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...les, so graceful, so un- gainly, to the European eye so foreign, was to be seen crowding on the beach, and climbing and fringing the steep sides of mo... ...breeze, continued to creep in: the smart creature, when once under way, appearing motive in herself. From close aboard arose the bleating of young lam... ...he hillside; the scent of the land and of a hundred fruits or flowers flowed forth to meet us; and, presently, a house or two appeared, standing high ... ... bath in bright raiment, red and blue and green, such as we delighted to see in the coloured little pictures of our childhood; and presently the sun h... .... The glow continued and increased, the business, from the main part, ceased before it had begun. Twice in the day there was a certain stir of shepher... ...ty to the guests of the other. About one-half of the population served day about on alternate sides, so as to be well with each when the inevitable pe...

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... success? It is a sore thing to have laboured along and scaled the arduous hilltops, and when all is done, find humanity indifferent to your achieveme... ...looked down for a moment before we lost sight of it in the disorder of the hills; it may be that we have lain awake at night, and agreeably tantalised... ... so he can enjoy the faint autumnal splendour of the landscape, as he sees hill and plain, vineyard and forest, clad in one wonderful glory of fairy g... ...nal perfumes, over the myrtles and the scented underwood; of the empurpled hills standing up, solemn and sharp, out of the green-gold air of the east ... ...finish, prove too long or too arduous for his feeble body; and the barrier-hills are as impassable as ever. Many a white town that sits far out 65 Vi... ... with the ladies of his court. When Raleigh sailed into Cadiz, and all the forts and ships opened fire on him at once, he scorned to shoot a gun, and ...

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...herds, and the barking of their dogs, were often heard in the midst of the hills long before their actual arrival. A bard, the 18 Sir Walter Scott la... ...ak-trees, and in others overhung by fragments of huge rock. Elsewhere, the hill, which formed the northern side of this beautiful sheet of water, aros... ... a sort of Highland host assembled, or expected to assemble, in these wild hills, in the King’s 39 Sir Walter Scott behalf. Now, sir, you know the na... ...head with his bonnet; Had you but known them, you would own it. —Meston. A hill was now before the travellers, covered with an ancient forest of Scott... ... glens, until better meat be ready, until the Tiernach comes back frae the hill wi’ the southern gentlefolk, and then Dugald Cook will show himself wi... ...n the rendezvous of Inverlochy. The military road connecting the chains of forts, as it is called, and running in the general line of the present Cale...

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...dinary of these. Three curious stones, called Kits Coty House, on Bluebell Hill, near Maidstone, in Kent, form another. We know, from examination of t... ...prisoners of them; they fell, fighting, in such great numbers that certain hills in Scot land are yet supposed to be vast heaps of stones piled up ab... ...ndition of the Britons. They had made great military roads; they had built forts; they had taught them how to dress, and arm themselves, much better t... ... dawn of day, they arose. There, in the faint light, were the English on a hill; a wood behind them; in their midst, the Royal banner, representing a ... ...ld, and bearing in his hand his dreaded English battle axe. On an opposite hill, in three lines, archers, foot soldiers, horsemen, was the Norman forc... ...ttle cry, ‘God’s Rood! Holy Rood!’ The Normans then came sweeping down the hill to attack the English. There was one tall Norman Knight who rode be f... ...LLED RUFUS WILLIAM THE R ED, in breathless haste, secured the three great forts of Dover, Pevensey, and Hastings, and made with hot speed for Winches... ... French so bold, and made the English so fearful, that the English line of forts was soon broken, the troops and provisions were got into the town, an... ...ey lost the bridge, and lost the tow ers, and next day set their chain of forts on fire, and left the place. But as Lord Suffolk himself retired no f...

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...as for instance “Rosalind and Helen” and “Lines written among the Euganean Hills”, I found among his papers by chance; and with some diffi- culty urge... ...and flower-grown ruins of Rome; and, when he made his home under the Pisan hills, their roofless recesses harboured him as he composed the “Witch of A... ...obelisk, Or jasper tomb, or mutilated sphynx, Dark Aethiopia in her desert hills _115 Conceals. Among the ruined tem... ...hite light of morning, the blue moon Low in the west, the clear and garish hills, The distinct valley and the vacant woods, ... ...s and vast, robed in the lustrous gloom Of leaden-coloured even, and fiery hills Mingling their flames with twilight, on the verge Of the remote horiz... ...ds, whose foes thy foes? _320 Our arsenals and our armouries are full; Our forts defy assault; ten thousand cannon Lie ranged upon the beach, and hour...

