But the fight had taken a new and a strange turn upon the other
side. Spade-beard and his men had given slowly back, hard pressed by Sir Nigel, Aylward, Black Simon, and the poop-guard.
In a few moments I was standing by the
side of my companion.
At the barrier the Sagoths clambered up the steep
side with truly apelike agility, while behind them the haughty queen rose upon her wings with her two frightful dragons close beside her, and settled down upon the largest bowlder of them all in the exact center of that
side of the amphitheater which is reserved for the dominant race.
After each repulse, when the old wolf sheered abruptly away from the sharp-toothed object of his desire, he shouldered against a young three-year-old that ran on his blind right
side. This young wolf had attained his full size; and, considering the weak and famished condition of the pack, he possessed more than the average vigour and spirit.
If the Tin Woodman can chop it down, so that it will fall to the other
side, we can walk across it easily."
The obedient creature at once walked forward, rocking from
side to
side as he raised his feet from the ground.
Vronsky was aware of those eyes fastened upon him from all
sides, but he saw nothing except the ears and neck of his own mare, the ground racing to meet him, and the back and white legs of Gladiator beating time swiftly before him, and keeping always the same distance ahead.
Right down below the White Horse is a curious deep and broad gully called "the Manger," into one
side of which the hills fall with a series of the most lovely sweeping curves, known as "the Giant's Stairs." They are not a bit like stairs, but I never saw anything like them anywhere else, with their short green turf, and tender bluebells, and gossamer and thistle-down gleaming in the sun and the sheep-paths running along their
sides like ruled lines.
When we came to one of these, Alan would leave me in the way, and go himself and rap upon the
side of the house and speak awhile at the window with some sleeper awakened.
The report had scarcely died away ere it was repeated and repeated from without in a scattering volley, shot behind shot, like a string of geese, from every
side of the enclosure.
Perry chose the front-room, placed on the other
side of the cottage, next to the two smaller apartments occupied by Hester and her maid.
Only Pierre and Helene sat silently
side by
side almost at the bottom of the table, a suppressed smile brightening both their faces, a smile that had nothing to do with Sergey Kuzmich- a smile of bashfulness at their own feelings.
