For Canopus burned high in the eastern heavens, mounting gloriously amid the smaller stars even as he had once seen it from his palace-terrace in Shathair.

We mounted by a narrow and not very steep gorge amid rocks and trees.

Second, the political repression of Spain's working class was growing increasingly troublesome, and pressure for expanded suffrage mounted amid widespread discontent with the cacique system of electoral manipulation.

Mounting at his leisure, amid a shower of bullets which puffed up the white dust all around him, he rode onwards towards the dragoons and discharged one of his pistols at them.

The wizard mounted the stairs, amid the silence of a multitude that had thronged the hall, and seated himself in the hollow of the great globe.

Nushain, standing irresolute, beheld before him a white stairway that mounted amid the veering vapors.

The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund is mounting its 81st annual campaign amid a relentless recession in New York City that has heaped added burdens upon charities.

Last year, however, the subprime unit began producing pain for the parent as losses mounted amid rising interest rates and increased levels of defaults.

It was the great beefy, bearded, moustached head of Captain Kalbfleish mounted on the wall like a trophy, and amid the other trophies of the room.

LEAD: Markets Markets Tension mounted in the credit markets amid weak demand from domestic and Japanese investors.