He suddenly turned and glided back up the Crooked Little Path, hissing angrily.
Toad hopping down the Crooked Little Path for his life, while after him, and getting nearer and nearer, glided Mr.
Bretton, breaking silence and smiling, as Ginevra glided before him, casting a glance as she passed by, "Miss Fanshawe is certainly a fine girl.
" And, with a slight bend—careless, but as graceful as her dance—she glided from him and rejoined her father.
It paused a while at the classe-door, and then it glided before me.
When all was still in the house; when dinner was over and the noisy recreation-hour past; when darkness had set in, and the quiet lamp of study was lit in the refectory; when the externes were gone home, the clashing door and clamorous bell hushed for the evening; when Madame was safely settled in the salle-à-manger in company with her mother and some friends; I then glided to the kitchen, begged a bougie for one half-hour for a particular occasion, found acceptance of my petition at the hands o
I almost numbered the moments of these days upon the clock; fain would I have retarded their flight; but they glided by while I watched them: they were already gone while I yet feared their departure.
The Queen, leaving her chair, glided along the rank of young ladies, who all stood up as she passed; and to each in turn I saw her vouchsafe some token of kindness—a gracious word, look or smile.
" In reply to this appointment, I only bowed; and pulling down my veil, and gathering round me my cloak, I glided away.
Serenely pointing to a fourth bed, she intimated that it was to be mine; then, having extinguished the candle and substituted for it a night-lamp, she glided through an inner door, which she left ajar—the entrance to her own chamber, a large, well-furnished apartment; as was discernible through the aperture.
Down the sable flood we glided, I thought of the Styx, and of Charon rowing some solitary soul to the Land of Shades.
CHAPTER XXVII Seven days glided away, every one marking its course by the henceforth rapid alteration of Edgar Linton's state.
Cathy entered by the casement-window of the drawing-room, and glided noiselessly up to where I awaited her.
" The creature understood, seized the cord, glided rapidly down the beach, and disappeared in the darkness without the convicts' attention having been in the least excited.
In the meanwhile, Ayrton, swimming with a vigorous stroke, glided through the sheet of water without producing the slightest ripple.
Towards seven o'clock in the morning, the "Bonadventure," weathering the North Mandible Cape, entered the strait and glided on to the waters, so strangely enclosed in the frame of lava.
Chapter 15 The next day, the 20th of October, at seven o'clock in the morning, after a voyage of four days, the "Bonadventure" gently glided up to the beach at the mouth of the Mercy.
During this time Cyrus Harding, Spilett, and Neb, crawling behind the rocks, glided towards the future scene of combat.
Top was recalled by a slight whistle from his master, and the latter, signing to his companions to wait for him, glided away among the rocks.
Herbert often glided among the broken stumps with the agility of a young cat, and disappeared in the underwood.
