Old Brooke takes half a dozen quick steps, and away goes the ball spinning towards the School goal, seventy yards before it touches
ground, and at no point above twelve or fifteen feet high, a model kick-off; and the School-house cheer and rush on.
Then Amphinomus drew his sword and made straight at Ulysses to try and get him away from the door; but Telemachus was too quick for him, and struck him from behind; the spear caught him between the shoulders and went right through his chest, so that he fell heavily to the
ground and struck the earth with his forehead.
He saw the plane tilt and the machine rise from the
ground. It was a good take-off--as good as Lieutenant Harold Percy Smith-Oldwick could make himself but he realized that it was only so by chance.
"As much as that?" said Joe, scrambling down to the
ground by the anchor-rope.
It's a belt forty feet wide, and goes around the outer fence -- distance between it and the fence one hundred yards -- kind of neutral
ground that space is.
Deiphobus tore the helmet from off his head, but Meriones sprang upon him, and struck him on the arm with a spear so that the visored helmet fell from his hand and came ringing down upon the
ground. Thereon Meriones sprang upon him like a vulture, drew the spear from his shoulder, and fell back under cover of his men.
While we were on the highroad, Blantyre had given me my head; but now, with a light hand and a practiced eye, he guided me over the
ground in such a masterly manner that my pace was scarcely slackened, and we were decidedly gaining on them.
At the very moment when Vronsky thought that now was the time to overtake Mahotin, Frou-Frou herself, understanding his thoughts, without any incitement on his part, gained
ground considerably, and began getting alongside of Mahotin on the most favorable side, close to the inner cord.
In fact, we see the whole of it except that furthest part, which is covered by the Welsh Marches and those parts which are hidden from where we stand by the high
ground of the immediate west.
The young Prince pursued the little creature, and had almost overtaken it, when the girth of his saddle suddenly broke in two and he fell heavily to the
ground. No sooner had his foot touched the earth than he disappeared before the eyes of the horrified courtiers.
She was drifting some fifty feet above the
ground, followed by all but some hundred of the warriors who had been ordered back to the roofs to cover the possibility of a return of the fleet, or of reinforcements.
Behind, before, and on both sides, crowds of militiamen with bared heads walked, ran, and bowed to the
ground.
