On feeling the heat Sancho said, "May I die if we are not already in that fire place, or very near it, for a good part of my beard has been singed, and I have a mind, senor, to uncover and see whereabouts we are."
The duchess asked Sancho how he had fared on that long journey, to which Sancho replied, "I felt, senora, that we were flying through the region of fire, as my master told me, and I wanted to uncover my eyes for a bit; but my master, when I asked leave to uncover myself, would not let me; but as I have a little bit of curiosity about me, and a desire to know what is forbidden and kept from me, quietly and without anyone seeing me I drew aside the handkerchief covering my eyes ever so little, close to my nose, and from underneath looked towards the earth, and it seemed to me that it was altogether no bigger than a grain of mustard seed, and that the men walking on it were little bigger than hazel nuts; so you may see how high we must have got to then."
To which Don Quixote replied, "As all these things and such like occurrences are out of the ordinary course of nature, it is no wonder that Sancho says what he does; for my own part I can only say that I did not uncover my eyes either above or below, nor did I see sky or earth or sea or shore.
Barbicane and his two companions immediately rushed to the uncovered window.
He succeeded; and through the uncovered glass the moon filled the projectile with a brilliant light.
Athos waved his hand -- he dared not trust himself to speak: and Raoul went away, his head
uncovered. Athos remained motionless, looking after him until he turned the corner of the street.
He worked artfully, loosing slide after slide of the red soil and sending it streaming down and covering up all he had
uncovered, hiding from the light of day the treasure he had discovered.
Before long we had
uncovered many other indications that a great battle had been fought upon the ground where we stood.
An inward laugh of derision
uncovered not only his teeth but his gums as well, shook him all over, without the slightest sound.
The
uncovered part had the appearance of a huge cylinder, caked over and its outline softened by a thick scaly dun-coloured incrustation.
To fresh questions as to the firmness of his resolution Pierre replied: "Yes, yes, I agree," and with a beaming, childlike smile, his fat chest
uncovered, stepping unevenly and timidly in one slippered and one booted foot, he advanced, while Willarski held a sword to his bare chest.
His coat would hardly have passed muster in San Francisco; his foot-gear was not of urban origin, and the hat that lay by him on the floor (he was the only one
uncovered) was such that if one had considered it as an article of mere personal adornment he would have missed its meaning.
In taking down the body the men disturbed the loose, friable earth of the slope below it, disclosing human bones already nearly
uncovered by the action of water and frost.
He looked out several times at Mukhorty and could see that his back was
uncovered and the drugget and breeching lying on the snow, and that he ought to get up and cover him, but he could not bring himself to leave Nikita and disturb even for a moment the joyous condition he was in.
I remember in fact that as we pushed into his little chamber, where the bed had not been slept in at all and the window,
uncovered to the moonlight, made the place so clear that there was no need of striking a match--I remember how I suddenly dropped, sank upon the edge of the bed from the force of the idea that he must know how he really, as they say, "had" me.
