Almost mechanically I obeyed him, and snatched a knife from the hands of one of the fallen men to defend my life, just as a second volley rolled forth from the cliff, directed at the pirates as they ran toward the ridge.
Ching nodded, and stole away again into the darkness, for night had fallen now, and we were beginning to feel the waves dancing under us.
It had fallen calm, and, as there was no urgency, the captain preferred to spare the coals, and we waited for a breeze.
We did not stay much longer, but our time was long enough to show us that everything of value had been taken, and nothing left in the way of log or papers to tell how the barque had fallen in with the wretches.
I say hurriedly, but my progress was very slow, for I had to worm my way overfallen stones, some of which were loose, and I was in constant dread of making a sound which might betray us.
I have seen the same table tipped up with the lamp upon it, so that the lamp must have fallen off unless retained there by something else than its own gravity; yet it fell not, moved not.
Once when I spelled out 'Love' for you, I stumbled and should have fallen had you not held me up.
And just to see the flush of pride in her face, I spoke of it again; and her sweet eyes' quick response was the most wonderful to me of all the fortune that had fallen to my lot.
It had once been a very imposing suit, and had adorned a great person, but havingfallen on evil days, was dusty and rusty, while the knees of Mr. Crips poked familiarly through a long slit in each leg of the stained trousers.
In truth, says Glaucon, they are not, with very few exceptions, so far as I have fallen in with them.
She returned to her native throne in the Heaven of heavens; it was a glorious high throne, unshaken and untarnished by the fallen fate of man and angels.
All the ministers that I have ever known, who have fallen into disgrace, or into uselessness, have been idle men.
Since that day, we suppose Caerphilly may have grown nearer to the dignity of a little town, sharing some of the honours which have so lavishly fallen upon its great, and prosperous neighbour, Cardiff.
By the end of a month audiences had fallen off to such an extent that, before Christmas, "Les Troyens" disappeared from the repertoire.
A more ponderable achievement was the composition for band of a three movement "Symphonie funèbre et triomphale", planned for performance in the open air in memory of those fallen in the Revolution of 1830.
Many Spaniards had fallen sick, and the soldiers from Cuba were wrangling with the men from Florida.
He saw faces he knew, he saw men staring at him wonderingly, he even felt rather proud at the strange position he had so unexpectedly fallen into.
Hark, from all lands, from the isles of the ocean, Praise to Jehovah ascending on high; Fallen the engines of war and commotion, Shouts of salvation are rending the sky.
We sometimes hear it said that the Church of Christ has fallen on evil days, and more than one faithful soul fears for the future.
When he was only forty-eight years old it became apparent that he had fallen a victim to tubercular infection.
Anon, with hurried step and free, He crossed the ruined balcony, And passing by the fallen door, Stood on the dark hall's oaken floor.
Hope kindles on my native shore No more her beacon fires-- The Northern Bear is trampling o'er The dust of fallen sires, And signal ever to destroy Hath been his growl of savage joy.
But I am resolved now; the scales have fallenfrom my eyes, and I can plainly see both your danger and my own.
At last she sat down and began to pick up some attractive-looking green cones, which had fallen the last time the storm had swung the great fir-trees.
A great silence seemed to have fallen on the moors.
Blanche did not like the sombre mood which appeared to have fallen on them both; and seemed bent on talking herself and her friend into a gayer mood by castle-building.
The rain had fallen in torrents during the night, and there seemed still an inexhaustible supply in the gray sheets of mist that hovered over the nearer hills.
And by this means many an excellent lady has fallen a prey to some sordid designer.
But I ought to beg pardon for this my presumption, for two reasons: first, because of the truly admirable talents of this writer; and next, because we know not what ladies the ingenious gentleman may have fallen among in his younger days.
Now that she had fallen to him so easily, he wondered why he had been so diffident.
He had fallen on his feet in Buenos Ayres, he said, and had come over to the old country just for a holiday.
One night, when an operatic artiste had fallen ill, he had undertaken the part of the king in the opera of Maritana at the Queen's Theatre.
His harp, too, heedless that her coverings had fallen about her knees, seemed weary alike of the eyes of strangers and of her master's hands.
One boot stood upright, its limp upper fallen down: the fellow of it lay upon its side.
Whenever I'd bring in his soup to him there I'd find him with his breviary fallen to the floor, lying back in the chair and his mouth open.
He understood our little failings, understood the weakness of our poor fallen nature, understood the temptations of this life.
The idols of paganism have long since been thrown, their temples destroyed; the folly itself has fallen into disuse, and its extravagances serve only in history "to point a moral or adorn a tale.
It is a consequence of our fallen nature by which we are prone to evil rather than to good, find it more to our taste and easier to yield to wrong than to resist it.
But pity is a form of love; and just as we may never despise a fallen parent, just so do we owe him or her, even in the depths of his or her degradation, a meed of pity and commiseration.
Neither is restitution a penance imposed upon us in order to atone for our faults; it is no more penitential in its nature than are the efforts we make to avoid the faults we have fallen into in the past.
It is a knowledge acquired by instinct, the depraved instinct of our fallen nature, and supplemented by the experiences weaned from the daily sayings and doings of common life.
