The Living Age, Volume 242Living Age Company, 1904 |
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Page 39
... light was fading fast ; the panther's back harmonized most astonishingly with the brown and gray of the wheat stubble in the field . Should he shoot now , at thirty yards , or wait for the final rush ? Plainly the beast was in no hurry ...
... light was fading fast ; the panther's back harmonized most astonishingly with the brown and gray of the wheat stubble in the field . Should he shoot now , at thirty yards , or wait for the final rush ? Plainly the beast was in no hurry ...
Page 40
... light conversation is not encouraged on the jungle - paths . On a cold - weather morning in the forests of Central India it is an exqui- site pleasure to be alive . To inhale deep breaths of an air fragrant with a hundred subtle odors ...
... light conversation is not encouraged on the jungle - paths . On a cold - weather morning in the forests of Central India it is an exqui- site pleasure to be alive . To inhale deep breaths of an air fragrant with a hundred subtle odors ...
Page 42
... light green foliage a - shimmer in the sunlight . The spot was not twen- ty paces from where he stood . Then for the first time in his life he began to be horribly afraid . He had read of fear in books and talked of it in jest , and as ...
... light green foliage a - shimmer in the sunlight . The spot was not twen- ty paces from where he stood . Then for the first time in his life he began to be horribly afraid . He had read of fear in books and talked of it in jest , and as ...
Page 51
... light upon a complex character . After all , he was something better than a gourmet , a dilettante , or a rhetorician . He was a soldier , who served his country so well , that after a long career he might boast that he had taken some ...
... light upon a complex character . After all , he was something better than a gourmet , a dilettante , or a rhetorician . He was a soldier , who served his country so well , that after a long career he might boast that he had taken some ...
Page 64
... light of any star . Tho ' hoarse War's eagle on him perch , Quickened with guilty lightnings , — there It shall in vain for terror search , Where a child's eyes ' neath bloody hair Gaze purely thro ' the dingy air . But when the ...
... light of any star . Tho ' hoarse War's eagle on him perch , Quickened with guilty lightnings , — there It shall in vain for terror search , Where a child's eyes ' neath bloody hair Gaze purely thro ' the dingy air . But when the ...
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