 | Andrew Reed - 1820 - 352 pages
...sprang on his forehead ! Now again the little waves ripple over the mark — and— subside no more f He rises from his seat for the last time * He starts to see a person in the path whicb ran along the bottom of the bank. He paused to get the stranger out of sight. This was not so... | |
 | 1821 - 542 pages
...break or fulfil — he would do it when the tide came to a certain height. His aching eye hung o\er the bank, watching the awful progress of the rippling...pathway, and left the place, full of indignation." Vol. 2. page 102. Thus happily discovered, he is restored to his distracted mother, but the solicitude... | |
 | Sarah Hall - 1833 - 232 pages
...He postponed a purpose which he had not power either to break or fulSl — he would do it when the tide came to a certain height. His aching eye hung...bank. He paused to get the stranger out of sight. Tiiis was not so readily done. He waited — and waited; and, at last concluding the intruder meant... | |
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His aching eye hung o\er the bank, watching the awful progress of the rippling waters. Now they ran over the stone, which was to fill up the measure of his time — but they sank again ! The blood fell back to his heart, and the sweat drops sprang on... 