Dale , striking strike a trail , turned turn his back to the fading fade afterglow afterglow and strode stride down the valley .

She strode stride into the book .

While the objects around me -- while the carvings of the ceilings , the sombre tapestries of the walls , the ebon blackness of the floors , and the phantasmagoric armorial trophies which rattled rattle as I strode stride , were but matters to which , or to such as which , I had been accustomed from my infancy -- while I hesitated hesitate not to acknowledge how familiar was all this -- I still wondered wonder to find how unfamiliar were the fancies which ordinary images were stirring stir up .

The captain was on the point of making an angry reply , but , thinking think better of it , turned turn on his heel and black and scowling , strode stride aft .

Diligence and attention soon gave him the knack of it , and he strode stride down the street with his mouth full of harmony and his soul full of gratitude .