So came he to a certain cave hollowed within the hill-sideone of many suchbut the rough walls of this cave Black Roger had adorned with a rich arras, and had prepared also a bed of costly furs; here Beltane laid the captive, and sitting within the mouth of the cavebeyond which a fire burnedfell to scowling at the flame.

The pillows were stuffed with valuable furs; fine linen and embroideries filled the bolsters.

Her head, rising out of the brown fur, was tilted back on the cushions, showing her innocent white throat; her white violet eyelids were shut down on her eyes, the dark lashes lying still; her mouth, utterly innocent, was half open; her breath came through it unevenly, in light jerks.

For ordinary home wear he used thick substantial fox or badger furs.

[Footnote 2: The colour of sable-fur, I think.]

" Stooping suddenly he laid the squirrel upon his open palm and gently stroked the long, silky fur.

Of such a morning I have seen a small flock of them collected on the sunny side of a thick hemlock, rather silent and quiet, with ruffled plumage, like balls of gray fur, waiting, with an occasional chirp, for the sun's rays to begin to warm them up, and meanwhile not depressed, but only a little sobered in their deportment, and ready, if the cold continued, to get used to that too.

" He poked the beast on the altar, and a bit of burning yellow fur fell off and frizzled on the ground.

They had short squat legs like tree trunks; short squat little bodies with arms to match, and heads that were too large for their bodies with eyes that were buried beneath long straggly shaggy fur.

" She raised her pretty eyebrows, then accepted the lump of fluffy fur from his hands.

Also of hiding resentment felt towards an opponent and treating him as a friendof this kind of thing he was ashamed, and so too am I." Attended once by the two disciples Yen Yuen and Tsz-lu, he said, "Come now, why not tell me, each of you, what in your hearts you are really after?" "I should like," said Tsz-lu, "for myself and my friends and associates, carriages and horses, and to be clad in light furs!

Silver black fox is the rarest fur utilized by man.

The thought reanimated her, and she put on her handsomest furs, and a hat for which she had not yet dared present the bill to her father.

He pictured her in the dirty mess-room, looking exotic in her fashionable clothes and expensive furs, but no doubt quite serene.

There was a similar oracle in the neighbourhood of Thalame, not fur from Aetylum, sacred to Ino. Strabo, lib. VI. p, 284.

Thus, the salt works at Washington, Virginia, in advertising their salt, stated that they would sell it per bushel for seven shillings and sixpence if paid in cash or prime furs; at ten shillings if paid in bear or deer skins, beeswax, hemp, bacon, butter, or beef cattle; and at twelve shillings if in other trade and country produce, as was usual.

She was warmly wrapped in her little squirrel furs; but he felt her quivering upon his arm, like one in an ague, all the way home.

He looked over the various contributions to the feast, set out on a board in front of the water-bucket, and, "It's mate I'm wishin' fur," says he.

There was nothing common or trashy in the whole consignment; but the planters preferred some gewgaws from Cheapside or some worthless London furs which they could have bettered any day by taking a gun and hunting their own woods.

There she lay on her right side, a spot of dirty-white in a disordered patch of snow, with one little eye open, and her fierce-looking mouth also; and the cub lay across her haunch, biting into her rough fur.

Reassured that it was indeed there, his hand returned to the shelter of his mangy furs, and he again fell to listening.

" They had a small boat drawn up by them on the ice, and one man was dressed in magnificent furs, a long sable overcoat and cap, and wearing quite the air of a North Pole Nabob.

You, at least, are not covered with all that coarse fur.

"She is dressed all in black velvet and splendid fur."

The common money of the Rutenians or Russians, consists in spotted or grizzled furs.