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...word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys; Be hold, I, even I, will bring a... ...n men shall be among their idols round about their altars, upon every high hill, in all the tops of the moun tains, and under every green tree, and u... ... great company make for him in the war, by casting up mounts, and building forts, to cut off many persons: 18 Seeing he despised the oath by breaking ... ...e which I lifted up mine hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and... ...en field will I give to the beasts to be devoured, and they that be in the forts and in the caves shall die of the pestilence. 28 For I will lay the l... ...ttered. 6 My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high hill: yea, my flock was scattered upon all the face of the earth, and none ... ... sleep in the woods. 26 And I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in his season; th...

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...st thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot. Jeremia... ...hou art the LORD our God. 23 Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude of mountains: truly in the LORD our God is th... ...d no light. 24 I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly. 25 I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the bi... ...thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, and thine abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clea... ...many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks. 17 For mine eyes are upon all thei... ... he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it, and built forts against it round about. 5 So the city was besieged unto the eleventh ...

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...rough the bogs, 6 North America V ol. 2 you will lose yourself among rude hillocks, you will be out of the reach of humanity. The unfinished dome of ... ...a V ol. 2 face the Goldsmiths’ Hall. The Capitol stands upon the side of a hill, the front occupying a much higher position than the back; consequentl... ...Ladies will fill your ears and your hearts too with tales of the daily ef- forts they make for the comfort of their “people,” and of the ruin to those... ...I stopped at Altoona one night, with the object of getting about among the hills and making the best of the winter view but I found it impossible to w... ... a mile in any way. With infinite labor I climbed to the top of one little hill, and when there became aware that the descent would be very much more ... ...he large, park-like pastures, and the ground was broken on every side into hills. There was perhaps too much timber, but my friend seemed to think tha... ...s peremptory in the matter. He had heard of gun-boats and mortar-boats, of forts built upon the river, of Columbiads, Dahlgrens, and Parrotts, of all ... .... General Fremont, soon after reaching St. Louis, under- took to build ten forts for the protection of that city. These forts have since been pronounc... ...with which Mr. Van Wyck’s Committee had to deal. It seems that five of the forts, the five largest, were made under the orders of a certain Major Kapp...

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...palm-tree alleys, regular, like soldiers on parade; in the recesses of the hills you may stumble on a mill-house, tolling and trembling there, fathoms... ...maunga is that district of Taumasanga which includes the bay and the foot- hills behind Apia; and both province and district are strong Malietoa. Not ... ...erhaps a dozen in all; the rest were behind in the bush upon their line of forts. About the midst he sat down, and here a woman drew near to him. The ... ... the white men followed) stretched inland among bush and marsh, facing the forts of the Tamaseses. The warriors lay as yet inactive behind trees; but ... ...s visible; and their enemies looked on inert from the line of the opposing forts. The lists were not yet pre- pared, the tournament was not yet open; ... ...e of the rain 66 A Footnote to History and darkness and stolen from their forts unobserved. The rallying sign of the Tamaseses had been a white handk... ...th the siege of Lotoanuu was opened with a brisk skirmish. Each side built forts, facing across the gorge of a brook. An endless fusillade and shoutin... ...d; and out of his door they could see the Tamasese pickets on the opposite hill. Thence they made their way to the left flank of the Mataafa position ... ..., where they must climb by roots and tufts of grass; and coming to an open hill-top with some scattered trees, bade them wait, let him draw the fire, ...

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...ron Sisson was the last man on the little black railway- line climbing the hill home from work. He was late because he had attended a meeting of the m... ...ublic-houses. But he was going to a pub out of town. He descended the dark hill. A street-lamp here and there shed parsimonious light. In the bottoms,... ...liery. The colliery was imbedded in a planta- tion, whence its burning pit-hill glowed, fumed, and stank sulphur in the nostrils of the Bricknells. Ev... ...ed, and stank sulphur in the nostrils of the Bricknells. Even war-time ef- forts had not put out this refuse fire. Apart from this, Shottle House was ... ...neasily, he looked along the whole range of houses. The street sloped down-hill, and the backs were open to the fields. So he saw a curious succes- 3... ...ide, fa- miliar to him as his own breast. A motor-car was labouring up the hill. His trained ear at- tended to it unconsciously. It stopped with a jar...

