But this rule applies not always to the Tradesmen, and still less often to the Soldiers, and to the Workmen; who indeed can hardly be said to deserve the name of human Figures, since they have not all their
sides equal.
Three pirates had fallen before him, and he had wounded Spade-beard in the neck, when the Norman giant sprang at him from the
side with a slashing blow from his deadly mace.
Again and again I tried to reach it, until at length, maddened with the thought of my situation, I swayed myself violently by striking my foot against the
side of the rock, and at the instant that I approached the large root caught desperately at it, and transferred myself to it.
Sometimes the band took measured steps in unison to one
side or the other, or backward and again forward--it all seemed very silly and meaningless to me, but at the end of the first piece the Mahars upon the rocks showed the first indications of enthusiasm that I had seen displayed by the dominant race of Pellucidar.
On her other
side ran a gaunt old wolf, grizzled and marked with the scars of many battles.
They found the forest very thick on this
side, and it looked dark and gloomy.
"But just keep those legs still a minute and I'll set you right
side up again."
They're starting!" was heard on all
sides after the hush of expectation.
And in this place one of the two kings of the heathen and five of his earls fell down and died, and many thousands of the heathen
side in the same place." * After which crowning mercy, the pious king, that there might never be wanting a sign and a memorial to the country-side, carved out on the northern
side of the chalk hill, under the camp, where it is almost precipitous, the great Saxon White Horse, which he who will may see from the railway, and which gives its name to the Vale, over which it has looked these thousand years and more.
The soldiers, having searched this
side of the valley after a fashion, and being perhaps somewhat sleepy with the sultriness of the afternoon, had now laid by much of their vigilance, and stood dozing at their posts or only kept a look-out along the banks of the river; so that in this way, keeping down the valley and at the same time towards the mountains, we drew steadily away from their neighbourhood.
On the two short
sides of the house, east and west, there were only two loopholes; on the south
side where the porch was, two again; and on the north
side, five.
On either
side of the passage, on the lower floor, were two rooms.