At the next instant the form of Chingachgook appeared from the bushes, looking like a specter in its paint, and glided across the path in swift pursuit.
A beaten path, such as those made by the periodical passage of the deer, wound through a little glen at no great distance, and struck the river at the point where the white man and his red companions had posted themselves.
"But if he did shut the window, it was because of the bend in the gravel path, a dozen yards from the pavilion, and on account of the three oaks that are growing at that spot."
See, just in front of the little path leading to the lake, that was his nearest way to get out."
"I am not afraid," answered Sonya's voice, and along the
path toward Nicholas came the crunching, whistling sound of Sonya's feet in her thin shoes.
The huntsman drew off the wolf's skin and went home with it; the grandmother ate the cake and drank the wine which Red-Cap had brought, and revived, but Red-Cap thought to herself: 'As long as I live, I will never by myself leave the
path, to run into the wood, when my mother has forbidden me to do so.'
All the morning they trudged up the mountain
path and at noon Unc and Ojo sat on a fallen tree-trunk and ate the last of the bread which the old Munchkin had placed in his pocket.
"I will search the broad earth till I find a
path up to the sun, or some kind friend who will carry me; for, alas!
The steps passed along the
path on the other side of the wall under which I crouched.
With my knees shaking beneath me, I stood and glared with starting eyes down the moonlit
path which lay behind me.
The place seemed deserted; and I should have thought the house empty and shut up but for the carefully tended radishes and the recent footmarks on the green of the
path. They were the footmarks of a child.
"I'm anxious to see what the Rigmaroles are like, and this
path ought to take us there the quickest way."
Let us, if so thou wilt, follow this beautiful
path, which, as thou seest, hath a guide-board saying, 'Turn in here all ye who seek the Palace of Political Distinction.'"
Finally the hen, fluttering over the mound, exclaimed: "Why, here's a
path!"
He was running back and forth, too, in the
path ahead.
