You will see a dusky, sinewy figure, not of a monkey, but of a man, ascending and descending those trees with marvellous celerity and ease, grasping the trunks with his hands and fitting his naked feet into slight notches cut in them.

Moreover, methinks I know a wayand thou spare me life to do it.' 'Aye, forsooth,' says Roger, putting away his dagger, 'thou wert ever a fool of thy word, Bedaso now do I spare thy life, and sparing it, I save it, and thus do I cut another accursed notch from my belt.'

The guy ropes of the tent are placed over the lower notches, while the guy ropes of the fly are placed over the upper notches, and are then drawn taut.

The opercular spines are as usual two in number, being the tips of two low even divergent ridges, with a curved notch in the edges of the bone between them.

"Would my belt bore fewer notches!"

Many strained blows must be delivered before he could effect the chopping of even a little notch.

They were as sure that there was to be a seventh notch as of their identity.

Cells cup-shaped, shallow; mouth nearly vertical, subquadrangular, margin subcrenate, plicate; with a small acute central denticle in front, and a wide shallow notch behind.

"No, naturally not; otherwise there might have been no sixth notch.

The black boy explained that he was a dhomka (messenger), that the central notch represented himself, and the other notches, one the youth sending the message, the other the girl for whom it was intended.

"He was struck by a conoidal ball, which entered just above the interclavicular notch of the sternum and lodged near the superior angle of the scapula.

" "Why then, Roger, do ye beset him in prayer, so, while thou dost hold him in play thus, I will snick away thy solitary notch so sweetly he shall never know" "Alack, 'twill not avail, Giles.

But the most trying part of the adventure, after working my way across inch by inch and chipping another small platform, was to rise from the safe position astride and to cut a step-ladder in the nearly vertical face of the wall,chipping, climbing, holding on with feet and fingers in mere notches.

We found the canyon bed a narrow notch, darkly rich and green, full of the melody of wild birds and murmuring brook, with huge rocks all stained gold and russet, and grass as high as our knees.

By pressing the bell crank against the handle of the lever the bolt is withdrawn, and the lever may be shifted to any other point, when, the spring being released, the bolt flies into the nearest notch.

To sum up very briefly the Festivals since 1885the year that Richter succeeded Costathe meeting of 1888 was remarkable for nothing that made any permanent notch in the record of the Festivals.

The lever is put into the most suitable notch for working the steam expansively; the driver's hand is on the regulator, not to be removed for the rest of the trip; the furnace door is thrown wide open, and firing begins in earnest.

The Point of the Frog is situated, wedge-like, within the triangular notch in the posterior border of the sole.

When there are sharp, deep notches such as there are on the upper leaves of the field daisy, the edge is called 'cut.'

As I rambled on, I was suddenly seized with a fancy to climb a tree which stood by the roadside, and rest myself in a convenient notch which I observed between two of the limbs.

Then he would shift his position and cut a corresponding notch further round, so making painful circuit of the bole.

Massive lichen-stained battlements stood forward here and there, hacked at the top with angular notches, and separated by frosty gullies and recesses that have been veiled in shadow ever since their creation; while to right and left, as far as I could see, were huge, crumbling buttresses, offering no hope to the climber.

Eccentric notch should be fitted with a brass bush.

The eighth notch was added to those on the knife, an' the debt was canceled.

His bold antagonist his quivered store Then Rustem raised his bow, with eager eye Choosing a dart, and placed it on the string, A thong of elk-skin; to his ear he drew The feathered notch, and when the point had touched The other hand, the bended horn recoiled, And twang the arrow sped, piercing the breast Of Ushkabús, who fell a lifeless corse, As if he never had been born!