lead in this splendid design; and he and his friends proved themselves to have reached the level of that true enlightenment which distinguished the close of the eighteenth century.

Mithridates, who had experienced the most varied and tremendous fortune, found the close of his life equally far from being simple.

He took down the close of the stranger's address, and next day brought it to me written out in the ordinary alphabet.

And then Teddy put his little arms round her neck and hugged her close, crushing her cap in the most reckless fashion as he did so.

But sometimes running away has a bad look; and it happened that as Thomas was hurrying up the dark close, he met a neighbour brother of the craft, who cried to him, "What, ho!

To make a long story short, the spelling throughout the marginal readings of this folio, judged by the numerous fac-similes and collations that have been published, indicates the close of the last quarter of the century 1600 as the period about which the volume in which they appear was subjected to correction.

Thus it was that poor Ellen kept the close of her Christmas-day, looking out over the cold moonlit fields, and wondering how she was to escape from the persecution of Stephen Whitelaw.

'What did she gi'e you?' 'A kiss up a close!

But, sir, provide your tools against to-morrow morning; 'tis somewhat dark now, indeed: you know Dawson's close, between the hedge and the pond; 'tis good even ground; I'll meet you there; and I do not, call me cut; and you be a man, show yourself a man; we'll have a bout or two; and so we'll part for that present.

And then with a suddenness that electrified her he moved, caught her by the wrists and drew her to him, locking her close.