She stepped out to reach them—the treacherous mossy soil gave way under her feet and slid down the steep slope.
I was standing watching his pursuit with a mixture of admiration for his extraordinary activity and fear lest he should lose his footing in the treacherous mire, when I heard the sound of steps and, turning round, found a woman near me upon the path.
" I protested against playing that treacherous part in my employer's house: and, besides, I urged the cruelty and selfishness of his destroying Mrs.
" cried Cyrus Harding, who did not like his dog to venture into the treacherous water.
Then the treacherous tide, as it ebbed lower and lower down the beach, began to lure the boat away; for it was not fastened, and when lightened of its load was an easy prize to the hungry sea, always ready to steal all it can.
Ardour in well-doing is a misleading and a treacherous thing.
Clouds gathered with treacherous quickness, the rain came down, and Will was obliged to take shelter in the house.
And she had already come to take life very much as a comedy in which she had a proud, nay, a generous resolution not to act the mean or treacherous part.
I had said all I had to say on the subject that had brought me to Paris, and though I felt it in a manner treacherous to Mrs.
I was not unprepared for jagged rocks and treacherous shoals if I could only have change—change and the excitement of the unforeseen.
It was Sunday, and the whole time between morning and afternoon service was required by the general in exercise abroad or eating cold meat at home; and great as was Catherine's curiosity, her courage was not equal to a wish of exploring them after dinner, either by the fading light of the sky between six and seven o'clock, or by the yet more partial though stronger illumination of a treacherous lamp.
They felt cowardly and treacherous to the last degree when Potter said: "You've been mighty good to me, boys—better'n anybody else in this town.
She tried to go away, but her feet were treacherous, and carried her to the group instead.
Then Tom became Robin Hood again, and was allowed by the treacherous nun to bleed his strength away through his neglected wound.
Here dreaming, though wide-awake, of the exquisite tortures to which they were to put him at break of day, those confiding savages were found by the treacherous Hook.
Desolation after desolation has swept over me;but each hour of happiness the treacherous trader,Love,sold me i have paid a thousand hours of grief!
I was not unprepared for jagged rocks and treacherous, shoals it I could only have change-change and the excitement of unforeseen.
The one absolutely unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous is his dog.
Germanic mythology has the Meerfrau, the Nix and the Nixe who were male and female fresh-water inhabitant and it was believed that they were treacherous to men.
Desolation after desolation has swept over me;but each hour of happiness the treacherous trader,Love,sold me i have paid a thousand hours ofo grief!
