They must throw out flankers as they marched, but there was no immediate need of them.

If the band spread out before dawn it would be sufficient.
Robert's fancy was so intense and creative that, beginning by imagining these things so, he made them so.

The band therefore was sure to go on without searching the thickets on either right or left at present, and all immediate apprehension disappeared from his mind.

Tandakora and De Courcelles were in the center of the moonlight, and although knowing them evil, he was surprised to see how very evil their faces looked, each in its own red or white way.

He could remember nothing at that moment but their wickedness, and their treacherous attacks upon his life and those of his friends, and the memory clothed them about with a hideous veil through which only their cruel souls shone.