He lay down, with his nose to the warm coals and his eyes leveled between his forepaws, straight at the closed tent-flap.

A wound from a misericordia always proves fatal, because the shape of the blade cuts the flesh into little flaps which, on withdrawing the knife, close up and prevent the blood from issuing forth.

A second look might have shown him the form of the tramp, half covered by a loose flap of the sail, deeply and heavily sleeping on the bottom of the boat.

The men were stripping off their coats, rolling them and strapping them to the saddles and the wagon seats; the Numbers One, the sergeants in charge of each gun, bustling their gunners, and seeing everything about the guns made ready: the gunners examining the mechanism and gears of the gun, opening and closing the hinged flaps of the wagons, and tearing the thin metal cover off the fuses.

Far up in the branches there sounded the slow flap of an owl's flight.

For the field, two or three light woollen khaki-colored shirts, made with two breast pockets with buttoned flaps, two pairs of long khaki trousers, two pairs of riding breeches, a khaki coat cut military fashion with four pockets with buttoned flaps, two suits of pajamas, handkerchiefs, socks, etc., would be necessary.

She appears with her little basket, which has two brown flaps for covers opening from the middle and with a spring in them somewhere so that they fly shut with a snap.

Place three cartons of hard bread in the center of the haversack body, the lower one on the line of attachment of the inside flap; lay the remaining carton of hard bread, the condiment can and the bacon can on the top of these, the condiment can and

No echo of a voice came across the water, no slight flap of sail, no distant creak of pulley, or groaning of ropemerely that fleeting vision, seemingly a phantom of imagination, a vision born from sea and cloud.

He took it, not by pinches, but a palmful at once, diving for it under the mighty flaps of his old-fashioned waistcoat pocket; his waistcoat red and angry, his coat dark rappee, tinctured by dye original, and by adjuncts, with buttons of obsolete gold.

Oh, that monotonous flip-flap of the water, that slow heaving of the boat!

I shall never forget that dark ship's deck, with no sound breaking the silence except the soft swirl of water alongside, the occasional flap of canvas aloft, and the creak of the wheel.

[Illustration: X Dr. Rothermela curtain at his back and one in front of him, his head through a hole in the upper part of the outer flap of the double curtain.

shouted the man, Marco, with a look through the outside flap, "she's coming again!"

During the month the various hotels of Bombay will be pretty familiar with the grey sun-hat, fortified with puggaree and pendent flap, which is the sign of the globe-trotter in the East.

" She was sitting on the trunk where Mary had sat, and when she began to speak she had looked down at her small hands that grasped the edge of the lid, their fingers picking nervously at the ragged flap.

and a third for Lincoln's Inn? Find, while I am meditating these problems, that I have been "suited" with a gown, also with a stock of ridiculous little linen flaps, which are called "bands."

a, Semicircular flap of sensitive laminæ, coronary cushion, and skin; b, the lateral cartilage; c, the sensitive laminæ; d, the coronary cushion.]

I was resolved, at last, that I, also, would dress myself finely, Just as those office-boys do who always are seen there on Sundays, Wearing in summer their half-silken flaps, that dangle about them; But I discovered, betimes, they made ever a laughing-stock of me.

Moderate-sized flaps are better suited to this mode of cooking than the buttons: the latter are better in stews.

This is made of the thickest and softest reindeerskin, ornamented around the bottom with silk embroidery, trimmed at the sleeves and neck with glossy beaver, and furnished with a square flap under the chin, to be held up over the nose, and a hood behind the neck, to be drawn over the head in bad weather.

The words failed, as he saw the unsealed flap.

Aldous stood holding the untied flap against the beat of the rain.

Now he picked up the second, chipped it, concentrated, straightened, thenup went the elbow, and down, with the accustomed little flap.

As the boat dropped under this blue quay-door, its upper flap opened softly, and a voice as softly said "Thank you kindly, John.