Alleyne, staggering to the side, was about to hurl himself after him, but Hordle John dragged him back by the girdle.
You would need wings ere you could reach Sir Nigel's side."
What would I not have given at that moment to have been by his side. The feat he had just accomplished seemed little less than miraculous, and I could hardly credit the evidence of my senses when I saw the wide distance that a single daring act had so suddenly placed between us.
On each side of the fall, two lofty and perpendicular bluffs buttressed the sides of the enormous cliff, and projected into the sea of verdure with which the valley waved, and a range of similar projecting eminences stood disposed in a half circle about the head if the vale.
They marched directly across the arena toward the rocks upon the opposite side, where, spreading their bat-like wings, they rose above the high wall of the pit, settling down upon the bowlders above.
She differed from the others in no feature that was appreciable to my earthly eyes, in fact all Mahars look alike to me: but when she crossed the arena after the balance of her female subjects had found their bowlders, she was preceded by a score of huge Sagoths, the largest I ever had seen, and on either side of her waddled a huge thipdar, while behind came another score of Sagoth guardsmen.
The big bull was beset on every
side. He ripped them open or split their skulls with shrewdly driven blows of his great hoofs.
Then the Lion put his strong front legs against the tree and pushed with all his might, and slowly the big tree tipped and fell with a crash across the ditch, with its top branches on the other
side.
By the
side of the road Tip noticed a sign-post that read:
The other
side of the Manger is formed by the Dragon's Hill, a curious little round self-confident fellow, thrown forward from the range, utterly unlike everything round him.
Alan looked neither to the right nor to the left, but jumped clean upon the middle rock and fell there on his hands and knees to check himself, for that rock was small and he might have pitched over on the far
side. I had scarce time to measure the distance or to understand the peril before I had followed him, and he had caught and stopped me.
How many should say there were on your
side, doctor?"
On either
side of her sat the more important guests- an old general and his wife, and Anna Pavlovna Scherer.
During our conversation Woola had been growling and bristling close to my
side. Occasionally he would look up into my face with a low, pleading whine, as though begging for the word that would send him headlong at the bare throats before him.
At the other end of the series we have the cells of the hive-bee, placed in a double layer: each cell, as is well known, is an hexagonal prism, with the basal edges of its six
sides bevelled so as to join on to a pyramid, formed of three rhombs.