But to conquer those obstacles which bristled round the South
Pole, rendering it more inaccessible than the North, which had not yet been reached by the boldest navigators--was it not a mad enterprise, one which only a maniac would have conceived?
"I could be just as cheerful as ever, sir, if I was sent back again; I hope I'm thankful; but I don't like to hear the North
Pole run down in such a fishy place as this.
Then she climbed down from the fence and walked up to it, while Toto ran around the
pole and barked.
I could not go to his assistance, because, as ill-luck would have it, we had not taken the proper precaution to bring out a spare
pole with us.
The millers belonging to the mills, when they saw the boat coming down the river, and on the point of being sucked in by the draught of the wheels, ran out in haste, several of them, with long
poles to stop it, and being all mealy, with faces and garments covered with flour, they presented a sinister appearance.
I can put a new piece of lining-silk in there for you in ten minutes.' She disappeared into her work-room with the vest, leaving me to confront the
Pole, who stood against the door like a wooden figure.
The top of the
pole was opposite the roof of the building, so it was but the work of an instant for the muscles that had for years sent him hurtling through the treetops of his primeval forest to carry him across the little space between the
pole and the roof.
Katerina Ivanovna was irritated too by the fact that hardly any of the lodgers invited had come to the funeral, except the
Pole who had just managed to run into the cemetery, while to the memorial dinner the poorest and most insignificant of them had turned up, the wretched creatures, many of them not quite sober.
When he had stripped off the side shoots he believed he could use the branch as a
pole, to guide the raft in case of emergency.
"I maka da kids worka da
pole an' da hub an' da barrel.
Yet with the money which the authorities restored to her from the pockets of the
Poles the Grandmother effected very, very little, for there soon arrived to take his countrymen's place, a third Pole--a man who could speak Russian fluently, was dressed like a gentleman (albeit in lacqueyish fashion), and sported a huge moustache.
The ice-bridges had to be tested, and either Daylight or Kama went in advance, snowshoes on their feet, and long
poles carried crosswise in their hands.