Well, I have wrought it in a kind of dream; and now that I am
broad awake I must set about finishing yonder figure of Admiral Vernon.
Broad was Robin across the shoulders, but broader was the stranger by twice the breadth of a palm, while he measured at least an ell around the waist.
Suddenly the
broad muscles and lines of the count's face began to twitch.
Scarcely had Vas Kor taken his seat when the flier went quickly into the fast-moving procession, turning presently from the
broad and crowded avenue into a less congested street.
Next we come to the Hump, which is the part of the
Broad Walk where all the big races are run, and even though you had no intention of running you do run when you come to the Hump, it is such a fascinating, slide-down kind of place.
The lights from the lanterns dimly showed the way, but it was a gloomy journey, and they were pleased when a
broad streak of light ahead assured them they were coming to a second landing.
Ojo gave a jump, for he saw several
broad leaves leaning toward him; but the Shaggy Man began to whistle again, and at the sound the leaves all straightened up on their stems and kept still.
Scarce pausing for a backward glance, Taglat abandoned the unconscious woman and fled in the opposite direction from the horrid sound which had broken in so unexpected and terrifying a manner upon his startled ears; but the warning had come too late to save him, and the lion, in his second bound, alighted full upon the
broad shoulders of the anthropoid.
Trent nodded, and the three men scrambled up the beach, across an open space, and gained the shelter of a
broad balcony, shielded by a striped awning which surrounded the plain white stone hotel.
A double-breasted jacket of some dark frieze-like material fitted closely to her figure, while her straight blue skirt, untrimmed and ungathered, was cut so short that the lower curve of her finely-turned legs was plainly visible beneath it, terminating in a pair of
broad, flat, low-heeled and square-toed shoes.
Meanwhile, in the
broad and lofty chamber set apart for occasions of import, the Abbot himself was pacing impatiently backwards and forwards, with his long white nervous hands clasped in front of him.
It is improbable in the highest degree that
broad, lofty, isolated, steep-sided banks of sediment, arranged in groups and lines hundreds of leagues in length, could have been deposited in the central and profoundest parts of the Pacific and Indian Oceans, at an immense distance from any continent, and where the water is perfectly limpid.
When yester-eve the moon arose, then did I fancy it about to bear a sun: so
broad and teeming did it lie on the horizon.
He caught a glimpse of the
broad, smooth, black and piebald back of Hollandka.
They came to a halt in the
broad carpeted way only a few feet from him.
