Huddled up to resemble stray fragments, they curved out of the Belt--toward the Pole Star, north of its orbital plane.
Of course they and their bundles might have been stray meteors from deep in space.
What she had to do was to see that temptation was removed; some servant might stray into the room, and then what might not happen?
You queen of dear women, I've ransacked all thestray corners of the world for you!
Now I saw on a time, when he took a stray walk in the fields, that he was bent on his book and in deep grief of mind; and as he read he burst out, "What shall I do?
Have you ever considered how warm, indeed how wild, must be our affection for the particular stray stock-broker who has somehow turned into a Lord Chief Justice, to be strong enough to make us accept him as Lord Chief Justice?
The young woman came regularly to milk the healthy cow or to attend to the sick one, but never allowed her vision to stray in the direction of Oak's person.
Bathsheba then began, with some awkwardness, allowing her thoughts to stray occasion- ally from her story to attend to the shears, which required a little nicety in sharpening.
Bathsheba, closing the book and shaking back a straytwine of hair.
Some of them were going to their own districts, right through the English lines, others were looking for their cattle, which they had allowed to stray in order to evade the enemy.
Then the men have to be kept together, and the guides are followed up closely, for if any burghers were to lag behind and the chain be broken, 20 or 30 of them might stray which would deprive us of their services.
The party is frequently joined by the rector and his wife, a neighboring squire or two, and a stray parson, so that it frequently reaches twenty.
Whenever the country became more wooded in its character, the bark-hunters, whose quest obliged them to stray in short flights around the wings of the column, redoubled their mazes.
But our little stray Madelon, who knew of none of all these things, could find nothing better to do at last than to creep into a dark corner, between a side chapel and a confessional, crouch down, and begin to sob with all her heart.
Pauvre petite," she murmured, gently raising one hand that hung over the side of the bed, and smoothing back a stray lock of hair.
But the spare room was out of the question for such a stray waif, so there remained only the east gable room.
Not a stray stick nor stone was to be seen, for Mrs. Rachel would have seen it if there had been.
You don't suppose I do not know it all, and think of it all without the chance of some stray word like that!
A stray man might now and then pass an hour with him here; but on such occasions the chances were that the visit had some reference, near or distant, to affairs of business.
Next in the same book of academy pictures comes a picture by Langley, showing a stray beggar-boy, who has evidently been called in by a woman who has taken pity on him.
Thus the stray lamb is dearer to the Father than those which are in the fold; the prodigal returned, the coin that was lost and is found again, more highly prized than those that never were lost.
The White Rabbit did not stray very far from the place; she waited for her mother to go on, but Brownie gave no signal, nor did she stir.
One half of his time he spent in filching stray morsels from the kitchen and in dozing in the sun, while the rest of his days were passed--Grimalkin did not know where.
At such times he was more than likely to stray over to the banks of the Perdu.
Therefore it was suggested to me that it was formerly in very ancient times the custom to send all such stray cattle to the pound, that is, to dwell in this street as a kind of Ghetto.
One of the committee said, "Suppose that a cow were to stray upon the line and get in the way of the engine; would not that be a very awkward circumstance?
All they could do now was to wait for thestray accident of a passing ship, and then try, if possible, to signal it, or to put out to it in a canoe, if the natives would allow them.
Felix inquired, taken aback, wondering vaguely to himself whether here, perchance, he might have lighted upon some stray and shipwrecked compatriot.
Thus doth Allah leave to stray whom He pleaseth, and guide whom He pleaseth: and none can know the forces of thy Lord, except He and this is no other than a warning to mankind.
P: Hast thou not seen how they stray in every valley, S: Do you not see that they wander about bewildered in every valley?
For Allah leaves to stray whom He wills, and guides whom He wills.
Say: "I will not follow your vain desires: If I did, I would strayfrom the path, and be not of the company of those who receive guidance.
Y: The day He will gather them together as well as those whom they worship besides Allah, He will ask: "Was it ye who let these My servants astray, or did they stray from the Path themselves?
Cause not our hearts to stray after Thou hast guided us, and bestow upon us mercy from Thy Presence.
Verily thy Lord knoweth best those whostray from His Path, and He knoweth best those who receive guidance.
I catch sight ofstray advertisements and fragmentary notices of 'Atherton,' which seems to have been received everywhere with deserved claps of hands.
The following are a few of the stray hints for this part of his subject:-- "It is hard when a learned man thinks himself obliged to commence politician.
Here in the fields we're a lot less likely to run into stray parties.
And so without the guidance of roads, and partly to make better time and partly to avoid stray German pickets, he chose to stay away almost entirely from the roads and go across country.
Now and then a stray spear came hurtling through the air or struck the rock near us, but they were infrequent and we were not hit.
Moved either by curiosity or a command of Providence, I stooped and peered intently downward, and saw that the movement was the almost imperceptible reflection of a stray ray of light from above on the surface of water.
