A man with a round red face and a bald pate whose curly fringe of grizzled, reddish hair made him look like a clown in a pantomime, motioned them with a surly thumb toward the back of the house, where clattering preparations for supper were audible and odoriferous.

Hold, there's an angel for your broken pate: If any knock, let them not in in haste. BLO.

An old name for the devil's-bit (Scabiosa succisa), in the northern counties, and in Scotland, is "curl-doddy," from the resemblance of the head of flowers to the curly pate of a boy, this nickname being often used by children who thus address the plant: "Curly-doddy, do my biddin', Soop my house, and shoal my widden'.

Old Toby said nothing, but he cast many an anxious look around at the adjacent trees, as if he had an idea lingering under his woolly pate that in some way or other this new disaster might have a connection with the shooting of the wildcat.

"Forsooth," exclaimed the archer, writhing in his bonds to stare upon Beltane, "forsooth, Roger, he took a dour ding upon his yellow pate, look ye; but for his mail-coif he were a dead man this hour" "He lieth very still," groaned Roger.

Turning to the old black nurse, "Aunty," said he, stroking the little pate, "this boy seems to have a journalistic head."

will Mamma-up Mrs. Sinclair, and will undertake to court her guardian to let her pass a delightful week with herSir Edward Holden he may as well be, if your shallow pates will not be clogged with too many circumstantials.

'We will have no more of innkeeping,' he said; 'I have been sick and tired of it this many a day, and care not now to see men abuse good liquor and addle their silly pates to fill my purse.

Nay, if you have more right to her than I, takt I pray you: would I were off with a faire broken pate.

And you philander off with that fluffy, little empty-pate, Laura, and Arthur Elterton makes love to your bride!

I insisted on driving and nursed the team as best I could, giving them plenty of time on the uphill grade, but sending them along at a furious pate on level ground and down hill.

The relatives of the young giddy pate had empowered me to pay his debts; and if she could contrive an interview with him for me, she might rely on being satisfied with the result of the first.

This brought a new train of thought into the wooden pates of the gendarmes.

Both in sermons and debate, he strikes home, and woe be to the luckless pate that has the temerity to dash under his well-aimed strokes.

And on the floor lay another of these things, in a crumpled and huddled heap, only the back of the skull showing, like the polished pate of a bald man.

At first, a rosy, careless, curly-pate of three years or so,wonder-eyed and eager, all spring and joyance, and beautiful as Love.

It was red-brown, with a round curly pate and one white leg.

Mr. ALLAN AYNESWORTH'S finished skill was reinforced by a quite admirable make-up, though only a policeman of very melodrama could have missed that brilliant pate as it shone balefully over the inadequate chair in which he sat concealed while his subordinate was bullying the hapless Anna.

He overlooked the behavior of the former, who at the Floralia to ridicule Tiberius had had everything up to midnight done by baldheaded men (because the emperor himself was also baldheaded) and had furnished light to those leaving the theatre by the hands of five thousand boys with shaven pates.

Bah!" He removed his wig to wipe his damp and shiny pate, then set the wig on askew and glared at me out of his small, ruddy eyes.

I saw at least fifty in that procession,regular, legitimate bards,each one having a bardic bald pate, a long white bardic beard, flowing bardic robes, bardic sandals, a bardic harp in his hand, and an ancient bardic name.

She marked the head of this new assailant also, saying: "What a nice sleek old pate!"

Every once in a while the baby fingers would slide over the smooth and glossy pate which is Father's.

My neighbour owns the crown of the hill which he has shorn until it resembles the tonsured pate of a monk.

By Jupiter's cloven pate, 'tis true.