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The enemy troops closed in on the city.
An examination of a map of this front made on August 1, 1915, would have shown the German lines near Warsaw, upon which they closed in on August 5.
Count Rostopchin suddenly grew pale as he had done when the crowd closed in on Vereshchagin.
He turned away.
"Go fas.
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faster!" he cried in a trembling voice to his coachman.
The caleche flew over the ground as fast as the horses could draw it, but for a long time Count Rostopchin still heard the insane despairing screams growing fainter in the distance, while his eyes saw nothing but the astonished, frightened, bloodstained face of "the traitor" in the fur-lined coat.
As we arrived the Indians, a semicircle of spearmen, had closed in on them, and in a minute it was over, Thirty or forty died where they stood.
Mean while, young Skinker, wholly desperate to [Page 68] be foiled by one so much his Inferior in Strength and Understanding, flew on Harry like a Fury and fastened the Nails of both his Hands in his Face, from which Gripe our Hero as quickly disengaged himself, by darting his Head into the Nose and Mouth of his Adversary, who was instantly covered with Blood, though his Passion would not permit him to attend to the Pain; for, exerting his last Effort, he closed in on our little Champion, and determined, at once, to finish the Combat, by lifting and dashing him against the Ground; but Harry finding himself going, nimbly put one Foot behind and hit Skinker in the Ham, and, at the same time pushing forward, with all his Force, prone fell the unfortunate Skinker precipitated by the double Weight of himself and his Antagonist, and his Head rebounded against the Floor, while up sprung Harry, and with a rising Dunt in the Stomach, put a Period to the Fray.
My situation was too dizzy to allow a long survey; so turning my eyes from the terrific precipice, I gladly beheld an opening in the rocks, through which we passed into a little irregular glen of the smoothest greensward, closed in on one side by the great peak, and on the others by a ridge of sharp pinnacles, which crown the range of white cliffs I had so much admired the night before, when brightened by the moon.
It is a handsome tomb of oblong form, partly subterranean and partly above ground, and closed in on all sides except the one by which it is entered.
The tall form and beautiful countenance of Sister Clare were loved and reverenced as those of an angel messenger among the high houses and courts that closed in on the banks of the Thames; and while Luxemburgs in France and Flanders intrigued and fought, plotted and fell, their kinswoman’s days passed by in busy alms-deeds and ever loftier devotion, till those who watched her steps felt that she was verily a light of the world, manifesting forth the true Light in many a dark place.
It is like you to have thought of such a beautiful thing." "Not a thing, only an ending," said Helen rather sadly; and the sense of tragedy closed in on Margaret again as soon as she left the house.
The flanks of the royal army closed in on Montfort's, surrounding them.
In the ensuing dogfight, Boelcke and Böhme, neither aware of the other's presence, closed in on the same aircraft, flown by Captain Arthur Knight.
Shackleton's most famous expedition set out from London on August 1, 1914, to reach the Weddell Sea on January 10, 1915, where the pack ice closed in on their ship, the 'Endurance'.
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