How many lovers must have picked them on Sunday evenings, in all the bygone years, and carried them along the roads or by the pasture footpaths, hiding them clumsily under their Sunday coats if they caught sight of any one coming.
Whether they had made for the farthest out settled districts of Queensland, or had found a hiding place nearer home, was not known, though rumours to either effect gained circulation.
Tom Swift in a ringing voice, as he leaped from his hiding place, followed by his companions.
The result was your giant kept after Rad, trying to get the letter from him, and Rad kept hiding and slinking about for a chance to see you himself until I saw what was going on, a little while ago, and took the letter myself.
Ashes of roses might describe the tint better, for it is as gentle as the fading pink of a sunset sky, a shade that has dropped thence to the lips of these blossoms hiding in the dusk of the swamp.
Two or three frightened people came out from their hiding places, when Meinik shouted to them that all was safe.
As soon as those who first returned sent the news to their friends, the fugitives came out from their hiding places in the forests, in great numbers, and returned to the city.
He thought that it would be a far better hiding place than their hut in the tree.
Vaiti knew both the word and the thing very well-indeed, and she was almost certain that the Ikurangi had gone off the course on the way to some South American port with the view of hiding her where she would not easily be found again.
The women were hiding themselves in the houses, and two of the men, armed with clubs, were stepping forward.
I've heard of people hiding things they wanted to get rid of in a bluff.
Although desperately wounded, he had managed to make his escape, and had lain in hiding in the mountains for several days, till he had recovered sufficient strength to travel.
The Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries are indented almost continuously with smaller estuaries, which make excellent hiding places.
Hardy had been hiding his colored servant in the coal cellar, to save her life.
Did he know anything of the hiding of the treasure, or at any rate where it was hidden?
Then someone brought news that there were more coolies, hiding for their lives behind a wood pile a little way up the line.
The strength of the chain, the weight of the chest, the weird, unheard of place of its concealment, the care and labour involved in designing such a hiding place, all pointed to this being the object of his search.
Somebody or other must have known itshiding place.
You remember that affair we have often talked about, when I saved the life of the Durani emir, Dost Hussain, and the story of the hiding of the ruby sword.
In them is the hiding as well as the showing of His power.
The superscription attributes the words to David himself, fleeing from Saul, and hiding in the cave.
We do not seek Him as if He had not sought us, or was hiding from us.
Many of us grope in perplexity, who, if we were but hiding under the shadow of God's wings, would see the truth and walk at liberty in the light, which is knowledge and purity and joy.
God hides us, and His hidingis effectual, in the secret of the light and splendour of His face.
So up the stream they traveled, walking comfortably on the river bank, and after a while the water broadened and a sharp bend appeared in the river, hiding all below from their view.
Ruggedo now began pronouncing the Magic Word in every way he could think of, hoping to hit the right one, and the Fox, hiding in a bush, was somewhat troubled by the fear that he might succeed.
Equally ingenious and successful was another who smuggled all his money past the Mohammedan customs by hiding it in pork.
Readers of Rabelais may recollect a second narrow escape that befell the six pilgrims whom Gargantua ate in a salad in consequence of their hiding among the lettuces to avoid being eaten by him as meat.
Then, as a groping hand found the door to his hiding place, he leaped into spring-steel-like action.
What safer place could be found for hiding a counterfeiter's den than a house built inside a cage on wheels?
I read how you were hiding here, under Dunn'th very nothe, with his whole pothe out, cavorting round and barkin' up the wrong tree.
Like a wounded quail with lowered crest and trailing wing, she crept back to her hiding place.
In the meantime, some forces were landed from the Magellanes, and gradually the colonists began to flock down to the town from all parts of the woods, or from wherever they had been hiding during the revolt.
So they went to Glascarn, and stopped a year in hidingwith Derbrenn.
And at the time Finn sent me hiding here and became my enemy," he said, "I got leave from the Surly One to hunt, but he bade me never to meddle with the berries.
When all was ready, Enrique and myself took up our positions, hiding in the outlying mesquite brush; leaving the loose horses under saddle in the cover at a distance.
At the next pause in the yarning, I inquired why a wild turkey always deceived itself by hidingits head and leaving the body exposed.
Nearly 4000 prisoners had been taken, including Mahmud himself, who was found hiding beneath a native litter.
Next morning it was found that a number had escaped death by hiding under heaps of bodies, and orders were given to recommence the butchery.
The brave Willoughby was captured while hiding in the jungle, and, after terrible torture, was mercifully put to death.
A few more shells, however, soon dislodged Theodore and his men from their hiding places, and they beat a rapid retreat towards Magdala.
Mr. Parkes and Captain Key, receiving information that the Imperial Commissioner was inhiding in a library not far from the Tartar general’s palace, proceeded thither with all haste, only to find one old man in possession of the place.
So listening to the warnings of his friends, he fled into hiding somewhere in the city of London, "a place of retirement and abscondence.
So, hiding it among the reeds by the water's edge, he returned to his master.
In this fringe of country bordering on the Everglades, it seems that there are some forty or fifty men hiding out.
One thing I think we had better do at once is to remove all that liquor to another hiding place and let them think we have destroyed it.
They were feeding or basking in the sun, but at the hunters approach one and all scurried for their hiding places, deep, slanting holes in the soft mud.
Then came a murmuring of voices and the sound of footsteps, and the watchers drew further back into their hiding place as four figures came into view.
He got it into his head we were hiding something from him, and he actually climbed up on the dining-room table and peeped through the transom at us.
A warm odour of ripe apples floated across the old peach orchard, for a few rare pippin-trees stood in its midst, flaunting the last of their fruitage from gnarled limbs, or hiding it in the sear grass underneath.
Many a pretty nursery tale has been written from this, and many a wise saw founded on it; and yet the hidingof the head is, after all, a mere myth.
Sparrman, when in South Africa, expressly inquired in those parts where ostriches most abound, and “never once heard mention made of the ostrich hiding its head when it finds it cannot make its escape.
Hiding his reluctancy, Cooper left his seat and advanced toward the doorway.
And ever since I've been inhiding for fear I'd be arrested!
