" He stopped, and his gaze wandered round the hushed court till it rested on the prisoner, who with his hands grasping the rail of the dock had leaned forward in order to catch every word.

" I saw her clasping fingers convulsively grip the rail, and, even at that distance, marked a sudden flame of color in her cheeks.

"Thee would'st not set John at that!" "Lincoln split rails," said John with a smile, "why should not I pile them?

Before he had taken down the fence-rail and turned into the path which led to his back door, he was straining his ears for the sound of Blossy's voice gossiping with Angy.

Not far off a high, wooden trestle carried the rails across a ravine.

A girl came out of the other car and seizing the rails looked down.

A sudden leap of the boat caused her to clutch the rail, and instantly Sanchez was at her side, proffering assistance.

In ten days we had opened up this old deviation, laid new rails, and had the line re-opened.

Then, instantly, on top of it, came the rousing hail: "Man overboardastern!" Farley and Hallam were the first to reach the rail.

Almost before the red-faced gentleman's shoulders had struck the ground I had reached the railing which bounded the wood, and putting one hand on the top bar had vaulted over into its inviting gloom.

I have run off the rails, and stuck all night in snowdrifts, and sat behind females that would have the window open when one could not wink without his eyelids freezing together.

He noticed, too, that his arm holding the stair-rail trembled in a silly way, whereas he was perfectly calm.

The line had sunk in the afternoon and it was necessary to lift the rails and fill up the subsidence before the next gravel train arrived.

In the meantime Old Joe was thinking, not boasting, but was riding the rail.

Men left the rail and disappeared from the view of the spectators as they hurried to perform their duties.

"Because that fellow leaped the rail from the wharf.

She stood, both hands clasping the rail, watching us intently.

"The little fellow tried to jump the piazza railing and fell," explained Mr. Lloyd, laughingly.

This man is to mount guard with a beam, which he is to throw across the rails at the arrival of each train, so as to cause it to run off the rails, if the engine-driver refuses to stop.

He ran toward the brook, crossed the rail in safety, and instantly turned it over, so that his pursuer would step upon it when the cut side was downward.

On the cruiser's quarter-deck the officers lined the starboard rail.

Old Van Quintem looked at the intruder a moment, and then said, as if remembering something, "Are you the man sent by Crumley to mend my piazza railing?" There was the least hesitation in the man's voice, as he answered, "Yes, sir.

Hastily I wrapped the treaty in a towel which hung over the iron railing, lifted out two of the flower-pots (in which the plants were dead and dry), laid the flat parcel I had made in the bottom of the box, and replaced the pots to cover and conceal it.

At that moment the yell started among the midshipmen nearer the rail.

" "And we found a broken rail, and told a flagman and he said the train might have been wrecked," remarked Amy.