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.... 19 And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered. 20 Fifteen cubits up... ...e the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of... ...en, and go out, ght with Amalek: to morrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in mine hand. 10 So Joshua did as Moses had said t... ...nd fought with Amalek: and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill. 11 And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prev... ...the LORD, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel. 5 And h... ...nd all his host, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it; and they built forts against it round about. 498 2 Kings 2 And the city was besieged unto... ...ound about, and will lay siege against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee. 4 And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out o... ...he palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture... ... he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it, and built forts against it round about. 5 So the city was besieged unto the eleventh ...

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...ld scarcely endure to see, and I watched a line of infantry men go on up a hill and keep on quite manifestly cheerful with men drop- ping out and wrig... ...till until every other man was down… . Not one man would have gone up that hill alone, without onlookers….” Rowe, the lion hunter, told Benham that on... ...ne with Kepple, of the forestry department, into the jungle country in the hills above the Tapti. He had been very anxious to see something of that as... ...he black bars of the tree stems. And then it sank very sud- denly behind a hilly spur and the light failed swiftly. He stumbled and went with difficul... ... the back of a monster,—but that was nonsense, it was the crest of a steep hillside covered with woods of teak. He stood up and stretched himself, and... ...England, they were crouching like beasts that bide their time, mewed up in forts, kennelled in arsenals, hooded in tarpaulins as hawks are hooded… . A...

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... green mysteries of the sea. He led stormers against well-nigh impregnable forts, and died on the ramparts at the moment of victory. (His grave was wa... ...lf in an atti- tude of sympathetic patience towards Platt’s incendiary ef- forts. IV IV IV IV IV JOLLY DAYS of companionship they were for the incipie... ... “argy bargy” about the stars, on Monday evening. They would come over the hills out of the pleasant English country-side in which they had wandered, ... ...quarrel that day as to how far a big gun could shoot. The country over the hills behind Port Burdock is all that an old-fashioned, scarcely disturbed ... ...ry-side for those who have learnt to love it; its firm yet gentle lines of hill and dale, its ordered confusion of features, its deer parks and downla... ... pleasant in the blossom time, Burgundy goes on with its sunshine and wide hillsides and cramped vineyards, a beau- tiful tune repeated and repeated, ... ...many, all clamour their especial merits at one’s memory. And there are the hills and fields of Virginia, like an England grown very big and slovenly, ...

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...e shabby fellows — true — but poets still, And duly seated on the immortal hill. Your bays may hide the baldness of your brows— Perhaps some v... ...l A certain portion of uncertain paper: Some liken it to climbing up a hill, Whose summit, like all hills, is lost in vapour; For this men... ...heek A purple hectic play’d like dying day On the snow tops of distant hills; the streak Of sufferance yet upon his forehead lay, Where th... ... cooling hour, just when the rounded Red sun sinks down behind the azure hill, Which then seems as if the whole earth it bounded, Circling a... ...reasure. Byron’s Don Juan “Canto Three” 83 Arriving at the summit of a hill Which overlook’d the white walls of his home, He stopp’d.— Wha... ...ish Cohorn’s ignorance Had palisado’d in a way you ‘d wonder To see in forts of Netherlands or France (Though these to our Gibraltar must kn...

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...es, Portus Lemanus, and now the sea is four miles away. All down the steep hill are boulders and masses of Roman brick- work, and from it old Watling ... ...paved in places, starts like an arrow to the north. I used to stand on the hill and think of it all, the galleys and legions, the captives and officia... ...n miles away; it lay like a raft on the sea, and farther westward were the hills by Hastings under the setting sun. Sometimes they hung close and clea... ...st rose above a gloriously tinted group of trees. Remoter rose the Wealden Hills, faint and blue, while to the left the hazy marsh spread out spacious... ...y, their shad- ows harsh and deep, the gray disordered plains, the ridges, hills, and craterlets, all passing at last from a blazing illumi- nation in... ...f blanket hairs. Of course I ought not to have used the blanket. In my ef- forts to clear the glass I slipped upon the damp surface, and hurt my shin ...

