Upon one hand was the bluff that ran from the canyon to the sea, on the other the fearsome swamp from which the creature had sneaked upon me, behind lay the mighty
untracked sea, and before me in the center of the narrow way that led to safety stood this huge mountain of terrible and menacing flesh.
For three days the little cavalcade marched slowly through the heart of this unknown and
untracked forest, until finally, early in the fourth day, they came upon a little spot near the banks of a small river, which seemed less thickly overgrown than any ground they had yet encountered.
Her
untracked oceans, whispering of virgin wonders unsullied by the eye of man, beckoned me out upon their restless bosoms.
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.
The object in hand being to show that the prisoner went down, with some fellow-plotter
untracked, in the Dover mail on that Friday night in November five years ago, and got out of the mail in the night, as a blind, at a place where he did not remain, but from which he travelled back some dozen miles or more, to a garrison and dockyard, and there collected information; a witness was called to identify him as having been at the precise time required, in the coffee-room of an hotel in that garrison-and-dockyard town, waiting for another person.
During this time he said that his boys were resting and gaining strength after their terrible ordeals in the
untracked jungle to the south; but he had not been as idle as he appeared to have been.
Thus refreshed, they set out once more after the leader who wandered aimlessly beneath the shade of the tall jungle trees amidst the gorgeous tropic blooms and gay, songless birds--and of the twelve only the leader saw the beauties that surrounded them or felt the strange, mysterious influence of the
untracked world they trod.
Proof is there none: how then can I challenge our King's good name, How in a blood-feud join for an
untracked deed of shame?
Three newly married couples, their bonds now duly solemnized by the master of the ship, joyed in the peace and security of the
untracked waters of the south Pacific and the unique honeymoon which, had it not been for stern duty ahead, they could have wished protracted till the end of time.
These things the blacks had learned in their old home, before they escaped through the
untracked jungle to their new village.
The book gives a historical perspective of ability grouping/tracking, presents research on its lack of effectiveness, explains the political pressure to continue this practice, and tells of educators striving to "
untrack" students.
It also includes action research projects from spring 2003: "'To Track or
Untrack...That Is the Question'" (Sarah Armes); "Providing Urban Students with the Motivation to Succeed in School" (Laura K.