Emily had one dreadful moment of terror and despair; and then she found that the clump of mossy earth which had broken away had held on a narrow ledge of rock, half hanging over it; and she was lying on the clump.
I got up and dressed myself, and creeping outside the casement close by my bed, sat on its ledge, with my feet on the roof of a lower adjoining building.
He was leaning against the ledge of an open lattice, but not looking out: his face was turned to the interior gloom.
Both of us were able to look in by standing on the basement, and clinging to the ledge, and we saw—ah!
In fact, it formed a little closet, and the ledge of a window, which it enclosed, served as a table.
Above the chimney were sundry villainous old guns, and a couple of horse-pistols: and, by way of ornament, three gaudily painted canisters disposed along its ledge.
Jill liked the fancy, and gladly strewed crumbs on the window ledge for the chippies, who came confidingly to eat almost from her hand.
We have gone through several rounds of purgatory since you left, and I have lately got on to a worse ledge of it than ever.
On the window ledge was a jug of wild-flowers, big daisies, and red sorrel, and feathery, flowery grasses.
Presently they came to a place where a little stream of water, trickling over a ledge and carrying a limestone sediment with it, had, in the slow-dragging ages, formed a laced and ruffled Niagara in gleaming and imperishable stone.
The red in his eye had caught sight of Peter's medicine standing on a ledge within easy reach.
But it all takes an odd turn when the instructors count down for her to take the plunge - and she remains standing with her arms out on the ledge.
Tyrion Lannister was sitting on the ledge above the door to the Great Hall, looking for all the world like a gargoyle.
Then he reached for the big plastic container of shampoo on his window ledge.
We love new fashions, we enjoy new techno ledge and that's enough forget the latest new news about our favorite movie stars.
I moved easily along the berth and felt for the window ledge.
I put my glass on the ledge, where a row of her potted geraniums were dripping water.
" The ledge outside her front door is home to a little stuffed bear, dressed in University of Michigan regalia, a hopeful sentry, and maybe a conversation starter.
It simply emerges on the high ledge, in the middle of nowhere.
Here and there were flowering plants, unknown to me; here and there I saw snakes, and one raised his head from a ledge of rock and hissed at me with a noise not unlike the spinning of a top.