Why, that crack in the
rock, just facing you," replied Billina, whose little round eyes were very sharp and seemed to see everything.
look into the water above, just where it breaks over the
rocks.
Mohegan pointed toward Elizabeth, who, forgetting her danger, had sunk back to a projection of the
rock as soon as she recognized the sounds of Edwards’ voice, and said with something like awakened animation:
Long ere they could gain the level ground, the Spaniards, seeing them riding swiftly amid the
rocks, and being ignorant of their numbers, drew off from the captured hill, and, having secured their few prisoners, rode slowly in a long column, with drum-beating and cymbal-clashing, out of the valley.
Again and again I tried to reach it, until at length, maddened with the thought of my situation, I swayed myself violently by striking my foot against the side of the
rock, and at the instant that I approached the large root caught desperately at it, and transferred myself to it.
replied the voice, and there stepped from behind the
rock the strangest man the travelers had ever seen.
Toto had disappeared from view, but they could hear him barking furiously among the heaps of grey
rock ahead of them.
No one had the slightest suspicion; and when next day, taking a fowling-piece, powder, and shot, Dantes declared his intention to go and kill some of the wild goats that were seen springing from
rock to
rock, his wish was construed into a love of sport, or a desire for solitude.
which had soon grown to be a disgust), and saved me from the sense of horror I had whenever I was quite alone with dead
rocks, and fowls, and the rain, and the cold sea.
Scarcely had he pronounced these words, when the impulse of the fall augmented the weight; the enormous
rock sank down, pressed by those others which sank in from the sides, and, as it were, swallowed up Porthos in a sepulcher of badly jointed stones.
You will find the other
rock lie lower, but they are so close together that there is not more than a bow-shot between them.
Graspus), which inhabits the crevices of the
rock, stole the fish from the side of the nest, as soon as we had disturbed the parent birds.
One of these precipices, or cliffs, is curiously worn by time and weather so as to have the appearance of a ruined fortress, with towers and battlements, beetling high above the river, while two small cascades, one hundred and fifty feet in height, pitch down from the fissures of the
rocks.
He was in a light skiff, and being well acquainted with the currents and eddies, had shifted his station, according to the shifting of the tide, from the Hen and Chickens to the Hog's Back, from the Hog's Back to the Pot, and from the Pot to the Frying Pan; but in the eagerness of his sport he did not see that the tide was rapidly ebbing, until the roaring of the whirlpools and eddies warned him of his danger, and he had some difficulty in shooting his skiff from among the
rocks and breakers, and getting to the point of Blackwell's Island.
The trees themselves had been transferred, however, to the summit and crags of the neighbouring
rocks.
