But the rock gave a start and a yawn.

Aa boy that 'ain't got a start yet.

But I feel more like making a clean, new start, in a new place.

It is significant, too, that it was in the decades subjected to the first influence of the French Revolution that the English daily paper took its start as an agent to influence public opinion.

I saw Godfrey's start of recognition as he looked down at her; then he, too, looked aside.

They were, therefore, compelled to make use of the regular passages to the outer posterns and these latter being located at a considerable distance from the prisoner's avenue of escape, he was certain, at the pace he was maintaining, to gain at least a half-hour's start over his pursuers.

"Come forth, Jacopo," said a keeper, "the Council seeks thee!" Jacopo felt the convulsive start of his father, but he did not answer.

For the paper Billy had thrown into the fire had fallen under the gas-logs, and she remembered his guilty start.

It had been snowing steadily and by the time he reached their old camp the trail left by Rod and Mukoki was already partly obliterated, showing that they had secured an early start up the river.

I could not suppress a start as I passed over the threshold.

He afterwards was Lord Chancellor, and took his title from the little county town where probably he obtained his start in the career which ended so brilliantly.

The house was more than a mile distant, but the children, having two hundred yards the start, and being effectually covered by their father, were soon so far in front, that the Indians turned their attention entirely to the old man.

This feeling increased as she noticed the unmistakable start that the cousins gave as they caught sight of her, and heard Nelly's astonished exclamation, "What!

"Dom the KEYSER!" says Peter Ledbetter, to gie us a start like.

"Divil a sick, gintlemen," is the answer, with a slight catch of the voice,"bless the two of yez!" EDWIN DROOD can scarcely avoid a start, as he thinks to himself, "Good Heaven!

"Ye see, mistress," he said, "Dick is an oncommon tough customer, an' if he could only git fifty yards' start, there's not an Injun in the West as could git hold o' him agin; so don't be takin' on."

The soft melancholy, half-religious tone of it was in accordance with the whole undercurrent of her life, and prevented that start of alarm which any homage of a more worldly form might have excited.

Fearfully the girls watched her start into Mrs. Gilligan's room.

"Now you jes' take a bit o' string an' tie that 'ere turkey's legs together; 'twon't stir, I'll ensure it!" Strange to say, the innocent creature stood still and eat, while I tied it up; all unconscious till it tumbled neck and heels into the pan, producing a start and scatter of brief duration.

AN ELDER BROTHER Is a creature born to the best advantage of things without him; that hath the start at the beginning, but loiters it away before the ending.

Heale had been fairly taken aback by the imposing list of acquirements, and looked at his guest awhile with considerable awe: suddenly a suspicion flashed across him, which caused him (not unseen by Tom) a start and a look of self-congratulatory wisdom.

and how frequently in the Height of Passion does that moving Picture in our Head start and stare, gather a Redness and quick Flashes of Lightning, and make all its Humours sparkle with Fire, as Virgil finely describes it.

We need that much start.

Once I heard a tug's whistle and knew that we were near the river, and we passed the railway station, apparently at the same time as on the previous occasion, for I heard a passenger train start and assumed that it was the same train.

" What meant that sudden start and then the blush which flamed up over cheek and brow?