Then the Prince rode home to the old Mother Dragon, who was full of wonder when she saw him, and said, 'You have succeeded to-day in looking after my mare, and as a reward you shall come to my ball to-night.' She gave him at the same time a cloak made of copper, and
led him to a big room where several young he-dragons and she-dragons were dancing together.
The child's hand was pointing southward, along the road that
led to London.
Ascalaphus and Ialmenus, sons of Mars,
led the people that dwelt in Aspledon and Orchomenus the realm of Minyas.
Ned started off very slowly with his sad load, and Robert came and looked at my foot again; then he took his handkerchief and bound it closely round, and so he
led me home.
The fire and smoke were to be feared a thousand times over the water, and so I seized upon the first gallery which
led out of and up from the suffocating smoke that was engulfing us.
Two of the brothers
led Pierre up to the altar, placed his feet at right angles, and bade him lie down, saying that he must prostrate himself at the Gates of the Temple.
Tiring at last of this diversion, Tarzan took up his way along the corridor which
led upward from the jewel-room by a steep incline.
Through winding corridors she
led, farther and farther into the remoter precincts of the temple, until they came to a great chamber in the center of which stood an altar.
Raffles would never have
led me into danger so gratuitous and unnecessary, but he followed me into it without a word.
"To be brief, I
led the aimless drifting life of a young, provincial thrown into the heart of a great city; still retaining some good and true feeling, still clinging more or less to the observance of certain rules of conduct, still fighting in vain against the debasing influence of evil examples, though I offered but a feeble, half- hearted resistance, for the enemy had accomplices within me.
"Come tomorrow to the messroom," said Vronsky, and squeezing him by the sleeve of his coat, with apologies, he moved away to the center of the race course, where the horses were being
led for the great steeplechase.
When they rose up from the ground, and took the shady track which
led them through the wood, she bounded on before, printing her tiny footsteps in the moss, which rose elastic from so light a pressure and gave it back as mirrors throw off breath; and thus she lured the old man on, with many a backward look and merry beck, now pointing stealthily to some lone bird as it perched and twittered on a branch that strayed across their path, now stopping to listen to the songs that broke the happy silence, or watch the sun as it trembled through the leaves, and stealing in among the ivied trunks of stout old trees, opened long paths of light.
In suits which a man doth not well understand, it is good to refer them to some friend of trust and judgment, that may report, whether he may deal in them with honor: but let him choose well his referendaries, for else he may be
led by the nose.
They took hold of hands and the Horner
led them into a dark corner, where he halted.
I have no stomach to narrate the monotonous events of the tedious days that Woola and I spent ferreting our way across the labyrinth of glass, through the dark and devious ways beyond that
led beneath the Valley Dor and Golden Cliffs to emerge at last upon the flank of the Otz Mountains just above the Valley of Lost Souls--that pitiful purgatory peopled by the poor unfortunates who dare not continue their abandoned pilgrimage to Dor, or return to the various lands of the outer world from whence they came.
