There is no way of lifting those poor people out of the mire; if their children's children tread on firm ground it will be the most we can hope for.
Yes, but that leap he would not take; he was on firm ground; he knew what honour meant; he acknowledged the sanctity of obligations between man and man.
They struggled through the bog, made their way to firm ground, and rushed on the guns.
Alzura had joined me on a piece of firm ground, just large enough for us to stand on, and no more.
If it isn't firm ground, the one who jumps will go to his death.
Suares knew his work, and led us across a wide stretch of smooth, firm ground, the very spot for a cavalry charge.
Here we crouched on a patch of firm ground, undid our bundles, and proceeded to dress quickly.
We continued for five miles along good firm ground on which there was open forest of box and gumtrees; and part of the bold outline of the Grampians appeared to our left.
On a dry sandhill, with wood and water at hand, we were well prepared to await the results of a flood; some good grass also was found for the cattle on firm ground at the distance of about two miles.
I had with difficulty found a spot of firm ground where we could encamp, but during that evening I had reconnoitred a more favourable-looking line which I meant to try in the morning.
Crossing another small plain of firm ground we came upon what seemed to be the main channel of the Lachlan, pursuing a course to the west-north-west.
The marsh became gradually less and less continued, being intersected by wider spots of firm ground; the reeds gave place, by degrees, to wood, and the wood to inclosed fields.
It was a swamp, containing a small space of firm ground at one end, and almost wholly unadorned with trees of any sort or description.
Like that at the river's mouth, these are surrounded by a marsh, a single narrow path conducting from the commencement of firm ground to the gates of each.
A red cap appeared over the edge of the cliff, followed immediately by a laughing face framed in a crop of fair curly hair; then a girl scrambled on to firm ground.
Catching hold of the tufts of heather on the verge of the cliff, he swung himself on to firm ground, and proved to be a boy of about ten years of age; thin and wiry, with a dark face and bright twinkling eyes.
At last the welcome daylight burst upon them, and grasping the tufts of heather, they drew themselves on to firm ground.
The two detachments were passing around the field on firm ground, and Harry knew that he and his good horse must hasten.
He knew that the horses passing around the field on firm groundwould be fresh, and that he must find temporary hiding, at least as soon as he could.
That pool there is about four feet deep, the water is clear and the bottom is firm ground; now do you know what I'm going to do?
Their own proximity was discovered after a while, and shell and bullets began to fly among them, but they emerged at last on firm ground and on the Northern flank.
There they marched and fought over firm ground, and crossed rivers with hard rocky banks.
Oh, for our happy valley, where we shot at our enemy and he shot at us, both standing on firm ground!
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