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...they ate upon it. 47 And Laban called it, The witness heap; and Jacob, The hillock of testimony: each of them according to the propriety of his langua... ...ned with the blessings of his fathers: until the desire of the everlasting hills should come: may they be upon the head of Joseph, and upon the crown ... ...nd go out and ght against Amalec: tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill, having the rod of God in my hand. 10 Josue did as Moses had spoken, a... ...against Amalec; but Moses, and Aaron, and Hur, went up upon the top of the hill. 11 And when Moses lifted up his hands, Is- rael overcame; but if he l... ... shall see him from the tops of the rocks, and shall consider him from the hills. This peo- ple shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the... ...Babylon, came up against Jerusalem, and the city was surrounded with their forts. 11 And Nabuchodonosor, king of Babylon, came to the city, with his s... ...e, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and they besieged it, and built forts against it round about. 5 And the city was besieged until the elevent... ...t the plan of the city of Jerusalem. 2 And lay siege against it, and build forts, and cast up a mount, and set a camp against it, and place battering ... ...ple shall Pharao ght against him: when he shall cast up mounts, and build forts, to cut o many souls. 18 For he had despised the oath, breaking his ...

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...urned aside from the road and ascended, not without difficulty, one or two hill- ocks. The other officers and the soldiers, observing the anxi- ety of... ...y of La Pelerine. His small black eyes could see what was happening on the hill- slopes on the other side of the valley. “The Blues will intercept the... ... the escort, and then advanced more slowly. The young man, see- ing a long hill before them, proposed to the young lady that they should walk. The fri... ...made a sign to Captain Merle, who was just then reach- ing the brow of the hill behind her. The marquis was taken unawares by her sudden action. “Stop... ...tas- magoria. The carriage passed through villages and valleys and mounted hills which left no impressions on her mind. They reached Mayenne; the sold... ... fighting? What do you expect of a king restored to his throne by your ef- forts? A woman did that great thing once, and the liberated king allowed he...

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...ink her heart came quietly out. The look was like the fall of light on the hills from the first of morning. It lasted half a minute, and left a ruffle... ... at the head of two hundred horsemen across a stretch of country including hill and forest, to fall like a bolt from the blue on the suspected Prince ... ...g the silly deeds done in a moment; they were somewhere ahead and over the hills: a band of brigands rather than a homely shining mansion, it was true... ... was drawn to think of her? Absent or present, she was round him, like the hills of a valley. She was round his thoughts—caged them; however high, how... ...orious day to follow, with a cleansing bath of a walk along the south- ern hills; homely English scenery to show to a German friend, one of his “Compa... ...antage by name; there were no references to gazetteer or atlas. A chain of forts and earthworks enables us to choose our ground, not for clinging to t...

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...es which swim in a sea of water, and have a sea of oil swimming in them.” —Hiller’ s Profane and Holy State. “So close behind some promontory lie The ... ...amb’ s Triumph of the Whale. “In the year 1690 some persons were on a high hill observ- ing the whales spouting and sporting with each other, when one... ...nds a mazy way, reaching to overlapping spurs of mountains bathed in their hill- side blue. But though the picture lies thus tranced, and though this ... ...he whale, and, mid most of them all, one grand hooded phantom, like a snow hill in the air. CHAPTER 2 The Carpet-Bag I STUFFED A SHIRT OR TWO into my... ...reets, their ice-covered trees all glittering in the clear, cold air. Huge hills and mountains of casks on casks were piled upon her wharves, and side... ...ough it. Merchant ships are but extension bridges; armed ones but floating forts; even pirates and privateers, though following the sea as highwaymen ...

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...Lamb’s Triumph of the Whale. “In the year 1690 some persons were on a high hill observing the whales spouting and sporting with each other, when one o... ...nds a mazy way, reaching to overlapping spurs of mountains bathed in their hill side blue. But though the picture lies thus tranced, and though this p... ...the whale, and, midmost of them all, one grand hooded phantom, like a snow hill in the air. in the air. Chapter 2 The Carpet Bag I stuffed a shirt or... ...reets, their ice covered trees all glittering in the clear, cold air. Huge hills and mountains of casks on casks were piled upon her wharves, and side... ...ff shore, more lonely than the Ed dystone lighthouse. Look at it — a mere hillock, and elbow of sand; all beach, without a background. There is more ... ...rough it. Merchant ships are but extension bridges; armed ones but floating forts; even pirates and privateers, though following the sea as highwaymen ...