Fitzpatrick and Bridger, of the former company, as we have already shown, having received their supplies, had taken the lead, and hoped to have the first sweep of the hunting
grounds. Vanderburgh and Dripps, however, the two resident partners of the opposite company, by extraordinary exertions were enabled soon to put themselves upon their traces, and pressed forward with such speed as to overtake them just as they had reached the heart of the beaver country.
And all this part where we are is the little- side
ground, right up to the trees; and on the other side of the trees is the big-side
ground, where the great matches are played.
"Taking the
ground" is the professional expression for a ship that is stranded in gentle circumstances.
With regard to
ground of this nature, be before the enemy in occupying the raised and sunny spots, and carefully guard your line of supplies.
So saying he made a ship's cable fast to one of the bearing-posts that supported the roof of the domed room, and secured it all around the building, at a good height, lest any of the women's feet should touch the
ground; and as thrushes or doves beat against a net that has been set for them in a thicket just as they were getting to their nest, and a terrible fate awaits them, even so did the women have to put their heads in nooses one after the other and die most miserably.
He circled slowly a few times above the meadow until he had assured himself that Bertha Kircher was there and apparently unharmed, then he dropped gently to the
ground so that the machine came to a stop a short distance from where the girl and the warriors awaited them.
He has not a good length, but he varies his action bewilderingly, and has one especially teasing ball which falls from the branches just as you have stepped out of your
ground to look for it.
Before the smoke of the discharge had cleared away I heard a loud savage cry--a scream like that of a wild animal--and flinging his gun upon the
ground Morgan sprang away and ran swiftly from the spot.
And under these rooms, a fair and large cellar, sunk under
ground; and likewise some privy kitchens, with butteries and pantries, and the like.
"And we shan't set foot on the solid
ground?" murmured Joe; "it's enough to cramp a fellow's legs!"
"The wires go out from the cave and fence in a circle of level
ground a hundred yards in diameter; they make twelve independent fences, ten feet apart -- that is to say, twelve circles within circles -- and their ends come into the cave again."
His cuirass of bronze did not protect him, and the spear stuck in his belly, so that he fell heavily to the
ground. Then Idomeneus vaunted over him saying, "Othryoneus, there is no one in the world whom I shall admire more than I do you, if you indeed perform what you have promised Priam son of Dardanus in return for his daughter.