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.
He's only 26, and he just pushed LeBron and the Cavs to the brink in his his first taste of the playoffs as his team's alpha.
Near the royal castle there was a great dark wood, and in the wood under an old linden-tree was a well; and when the day was hot, the King's daughter used to go forth into the wood and sit by the brink of the cool well, and if the time seemed long, she would take out a golden ball, and throw it up and catch it again, and this was her favourite pastime.
Now, however, Coca-Cola is on the brink of a new chapter – with plans to launch its first alcoholic drink.
com, which is on the brink of becoming the third-biggest technology group in China, has also trialled customer deliveries over the past year.
The assumption that it is almost always great to be stretched, and terrible to be slack, encourages the idea that relentless striving, up to the brink of chronic overwork, is optimal.
Venezuela is still in the grip of a worsening crisis of food shortages, political repression and crippling price rises, teetering on the brink of hyperinflation.
