In a moment it would pass the slope and go over the brink of the rocks, straight to the boulder-strewn shore thirty feet below.
Now, like Mira, it was cold and quiet, wrapped in its shroud of snow; but Rebecca knelt by the brink, and putting her ear to the glaze of ice, fancied, where it used to be deepest, she could hear a faint, tinkling sound.
Fearful on the brink of an ecstatic bliss, she could scarcely believe that from the enticements of a thousand women this paragon had been preserved for her.
Little knew they the rack of pain which had driven Lucy almost into fever, and brought her out, guideless and reckless, urged and drugged to the brink of frenzy.
Several of these passages appeared to comprise family secrets, and bore special reference to one "Charlotte," a younger sister who, from the bearing of the epistle, seemed to be on the brink of perpetrating a romantic and imprudent match; loud was the protest of this elder lady against the distasteful union.
I on the brink of the grave!
And it came to pass, one evening when the winds were high, that there sat moaning by the brink of the river a woman with a child in her arms; and she was clad in rags, and had a worn and withered look, and she craved to be rowed across the river.
The pike, like other celebrities, did not show when he was watched for, but Tom caught sight of something in rapid movement in the water, which attracted him to another spot on the brink of the pond.
No one knew how deep it was; and it was mysterious, too, that it should be almost a perfect round, framed in with willows and tall reeds, so that the water was only to be seen when you got close to the brink.
Since I must go away—since we must always be divided—you may think of me as one on the brink of the grave.
Until now Will had never fully seen the chasm between himself and Dorothea—until now that he was come to the brink of it, and saw her on the other side.
Various patients got well while Lydgate was attending them, some even of dangerous illnesses; and it was remarked that the new doctor with his new ways had at least the merit of bringing people back from the brink of death.
I feel as sure as I sit here, Fred will turn out well—else why was he brought back from the brink of the grave?
Garth was on the brink of losing ninety-two pounds and more.
She would dislike it intensely; and this is what she felt she was on the brink of doing.
One evening they were standing on the bridge over a rushing turbulent stream and Cordelia, thinking they were alone, pushed Geraldine over the brink with a wild, mocking, 'Ha, ha, ha.
I am glad to the brink of fear.
But having taken the plunge, he is now on the brink of adventure; he is about to be launched into his own inner space to the astronaut.
The species is on the brink of extinction in the wild because of pollution, overfishing -- for their meat and roe, sold as caviar -- and environmental changes like the vast hydroelectric dams which span the Yangtze, blocking access to their spawning sites.
After tying the knot in Ireland in 1999, David and Victoria have spent years defending the state of their relationship and denying claims they are on the brink of divorce.
