But she soon saw it was not to look at her; his glance passed down the long cañon toward the spot where they had seen the smudge of smoke.

It is a noisy, dirty, mechanical contrivance, capable of great speed; it is the only vehicle in which one could approach that distant smudge on the landscape with any sense of the eternal fitness of things.

Mr. MURRAY welcomed him cordially, and after building a "smudge" around him to keep off the flies, he gave Mr. P. some Boston brown-bread and a glass of pure water from a rill.

They stay, they burn the smudge.

And there was a word or two, prettily written in another hand, on a small slip of paper'Perhaps you had better send back the book'; and Caldigate, as he read it, thought that he could discern the almost-obliterated smudge of a wiped-up tear.

He turned round and faced me, a smudge of ink on one of his cheeks, and that customary nervous unhappy smile on his lips.

Mrs. Nolak had already faded out, a little black smudge far down the snowy street.

That makes a good smudge.

" I didn't see how any fellow could manage a smudge and send it so fast and keep his spaces.

CHAPTER II THE PIED PIPER A gray smudge trailing northward showed where the Fa-HienScottish Oriental, sixteen hundred tonswas disappearing from the pale expanse of ocean.

When the sun of June 8th rose, it showed an ocean bare of prospect except that on the far horizon where the chart showed no land there rose a smudge of dirty rolling smoke.

It is like a pencil drawing, where many attempts have been made to obtain the desired effect; such a drawing is smudged and ineffective; but the artist, under its guidance, draws his final work with clear bold touches, and then he rubs out the smudge.

How long we remained like this I cannot tell, for we were both afraid to look and see the my smudge on the pavement indicating a hero's end; but eventually, by mutual arrangement, we opened our eyes, and then we sawnot a smudge, but Coleopteron still advancing quite unconcerned.

By reason of what was upon them the clothes burned slowly, sending up a smudge of acrid smoke to mingle with smells of carbolic acid and iodoform, and the scent of boiling food, and of things infinitely less pleasant than these.

Over that part of the window there spread a smudge, green and fantastic.

Far out against the horizon appeared a smudge of smoke, which grew and spread until those with glasses could perceive beneath it the low, dark lines of a man-of-war.

"It's from the steel mills," Mr. Emerson explained as he advised Ethel Brown to wipe off a smudge of soot that had settled on her cheek and warned his daughter that if she wanted to preserve the whiteness of her gloves she had better replace them by colored ones until she returned to a cleaner place.