We avoided every habitation, and chose the thickest of the woods and the deepest of the hollows, and so conducted our advance that, remarkable as it may seem, from the time we left our outposts at Old Church until we came in sight of the enemy near Hanover Court-House, we did not see a human being, though the distance traversed must have been fully twelve miles.

Nearer and nearer they came to the spot whence the flashes darted thickest, and all the time the bullets whirred over their heads.

Ever in the van, mounted on his dapple gray, where bullets flew thickest, he was here and there and everywhere, urging and encouraging the men by word and example.

Now while he yet sat thus, dazed by the shock of blows and breathing deep of the sweet, cool air, he beheld one rise up from where the battle-wrack lay thickest, an awful figure that limped towards him, holding aloft the broken shaft of an axe.

241. is against it; "to other men" (saith he) "this opening of the haemorrhoids seems to be a profitable remedy; for my part I do not approve of it, because it draws away the thinnest blood, and leaves the thickest behind.

CHAPTER XXX RAIN AND MUDA TRYING MARCHIN THE THICK OF ITA WOUNDED OFFICERHEAVY SHELLINGI GET MY "QUIETUS!"

You tookay, 'mid the thickest of the storm The man of Unterwald across the lake.

When my wagon had reached the thickest of the woods, and about the spot, as nearly as I could judge, where I had joined the other wagons on the preceding night, I quietly slipped into the bushes on the left of the road.

Perhaps when you're older, my lad, you'll discover The secret with which Auld Lang Syne there is gilt, Superstition of old man, maid, poet, and lover, That cream rises thickest on milk that was spilt!