Of course I was certain of nothing, but I bowed before Alexander, and told him that I had found an insignificant little puddle at the place, that I had tasted it and found it was nothing but common water, and in quantity so small that it scarcely sufficed to quench my thirst.

While seeking to avoid the puddles in her path, she walked on quickly, like one in a hurry, who goes about her business on foot in order to save herself the expense of a cab.

She'll put on wooden shoes too, and carelessly crush the puddles, the little heaps of mud, and the weeping mosses.

If the breathings of human woe, if the midnight misery of wretched, broken hearts, could have penetrated these stones, one might almost fancy that they would have sweat with human histories in the ditch where they lay, and discolored the puddles they bridged with the bitter distilment of grief centuries old.

The livid sky threw a wan leaden light on the village which was now transformed into a lake of mud pricked by needles of water that dotted the puddles with drops of bright silver.

and offered me The waters of eternal life, to bid me Drink the polluted puddles of this world? Prince Henry.

A cold wind, as of January, blew keenly from the snow, and even froze the puddles on the road.

[5706]what I am without, but within, God knows, a puddle of iniquity, a sink of sin, a pocky quean."

Anonyma's umbrella, Kew's cane, and Mr. Russell's stick did all they could towards making peace, but the big dog seemed to have set itself the unkind task of mopping up a puddle with Mr. Russell's Hound.

However, looking down as I rapidly scribble, I start to notice a puddle emerging around me on the stone floor.

With the purpose of saving Sir WALTER'S cloak from stain and possible injury the puddle at QUEEN ELIZABETH'S feet will be only a painted one, while, owing to the exorbitant price of laundry-work at the moment, it has been arranged that only a few of KING JOHN'S more negligible articles shall be consigned to the Wash.

He advances inch by inch, and on being encouraged with comfortable words of invitation the parasite wriggles his lean body (it is trained to look leanactually it is well padded with stolen food from officers' kitchens) up to your feet, and, selecting a puddle in token of his deep humility, rolls upon his back and smiles tearfully up at you from between his grimy fore-paws.

Then he sounded the puddle with his stick as far as he could reach, and found it deep and the bottom soft, so that the foot would sink into it.

The rain rushes down pitilesslyhe creeps inside the barn or shed, and with a stick splashes the puddles.

CHAPTER XV A MODERN COUNTRY CURATE 'He can't stroddle thuck puddle, you: can a'?' 'He be going to try: a' will leave his shoe in it.' Such were the remarks that passed between two agricultural women who from behind the hedge were watching the approach of the curate along a deep miry lane.

With the puddle wall in the position usually adopted, unequal settlement of the bank on either side is less liable to affect the puddle, being vertical.

If you were to see a whale's flukes thrashing your puddle, every cruiser among you would run for a port; and as for 'sogdollagers,' we think little of them in salt-water; the flying-fish, or even the dry dolphin, being much the best eating.

We found no fresh water during our walk; of two wells which had been dug by the settlers, through stiff clay, one was dry, and the other contained a puddle of brackish water, not fit to drink.