Learned men, pillars of the Church have fallen away.
But it is vitiated by the corruption of fallen flesh.
Disciplinary applications of the old type havefallen into innocuous desuetude; the penny now tempts, the sugar candy soothes and sugar-coated promises entice when the rod should quell and blister.
Then, just as the deep tones of the war-drum boomed forth upon the night air, the fallen Aztec betrayed signs of rallying wits, giving a low sound which might have been groan of pain or curse of baffled rage.
If Bruno had indeed fallenvictim to misplaced confidence, and had been craftily lured into this den of ravening wild beasts, why all this confusion and mad skurry?
Although some rain had fallen at this point as well, no serious difficulty was experienced in kindling a fire, while Waldo had little trouble in heaping up a bounteous supply of fuel.
If the poor boy had actually fallen into such evil hands, why such crazy confusion?
Swift as thought itself he followed up the advantage thus won, smiting the fallen brave heavily upon the crown with a clubbed thighbone, depriving him of sensibility for the time being at least.
There had been a little snow fallen in the night which still clung upon the uplands, and when I had ascended to his dwelling I found a drift about the door and the thatched eaves considerably laden upon the weather side of them with snow.
I thought he had fallen into some fit of poetics, and offered him the wine again, but he cautioned me to be silent, at the same time cringing backward into the shadows.
I ran to him at once, demanding if he sought me, which I knew already was so, and felt a fear at my heart lest my father was suddenly fallen ill.
I, sitting up straight, for I had, I think, fallen into a sort of trance, and imagined some noise had disturbed me.
Before he could catch her she hadfallen to the floor, fainting for the first time in her healthy young life.
She had drawn off her gloves, and his eyes had fallen on her engagement ring.
This calm lasted only a short while; for there was a place on the battlefield where French and Russians had fallen pell-mell, almost all of whom were wounded more or less grievously.
But such is the fallen state of love, that if it were not for honest Cynthio, who is true to the cause, we should hardly have a pattern left of the ancient worthies in that way; and indeed he has but very little encouragement to persevere.
As I am fallen into this degenerate age, I guard myself particularly against the folly I have now been speaking of.
First, that Crawford had fallen in; second, that Crawford had been dragged out.
If any other person but Kate had rescued me, he or she would have taken the money, and there would have been no play; and if I had not falleninto the water it is very likely I should not have thought of treating myself to a game.
I am sure of that, but you see what has fallen out to-night.
When Philip left him he had taken the child to his own room and put him in his own bed, and the little fellow, overcome by fatigue and the lateness of the hour, had fallen asleep.
It had fallen asleep, but later the moonlight streamed in through the window and showed that its dreams were pleasant ones, for it dreamed of the old and happy days.
One would think that the whole barnyard had turned upside down and the corn had allfallen off into the sky.
But Miss Dexter had done her work and stood rigid, unmovable, stony as marble, the bagfallen at her feet, her hands fallen straight down at her sides.
Not a single drop of the fiery liquid had fallen upon it nor scorched its fragrant beauty and it presently lay upon the face of the suffering man, healing with its cool moist sweet leaves and petals his poor scarred skin.
He'd been brushing it and playing with it and the morning over warm--she hadfallen asleep.
Perhaps it is not generally known that an honour, not much inferior, had, once, very nearly fallen to the lot of a brother Israelite.
The Gretna Green Parson, we suspect, has fallen into dishonest hands, or he would not have suffered it to be said that he was about to publish registers which never had existence.
Guns were fired into the houses of persons who had fallen under the popular displeasure.
They ran upstairs, and Talbot would havefallen twice had not Brett supported him.
No doubt in time the composition would have dried, or been washed away, and then this bit of the screen would have fallen out by the action of wind and weather.
It has been humbled to the ground, as a certain palace of Babel was of yore; but it is a monument of fallen pride, not less awful, and would afford matter for a whole library of sermons.
Geneviève, having fallen into decay in the middle of the eighteenth century, Louis XV.
The fact is, I had fallen asleep on one of the stone benches in the Avenue de Paris, and at this instant was awakened by a whirling of carriages and a great clattering of national guards, lancers, and outriders, in red.
What had brought the clock down, and why had Robert Turold fallen almost on top of it, his outstretched hands resting on the dial?
It was a rite and solemn ceremony, now fallen into decay.
Her eyes had fallen on a shape, shrouded in the obscurity of the rocks not far from the window, which seemed to have some semblance to the motionless figure of a man.
Dusk had fallen before they finished their search, and Thalassa would not undertake the risk of threading the boat out from the tortuous reef passage in the darkness.
In a last paroxysm he had struggled to his feet and fallen across the clock-case, with the intention, as I shall always believe, of putting back the hand of the clock.
Either supposition accounted for the fallen clock, and fitted in with nearly all the known facts of the murder.
I thought perhaps the young man had fallen asleep with the window open and left the gas flaring in the wind.
His expression was not that of one unable to tear himself away from the last glimpse of a loved wife fallen from his arms into the clutch of Death.
The pride of the Turold family rested on the belief that they were of noble blood--the lineal inheritors of a great English title which had fallen into abeyance hundreds of years before.
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