The ascent was exceedingly trying, for the incline was steep and it was at times difficult to get a firm footing. But they were repaid for the exertion, for they had reached the highest point of the island and could see all over it. As far as their vision reached there was nothing beyond the little island except the glistening waves that reached out till they met the sky in all directions. High up in the clouds they saw the balloon, now steadily drifting with the wind toward the south.英文原著 · 《The Land of the Changing Sun》
He never warned me as he said he would." On he rode. The moon became obscured, and when it flashed again he could see it but indistinctly. To reach the city, to reach Gertrude's, to give the horse a cut and send him adrift, this was his endeavor. But would he reach the city-- alive? Was he dying? He could not see . Yet again he shut his jaws and drew on his entire strength. He was keeping in the saddle by will power alone.英文原著 · 《The Puppet Crown》
The party accordingly returned, not having reached the Pole, not having reached the eighty-third parallel, for the attainment of which there was a reward of a thousand pounds held out by government. They reached the parallel of eighty-two degrees forty-five minutes, which was the most northerly point trodden by the foot of man.英文原著 · 《Voyages in Search of the North-West Passage》
GERALD. Of course I am. It means everything to me - things that were out of the reach of hope before may be within hope's reach now.英文原著 · 《A Woman of No Importance》
Mercedes answered him with a fearless and indomitable flash of eyes. Thorne was the only one who showed any shaken nerve. His leave-taking of his wife was affecting and hurried. Then he and the rangers carefully stepped in the tracks of the Yaqui. They climbed up to the level of the rim and went along the edge. When they reached the fissure and came upon its narrowest point, Yaqui showed in his actions that he meant to leap it. Ladd restrained the Indian. They then continued along the rim till they reached several bridges of lava which crossed it.英文原著 · 《Desert Gold》
They laid her on the white bed wherefrom her eyes would never more open to the morning light, and went away. "Drowned, drowned! Drowned and dead!" was the cry that went from lip to lip, till it reached Lord Earle where he sat, trying to soothe his weeping mother. "Drowned! Quite dead!" was the cry that reached Lillian, in her sick room, and brought her down pale and trembling. "Drowned and dead hours ago," were the words that drove Lord Airlie mad with the bitterness of his woe. They could not realize it. How had it happened?英文原著 · 《Dora Thorne》
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