Just before the tramp and the boy came to close quarters Pretty made a diving sidelong dodge, and as the tramp's club whisked idly through the air past him, he dealt the fellow a furious blow across the left shin.

One of his assailants howled aloud and fell back to nurse a broken shin.

" Now Robberts had been pressed into service in consequence of Charlie's absence, and was in no very good humour at being compelled to air his rheumatic old shins behind the family-carriage.

Kdyz zvony volaji, by Abd-ru-shin, pseud.

Deliberately crossing his bare shins, he sat down unbidden beside my father, smoking a long-stemmed pipe.

When he slid back to the footplate his legs were wet to the mid shin.

Another pointed to my raw shins, and wound some kind of soft healing fibre round my feet and ankles.

And I know a sad story concerning 'em: They stuck needles and pins In the reverend shins Of the Bishop engaged in confirming 'em.

The leaf-edges are finely serrated; and more, the sheaths of the leaves are covered with prickly hairs, which give the Coolies sore shins if they work bare-legged.

Remove those logical forms, waiter, that no gentleman break the tender shins of his apprehension stumbling across them.

As the man came on, then, Pretty gave a terrific backward slash that caught the tramp's uninjured shin.

and Jan pulls up his blue trousers, and pulls down his grey rig and furrows, and considers his broad and shaggy shins.

In the afternoon shadow of a large tepee, with red-painted smoke lapels, sat a warrior father with crossed shins.

Beneath the ample chimney, and on each side of the fire-place, run low stone benches, the fire of turf or bog is made on the ground, and the pot for boiling the "mate, or potaties" as the chance may be, suspended over it by an iron chain; so that sitting on the aforesaid stone benches, you may inhale, like the gods, the savour of your dinner, while your frostbitten shins are soothed at the same time by the fire which dresses it.

That is too serious a matter with both of them; their mutual desire to share each other's ideas and tastes is too strong; and each time that the philosopher shows his impatience with the soldier's fortification-hobby, or the soldier breaks his honest shins over one of the philosopher's crotchets, the regret and remorse on either side is equally acute and sincere.