"Oh, yes," said Dorothy, now observing for the first time the crack in the
rock. "And isn't this a key-hole, Billina?" pointing to a round, deep hole at one side of the door.
There crowded upon her all the stories she had been told of Marooners'
Rock, so called because evil captains put sailors on it and leave them there to drown.
The bright flashes and the quick reports of a dozen rifles, from the opposite banks of the stream, followed this incautious exposure of his person, and left the unfortunate singing master senseless on that
rock where he had been so long slumbering.
More than a minute of profound silence succeeded, during which the sons of Ishmael still continued gazing at the naked
rock in stupid wonder.
There would he be seen, at all times and in all weathers, sometimes in his skiff, anchored among the eddies, or prowling like a shark about some wreck, where the fish are supposed to be most abundant; sometimes seated on a
rock from hour to hour, looking, in the mist and drizzle, like a solitary heron watching for its prey.
They recoiled from the heat, and stood on a point of the
rock, gazing in a stupor at the flames which were spreading rap idly down the mountain, whose side, too, became a sheet of living fire.
Then he and Jip got out of the ship on to the
rock.
Loud rang the swift charger's hoofs over
rock and reef, while the fire flew from the stroke of iron, and the loose stones showered up behind him.
On his return, he reported that the shelves of
rock on our right would enable us to gain with little risk the bottom of the cataract.
A chorus of boisterous laughter came from the other
rocks, and Dorothy saw hundreds of the armless Hammer-Heads upon the hillside, one behind every
rock.
"Lots of 'em!" cried Button-Bright; and so there were--quite a row of the two-sided black and white creatures sitting on the
rocks all around.
All that Edmond had been able to do was to drag himself about a dozen paces forward to lean against a moss-grown
rock.
