For, standing within the narrow chamber of
rock, was the form of a man--or, at least, it seemed like a man, in the dim light.
Marooners'
Rock stood alone in the forbidding waters as if it were itself marooned.
Our main hope," he continued, raising his rugged countenance, across which a shade of anxiety just then passed like a darkening cloud, "will be to keep the
rock until Munro can send a party to our help!
Something like a sensation was exhibited among them, which might have denoted that the influence of the laughing blue eyes, flaxen hair, and glowing cheeks of Ellen, had not been lost on the dull natures of the young men; and looks of amazement, mingled slightly with concern, passed from one to the other as they gazed, in dull wonder, at the point of the naked
rock.
He scrambled over
rock and stone, through brush and brier, rolled down banks like a hedgehog, scrambled up others like a catamount.
Had the flames spread on that
rock with half the quick ness with which they leaped from bush to tree in other parts of the mountain, our painful task would have soon ended; for they would have consumed already the captives they inclosed.
At last the passage came to an end; and the Doctor found himself in a kind of tiny room with walls of
rock.
"You have saved more than us," said John, pointing to the banner which leaned against the
rock behind him.
A small table of
rock which projected over the precipice on one side of the stream, and was drenched by the spray of the fall, sustained a huge trunk of a tree which must have been deposited there by some heavy freshet.
With this, he began to march along the road to the opening in the
rocks ahead, and the others kept close behind him.
Edmond gazed very earnestly at the mass of
rocks which gave out all the variety of twilight colors, from the brightest pink to the deepest blue; and from time to time his cheeks flushed, his brow darkened, and a mist passed over his eyes.
A little after, as I was jumping about after my limpets, I was startled by a guinea-piece, which fell upon a
rock in front of me and glanced off into the sea.