"I'm sorry I frightened you out of your favorite
stamping ground," he said rather aimlessly.
Here alone were dews and rains, here alone was an open sea, here was water in plenty; and all this was but the
stamping ground of fierce brutes and from its beauteous and fertile expanse the wicked remnants of two once mighty races barred all the other millions of Barsoom.
All the way back to the
stamping ground of the apes, Tarzan sought for an explanation of the strange power which had stayed his hand and prevented him from slaying Mbonga.
So Malaita remains today, in the twentieth century, the
stamping ground of the labor recruiters, who farm its coasts for laborers who engage and contract themselves to toil on the plantations of the neighboring and more civilized islands for a wage of thirty dollars a year.
For that is the pity of the adventure-path, which is one of John Barleycorn's favourite
stamping grounds.
In their
stamping grounds in the jungle the three were familiar figures.
Since the loss of his mate, a great longing had possessed him to return to the haunts of his youth--to the untracked jungle wilderness where he had lived the life he loved best long before man had invaded the precincts of his wild
stamping grounds. There he hoped in a renewal of the old life under the old conditions to win surcease from sorrow and perhaps some measure of forgetfulness.
The adventure decided me never again to leave the limits of my prescribed
stamping grounds until I was ready to venture forth for good and all, as it would certainly result in a curtailment of my liberties, as well as the probable death of Woola, were we to be discovered.
"You'd have to go farther west to find my
stamping grounds."
I LOVED Chris Hughton's postmatch comments after Brighton won at his old
stamping ground St James' Park.
Bryan Ferry is returning to his old
stamping ground next spring with a concert at Newcastle City Hall.