"Oh, yes," said Dorothy, now observing for the first time the crack in the
rock. "And isn't this a key-hole, Billina?" pointing to a round, deep hole at one side of the door.
He placed a finger in his mouth, and drew a long, shrill whistle, which was answered from the
rocks that were guarded by the Mohicans.
The place of the interview between Miss Temple and the Indian has already been described as one of those plat forms of
rock, which form a sort of terrace in the mountains of that country, and the face of it, we have said, was both high and perpendicular.
From above it seemed as though rope and cliff were well-nigh touching, but now, when swinging a hundred feet down, the squire found that he could scarce reach the face of the
rock with his foot, and that it was as smooth as glass, with no resting-place where a mouse could stand.
After an hour's painful progress, we reached the verge of another fall, still loftier than the preceding and flanked both above and below with the same steep masses of
rock, presenting, however, here and there narrow irregular ledges, supporting a shallow soil, on which grew a variety of bushes and trees, whose bright verdure contrasted beautifully with the foamy waters that flowed between them.
"Wonder if this works with strings," said Dorothy; but Polychrome cried "Look!" for another creature just like the first had suddenly appeared sitting on another
rock, its black side toward them.
All that Edmond had been able to do was to drag himself about a dozen paces forward to lean against a moss-grown
rock.
A little after, as I was jumping about after my limpets, I was startled by a guinea-piece, which fell upon a
rock in front of me and glanced off into the sea.
As for you, coxswain, these are your orders; attend to them, for the ship is in your hands; turn her head away from these steaming rapids and hug the
rock, or she will give you the slip and be over yonder before you know where you are, and you will be the death of us.'
The smallest
rock in the tropical seas, by giving a foundation for the growth of innumerable kinds of seaweed and compound animals, supports likewise a large number of fish.
At the distance of a mile and a half from the foot of this narrow channel is a rapid, formed by two rocky islands; and two miles beyond is a second great fall, over a ledge of
rocks twenty feet high, extending nearly from shore to shore.
It was with difficulty held to the
rocks by a boat hook, for the current rushed furiously round the point.
Nell, I say;--I hope it is an army of red-skins she has in her eye; for I should relish the chance to pay them for their kindness, under the favour of these logs and
rocks!"
When she stole softly to the edge of the lagoon she might see them by the score, especially on Marooners'
Rock, where they loved to bask, combing out their hair in a lazy way that quite irritated her; or she might even swim, on tiptoe as it were, to within a yard of them, but then they saw her and dived, probably splashing her with their tails, not by accident, but intentionally.
I see a great, great
rock in front of us--look--way out there where the sky and the water meet.