Butscratch a little dirt and make a flower; Scratch a bit of brainsomething like a poem.

Some loose dirt gave way underfoot, the tired beast stumbled, a dead limb caught at his legs, tripping him, and Blackie lurched downward and fell.

A hundred and fifty is dirt cheap for him, and the surrey will be worth at least seventy-five.

Or, at best, not a thing to expend wildly for gowns and gowns and shoes and stockings and limousines; to-night Gloria felt that she had had her fill of vanities like those, that she was done with them; that if, for every moan and agony and slow death and thought of envy Gus Ingle's gold had brought into the world, she could create a smile here and a hope fulfilled there and a glow yonder, she would ask nothing else of the yellow dirt.

These are invariably laid out in a square, which is surrounded by a lofty wall of mere dirt, or else of adobe.

" Pearl kissed him again, and gave him one more hug, before she said, "It is clean dirt, Ma, and it will brush off, and I just couldn't wait; but sure

Of pictures, I should like to own Titians and Raphaels three or four, I love so much their style and tone, One Turner, and no more (A landscape,foreground golden dirt; The sunshine painted with a squirt).

"Dirt" not "healthy."

" The man was fastening up the opening again with pieces of slate and coal, and plastering it over with loose wet dirt.

To a question by the magistrate, as to whether he had had anything to do with casting offal into the bay, prisoner laughed in a wild manner, and said that he, for one, could never be accused of wasting good, honest dirt in that way.

They saw a tunnel opening, with raw dirt walls and floor and a rude framing of heavy timbers to support the roof.

Zach had dropped the hide and horns from his "recreant limbs," and was seated solemnly upon the snow, in all the majesty of his native dirt.

While this is about the average rate per hour of the fastest train between New York and Chicago, it should be remembered that the trains run on steel rails, that curves are comparatively few, and they are not sharp, while the automobile was spinning around a mile track made of plain dirt, and was obliged to negotiate 2,506 sharp curves.

"Then I sez, 'Glory be,' and cross myself and signal the doughboys to lower away on the coffin, and I flung a handfula dirt in on top like I see 'em do always.

He lived alone in indescribable dirt, and lived wholly on hard-boiled eggs, which he cooked, with his glue, by the fifty, and ate as he felt inclined.

It was not otherwise than slightly meritorious in me, my dear E, to take her up in the wagon and endure her abominable dirt and foulness in the closest proximity, rather than let her drag her poor old limbs all that way back; but I was glad when we gained her abode and lost her company.

As he worked, the loosened dirt fell upon him, upon his head, into his eyes and nose and ears....

The Tories were villains, of courseCanning was all perfidy and 'infinite meanness,' Huskisson a mass of 'intellectual confusion and mental dirt,' Castlereagh ...

Mixed dirt with manure.

(Hard road and ditch in front and cotton field all around it except a few feet of padded dirt and a wood pile.)

Before this, if anybody had ever told me Whit Monk would do a pal dirt, I'd've punched his head and thought no more about it.

I doubt if a single tumble-down wall had been replacedthe dirt and smells still remained, and the roads were no smoother.

Beneath the gray sky which seemed suspended over the house tops, water gushed down the thick sides of the high walls, spouts overflowed, and the streets were coated with a slimy dirt in which passersby slipped.

Just a make-believe sweep with a broom was given there every day: one could divine long-amassed, tenacious dirt in every dim corner; and the place reeked with an odor of bad cookery mingled with that of sour milk.

And unnecessary dirt is found even in the newer apartment-houses with the ever-changing population and ever-lessening space for maids' quarters, together with the sham character of construction due to the fact that most of these houses have been put up by speculators at the lowest cost of the cheapest materials which will show wear in a few months.