1 Then the girl had returned to her task of clearing up the kitchen for the night and he had taken his lantern and gone on his usual round outside the house.
2 Mattie, when the meal was over, went about her usual task of clearing the table and washing up the dishes.
3 "Hum--hurrump," said Gerald, clearing his throat in embarrassment at being caught openly in an act of kindness.
4 The negroes idled about, clearing the long tables on which the food had been laid.
5 It's a clearing house for gossip.
6 "There are such lots of horrors this morning," she added, clearing a space in the centre of the confusion and rising to yield her seat to Miss Bart.
7 With the clearing of her vision the sweep of peril had extended, and she saw that the post of danger was no longer at Dorset's side.
8 A photograph of a forest clearing: pathetic new furrows straggling among stumps, a clumsy log cabin chinked with mud and roofed with hay.
9 The house was so unsheltered, so battered by the wind, so bleakly thrust out into the harsh clearing, that Carol shivered.
10 She was fumbling at a door-knob which whirled in insulting circles; she was on the stoop, gasping, forcing air into her chest, her head clearing.
11 It narrated the success of a farm-lassie in clearing her brother of a charge of forgery.
12 The schooner was run into the wind, and while the hands were clearing away the stern boat, Queequeg, stripped to the waist, darted from the side with a long living arc of a leap.
13 The trees of many acres had been felled, and the glow of a mild summer's evening had fallen on the clearing, in beautiful contrast to the gray light of the forest.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 21 14 The route taken by Duncan and David lay directly across the clearing of the beavers, and along the margin of their pond.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 22 15 There yet lingered sufficient light in the heavens to exhibit those bright openings among the tree-tops, where different paths left the clearing to enter the depths of the wilderness.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 23