before the arrival of the moon at the
point aimed at.
And so I swam slowly on, waiting for my head to touch the top of the corridor, which would mean that I had reached the limit of my flight and the
point where I must sink for ever to an unmarked grave.
But these small wares, and petty
points, of cunning, are infinite; and it were a good deed to make a list of them; for that nothing doth more hurt in a state, than that cunning men pass for wise.
We are thus brought to the question which has been largely discussed by naturalists, namely, whether species have been created at one or more
points of the earth's surface.
About thirty miles above
Point Vancouver the mountains again approach on both sides of the river, which is bordered by stupendous precipices, covered with the fir and the white cedar, and enlivened occasionally by beautiful cascades leaping from a great height, and sending up wreaths of vapor.
As the Heliumite's
point pricked his green hide, Hortan Gur turned upon his adversary with a snarl, but at the same instant two of his chieftains called to him to hasten, for the charge of the fair-skinned inhabitants of the city was developing into a more serious matter than the Torquasians had anticipated.
The beautiful beaches of
Points Pedro and Pablo, where are the shrimp-catchers' villages, are made fearful by the stench from myriads of decaying fish, and against this wasteful destruction it has ever been the duty of the fish patrol to act.
I did not cease to wonder at these ravines and precipices: when viewing the country from one of the knife- edged ridges, the
point of support was so small, that the effect was nearly the same as it must be from a balloon.
Or, lastly, animated with sufficient speed to enable it to reach the neutral
point, but not sufficient to pass it, it would remain forever suspended in that spot like the pretended tomb of Mahomet, between the zenith and the nadir.
The next
point of interest will be Palermo, the most beautiful city of Sicily, which will be reached in one night from Naples.
Behind Notre-Dame, the cloister and its Gothic galleries spread out towards the north; on the south, the half-Roman palace of the bishop; on the east, the desert
point of the Terrain.
On the weak and aged, and especially on delicate Females, the force of attraction tells much more heavily than on the robust of the Male Sex, so that it is a
point of breeding, if you meet a Lady in the street, always to give her the North side of the way -- by no means an easy thing to do always at short notice when you are in rude health and in a climate where it is difficult to tell your North from your South.
