The cliffs towered
above me a good five thousand feet.
It took him many days to braid a new rope, but when, finally, it was done he went forth purposely to hunt, and lie in wait among the dense foliage of a great branch right
above the well-beaten trail that led to water.
To reach the hangar and drag forth the only other flier which it contained was the work of but an instant; and just as the two thern warriors whom Matai Shang had left to prevent this very contingency emerged upon the roof from the tower's interior, I rose
above them with a taunting laugh.
By that Heaven that bends
above us -- by that God we both adore -- Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore -- Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore." Quoth the raven, "Nevermore."
By that Heaven that bends
above us--by that God we both adore-- Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore-- Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore." Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."
He dared not reveal himself to whatever inhabitants dwelt in the place
above him.
Necessarily, in the face of urban populations in a state of economic disorganisation and infuriated and starving, this led to violent and destructive collisions, and even where the air-fleet floated inactive
above, there would be civil conflict and passionate disorder below.
But nevertheless I walk with my thoughts
ABOVE their heads; and even should I walk on mine own errors, still would I be
above them and their heads.
Preliminary, pages 57-58
above. The romance combines two stories which belong to the great body of wide-spread popular narrative and at first had no connection with each other: 1.
He had learned that continued friction would wear through the strands of his rope, though it was many years before this knowledge did more for him than merely to keep him from swinging too long at a time, or too far
above the ground at the end of his rope.
In the spring, when the streams are swollen by rain and by the melting of the snows, the lake rises several feet
above its ordinary level during the summer, it gradually subsides again, leaving a sparkling zone of the finest salt upon its shores.
They say that the hills on each ride of the stream here once joined and formed a barrier across what is now the Thames, and that then the river ended there
above Goring in one vast lake.
