That
canvas wanted more putting up than I think any of us had bargained for.
For what is the array of the strongest ropes, the tallest spars and the stoutest
canvas against the mighty breath of the infinite, but thistle stalks, cobwebs and gossamer?
It rolled over and over, the water gurgling out upon the
canvas till the referee, with a quick flirt of his toe, sent the bottle rolling through the ropes.
He concluded by reinforcing the
canvas with additional guys of odd pieces of rope and bailing-wire.
Fentolin could not possibly observe him, he never removed his gaze from the
canvas.
To and fro, up and down, north, south, east, and west, the HISPANIOLA sailed by swoops and dashes, and at each repetition ended as she had begun, with idly flapping
canvas. It became plain to me that nobody was steering.
"But I saw it through the hole in the
canvas. De Ville drew his handkerchief from his pocket, made as though to mop the sweat from his face with it (it was a hot day), and at the same time walked past Wallace's back.
Beneath its purple pall, the face painted on the
canvas could grow bestial, sodden, and unclean.
Surgeon Surville, entering from the kitchen, drew aside the
canvas screen, and approached the little round table at which his superior officer was sitting.
Yet, instead of affixing his signature to an official order, there sat the Lieutenant-Governor, so carefully scrutinizing the black waste of
canvas that his demeanor attracted the notice of two young persons who attended him.
She took up her little
canvas and silently passed it to him.
The other side discloses a broad doorway (closed by a
canvas screen), which serves as a means of communication with an inner apartment, devoted to the superior officers.