Here is my
promontory, and there is the sea--IT rolleth hither unto me, shaggily and fawningly, the old, faithful, hundred-headed dog-monster that I love!--
They were down wind from Tarzan, and so their scent was not carried to him, and as his back was turned half toward them he did not see their cautious advance over the edge of the promontory and down through the rank grass toward the sandy beach where he lay.
In a moment the blacks had scattered for their lives, but of the score that had crept down the grassy sides of the promontory only a single warrior managed to escape the horde that had overwhelmed his people.
We were not far off the line the wind made with the western edge of the promontory, and I watched in the hope that some set of the current or send of the sea would drift us past before we reached the surf.
I had seen a distant headland past the extreme edge of the promontory, and as we looked we could see grow the intervening coastline of what was evidently a deep cove.
Two miles farther on we were stopped by the promontory which shelters the bay from the southerly winds.
Arrived at the upper ridge of the promontory, I saw a vast white plain covered with morses.
On the following day, the ship having drifted near the land, anchored in fourteen fathoms water, to the northward of the long peninsula or
promontory which forms the north side of the entrance, and is called Cape Disappointment.
They were nearing the edge of the
promontory, and the view was stealing round them, but the brown network of the bushes shattered it into countless pieces.
As the last of them disappeared behind the
promontory, Carthoris turned toward Thuvia of Ptarth.
I carefully traced the windings of the land and hailed a steeple which I at length saw issuing from behind a small promontory. As I was in a state of extreme debility, I resolved to sail directly towards the town, as a place where I could most easily procure nourishment.
As I turned the promontory I perceived a small neat town and a good harbour, which I entered, my heart bounding with joy at my unexpected escape.
McCaul is to join the ECB from
Promontory Financial Group.
The findings originally came to light in a probe by independent investigators
Promontory, which found "widespread inappropriate treatment" of customers by the GRG.
This historic event linked the Central and Union Pacific railroads at
Promontory Summit, Utah, and established the first transcontinental railroad.
