The pudding was garnished with the wooden pegs that had kept the boot together, sole and body, while it walked the earth.

So, after mixing myself a stiff peg, I undressed and got into bed, soothing my harassed mind with another chapter or two of H.G. Wells before attempting to go to sleep.

The interior surface of the wall was broken by niches and square stone-pegs.

She was of a spare and straight shape, this young lady, insomuch that her garments appeared to be in constant danger of sliding off those sharp pegs, her shoulders, on which they were loosely hung.

"The only games we played were marbles, mumble pegs and ring plays.

These men, who were but lay-figures to us at school, mere pegs of names to hang historic robes upon, thus interpreted by the living history of their portraits, the incidental illustrations of the places where they lived and moved and died, and the buildings and monuments they erected, become like the men of yesterday.

Mr. HOLMAN CLARK struck me (without surprise) as slightly bored with his part of a Doctor who lost his patient in the first Act and remained as a convenient peg for the plot.

And he said to me half a dozen times: "Say, Dad, wasn't it a grand peg?"

"The palm makes an excellent hat-rack," said Scott, slinging his revolver and his water-bottle over the little upward-pointing pegs which bristle from the trunk.

I rushed through the gate, took the three steps to the house at one bound, threw open the door, and was about to hang my cap on its accustomed peg of the hall rack when I noticed that that particular peg was occupied by a black derby hat.

Mighty close quarters they were where the young man John bestowed himself and his furniture; this last consisting of a bed, a chair, a bureau, a trunk, and numerous pegs with coats and "pants" and "vests,"as he was in the habit of calling waistcoats and pantaloons or trousers,hanging up as if the owner had melted out of them.

Swift as revolving pin-wheels or rapid peg-top

" "The person driving this horse wore a hat, identified as an old one of yours, which hat was afterwards found at your house on a remote peg in a seldom-used closet.

But even the round peg in the round hole brings difficulties.

Jee! fastened with sinew and wooden pegs.

They were fastened on with solid walnut pegs driven in holes bored through both the shingles and the laths with a brace and a bit.

Pétrarque was probably some tiresome prig like all poets, and thought her a suitable peg to hang his verses on.

They were fastened on with solid walnut pegs driven in holes bored through both the shingles and the laths with a brace and a bit.

Each hole was furnished with a neat brass peg, topped with ebony; and the man was lifting and replacing one of these pegs whilst he gravely watched the dial of an instrument that resembled a small clock.

I haven't any Mayflower ancestors, and so I'm more than resigned to have them taken down from their aristocratic peg.

"This one is many pegs too drunk to have covered the distance as fast as we have been walking.

The place where she glanced, the point toward which the light was mounting, was beside her own bed and where, from rough-fashioned wooden pegs, hung the Indian's pathetically scant wardrobe.

It was no such very difficult task he found, to his satisfaction, for Betty was right, and by feeling carefully with his hands he perceived the friendly pegs which Reuben had inserted, and of which Oliver had no knowledge, else he would not have trusted so agile and strong a prisoner within their reach.

Dozens of brown japanned candle-lanterns hung from the beamed ceiling, dispensing little twinkles of light here and there, while larger ones swung from harness pegs driven into the sides of the walls.

Only an auger and sense and hickory pegs and an eye for business need be utilized in the making, and in fact this economical construction is the best.