A rich cathedral gloom pervades the pillared aisles; so the
stray flecks of sunlight that strike a trunk here and a bough yonder are strongly accented, and when they strike the moss they fairly seem to burn.
There couldn't anything wake them up all over, and make them happy all over, like a dog fight -- unless it might be putting turpentine on a
stray dog and setting fire to him, or tying a tin pan to his tail and see him run himself to death.
Oh, that's good -- I tell you, Tom, I was most scared to death; I'd a bet anything it was a
STRAY dog.
Cole's carriagehorses returning from exercise, or a
stray letterboy on an obstinate mule, were the liveliest objects she could presume to expect; and when her eyes fell only on the butcher with his tray, a tidy old woman travelling homewards from shop with her full basket, two curs quarrelling over a dirty bone, and a string of dawdling children round the baker's little bowwindow eyeing the gingerbread, she knew she had no reason to complain, and was amused enough; quite enough still to stand at the door.
Ev'n should I fall o'er the broken bridge passing, Or
stray in the marshes, by false lights beguiled, Still will my Father, with promise and blessing, Take to His bosom the poor orphan child.
I felt that God had forsaken the
stray sheep there to its own wicked wanderings, and an evil beast prowled between it and the fold, waiting his time to spring and destroy.
His hands had the same wandering habit as his eyes; they were constantly changing from one position to another, constantly twisting and turning any little
stray thing they could pick up.
As a consequence, country airs circulated in Soho with vigorous freedom, instead of languishing into the parish like
stray paupers without a settlement; and there was many a good south wall, not far off, on which the peaches ripened in their season.
I look at the sunlight coming in at the open door through the porch, and there I see a
stray sheep - I don't mean a sinner, but mutton - half making up his mind to come into the church.
Scattered wits take a long time picking up; and often, before I had got them well together, they would be dispersed in all directions by one
stray thought, that perhaps after all Miss Havisham was going to make my fortune when my time was out.
As, unfortunately, the Queen's highway ran down in tortuous descent to the handful of fishermen's cottages that had clung there limpet-like for ages, there was always a chance of such a
stray visitation; but it was remote, and the whole place, hand and heart, was in the pocket of my lord.
On the slope was a dilapidated Swiss cottage, surrounded by a veranda on slender wooden pillars, about which clung a few tendrils of withered creeper, their
stray ends still swinging from the recent wind, now momentarily hushed as if listening for the coming of the rain.
