During the night which followed the execution of la Esmeralda, the night men had
detached her body from the gibbet, and had carried it, according to custom, to the cellar of Montfauçon.
In his naked feet, so as not to scratch the covering, he succeeded by the aid of the network, and in spite of the oscillations of the balloon, in climbing to the upper extremity, and after a thousand difficulties, in holding on with one hand to that slippery surface, while he
detached the outside screws that secured the pipes in their place.
Detached groups of horsemen are well in front - not altogether exposed - many of them intently regarding the crest of a hill a mile away in the direction of the interrupted advance.
Art makes the same effort which a sensual prosperity makes; namely to
detach the beautiful from the useful, to do up the work as unavoidable, and, hating it, pass on to enjoyment.
For some little distance we two followed the others,
detached from them, and should have continued so had not Lord Douglas asked me, about 3 P.M., to tie on to old Peter, as he feared, he said, that Taugwalder would not be able to hold his ground if a slip occurred.
The Rocky Mountains do not present a range of uniform elevation, but rather groups and occasionally
detached peaks.
The reader will recollect that, on distributing his forces when in Green River Valley, Captain Bonneville had
detached a party, headed by a leader of the name of Matthieu, with all the weak and disabled horses, to sojourn about Bear River, meet the Shoshonie bands, and afterward to rejoin him at his winter camp on Salmon River.
With that he
detached his watch--a tremendously heavy, old-fashioned one--from the chain, and handed it to me; then turned away, and walking across the room to a shelf of books, began an examination of their backs.
At times, when closely pursued, he will disgorge what are supposed to be the
detached arms of the squid; some of them thus exhibited exceeding twenty and thirty feet in length.
The same fate was not far from overtaking us, for a troop of Galles, who were
detached in search of us, missed us but an hour or two.
A city therefore should have both these sorts of buildings, which may easily be contrived if any one will so regulate them as the planters do their rows of vines; not that the buildings throughout the city should be
detached from each other, only in some parts of it; thus elegance and safety will be equally consulted.
It contained many large bowlders,
detached from the slopes of the hills.