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Narrows.
A long and brilliantly white beach is capped by a margin of green vegetation; and the strip, looking either way, rapidly
narrows away in the distance, and sinks beneath the horizon From the mast-head a wide expanse of smooth water can be seen within the ring.
Here lay a desolate valley--a shallow,
narrow valley dotted with stunted trees and covered with many great bowlders.
Whilst they had been speaking, she had opened the door, a
narrow iron one, well hung, for it opened easily and closed tightly without any creaking or sound of any kind.
The little store of sovereigns in the tin box seemed to be the only sight that brought a faint beam of pleasure into the miller's eyes,--faint and transient, for it was soon dispelled by the thought that the time would be long--perhaps longer than his life,--before the
narrow savings could remove the hateful incubus of debt.
Ninaka's eyes
narrowed. "They are safe," he answered.
The Neckar is in many places so
narrow that a person can throw a dog across it, if he has one; when it is also sharply curved in such places, the raftsman has to do some pretty nice snug piloting to make the turns.
This house, with its slate-covered roof, was built between a passage-way and a
narrow street that led to the river.
The stream was narrow--so
narrow that in the blackness I was constantly bumping first one rock wall and then another as the river wound hither and thither along its flinty bed.
We sailed through the barren Archipelago, and into the
narrow channel they sometimes call the Dardanelles and sometimes the Hellespont.
A single woman, with a very
narrow income, must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid!
A
narrow riband ran along the shore, and sometimes there was a kind of bridge across the stream, formed of old ice and snow.