The shield, long and
oval, is utilized more as back-armor than as a defense against frontal attack, for the close-set armlets of gold upon the left forearm are principally depended upon to ward off knife, spear, hatchet, or arrow from in front; but against the greater carnivora and the attacks of several human antagonists, the shield is utilized to its best advantage and carried by loops upon the left arm.
The smaller room was something like a chapel in a cathedral, or a grotto in a cave, for the booming sound of the traffic in the distance suggested the soft surge of waters, and the
oval mirrors, with their silver surface, were like deep pools trembling beneath starlight.
Warily he stepped, his slender lance ever ready, his long
oval shield firmly grasped in his left hand close to his sleek ebony body.
Archie and Charlie, evidently great cronies, were pacing up and down, shoulder to shoulder, whistling "Bonnie Dundee"; Mac was reading in a corner, with his book close to his near-sighted eyes; Dandy was arranging his hair before the
oval glass in the hat-stand; Geordie and Will investigating the internal economy of the moon-faced clock; and Jamie lay kicking up his heels on the mat at the foot of the stairs, bent on demanding his sweeties the instant Rose appeared.
The calm and control which were so much a part of her seemed to have been communicated to the blankets, so that I was aware of a soft dreaminess and content, and of an
oval face and brown eyes framed in a fisherman's cap and tossing against a background now of grey cloud, now of grey sea, and then I was aware that I had been asleep.
I thought the slight color which usually adorned the fair
oval cheeks of Adrienne deepened a little at this remark, and I certainly felt a little tremor in the hand which held me; but it could not have been shame, as the sweet girl often alluded to her poverty in a way so simple and natural, as to prove that she had no false feelings on that subject.
Its leaves, of a fine green, are
oval, and disposed by threes.
Can any one who has rejoiced in woman's tenderness think it a reproach to her that she took the little
oval picture in her palm and made a bed for it there, and leaned her cheek upon it, as if that would soothe the creatures who had suffered unjust condemnation?
This line of reflection I discovered to be as distressing as the former, but, though I tried to turn my mind to other things, it persisted in returning to the vision of an
oval face, sun-tanned; of smiling lips, revealing white and even teeth; of brave eyes that harbored no shadow of guile; and of a tumbling mass of wavy hair that crowned the loveliest picture on which my eyes had ever rested.
Over the easy chair there hung in a gold frame an
oval portrait of Anna, a fine painting by a celebrated artist.
What would an amateur give me for that?" She unfolded the white paper and made a motion for me to take from her a small oval portrait.
She turned the small oval plate over in her lap, with its face down, and I thought I saw her catch her breath a little, as if she had had a strain or an escape.
Leitner, the first Principal of Government College Lahore, the Syndicate of Government College University Lahore renamed the
Oval ground as The Leitner
Oval.
West Indies have not featured in a Test at the
Oval in 15 years, meaning they have been absent from the storied venue for their last four tours of England, and CEO of Cricket West Indies, Johnny Grave, welcomed its return.
22 June -- 1st 50-over match v South Africa U19, Chatsworth Cricket
Oval, Durban
