Escort
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The
escort
of boats and tenders still followed the frigate and only left us when we came abreast of the lightship, whose two signal lights mark the entrance of the narrows to Upper New York Bay.
During that day a fearsome school of sharks provided us with an
escort.
Now then, late in 1702 Spain was expecting a rich convoy, which France ventured to
escort
with a fleet of twenty-three vessels under the command of Admiral de Chateau-Renault, because by that time the allied navies were roving the Atlantic.
They provided the Nautilus with an escort, and I could hear their beaks gnashing on the sheet-iron hull.
I will
escort
you," said Homais.
The history of these tactics, admirably divined by Madame de Renal, had been imparted to Julien while he gave her his arm to
escort
her from one shop to another, and little by little had carried them to the Cours de la Fidelite, where they spent some hours, almost as peaceful as the hours at Vergy.
At midnight, when she took up her mother's candlestick, to
escort
her to her room, Madame de La Mole stopped on the stairs to utter a perfect panegyric of Julien.
"God send it may be true; I want their
escort
in again."
During the breakfast several expresses arrived, one of which brought intelligence of the actual force and destination of the enemy's expedition that was out on the Hudson; and another, orders to send Captain Wharton to the first post above, under the
escort
of a body of dragoons.
The horse of Dunwoodie was fleet as the wind, and scarcely a minute seemed to have passed before he gained sight, from an eminence, of the lonely vale, and as he was plunging into the bottom lands that formed its surface, he caught a glimpse of Henry Wharton and his escort, at a distance, defiling through a pass which led to the posts above.
I quitted the island, as I said, without any
escort
except my ass; I fell into a pit, I pushed on through it, until this morning by the light of the sun I saw an outlet, but not so easy a one but that, had not heaven sent me my master Don Quixote, I'd have stayed there till the end of the world.
The meal was hastily despatched; each of the gentlemen's hats was decorated with an enormous blue favour, made up by the fair hands of Mrs. Pott herself; and as Mr. Winkle had undertaken to
escort
that lady to a house-top, in the immediate vicinity of the hustings, Mr. Pickwick and Mr. Pott repaired alone to the Town Arms, from the back window of which, one of Mr. Slumkey's committee was addressing six small boys and one girl, whom he dignified, at every second sentence, with the imposing title of 'Men of Eatanswill,' whereat the six small boys aforesaid cheered prodigiously.
At this interesting point, the little judge interposed most irascibly; and the effect of the interposition was, that both the worthy lady and Mrs. Sanders were politely taken out of court, under the
escort
of Mr. Jackson, without further parley.
'Well, Mr. Raddle,' said Mrs. Bardell; 'I'm sure you ought to feel very much honoured at you and Tommy being the only gentlemen to
escort
so many ladies all the way to the Spaniards, at Hampstead.
Might I not
escort
her to this place?
And here comes the country surgeon and Mrs. Rucastle, so I think, Watson, that we had best
escort
Miss Hunter back to Winchester, as it seems to me that our locus standi now is rather a questionable one."
Tarvin obeyed the voice because it was a child's, and came out to find an apparently empty barouche and an
escort
of ten gigantic troopers.
The child waved his hand to his escort, who, dividing, lined each side of the road, with all the ragged bravery of irregular cavalry.
Her numbed limbs would have doubled under her, but Tarvin, leaping from the barouche, caught her to him, regardless of the
escort
and of the calm-eyed child in the golden drapery, who was shouting, "Kate!
The escort, which, till now, had waited respectfully a quarter of a mile behind, were racing up at full speed, with levelled lances.
This was the mail-carrier and his
escort
running to Gunnaur.
With impish perversity the young Prince, who had never received an order in his life before, learned to find joy in disobedience, and devoted his wits, his escort, and his barouche to gamboling in the wing of the palace belonging to Sitabhai.
Each prince with his
escort
would solemnly drive to the palace, and half an hour later the silver state barouche and the Maharajah himself, jewelled from head to heel, would return the visit, while the guns gave word of the event to the city of houses and to the city of tents.
She went on to tell him how, that morning, the barouche, the escort, and a pompous native had hurried up to the missionary's door bearing the almost lifeless form of the Maharaj Kunwar; how she had at first attributed the attack, whatever it might be, to exhaustion consequent upon the wedding festivities; how the little one had roused from his stupor, blue-lipped and hollow-eyed, and had fallen from one convulsion into another, until she had begun to despair; and how, at the last, he had dropped into a deep sleep of exhaustion, when she had left him in the care of Mrs. Estes.
There was a clattering of horses' feet, and a little later the Maharajah's carriage and
escort
thundered up to the door of the missionary's house.
"Thou art all a Rajput, my son.""And my escort, where were they?""With Pertab Singh's troop.
And in a year, even in a year, so says the Rawut of Bunnaul, I shall be fit to lead my
escort
as a king should lead them.
Ride swiftly, and tell them to send down my barouche and
escort.
Kate and Mrs. Estes half helped and half carried the child into it, though he strove to stand on his feet in the veranda and acknowledge the salute of his
escort
as befitted a man.
At that moment a cloud of dust whirled through the gypsy camp, as the
escort
of the Maharaj Kunwar, clearing the way for the barouche, scattered the dark band to the left and right.
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