With the self-satisfaction of a man on parade, he stepped lightly with his muscular legs as if sailing along, stretching himself to his full height without the smallest effort, his ease contrasting with the heavy tread of the soldiers who were keeping
step with him.
Step by
step she went up, dragging herself by the railing.
D'Artagnan, as we have said, perceived a hole in that place and in this hole the
steps of a winding staircase.
Be that as it may, it always seemed to me that I moved with greater speed and agility within Pellucidar than upon the outer surface--there was a certain airy lightness of
step that was most pleasing, and a feeling of bodily detachment which I can only compare with that occasionally experienced in dreams.
He came to the stone
steps leading upward to the higher level.
He mounted the
steps, and, seizing a rafter with either hand, he swung himself up into the garret.
He had not far to go; he knew indeed how many
steps it was from the gate of his lodging house: exactly seven hundred and thirty.
And I
step aside--see here--and leave you and Jim alone.
When she wakes she can sup." And he made some
steps toward the door.
We will not pretend to accompany the travellers
step by
step in this tremendous mountain scramble, into which they had unconsciously betrayed themselves.
A few
steps beyond the mouth of the opening it was pitch dark.
Bide thee awhile till I get me a staff." So saying, he threw aside the rose that he had been holding all this time, thrust his sword back into the scabbard, and, with a more hasty
step than he had yet used, stepped to the roadside where grew the little clump of ground oaks Robin had spoken of.