Now and again he would stop and rest, and stretch a hand in between the bars, and she felt him once take a strand of her hair and lay it across his lips.
In her lap lay a little strand of gold, while the moonlight touched the bleak pallor of her face, making the night, like her heart, a contrast of mysterious light and shadow.
In Chapter XXXV, David Copperfield, after a plunge in the old Roman bath in Strand Lane, went for a walk to Hampstead, and got some breakfast on the Heath.
Against the white strand loud and hoarse the wave breaks, And towards the strand now the fisherman makes.
The broken piers of Greycliff's ruined bridge menaced me from the mist as I drove past, and below the new bridge the sagging strand of a slackened cable swooped at me from the air.
As an upset was inevitable in the event the canoe was dragged into the riffle stern first, the best that we could do was to pick him up at the foot of it and trust that his canoe would strand and anchor the corpse.
As soon as they reached the strand half a dozen were offered to them.
But the greater number of turns--in ratio of about 2:1--that can be given the longer strand much more than compensates for this.
Whales and dolphins, like this mixed school of false killer whales and bottlenosed dolphins, sometimes strand themselves individually or as entire herds for a complex of still incompletely understood reasons.
Stranded Specimens As discussed above, individuals and groups of pilot whales frequently strand themselves for still incompletely understood reasons.
The fact that goosebeaked whales strand more frequently than other beaked whales may reflect either a greater abundance or a greater tendency to approach close to shore.
Hawtrey brought out at the Strand in 1888, was fitted with prose dialogue, much of which was very smart and amusing.
Byron to the travestie from his pen which saw the light at the Strand in 1872.
The first burlesque of "Romeo and Juliet" was brought out at the Strand in the same year as that which saw the birth of A'Beckett's "King John.
Danvers have been added to the Strand establishment, which shortly welcomes Fanny Hughes and Ada Swanborough, Polly Marshall and George Honey.
The Talfourd piece was called "Godiva, or Y^e Ladye of Coventrie and Y^e Exyle Fayrie" and produced at the Strand in 1851.
The first travestie of "Lord Bateman" was made by Charles Selby at the Strand in 1839; then there was the production by R.
Robson and Julia St. George are still playing at the Olympic; but the "palmy" days of the Strand Theatre are about to flash upon us.
There was the piece brought out at the Strand in 1858 by Andrew Halliday and a collaborator, and there was that which Messrs.
Always slender and taut, they now looked almost famished, layered rope wrapped stranding and twine after strand into nothingness.
And suddenly the looming shaft above him appeared not as a barrier, but as the strand of a protective net which covered a great abyss, a hole in living Space.
Then, hastening outside to the rear of the barn, he proceeded to connect one of them to the same strand of the fence wire to which the telegraph line was secured a mile distant.
Dragging the telegraph wire to the fence, Jack looped it over the topmoststrand near one of the posts, and wound it about several times, to ensure a good contact.
And finally, as the last gleam of moonlight died from the window-panes, the remaining strand was severed, and there was a faint slap as the rope fell to the floor.
Besides, after all, Fleet Street and the Strand are better places to live in for good and all than amidst Skiddaw.
The wonder of these sights impels me often into night-walks about her crowded streets, and I often shed tears in the motley Strand from fullness of joy at so much life.
Each member of the class was instructed by what new method he might rend the strand of life with his own hand, in the desperate and sickening hope of finding rest "where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
He did not see the strand that drew him, for it was invisible, nor was he conscious of being thus drawn, having his mind so fixed upon the object of his earnest pursuit.
For a small yacht it is as well to have the jib, throat, and peak halliards of four-strand Manilla rope, but wire topsail halliards are a very decided improvement on hemp or Manilla.
Wear in the wire rigging is shown by its being rusty, the strands stretched, or by the broken threads of a strand appearing here and there.
During the afternoon Bernard walked through the Strand and Fleet Street.
I ought, as a girl, when they opposed my purpose, to have taken up my palmer's staff, and never have rested content till I had gathered my shell on thestrand of Joppa.
It was not until Aline, having concluded her tale, added one more strand to it that she found herself treating the matter seriously.
Willis & Sotheran's in the Strandwas known to me by tradition.
The shop in the Strand united with Pickering's and one or two more to supply me with a handful or so of curiosities, while I remained what is termed an amateur.
Strand purchased it, bound it in red morocco, and put it in a subsequent monthly circular at L5, 5s.
It was Sue Coleman who spoke, and there was a husky strand in her voice.
So I will, Sey," Charles remarked to me, as we walked back from the office in the Strand by Piccadilly.
When the great war-ships down the strand Into the river gently slid, And all below her sides was hid.
When he came to the town he went up from the strand with his attendants.
The king landed with his men; but the people of the country rode down to the strand against them, and he fought them.
It is related here that King Olaf, when spring set in, sailed east to Eysyssel, and landed and plundered; the Eysyssel men came down to the strand and grave him battle.
King Olaf laid the keel of a great long-ship out on the strandat the river Nid.
Afterwards the Gautlanders came down to the strand with a great army, and gave battle to King Harald, and great was the fall of men.
Now when King Magnus came north to Cantire, he had a skiff drawn over the strand at Cantire, and shipped the rudder of it.
King Olaf sailed from thence south to Friesland, and lay under the strand of Kinlima in dreadful weather.
Thy armed outfit from the strand Left many a keel-trace on the sand, And never did a king before SO many ships to any shore Lead on, as thou to Vindland's isle: The Vindland men in fright recoil.
Above it the rock rose bare, but at the ends of the semicircular strand a luxuriant vegetation began, stretching from the crimson shores back into far distances.
With the last of my strength I dragged the body from the strand and pushed it out into the waves.
And not far away, cast up on thestrand even as I had been, was--Marakinoff!
We left Calcutta early on the morning of May 4, taking the Strand road, across the sacred Hoogly river by means of the Jubilee bridge.
The Calcutta burning ghats on the Strand road affords accommodation for the cremation of sixteen bodies simultaneously.
Cycling in early evening along the Strandis also gratifying.
He got midway between the posts, when the sagging strand tripped him and he fell with a splash into a shallow pool below.
Here he climbed a post and continued after me by way of the middle strand of the wire, wriggling, twisting, even grabbing the barbs, in his efforts to maintain his balance.
