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overhanging as the daylight faded, and the approaching night blended the sharp outlines and increased the magnitude of every object around us. Near by...

know what unexpected rocks or holes there would be found round the next sharp turn. From Padang the road led to the northwest, over the low lands between...

the southern side, that I could look directly up into the crater from the controleur’s residence in the valley. The sharp limestone needles, on the east...

to the snout, which is tufted with hair, and the claws, which are very sharp. The celebrated Japanese author, Bakin, in his master- piece of Hakkenden...

spoiling for for- eign blood. Japanese swords are quickly drawn, and are sharp. No vrov. » 370 THE MIKADO'S EMPIRE. and walls of the castle. Up and down...

present every day, along with your breath, that they may hear with the sharp-earedness of the forth-galloping colt." The offerings, most commonly laid...

the chasm in which the torrent flows. Descending from these branches in a sharp curve, they rise again steeply at the farther end of the bridge. From these...

rosy-cheeked children played, or boys fished, or pretty girls came down to look at the lotus - flowers. The echo of their merry laugh often reached me. In...

attempt to conceal the purport of his address—that he was in favour of sharp measures, of going to the root of the [Pg 100] evil at once, and of massacring...

excursion in a boat some six miles toward the northern end of the bay to look at some layers of coal. Leaving the boat we went a short distance up the...

eyes and mouth on be- holding the white foreigner. Some of the old ladies look at me piti- fully, so sorry that I am so bleached and pale, instead of the...

sound, such as would be caused by beating a hollow log, and not[180] the sharp, quick rap of a drum, which, however monotonous, still has something stirring...

with large crimson flowers. In the evening, when the moon rose over the sharp peaks a short distance to the east, and spread a broad band of silver light...

plank placed on the sides to raise them to the proper height. Both ends are sharp, and curve upward. About four feet from the bow a pole is laid across, and...

are disk-shaped, for they are made from thin fragments of slate that had sharp corners when they broke away from their parent mountain. To prevent a dull...

numbers of yaks, but the bulls are able to drive them off with their long sharp horns. At 3 p.m. we passed Dsongo, the extreme border of the district of...

precaution was taken by Generals Kaufmann and Scobelef that the blow should be sharp and decisive. Not fewer than 20,000 Russian troops in all were to be directed...

front, it rose up as a vast wall, whose top cut the sky in a succession of sharp peaks with a clearness of outline rarely witnessed. And above all, stretched...

that is gold. In the coast region, the houses of the natives have high, sharp[500] roofs, and are covered with atap, but here they are larger and lower;...

presented to the magistrate. These are inscribed on slips of bamboo with a sharp instrument, and I have several of them in my possession. They must banish...