At almost the same instant I thought that I caught the scraping of hide sandals upon the
ledge beyond the turn.
And then another savage face appeared, and a third and fourth and fifth, craning their necks over the shoulders of their fellows whom they could not pass upon the narrow
ledge. Each face was the picture of awe and fear, but for what reason I did not know, nor did I learn until ten years later.
We slept under the same
ledge of rock where we had dined the day before: the night was fine, but from the depth and narrowness of the gorge, profoundly dark.
Altogether, the box was the most ordinary box in the world, with its red hangings, its chairs, its carpet and its
ledge covered in red velvet.
'Something in this sort of style,' he replied, and at the same moment to my horror he slipped sideways off the rocks and, as I then thought, by good fortune merely, alighted among the spreading branches of a species of palm tree, that shooting its hardy roots along a
ledge below, curved its trunk upwards into the air, and presented a thick mass of foliage about twenty feet below the spot where we had thus suddenly been brought to a standstill.
The limb upon which I found myself ascended at a slight angle toward the cliff, and as I followed it I found that it terminated a few feet above a narrow
ledge which protruded from the cliff's face at the entrance to a narrow cave.
that I will drink a whole bottle of rum without taking it from my mouth, sitting outside the window on this spot" (he stooped and pointed to the sloping
ledge outside the window) "and without holding on to anything.
The man who lay on the
ledge of the grating was even chilled.
The black was standing upon the
ledge beside his boat, looking up the river, as though he were awaiting one whom he expected from that direction.
I placed a foot upon the lowest
ledge and clambered upward, reaching down and pulling Lys to my side.
He got as far as my
ledge, crying piteously, an arrow clear through his chest, the feathered shaft sticking out behind, the bone head sticking out before, shot through the back as he climbed.
A few small footholds presented themselves, and there was some indication of a
ledge. The cliff is so high that to climb it all was an obvious impossibility, and it was equally impossible to make my way along the wet path without leaving some tracks.
At nine o'clock he stubbed his toe on a rocky
ledge, and from sheer weariness and weakness staggered and fell.
Four feet out in the stream, a narrow
ledge thrust above the surface of the water.
We have gone through several rounds of purgatory since you left, and I have lately got on to a worse
ledge of it than ever.
