I was aware that my son was building a tomb, and I think I can find the
spot.
The bed belonging to the present occupants was placed as the former owner of the chamber had been accustomed to have his; and, in spite of his efforts to prevent it, the eyes of Edmond were suffused in tears as he reflected that on that
spot the old man had breathed his last, vainly calling for his son.
Meantime, her husband had pitched upon a
spot for their new home.
For it happened to him, as to Phoenix and Cilix, that other homeless people visited the
spot, and liked it, and built themselves habitations in the neighborhood.
It is even supposed that the tinge of the latter is that of reddish sand-stone, like much of that known in our own world, but more decided in tint, while two brilliant white
spots, at its poles, are thought to be light reflected from the snows of those regions, rendered more conspicuous, or disappearing, as they first emerge from a twelvemonths' winter, or melt in a summer of equal duration.
The articles taken out were deposited among the brambles, and the dog left to guard them, with strict orders from Jupiter neither, upon any pretence, to stir from the
spot, nor to open his mouth until our return.
But when the Night had thrown her pall Upon that
spot, as upon all, And the mystic wind went by Murmuring in melody -- Then -- ah then I would awake To the terror of the lone lake.
The mixed, singular, luminous gloom in which they walked along together to the
spot where the cows lay, often made him think of the Resurrection hour.
To satisfy himself that this
spot was really the centre of the earth, a sceptic once paid well for the privilege of ascending to the dome of the church to see if the sun gave him a shadow at noon.
Several of the field galloped to the
spot where the fight was going on.
His small woodcraft and little experience in travelling resulted in his becoming completely confused, so that instead of returning to the
spot where he had last seen the girl, as he wished to do, he bore far to the northeast of the place, and missed entirely the path which von Horn and his Dyaks had taken from the long-house into the jungle and back.
The next instant she alarmed Agnes, by starting to her feet with a cry of terror, and pointing to a small brown
spot on one of the white panelled spaces of the carved ceiling.
