Comte de Pourtales, who was standing near on the bank, saw the fall and called out instantly, "Est-ce possible que je voie le President du Conseil par terre?"

But when 'tis clad in Robes of Innocence, The Devil cannot 'scape it: Something Was done last night that gnaws my heart-strings; And many things the Princess too let fall, Which, Gods!

While I was busy with my own breakfast I heard the thudding fall of two or three heavy cones from a Yellow Pine near me.

There would have been small hope that France, supported only by our small Expeditionary Force and faced with an Italian invasion in the South-East, in addition to a German invasion in the North-East, could have prevented the fall of Paris and the Channel Ports, while Austria, freed from all fear on the Italian frontier, perhaps even reinforced by part of the Italian Army, could have turned all her forces against Russia.

Godfrey's arm broke the fall somewhat, but as for me, I was too dazed to move.

I remember one day in the hunting-field he got a nasty fall.

And because of this, many were they, knights and nobles and esquires, who sought out Beltane's lonely hut beside the brook, with offers of service, or to try a fall with him.

This argument that Great Britain has taken the aggressive falls to the ground entirely when it is confronted with the hard facts of chronology.

A soldier of your's Upon a bed of flowers Gave her such a fall, As she lost maidenhead and all.

Where work is slack and difficult to get, a very small addition of low-living foreigners will cause a perceptible fall in the entire wages of the neighbourhood in the employments which their competition affects.

He had bowed beneath the sceptre of Uranus, he had witnessed his fall, and marked the ocean crimson with his blood.

If he missed catching the bar it meant a dangerous fall; a fall into a net, it is true, but dangerous none the less.

For a brief instant, I watched its fall, and saw the light shine on a tumult of white foam, some eighty or a hundred feet below me.

Even if he had not turned traitor to his commander-in-chief, as he did in the end, Huerta's command of the loyal troops during the ten days' struggle at the capital preceding the fall of the constitutional government could not be described as anything but a dismal failure.

The dog knew that she must stop in a moment, that no one could pass the falls unless they went over them.

He held me tight against him, and I felt a tear fall upon my head.

The city itself lies on both sides of the Spokane River, at the point where that stream, separated by rocky islands into five separate channels, rushes onward and downward, at first being merely a series of rapids, and then tumbling over the rocks in a number of beautiful and useful waterfalls, until the several streams unite once again for a final plunge of sixty feet, making a fall of 157 feet in the distance of half a mile.

FLEE Following the fall of Liège came a number of sanguinary engagements in northern Belgium; the unopposed occupation of Brussels on August 20, and a four days' battle beginning on August 23, in which the Germans forced back the French and British allies to the line of Noyon-LaFère across the northern frontier of France.

Forced to guard his box of caps with one hand he could not save Molly Dale a smashing fall.

A sentinel of the besiegers had marked Benedetto's fall, and the disappearance of the body into the earth.

Monastic institutions covered the face of Europe, but the monks had sadly departed from the virtues which partially redeemed the miseries that succeeded the fall of the Roman Empire.

Astonished, Ushkabús cried, "Who art thou? What kindred hast thou to lament thy fall?" Rustem replied:"Why madly seek to know That which can never yield thee benefit?

No meditated praises could have borne such testimony to her greatness as the lofty strain in which Horace celebrates her fall and congratulates the Roman world on its escape from the ruin which she was threatening to the Capitol.

When the logs reach the falls they are meat for the mills.

In performing some gymnastic exercises he received a fall on the head, which after some time was followed by a paralytic affection of the whole body, so that he became entirely helpless, and his speech was taken away.