Luke smacked his palm against the white hand-post with such force that it shook. ❋ Unknown (2006)
The young pupil-teacher — for she was the object of their scrutiny — re-approached the spot whereon she had been accustomed for the last many weeks of her journey home to meet Christopher, now for the first time missing, and again she seemed reluctant to pass the hand-post, for that marked the point where the chance of seeing him ended. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Twenty minutes passed, and the girl returned miserably to the hand-post, still to wander back to her retreat behind the sedge, and lead any chance comer from the opposite quarter to believe that she had not yet reached this ultimate point beyond which a meeting with Christopher was impossible. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Miss Melbury, having gone forward quite in the rear of the rest, was one of the first to return, and the excitement being contagious, she ran laughing towards Marty, who still stood as a hand-post to guide her; then, passing on, she flew round the fatal bush where the undergrowth narrowed to a gorge. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Long Ash Lane cut athwart them, right and left; and they saw that at the junction of the four ways, under the hand-post, a grave was dug, into which, as the choir drew nigh, a corpse had just been thrown by the four Sidlinch men employed for the purpose. ❋ Unknown (2006)
It reached the hand-post, when a voice from the inside cried, ‘Stop here!’ ❋ Unknown (2006)
The same evening he started on foot over the hill to Chalk-Newton, passing the hand-post, and saying as he glanced at the spot, 'Thank God: he's not there!' ❋ Thomas Hardy (1884)
Lane cut athwart them, right and left; and they saw that at the junction of the four ways, under the hand-post, a grave was dug, into which, as the choir drew nigh, a corpse had just been thrown by the four Sidlinch men employed for the purpose. ❋ Thomas Hardy (1884)
It reached the hand-post, when a voice from the inside cried, 'Stop here!' ❋ Thomas Hardy (1884)
The young pupil-teacher -- for she was the object of their scrutiny -- re-approached the spot whereon she had been accustomed for the last many weeks of her journey home to meet Christopher, now for the first time missing, and again she seemed reluctant to pass the hand-post, for that marked the point where the chance of seeing him ended. ❋ Thomas Hardy (1884)
Chapel Farm you feel, when you reach the gate, you are in the busy world again, and when you reach the hand-post and turn to Eastthorpe you are in the full tide of life, although not a soul is to be seen. ❋ Mark Rutherford (1872)
Two or three years before the events narrated in the following chapters took place -- that is to say, about twenty years after the death of Zachariah's second wife -- a hundred coaches a day rolled past that hand-post, and about two miles beyond it was a huge inn, with stables like cavalry barracks, where horses were changed. ❋ Mark Rutherford (1872)
From the hand-post on the main road to the gate was half a mile, and from the gate to the farm nearly another half-mile. ❋ Mark Rutherford (1872)
You can go nowhere in the adjacent town except uphill, and it needs no hand-post to the fair to those who know a farmer when they see him, the stream of folk tender thither so plainly. ❋ Richard Jefferies (1867)
He continued: -- "Did you notice a hand-post which stands where four roads meet, about a mile and a half from here?" ❋ Frank E. Smedley (1835)
We're looking for someone that is familiar with CraigsList (www. craigslist.org) and can hand-post 20 ads per day (rising to 60 ads / day or more) for the next 3 months (leading to longterm). ❋ Unknown (2008)
